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Support main looking for advice. (mostly leona)

NocturnalOutcast·1/14/2017, 6:17:13 PM·1 votes·1,085 views

Hi guys, I'm a support Leona main, and trying to get my feet into ranked.

Thus far, I've only played a handful of ranked games, all of them ending in defeat, so I go back to normals to hone my skills more.

I tend to prefer to Leona very aggressively, this either ends one of two ways, my ADC is equally aggressive, and we dominate lane, or I get an ADC who is way to passive, and does not follow up. My weak matchups are Morgana and Alistar , so if I face one of those I play passively at first until i can gauge their skill level. In the end of all games i'm either "OMG THIS LEONA IS GOD!" or "omg...this leona..."

Being as aggressive as I am, I do accidentally take kills every so often, such as when I E ---> W --> AA --> Q --> AA and my lane partner is engaged as well, even if i back off, my shield often pops and last hits. Sometimes this happens SEVERAL times in a game, even consecutive kills, which can frustrate my team. Another example of taking kills is when both ADCs are exchanging, and mine is at low health, so I go all out for blood and get the kill, and my ADC is all "OMGWTF why you KS!?!" and i'm sitting there like "You're at 5% health...its my job to keep you alive...." Yet still other times I back off, and the targets gets away, when I know i could have finished them off!

I've been trying other supports, but I can never really get attached to any of them as I have leo, I LOVE her engage, her CC is godly, how tanky she is. Supports I've been experimenting with are Alistar , Nautilus , TahmKench , JarvanIV , and Morgana . Every time I play them I never do nearly as well as if I were playing my main, and just keeps me uttering "**** it, i'm going back to leo" So I really need to find 1-2 backups for leo that I can actually enjoy, and do well with. Like mentioned, what I love about Leo is her engage and CC, any suggestions on who I should try to work on that can do this as well as she can? I HATE playing squishy mage supports like Janna .

Thanks for any help, advice, or suggestions!

10 Comments

SGT Dingle Berry1/14/2017, 6:22:34 PM3 votes

Taking kills isn't that big of a deal, just don't go out of your way to do it. They still get assist gold PLUS all the CS while the enemy re spawns.

winteriscoming971/14/2017, 7:28:43 PM3 votes

Your instict may be to go aggro due to her survivabillity and lock-down, but do keep in mind that certain adc's cannot afford to go so aggressive due to immobillity (such as kog'maw). The thing with support is you have to sense the adc's motive and work around it. Such as being a meat shield if they are keeping their distance or holding the enemy in place if they are going for the kill. You really can't excceed if you are a otp, so to speak. Each support is good for a different situation, as the obvious answer goes, but the most similar to leo you will get would be rather Taric, Naut, Ali, or Blitz. In terms of survivabillity.

Now if you are in ranked, you can see who your enemy adc is and who your adc is. This will allow you to choose a support to sync with the adc, as some fit others better. For instance, Ezreal does well with poke-supports such as Sona or Karma because he cannot really all-in too well. While a Jhin does well with either a peel (due to his immobillity) or a cc machine (due to his long range and strength). Then you have presense supports (such as Janna, Soraka, and Zil) who never seem to leave lane and in that, pressure an enemy adc. It is for this reason that you need to pick up not just another support, but rather other support types.

As for ks, it will happen sometimes. All you really gotta do is back off if the enemy is low, and if your adc is readable as close enough to end it. Try to gague how quickly the enemy's health is draining while you two are whacking away and back off. I cannot tell you how often my Janna W ks' when it does almost no damage, due to me trying to slow the adc for a kill. It happened.

Me actually1/14/2017, 6:24:42 PM2 votes

Find a friend that mains adc so you can duo with voice chat. Hopefully you can better communicate how aggressive you want to be. Other than that it seems like you are doing fine, just getting unlucky.

NocturnalOutcast1/14/2017, 7:23:38 PM1 votes

Any recommendations on a backup? I'm always SOL when Leo gets picked/banned from me, its my biggest thing keeping me from wanting to try to ranked more.