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Full support Guide (I am Platinum 2)

RedOpticToxin·10/29/2019, 9:17:30 PM·1 votes·838 views

Here is a full League of legends guide that I wrote myself for supports. Hope You enjoy and if I leave anything out add it to the comments section!

Pre-game phase:

  1. Have the correct runes: Read the enemy teams draft and choose runes accordingly. Know your champs strengths and weaknesses as well to decide these choices. If you dont know use U.gg

  2. Know your win condition: analyze your team and the enemy teams picks and notify people how the game should be played. Does your comp scale? If so then play safe early and farm it out. Do you have an early game comp? If so play aggressive early. Punish advantageous matchups with ganks and play safe with the opposite. Create the game plan for your team and lead them, support is the lead role.

Laning:

  1. Know your matchup: Do you have lane dominance or not? From experience you should be able to look at the enemy botlane and know if your botlane is stronger or weaker, if so then play aggressively and seek winning trades, if not then play safe and farm/call jungler for help

  2. Know when to trade or all in: Play around enemy cooldowns, if they expend abilities then you have a window go in, also make sure you have vision before going in so enemy jungler doesnt ruin your day. Make sure your wave isnt shoving so you have room to engage and make sure enemy creep wave isnt too large so you dont take large amounts of unnecessary damage. Lastly make sure your botlane has abilities and summoner spells off cooldown before going in as well.

  3. Play around summoner spells: Target champs in your lane that are missing flash. Your objective to killling someone is to first get their flash and then kill them on the next engage. Dont overextend to try to get both the flash and kill during the same engagement unless you 100% got it or I promise you will die. One way to really get a jungler to gank your lane is if you already got 1 or more laners flashes and the enemy shoves the wave to leave room for your jungler to gank unless your looking for a tower dive then shove the wave.

  4. You are the information keeper: your job is to ping when enemies are missing from your lane and to help ping other lanes as well. Spam ping because alot of times 1 ping isnt enough. Also keep track of enemy flash cooldowns. Flash has an approximate 5min cooldown so when the enemy expends it keep a mental log of it and play around this cooldown. Other laners vision is clouded because they have to worry about farming and the supports is more clear so lead the team and pick up others slack.

  5. Always have something to do: If 1 or more enemy laners are missing then ward and shove for plates. Another alternative is to follow your laners roams or roam yourself. Hold the wave from the turret when your adc is returning to lane and go plant deep wards when just sitting around. In league there is always something you can do to help the team.

Teamfight phase:

  1. Know your role in the team: Are you needed to engage the fights? Are you needed to peel for the adc? This is determined by the comp your team is playing and the champ you are on. Dont be afraid to adjust mid game if something is not working.

  2. Ward the objectives you are playing around: If team is looking to barron then ward it. If team is heading bot to push then run ahead and ward it. Your job is to prep the map for you team so they have the highest chance of being successful.

  3. Seek opportunities to take objectives: Enemy on other end of map? Then take a buff or a tower. Barron windows often times happen when an enemy laner is greeding for farm botlane with no teleport

4 Comments

BoRnToKiLL66610/29/2019, 9:25:24 PM2 votes

you forgot 1 crucial rule, /fullmute all

xelaker10/29/2019, 10:08:39 PM2 votes

Get this nonsense out of here.

The for actual rules

Pregame: Find some with a sub 50% winrate on their pick. Bring it up.

Early game: Remember that guy up there ^? Did he die at all? Yes: blame him and spam gg. No: blame someone else and remind them that the sub 50% winrate is doing better. Did you die? Yes No, that was someone else's fault. Remind everyone that your other account is Diamond.

Late game: You did this wrong. You should have bothered your team to ff at 20, by now that you have moved on to the next game.

[slayer-jinx-wink] you can thank me once you hit challenger with this comprehensive guide.

Done2510/29/2019, 10:39:23 PM2 votes

Isn't this like, the most basic of game play tips? Nothing here is support specific. Like when to go enchanter vs warden, or when to ditch your shit for brains 0/3/0 monkey of an ADC with 27 CS, and go support the 5/0/2 Darius in those mid game team fights.