You CAN carry as support!

Allow me to elaborate!

Hello everyone my name is Cylent and I am anything but!

In season 4 I peaked at gold 1 as a jungle main. I was 27w3losses as j4. The reason I didn't continue the grind to find my true peak was because my son was born!

It's been a couple years and now I'm back and having a blast spamming support in ranked.

I ended my promos in silver 3 and bumped back and forth to silver 4 a couple times. Because I had to fix my mental state.

I just couldn't keep my mouth shut. I would go on tilt or my team would and we would bring each other down until we got the big DEFEAT.

So I changed my name to Cylent so I could remind myself to shut the hell up!

I just want to give you an idea of my results. I have been bouncing back and forth between 70 and 80% win rate. Had a good stretch with Leona I was 7 wins 0 losses before my first defeat on her. I was 5 and 0 with Soraka and similar ratio as Braum.

"Okay we don't want your life story Cylent just give us the recipe for success so we can troll you and move on!"

Right! Sorry! Here are a few pointers to get you out of Bronze/silver and into gold as a support main.

1. Try to keep yourself or your team from tilting. If you make a mistake say my bad or if a teammate does say don't worry about it. If it gets too bad use the ever useful /ignore all. Can't tell you how many games were won because I used that.

2. Never surrender. At this Elo people want to quit after a bad early game but you have a jax or master yi or a vayne or the cane on your team. If you get to late game by stalling you will win!

"Cy you're useless give us gameplay pointers."

Ok, ok.

Let's start with the basics. When you get to lane your goal is to get level 2 before your opponents. The second you hit level 2 you should go aggressive and if you do it right you will have a favorable trade.

If the enemy team does not have an assassin. Like zed fizz talon Azir katarina etc. then try taking ignite over exhaust. Especially if the enemy team is champions with heals. Soraka, Mundo, Warwick, swain.

If your adc is doing absolutely abysmal it's okay! Start roAming. Especially to lanes that are winning. Go top go mid, get a kill get a tower lay down vision for those lanes and let your adc solo farm. Believe it or not this works out a lot of the time in bronze and silver.

As support you have the most opportunity to be checking the map ALWAYS ping the enemy jungles. And report when someone's flash is down. Keep track of the next dragon spawn. Prep for it a minute or so in advance and clear enemy wards and lay down your own vision. If you do have exhaust for an enemy zed let your team know the timer on it. It can win team fights pretty much by itself.

As far as getting into a routine as a support I suggest this. When the game starts hold tab and put everyone in order so you can check for item advantages. But your support item and three pots and yellow trinket. At level 2 if enemy lane is still 1 go aggressive. Same thing for level 6. Always try to be aware of what the enemy jungle is doing. As soon as you get your sight stone. Switch to the sweeper lens red trinket. Also it is important to almost always get at least one pink ward. Place it down either in river for your mid laner for the first one. Or in tri or river or sometimes lane bushes if your jungled wants to lane gank. But only when you have lane pressure. If you put it down without lane pressure you pretty much just gave the enemy team some free gold. At level 9 don't forget on your next back to upgrade your red trinket. "This can be used to 'see' invisible champions like shaco akali teemo kha zix"

I would also suggest a locket almost every game unless the enemy is light on ap. And this is your zhonyas as support. Get food with it. They increased the shield but dropped he duration so it's really a buff if you get good with it.

Last but not least cool downs is probably the best stat for support. I highly encourage it on almost every support. When you have 45% cd and your Leona ult is on a 38 sec timer. And her other abilities are up every 5ish you become a utility monster. Same goes for thresh. Max his q first and e second and end game with 45% cd it's like your playing urf mode. Death sentence couple tugs jump to them flay and death sentence is back up. Rinse repeat.

Next time ou play support go for the cool down boots they are a very cheap source of cd. And after a couple games you'll see why we support mains love playing support.

Thank you guys! I know it's tl;dr but I love talking league! Good luck on the rift! And remember if you need a quick 50 gold to finish an item just destroy the enemy nexus!