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Tips for low elo supports

MissFishbones·9/6/2016, 3:59:41 AM·1 votes·625 views

I know im low elo myself (silver 5) but ive learnt so much in the past month about support after duoing with a plat friend. Some or maybe all of these might seem obvious but i feel like most people in lower elo dont know them so there goes nothing

  1. Going full ap and becoming the carry isnt the answer. Going brand support and full ap thinking you can solo carry wont always work. There's a reason adcs are entitled to the cs and the kills: they scale better. Lets say you get super fed and their adc gets super fed while both teams are even on other terms. They will win because late game you fall off compared to an adc who's usually at their strongest.

  2. 1 for 0 is better than 2 for 1. Lets say you go all in and their support gets really low and flashes away, if u flash/dash after their support and get the kill on them, then get the enemy adc (who your adc died to). You did not do a good job. First of all their adc has a kill over yours so your adc is at a disadvantage. And second of all if u stayed next to your adc, they or you would have got the kill on their adc and they would have got a wave or 2 of cs equaling to another kill so basically its gold equal to 2 kills to 0 deaths. Your job is to protect not to secure kills.

  3. Peel peel and peel some more. Peel doesnt mean being a meat shield, it doesnt mean going into 4 people and soaking up the danage while their assassin deletes your carries. You need to have an engage (usually some cc or the top laner or jungler) and then u need didengage. Disengage is gonna have to be you most of the time. You stay next to your carry and whoever gets in their face you get them out by exhausting/shielding/ccing anything really. Have u ever played a game and said focus the adc but was never able to get to the adc? Thats peeling.

  4. The carry of the game isnt only the adc. Protect the midlaner, the assassin jungler, the mage top laner.theyre all carries as well, try to protect the most fed and whoever u think has higher potentional of carrying.

  5. Gank and ward objectives. You can show some presence midlane and they most likely wont signal mia because they think u recalled or went to ward then theyll flame each other.

  6. Learn the items. If they have a twitch/vayne/kog anyone with high attack speed that can delete your team frozen mallet would be good because it reduces attack speed. Randuins has an active that slow, there's an item that removes cc (forgot name), ardent censor makes your heals stronger and adds attack speed and dmaage to them. Zeke's gives ap and crit to our adc and u at 100 stacks. Lovket and banner both give an aura of mr which is good even if they only have one ap. Abysal would be good if youre ahead and youre heavy ap.

  7. This is basically for everyone but keep pink wards on you the whole time. I usually have one on the map then 2 with me. You might need them when your oracle isnt up and youre securing an objective. You can also use it against shaco/rengar/akali/vayne/twitch and many others.

  8. Dont underestimate the power of exhaust. Exhaust is so powerful and u shouldnt fight without it if they have theirs up unless if youre ahead. Its more important than heal in my opinion.

  9. Its okay to get kills. Its not the end of the world,and actually early game they will help a lot. The problem i had when i played brand support is that i got most of the kills when i didnt mesn to then i realized: when enemy is below 100 hp and my adc is right here, i should just stop attacking! Its just that easy.

1 Comments

Erockandroll9/6/2016, 4:25:39 AM1 votes

  1. Usually I would only go that rout if the ADC already screwed up, and I'm trying to salvage. But if you did want to do a damage support, go with a more Mpen build, as if offers better boosts early, and it doesn't affect minion farm as much.

  2. Yeah, I agree on this point, always try to club the guy you can safely reach.

  3. I generally i'd go with Disengage rather than engage if I had to chose between the two. That's actually more likely to save the ADC.

1 again) if everyone else on your team is a carry. Laugh at them if they think the support can be the teams tank with support gold.

2 again) While I agree, this typically only works out if were ahead in lane and pushing. If the enemy pushes against us, I find myself stuck under tower, try to protect the ADC while waiting for the Jungler to punish the enemies over extended Ass.

3 again) Frozen Mallet doesn't slow attack speed. (Your probably thinking Frozen Heart.) The cc remover is Mikale's. But that item is slightly stat bound to sustain type supports. (Cause it also boost healing) If that item isn't a good fit for the support, the ADC might want a QSS. And since Scimitar also has life steal, it's not a bad ADC item all around.

  1. I'm generally fault to this one. I don't actually know the best Hiding locations for pinks, where they could do a lot of work.

  2. oh god yes.

  3. I agree, but too often, I find my ADC out of range. (usually because I'm pushing the enemy off their own CS) Either that, Or I kill them to save the ADC's ass. (and they get mad at me anyway)