5 tips for ADC mains from a (support) main

hallajuice·1/23/2019, 10:05:08 PM·2 votes·834 views

When your support gives you a danger ping and they are far away from you in lane, it means you need to pull back.

When your support pings where they are going during lane phase, it means they want to ward an area and that you need to escort them so they can ward against ganks.

try to get kills in lane, or at least have less deaths than kills, otherwise you'll find mid game your support will be no where near you.

if you get a kill in lane, you need to base right away and spend your 300 gold so that you can get an item advantage over enemy and continue to snow ball.

if you supp pings an enemy stop farming CS and get ready to follow up with a kill.

2 Comments

usul12021/23/2019, 11:32:47 PM1 votes

As a supp main.... No. We may (usually) decide the tempo of the lane, but bit lane is a relationship. Both partners have a right to ping in or deny it, and building a cohesiveness over the course of a lane requires working with the adc, not telling them to always follow your pings.

(also, adcs are much more limited by back timings than supps are. While backing after a kill is usually good, if they have a gold amount they can't efficiently spend, you're better off taking it slow for a few minutes and regaining your tempo after your adc is better equipped)

Akheteru1/24/2019, 12:51:11 AM1 votes

When your support gives you a danger ping and they are far away from you in lane, it means you need to pull back.

So many times, my danger ping is ignored. I'll ping danger when they're overextending and I just saw enemy jungler on map nearby, or I saw midlane head our way, or when I'm out of mana and I see my ADC is itching to all in. Always they ignore the ping. Always they die.

When your support pings where they are going during lane phase, it means they want to ward an area and that you need to escort them so they can ward against ganks.

Almost never does my ADC walk me to the river bush. 50/50 on if enemy bot pair collapses me or not. If playing against a Vayne/Blitz combo, I just accept the fact that I have to go through my tribrush to ward river bush through the wall (if red side), wasting all that time and losing all that xp.

try to get kills in lane, or at least have less deaths than kills, otherwise you'll find mid game your support will be no where near you.

BIG facts. If my ADC has shit the bed, midgame will definitely find me attaching myself (and my Zeke's and Knight's Vow) to someone more successful.

if you supp pings an enemy stop farming CS and get ready to follow up with a kill.

That feeling when you E-W-Q as Leona, and your ADC makes sure to get that last CS before running over to watch you die and now has to burn his flash & heal to survive (if they weren't already on CD from the last time he left your ass hanging in the wind). Then they flame you for being too passive.

Both partners have a right to ping in or deny it

Of course. If I ping a target to let my ADC know I'm about to get it poppin, if he danger pings, I back right off. Maybe HE saw the enemy jungler on map, or mid coming down river, or is out of mana or whatever. But for the most part, as a support main I definitely agree with OP, I wish all ADCs (especially low elo, since higher elo probably already has better habits) would read this and take it to heart.