A good score for a support

Jade Lily·Jan 13, 2017·1 votes·588 views

Good evening everyone! I hope all is well or at least getting better.

I was playing in my last match and got a B with 1/3/11. I healed for a little over 8k. As a support main what is considering doing well in a match?

Towards the end of the most recent match I asked how I was doing and my team told me I actually wasn't that bad despite being so relatively new to the game. Which is awesome and a huge boost to wanting to continue to get better. At what point though is a support going to be an asset to a team and not so much a liability? Is a B a good (or at least passable) performance for a support or is there a lot of room to grow?

6 Comments

SGT Dingle BerryJan 13, 20172 votes

Your KDA is irrelevant, although most don't seem to understand this. A good support doesn't feed, peels for his team, tries to feed or protect his ADC in lane, provides vision in key areas during the entire match and provides support through items and abilities. You want good map awareness so you can always be where you're needed in a pinch and try to avoid face checking to ward.

oSEXYPLATYPUSoJan 13, 20171 votes

it varies depending on the game. kda dont always tell the story of the game

however in my last 3 games as sona

i went 4-3-13 with 162 cs and 41% participation in kills placed 19 wards killed 8 and had 2 vision wards

other game 11-8-18 with 111cs 71 % participation in kills 24 wards placed killed 3 wards

and other game 6-6-13 with 40 cs 49% participation in kills 22 wards placed

DynikusJan 13, 20171 votes

try not to base how well you did on the grade you get at the end of a game. It's based purely on stats, and not actually on how much of an asset you were to your team.

Some pointers for support: place more wards. You bought item 2301 but only placed about 2-4 wards in the game. Because you have a warding item, you should replace your item 3361 with item 3341 item 3364 , which lets you destroy enemy wards and deny enemy vision. Vision control is a big aspect of playing support, and you should prioritize buying item 2049 . Start bringing summoner 3 instead of summoner 12 . It's a better spell to bring almost every time.

Jade LilyJan 13, 20171 votes

So many have told me to just stay in bot lane and turtle with tower. So I **should **be moving around the lanes?

oSEXYPLATYPUSoJan 13, 20172 votes

majority of the time during laning phase you want to baby sit the adc and make sure you get them to mid game /late game with out being crushed. make sure you are able to provide proper vision and help with objectives on your side of map ( dragon ) bot turret, mid turret

when you can roam and best time to do so is after you back and coming out of base because they dont know where you are and where you are coming from and when the lane is pushed into enemy turret and you have proper vision.

that is the basics of laning as support. at lvl 10 which shows this account to be ... if you can manage that you are far above most.