My opinions on Exhaust and Heal

Kittenguin·7/5/2016, 9:29:21 AM·1 votes·812 views

Exhaust on Support and Heal on ADC has been quite a trend now since the Heal changes long time ago, which made ADCs move from Barrier to Heal. Although I think that the trend should change again, swapping these summoner spells for these roles.


Heal summoner 7 on Supports Every ADC right now uses this summoner spell, my opinion should be, that it is a better spell to use as a Support. What it provides: More heals, resulting in more protection, your own protection since you are a squishy target that will be focused more than the ADC in teamfights, especially if you are playing Soraka/Sona etc. Supports have long cooldowns and high mana costs, this summoner spell + the Insight and Windspeaker's Blessing + Ionian Boots of Lucidity masteries could interact really well. Heal's base cooldown is_ 240s_ (4 minutes). With Insight and Ionian Boots of Lucidity it is reduced to_ 180s_ (3 minutes). Base healing to 90-345. With Windspeaker's Blessing it is increased by 10% resulting in bonus 9 and 34.5 on max. Adding +30% more healing power from Mikael's Crucible and Ardent Censer, resulting in 40% which is min 90 (+36 bonus) and max 345 (+138 bonus) healing. It is worth to note that it gives 30% bonus movement speed, which can be used to boost allies up (e.g Heal + Lulu's Polymporh) and it will provide 5 to 22 armor + 2.5 to 11 magic resist thanks to Windspeaker's blessing. Heal's summoner spell value is also increased by Ardent Censer since it can provide bonus attack speed and magic damage on-hit, resulting into an awesome summoner spell for support. Heal will also provide survivability for supports since ADCs have Life Steal, it will provide more protecting power, since a lot of ADCs use Heal for themselves as they fight solo. tl;dr - I think Heal is a better summoner spell on Supports since it can be boosted by various masteries and items that support use more often.


Exhaust summoner 3 on ADCs ADCs are frequently left in lane lone, the Support is respawing/shopping; or warding the river; or ganking or; collecting chimes. They are frequently bursted down by Assassins (Rengar, Katarina, LeBlanc, Shaco), and this is where Exhaust comes in. Exhaust reduces armor/mr, damage dealt and mov/attack speed. Since ADCs are the ones getting bursted, and the supports are usually far away or somewhere else, they can use Exhaust in their advantage and more likely survive, than waste a Heal on themselves. Didn't have much to write here as I wasted my time typing about Heal and forgot what I wanted to say about Exhaust ;-;


Tell me your thoughts or opinions on this.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely, a player with no main

7 Comments

SaltyKracka7/5/2016, 9:35:55 AM1 votes

The main reason that Heal is taken on ADCs and Exhaust on Supports is actually because of ranges. ADCs, as the quintessential backline unit, far far prefer to be nearer to allies than they are to enemies, thus resulting in them being far less often able to apply Exhaust effectively but usually being in position to Heal. Vice versa for supports (since any support besides Soraka is probably going to get focused after the ADC, and exhaust works particularly well for peeling tank supports)

disregardable7/5/2016, 9:36:20 AM1 votes

90% of the time Exhaust is not going to stop you from getting bursted down. Assassins do 1200 damage when you have 700 health. But movespeed out of the area might.

litocow7/5/2016, 9:47:52 AM1 votes

TP over BOTH.... why heal??? i think its better adc can go farm lanes and tp back to help team fights.... also u should be in position to have to use heal unless ur fighting a support with a hook then maybe heal might help.. but if u have tp and other adc has heal u going back when ever u want if needed and tp back without losing so much exp and gold plus u gain solo exp due to if support goes back he has to walk ur already ahead for the other adc which mostly dont wanna go home till his bf or he gonna be under lvl and under farm dude to the walk back... also heal falls off after lane phase is over.... well at least to me should put urself in position to have to depends on it and tp u can push lanes go farm tp to fight so much better late game.... usally i go tp and maybe ghost if i feel i need to run from ganks or rush to get fb but heal... to me is so crap unless the support wants to get it exhaust bottom lane to me i dont feel is that good also cuz its like useless after 10-15 mins over ghost or tp