Supporting rethought

MyDearly Beloved··1 votes·469 views

Ok, so throughout the patch history and major league meta changing people have taken champions into the support role who weren't "support" champs. -Annie: huge burst potential, long AA range (good for poking) ect. -Brand: same as Annie, however his ult is more dangerous when there more enemy champions in bot lane when compared to mid. And others.

Supporting used to be about sitting back and doing absolutely nothing. Besides healing and other ally friendly abilities a support champ felt lack luster. But, supporting is important! When I joined around Season 3, I just chose support cause noone wanted it, and naturally I played Janna and whirlwinded the whole minion wave. I didn't understand 'Support' as a concept first before choosing the role.

In saying all of this I want to ask others to maybe continue broadening the horizons for support champs. I hate people shooting my ideas down because my name isnt Faker or BunnyFooFoo, ideas can belong to anyone and just because I may not play as well as the pros doesn't mean my ideas arent viable.

I need a lil help with this idea.

Ziggs Support!

Pros: Alot of poke, passive allows for nice damage on both laners and cause you're not going for kills you don't HAVE to spam your abilities which means combos (and the mana needed) should always be ready when engaging a fight in bot. Alot of CC; slow and knock-up. Like Brand cause his ult can potentially hit two people it's used more efficiently than if you only threw it at one person. It does a nice amount of flat damage and will be avoided by enemies but in bot lane YOU (as Ziggs) are not the most dangerous, the ADC is and so you can use it to "kite" the enemy giving them the choice to get hit or run into ADC. Either way, if played right the enemy will do one of a couple things: 1- Burn flashes, barriers, exhausts and such or 2- Die

With passive on AA Ziggs can do nice damage to either lane enemy.

With passive on W He can get early towers after 2 successful kills or retreats.

Cons: Squishy, requires mana, cannot heal or shield ADC and because of ranged AA he cannot (as effectively) use a Relic Shield. Entirely magic damage so if your team has an AP Mid and Jungle the enemy team will already be building MR making you useless (not entirely but keep in mind). Requires communication with ADC (as all supports should). Skillshots require practice to land and NOT STEAL THE CS.

With these all in mind I'd like feedback or maybe someone telling me theyve tried it in ranked and it works for the them or doesn't work. Heck I'd like to see this as the next Dark Horse.

#ILOVEZiggs

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The Last Ballad1 votes

Supporting used to be about sitting back and doing absolutely nothing. Besides healing and other ally friendly abilities a support champ felt lack luster.

Alistar Anivia Ashe Bard Blitzcrank Braum Fiddlesticks Heimerdinger Karma Kayle Morgana Nami Nunu Sona TahmKench Taliyah Taric Syndra Leona Soraka Janna Thresh Zyra Zilean See these champs, they ALL have the tag "support" and how many play by passively sitting there and healing? Two. These two Soraka Janna. The rest cc(all of them...), make picksBlitzcrank Alistar Thresh Leona Morgana Nami, pokeKayle Zyra Anivia Fiddlesticks , actively keep you out of dangerTahmKench Braum, or just kind of do their own thing with or without you Bard Zyra

Also I could see Ziggs working with Tristana, as she can bomb the tower to 25-35% health, then you collapse it and move on. Also, if you are supporting with a mage, DO NOT TAKE item 3302. YOU NEED THIS LOVELY THING item 3303 WHICH GIVES YOU GOLD FOR ATTACKING PEOPLE!

MyDearly Beloved1 votes

Thanks for giving it the time. This is not me complaining about supporting. Not in the slightest. When I said that quoted part about sitting back and doing nothing I was referring to when I joined in Season 3. I am happy that riot and the community made it more of a role then a vacancy filled. I just don't like the fact that unless it's been Pro-Approved I must be trolling. I like a different mindset from our players so that people feel more welcome to do things the way they want. It's a dang Game afterall and (at least for me) my end goal for League is not to make it pro so I am good with perfecting the way to play Ziggs support effectively even if I never make it out of Silvery xD I want to enjoy the game and playing Ziggs support is hella fun, for me. I'm sure everyone has those types of champs that you can go anywhere and end with any score but can say "yea, I've had fun!"

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