ADC Mains: What Supports do you like/dislike playing with?

Namîste·9/26/2018, 12:29:18 AM·8 votes·9,796 views

Just wanted feedback from ADC mains. Are there any supports that you are happy when you have in your game when your teammate picks? Any that just make you want to dodge right away regardless if they may be good with them?

Trying to widen my support base a tiny bit and wanted to get some suggestions :)

(I'm not talking about off meta picks...like Irelia support or something like that...I'm talking about actual support champs)

78 Comments

CIayman9/26/2018, 1:00:59 AM7 votes

Hate: Lux Velkoz Brand Karma Like: Thresh Braum Blitzcrank Pyke Alistar Alistar Alistar Alistar Alistar

If I could be guaranteed an alistar every game, I'd probably go back to playing mainly ADC

A Bad Varus9/26/2018, 12:37:24 AM5 votes

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Hotarµ9/26/2018, 12:35:15 AM5 votes

I used to be an ADC main on another account, so I hope I can still give my opinion :^)

I used to play a ton of Jhin and Varus.

The thing I hated the most was when more passive supports (namely Janna and Lulu Soraka) would get over aggressive at low levels, force me to burn summoner 7, then repeat and die or get me killed and ruin the whole lane. I got flamed so hard for playing ADC when most games I would finish with a score of 10/4/9 or something like that.

The most important part of being a support is adapting to your lane partner, not engaging whenever you're in AA range.

Infernape9/26/2018, 12:56:15 AM4 votes

Lux simply because every single one I play with is clueless as hell. They eat every piece of poke the enemy has to offer and for some reason have blitz/nautilus/pyke/thresh hook magnets attached to them.

flibitydoo9/26/2018, 2:47:40 AM2 votes

I don't main adc but I do play it a fair bit.

Everyone here's gonna post supports that actually do supportin and helping and buffing and healing but I'm kinda the other way

I'm way into the supports that basically 1 vs 2 the lane. If you pick Xerath or Zed or Yasuo or Heimer and just start taking names and kickin ass while I clean up the minions in the background then you are actually my favourite support to play with in the botlane

Tesladin9/26/2018, 6:21:00 AM2 votes

I like playing with tanky supports because I can count on them to take up some of the enemys focus

Vlada Cut9/27/2018, 8:09:45 AM2 votes

Love: Leona Pyke Blitzcrank Leona and Pyke are my favorite supports, they sinergize so well with my mains Kaisa Vayne, not to mention Leona mains being tilt proof af. u.u I personally love playing Pyke. I hate Lux Lulu Alistar Bard Brand Karma Sona though, a LOT. Lux players are the dumbest not because of her kit, but because they are so incapable of search filtering for a item 3303 they actually go for their "recommended" item item 1056. They proceed to die a lot too and have no idea how to be co operative with their adc. Also take full kill credit and CS cause of immedaetly falling behind from the wrong starting item, and put all the blame on me. This is truly the champion I would truly ban if my support picked, she and other annoying sacks of shit are the reason why I don't main adc anymore, and why I preffer solo lane. Bard is a champion most played by trolls, every, single time. One mistake made by adc and this guy will/go with to any other lane or jungler and typically pointing a middle finger at you. Love you too Bard mains! Just kidding here's a champ ban for you. Karma Not only she is useless, but her players are too. Perfect fit. Not to mention that she is so useless as a support they tend to flame the crap out of you when they can't do anything. Yup, here's a mute button, don't want to bother reasoningnwith the unreasonable. Just waiting for her rework so her mains can be filtered out and get more positive players in. Lulu is like a drug, you can't do it without her, her Skippy is so addictive and tastes like sorrow skittles and purple, that without her you are useless af. Make her mad or make a mistake and it's going to be a death spam fest of you dying right in her face, making you beg on her knees until she is satisfied enough of your torture to show enough pity about how useless you are. Welp, doing nothing is sure productive too! Alistar no idea what they are doing, usually just knocks enemy support right in your face just to laugh his ass off. Brand same reason as Lux. item 1056 what is wrong with you people?! Sona same reason as Alistar, they have NO idea what they are doing. And so darn useless to my cause... Almost forgot, Zilean are also as evil as Lulu players. I have mixed feelings about Thresh TahmKench Zyra though.
Thresh players can be really good sometimes, but at the same time really toxic too, I feel so sluggish and akward when talking about him. Zyra can be good, but I really criticize passive Zyra players, or the ones who are too scared to trade with enemy support or adc. Tahm is ok, unless he starts eating you and throwing you to sacrificial chambers called enemy bot lane. There, that's my list of supports I really like but also despise. Thanks for reading. TL DR: Go and read this if you really care, you lazy ass!

Tahminatrix 9/26/2018, 1:04:30 AM2 votes

Like Chogath and TahmKench cause they cute with KogMaw

Hate Thresh Blitzcrank Pyke cause they always trying to fight and then blaming me for their deaths because I bought item 1083

OtterlyLost9/26/2018, 1:48:22 AM2 votes

I like Supports like Nami, Rakan, and Thresh. :) They're good play makers in lane but are also good at peeling post laning phase as well. I'm also a fan of good Braum or Tahm, actually, for similar reasons.

Supports I hate to see are champs like Zyra or Soraka; Zyra I hate because her plants target minions and auto push the wave for me. :/ This can be so frustrating as it leads to us being very easy to camp and its not like she can get an early Sightstone anymore. I tend to play ADCs that auto hard push anyway as well, like Tristana, so its especially frustrating. Soraka I dislike because she's squishy and all she really can do is heal. She has very limited means by which to peel for me and kind of needs peeling herself, which can be difficult.

Don't really care for Pyke either as I never get one that's actually good at his job; he usually misses his Q's, his ult, or he lands his ult before I've even done any damage to get the full gold. Or he just full on takes all of the kills without worrying about me, which is super frustrating. I also just don't like him from a design aspect as he's a very selfish support; he doesn't have any means to peel or protect someone in teamfights and kind of just looks out for himself.

Lux is an obvious on that I don't need to go into.

I also get nervous about Blitz; either you get a Godhook... or you get the potato that pulls the fed renekton into you. .-.

RuFiot9/26/2018, 2:38:29 AM2 votes

I think i have played support as much as i have played adc.

weak early adcs: Vayne Twitch KogMaw Kaisa ... strong early adcs: MissFortune Draven Lucian ... heal/shield supports: Soraka Janna Nami Lulu poke supports (poke + aoe for wave push): Brand Zyra Lux all in supports: Alistar Leona Thresh Blitzcrank ...

when im weak early adc:

  • vs weak early adc with heal/shield sup I would prefer an all in sup (and not poke sup like Brand Lux cause their support will mitigate all the dmg)
  • vs weak early adc with all in sup i would prefer ranged poke sup, so we have minion advantage and can poke them down so they cant all in
  • vs weak early adc with poke sup I would prefer heal/shield sup so we can mitigate their dmg
  • vs strong adc and shield sup I prefer a poke sup (we cant all in a strong adc) so we have a wave advantage or a shield sup for the late game.
  • vs strong adc and poke sup I prefer shield/heal supports
  • vs strong adc and all-in sup I prefer poke sup so we can hard shove the wave and have minion advantage

when im strong early adc:

  • if im vs weak early adc I would always prefer all in sup
  • if im vs strong early it depends on his sup, if poke me heal/shield if heal/shield me all in if all in me poke

EDIT: One of the most important things for me in my games is for the sup to support the dps, if he decided that im bad adc and we have Cassiopeia or Irelia he can support them instead but if not he should support the adc, in late the every sec the adc is alive in team fight is a lot of dmg output.

Beside that on roaming, you suppose to roam when you know the adc is safe (for example you have vision on all their team and they are mid or you warded for him so he can't get caught or he can stay under turret), when he is in his power spike he usually should go with you and look for fights, when he is in his power spike its usually best just to stick with him and wait to some fight to happen, you have a good chance to win that and he have a good chance to get fed

when you do leave him - when you think he is a dead weight and you and the rest of the team can snowball without him in late game you usually need him so just try to make it easier on him so he wont be super behind or free pick in team fights cause no one peels for him

Glaedr9/26/2018, 1:09:22 PM2 votes

I think it's more of a playstyle type thing and what kind of ADC you're gonna be laning with than a black and white answer. I like being extremely aggressive and winning lane so I play almost exclusively champs that will help me achieve that goal rather than slower ADCs that take time to ramp up so I will also want supports that can match that kind of pressure like Brand Morgana Zyra and so on. That's not to say more laid back traditional supports like Soraka, Janna, and Karma are bad either for winning lane since they can also put down pressure, but it's just not work out too well if they have any sort of hard engage.

I'd say most supports people tend to hate like the random midlane player autofilled bot so he picks Lux or Leblanc actually isn't that bad if you just try to match it. But since you're gonna be the support player, I'd just ask the ADC if they're cool with that first.

Daddy Ants9/26/2018, 3:53:17 PM2 votes

Hi!

As a 1 million mastery Vayne player I'd say the following suits my feelings towards what supports I like playing with -


Love playing with: Nami Lulu Sona Morgana

I can appreciate a good: Blitzcrank Alistar Leona Janna Rakan Thresh Nautilus Pyke Zilean Soraka Karma

Not really a fan of playing with: Zyra Velkoz Veigar Brand

I'm likely to dodge if I get: Lux Malphite Bard


These are based on me playing Vayne specifically.

I do play other ADC's like Jinx, Kai'Sa, Twitch, Varus and Miss Fortune so this will probably change on a champion to champion basis.

Kaisa is Hot9/27/2018, 1:49:46 AM2 votes

As a Kaisa (inc harassment for maining an OP champs), I really love me some Leona , she just has everything Kai'sa wants. Tons of CC, tankiness, Lockdown, and a passive that works nice with my own.

Saibbo9/26/2018, 9:56:51 AM1 votes

Playing with? Anything that's not a support but a 'support' and rakan, picking it just because you picked xayah but never actually played him once before and leaves you alone 90% of the game making it pointless

crispy669/26/2018, 11:28:50 AM1 votes

i personally dislike having a Janna, my favorites are mage supports and tank supports

Gooliope9/26/2018, 3:18:01 AM1 votes

Love: Braum Thresh Shen Leona Fiddlesticks Morgana Hate?: Zilean Zyra Soraka Janna BrandTaric I know the champs I hate are not bad, since I listed my main when it comes to support. But these are the champs I've typically seen players feed or play badly. But oh boy do I love to see a good zilean or soraka! [slayer-jinx-catface]