Message To Marksman

Raw Booty Hole·4/13/2018, 8:02:09 PM·2 votes·681 views

It's not support's job to protect you from skill shots. If you really can't dodge skill shots, you should rush

If I'm using , I'm not going to dash to you to block a hard CC skill shot like that's a suicide dash.

If I'm playing the reason my spell shield came out late is because I expected you to sidestep the skill shot. In my head, if I shield you on a dodged skill shot, it has a longer CD than the poke abilities that get spammed so now we're both more vulnerable.

As I'll only heal you below 40% threshold because keeping up with the amount of times a skill shot hits you means I'm burning my health pool trying to save yours.

Lastly, the tanks aren't tanky at level 1, so also not going to try to body block a skill shot early game just because I'm using .

If you don't have jukes, and healing/lifesteal runes are your bestfriend.

7 Comments

Kaioko4/13/2018, 8:05:09 PM8 votes

How exactly is having bloodthirster going to save you from a Blitz hook?

Ahristocats4/13/2018, 8:17:57 PM3 votes

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It's not support's job to protect you from skill shots.

it kinda is unless you're an enchanter

Kaìju4/13/2018, 8:43:59 PM2 votes

ADC/Support player here, you are wrong. Tanks supports like Braum and Rakan if you go tanky are meant to be the frontline. I suppose Malphite should be behind the ADC too?

C9 Squeeky 4/13/2018, 8:08:07 PM1 votes

As a former support main, I concur. Supports will do everything to protect you from dying to assassins/divers, but we will not die needlessly because of your bad mechanics.

kaironen4/13/2018, 9:22:53 PM1 votes

If a marksman can dodge a skillshot when he's near the minions, it's his fault. If the marksman failed to dodge the skill shot when there were no minions near, it's both the adc's fault and the support's fault (if you are play a tank and maybe rakan sup anyway). Hook supports Imo is an interesting topic because to play vs them it's not really about being good at dodging but it's about how good your wave management skills are and how much pressure you can apply. If the adc is in a bad spot and gets hooked, it's most his fault but if you don't apply pressure as a support than it is slightly your fault too. Also, building bloodthirster will slow down your item spike too much unless you are playing draven. item 3153 is better but even then it will slow down your item spike unless you are playing vayne or an onhit adc. Building item 3047 or getting a cull or 2 solutions to help against this issue of the adc getting caught (as the adc anyway). Some go double dorans blade but Imo that slows down you spike too and it is early focused, it can work but I prefer item 1083 to it since it is technically a free item once you get 100 minions.