tips for a new support player??
good tips for playing support??
good tips for playing support??
Uh, as an adc main I'd like to give you some pointers...
Secure kills.
Yep. Assist gold (and free-farming time) are sufficient for the ADC if you can't freely give them the kill. If there is any chance of the target escaping or killing one of you, finish them off ASAP.
Don't build AD/AP until laning phase, because you need the tankier stats to help your adc
Mage supports (i.e. Malzahar, Zyra, Vel'koz, Brand) are an exception to this. Generally, they want to build something along the lines of:

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I'd like to add (as a support main) that try to keep a positive attitude, I like to tell my ADC great job when they get a kill or escape and thank them for warding when I've pinged I don't have wards. (Which you can do by alt + clicking on the ward icon, this also works for other things like skill cooldowns, or ready ults and item cooldowns)
Never forget you are the support, and you're probably going to be ill equipped to fight anyone at most stages of the game (snowballed mage supports possibly excluded). Plenty of times in mid-late game I've seen supports out alone warding and bumping into a quarter health enemy, trying to fight them, and losing the fight since they're down 2 levels and have relatively weak stats from items.
Related, since you're not chasing kills, focus on peeling your carries. This should generally be reflected in the items you're buying.
Keep in mind you're the teams support, not necessarily exclusively the adcs support. If your adc is a monkey and as mid game rolls around it becomes apparent that focusing your peel efforts on the mid laner or jungler is more likely to win you the game, then by all means do so. (But be careful that it is the case that it improves your chances of winning...sometimes you're better off babysitting a worse player to prevent an enemy snowballing than to empower a talented player to carry harder.)
edit: Also, it can be insightful to play adc sometimes in order to learn support. You'll get a feel for what you wish your supports were doing (and then you can do it yourself when supporting), and/or you'll see what other support players are doing that seems effective and you can try to emulate it.
Best advice I can give is to play things with incredibly low skillcaps (soraka/sona being "fun ones" as they also do a scary amount of damage) and get ready to be blamed a ton for random stuff. Unless you're in gold+, people almost expect their supports to be the reincarnation of aphromoo going 0-0-44 with 0cs and warding every bush in the game. When their unrealistic expecations don't happen, they often get a bit angry.
Yes, prepare for the max blaming, all ADC's and even other roles do it once in a while.
You either be mean or help. take your pick
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. you still help if you be mean but I have used zilean with his 99% speed up ally/slow enemy spell enough to know you can make them walk I little too for.
Otherwise just use common sense and have fun.