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Help me improve?

DaNormster··1 votes·362 views

Hello everyone,

I am honestly at a loss.. I have no clue what I am doing wrong or how to advance in ranked. I main support and I basically play it every game, I mainly pick Leona, Thresh or Soraka because I feel like they can have a big impact in the game as a support role.. No matter what I do, how hard I try, it seems to only come down to my teammates.. I am by no means the best player, nor do I claim to be but, I just do not know what I can do to help my team anymore than I already am. I keep wards up in our jungle if we are at a disadvantage tower wise, I keep wards up in the enemy jungle if we are at an advantage, I stick to my ADC's ass and cc anything that comes close.. I initiate and usually land 3+ ults with thresh and leona, constantly stunning and snaring with leona, hooking and lantering with Thresh (sometimes my teammates don't even click the damn lantern..), I heal bait with raka.. I just don't know what else I can do and I feel like half of my deaths are from me trying to save my teammates ass because he is balls deep and gets jumped by 3 people.

I try to build my champs accordingly, I know I am still learning but, I do a fair job at whichever champ I am playing. I played my placements right after and I was placed in silver 5.. not great but, it isn't terrible for a new player. I just feel like no matter what, as a support role, your team is what holds you back/pushed you forward. Again, I am no pro, I am not the best player but, I strongly feel like I have more potential than silver 5.

I guess what I am asking is, what else should I be focusing on as support? Are there better champs that I should be trying to carry/feed my adc with? Should I just give up on support and try to carry with another role? I honestly don't even want to play ranked anymore.. I'm so tired of winning a game, gaining LP and then losing one game just to lose it all.. I can't get ahead ever. I'll get a great team that will do everything seamlessly and then I'll get a game where 3/5 of the champs feed and just run around getting smacked in the enemy jungle/under towers.

Help please! Any opinions and advice is welcomed.

3 Comments

54795436_DEL1 votes

My friend always told me that its always good to look and see if there is a meta. For support, alista, trundle and Braum are the ways to go.

Also, I saw your record and realized you constantly build tanky items on leona. But how you itemize is really important since it can help your adc live longer and play better. If you think there is a lot of ccs that qss is not enough, building crucible helps. Basically grab some knowledge on various items support can build. Building ruby sightstone is not effective in early game, try to build more utility items such as solari, gold item. What I usually do when I play support is build sightstone and basic shoes and then build my gold item. From this point, it gets flexible tho.

Another tip is that in your elo, bot lane does not know that if you kill the whole first waves and kill 3 melee minions in second wave, you hit level 2 along with your adc. When I was climbin from silver to gold, I manipulated this and was able to grab double kill early to snowball.

54795436_DEL1 votes

I really feel how you feel since I was once a main support and I used to play thresh when I was in silver 5. I sent you a friend request and ask me questions if you need help. I can show you how I support or I can also comment on how you can improve while I spectate your game. Its always fun to have new players learn how to play games.

DaNormster1 votes

Thank you for the tips and offer to watch! I have been picking up my game play and trying to switch things up and focus on what my team needs.. I am still rolling with Leona, at this low of elo her ult and stuns are just cake for people to kill. I have been really trying to focus on my warding, deep wards if we are pushed and our jg wards if we are being pushed.. I also have been working on not dying, i always feel like I need to help my teammate if he gets caught up in a bad situation but, 75% of the time that just leads to two deaths.

So far since really focusing in I am 7-1 and recently climbed out of Silver 5 to Silver 4 :)

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