What is it with mage supports and carrying games?

datfatguy·Jan 28, 2018·1 votes·1,457 views

Mages like Brand, Zyra and Vel'Koz are sometimes played in support, and whenever I do see them, they carry. How come?

10 Comments

HaIlMonitorJan 28, 20182 votes

They still have the same damage, and honestly most of them take all the kills. Its like the ADC has 150 farm is 1/1/12 and lux has 10 farm but is 6/1/6 so she has a crap ton of gold anyways.

datfatguyJan 28, 20181 votes

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and honestly most of them take all the kills. I

Yep. I always feel like whenever I have let's say a Lux support they focus more on getting themselves kills than actually protecting the ADC.

Dorans PantsJan 28, 20182 votes

they can poke tanks, and enchanters can´t handle their burst. only hard engages really have a chance and even those can be risky if your adc is not following up accordingly. the kill pressure is high and u can snowball easily and scale nicely into the late game. one of the few disadvantages mage supports have is that they usually push the wave and are easy to gank due to them being immobile.

NosnideJan 28, 20181 votes

Its the same bullshit as early game bullies supposedly falling off. They are glass cannon supports whom supposedly can die very easy. Its just more annoyance honestly.

TeémòJan 28, 20181 votes

That's true, but just because you get in melee range of them doesn't mean you'll kill them. Zyra Malzahar have a way of immobilizing and 1 shotng and it's pretty difficult to dodge a brand Q when there isn't much of a delay to react up close. The thing is I've never seen one roam they just stay in lane and that's where a support double jungler like nunu can make them trash as their jungler loses all their jungle and stays top side, free dragons, and they'll always end up pushed out and get ganked by both junglers well the adc gets an exp advantage from not having to share exp. If he's not procing spell thief he's falling further and further behind every second.

chipndip1Jan 28, 20181 votes

Because no one wants to deal with a bunch of imbeciles and baboons for teammates.

SujirenJan 28, 20181 votes

Those 3 have high base damage, so they can do crap load of damage with just item 3020 item 3151 throw in a item 3135 into the mix and someone like will do significant damage due to his passive ( even to tanks) with just those 3 items.

NickosaurusMay 9, 20181 votes

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Those 3 have high base damage, so they can do crap load of damage with just throw in a into the mix and someone like will do significant damage due to his passive ( even to tanks) with just those 3 items.

Try this first item 3020 > item 3151 > item 3116