Who should the support exhaust when peeling?

nDoro·May 29, 2017·3 votes·769 views

If I'm playing a Janna and their enemy is, let's say Rakan and Leona and the enemy ADC is out of exhaust range, should I walk up to the ADC and exhaust him or should I just exhaust the support?

Thank you.

15 Comments

420 gramsMay 29, 20177 votes

Depends. Who's killing the adc? Is it their adc? Then exhaust them. Is their mid lane? Exhaust them. There's not a correct answer that works in every situation. Pick who is dishing out the most damage your carries.

nDoroMay 29, 20171 votes

My dilemma lies more in when supports like Rakan engage on my ADC and happens to do a lot of damage to her while the enemy ADC hasn't even touched her yet. Also, my ADC only attacks the enemy support. Perhaps exhausting the support could have gotten us the kill?

TyrekGoldenspearMay 29, 20176 votes

Wait until the ADC gets into range. Exhaust reduces damage.

DrCyanideMay 29, 20175 votes

An exhaust on the Support with CC could stop them from landing the CC, thus preventing their ADC from getting in range at all, resulting in 0 damage taken.

Zero Skill TankMay 29, 20173 votes

Exhausting support is basically useless unless this is a damage oriented mage support i.e. Zyra/Malz/Brand.

Death by GlamourMay 29, 20171 votes

Well once a support like Leona is on your ad it's often far to late to exhaust because she's already blown her cds getting to him

nDoroMay 29, 20171 votes

But if she only E-d without using Q or ult yet? I thought the autos do the most damage from Leona if she runs AD runes.

Death by GlamourMay 29, 20171 votes

tbh the answer is neither

you only want to use your exhaust there AD once your CC runs out and they start auto attacking/firing abilities

it actually triggers me seeing exhaust used as a slow rather than the damage reduction

KoKobotoMay 29, 20171 votes

Flash into the enemy team, knock away everyone then exhaust the ADC. Try to knock the damage dealers into your team.

nDoroMay 29, 20171 votes

Doing that has 80% of the time left me dead and receiving flame for bad angles.

KoKobotoMay 29, 20171 votes

Hmm sounds like a mechanical error. Practice is all I can say.

nDoroJun 2, 20171 votes

Trying to split up the team 2v2 in solo queue is a little difficult for me because I don't know when my ADC is gonna ult and they always flame me if I knock them out of their ults. Should I still try to split?

KoKobotoJun 2, 20171 votes

Always try to split if your flash if off CD, that way you disorientate the enemy team and they can't kill your backline while your team can damage them for free. If your ADC flames you than they're bad.

ZelorxonMay 29, 20171 votes

If you exhaust the support i have bad news for you buddy...

The only situation when is acceptable to exhaust the support is when the enemy adc is completely out of range and can't join the fight before the support has died, also you gotta be sure that he won't solo your adc even with his support dead, but if such a scenario happens the enemy adc either really likes to have crayon based meals or he's just trolling and letting his support die.

Also wait a second, even if i smell baiteronis from here, why the enemy team has rakan and leona in the same team?

alfavhunterMay 29, 20171 votes

well it depends really

if the enemy support catchign the adc will enable the enemy adc to get to your adc it could be better to exhuast the support, but this is assuming exhuast will prevent the support from having the ms to get to your adc. you also have to consider if this is a fight or flight instance, can you turn it around if you wait to use exhaust on the enmy adc right as they are in range so your adc can kill them

or are you 100% trying to run?

if exhaust will prevent the enemy support from being in range to CC your adc and enable their adc to catch up, echaust the support, if not save it for their adc to give your adc a better chance at surviving the CC, return your CC so they can still run and live, and hopefully you can get out as well

its very situational

for example ive exhausted a thresh to keep him out of flay range of my adc which enable him to escape the CC and stay out of range of their adc when we were running.

so the answer to your question, it veries based on the situation.