There's something in common for every Mid turned Support

Linna Excel··6 votes·1,103 views

And I'm not talking about CC.

It seems like for every mid laner who see time as support, all of them are completely lacking in mobility in their kit.

Malz - no mobility Annie - no mobility Zyra - no mobility Vekkers - no mobility Veigar - no mobility Lux - no mobility Brand - no mobility

Maybe we need an AP item for immobile laners.

10 Comments

Mizaya5 votes

Why ain't anivia being played bot then? Or Orianna? Or Syndra? You seem to frame this as if immobility is the problem. It's not.

Malz - super strong pick potential and lane dominance Annie - not a meta support, when she was it was because of her engage but malz is just a better version of her. Zyra - no cs? Np still deal the damage of a mid laner. Also one of the strongest disengages in the game. Vel - not really meta, but can do a shitton of damage with little gold income Veigar - not meta, but has strong CC so I guess he sees some play. Lux - don't play lux support Brand - why give him high gold income when he doesn't need it to do ridiculous damage. Oh and he has a stun too.

PureSilvrr1 votes

Thay are played bot, just not regularly

Mizaya4 votes

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Thay are played bot, just not regularly

Anivia has a 4% pickrate support at Plat+ Syndra 1.6% , Ori 0.6%. They aren't really considered as supports. You can play a lot of mids top too, doesn't mean that they are worth considering as having something to do with the meta of that lane. If you want to find out what makes supports good, you look at the highest pickrate supports, or, in this case, the highest pickrate AP supports.

VoraciousX1 votes

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Anivia has a 4% pickrate support at Plat+ Syndra 1.6% , Ori 0.6%. They aren't really considered as supports. You can play a lot of mids top too, doesn't mean that they are worth considering as having something to do with the meta of that lane. If you want to find out what makes supports good, you look at the highest pickrate supports, or, in this case, the highest pickrate AP supports.

The reason Anivia isn't really a good support is one reason and one reason only, at least in my opinion. Her mana costs are out the roof so you can't really use your abilities consistently as a support where you don't have that much mana regen unless you're building all those support items that Anivia doesn't really synergize with. Orianna I could most definitely see being played support, except for the fact that her high damage in the mid lane combined with her shields and initiative ability basically makes her able to be a second support already. Syndra uses minions as bombs...This causes the ADC to lose out on farm if she does it enough, aside from that all of her balls would have to be cast inside the wave, and she has to use them a decent enough bit, doesn't have to worry about it killing minions in the mid lane however. I dunno if that really matters too much though considering Zyra, but that's the logic I'd use, aside from that she only has one useful ability for a support aside from her delete button, and I don't play Syndra so I dunno if it'd be called a delete button with a support's income.

Trap or a Trick3 votes

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ForgiveColour2 votes

???? What is the logic here

CannonLordFreed1 votes

item 3157 item 3152 item 3116 item 3020. Not to mention they all have some CC and a lot of damage. They don't need to move, because in theory, you won't be able to get to them.

Trap or a Trick1 votes

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item 3157 item 3152 item 3116 item 3020. Not to mention they all have some CC and a lot of damage. They don't need to move, because in theory, you won't be able to get to them.

u wont be able to get Veigar because if you get into spell range, u die in 1 hit :)

Handin Out Naps1 votes

lol.

hhaavviikk1 votes

I could see oriana being a good support. Q reveals W speedsup/slows down E shields and ups resistances R shuffle? w/e it is called

I've tried it out a couple of times and it worked well

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