Types of Supports and Thier adjacent ADC's

Rinnol·4/14/2014, 4:45:03 PM·2 votes·538 views

I've been curiously poking my head through bot lane and seen that there a set groups of supports rather than each on being different, so I go to thinking and wondered how the LOL community thinks of these groups and what adcs work well with them. Of course there are also adcs who fail to work well with these supports or counter these types in lane. To me supports are divided into 3 overall groups and then again further divide amongst these groups. Generally the supports are The Healers, champs likeSona Nami and Soraka , are the champs I like to consider healers. They usually take the item 3096 tree as their gold giving item, Then there are the AP Pokes, such as Lux Morgana andZyra , These champs usually are there to control the lane and let the ADC farm safely while they keep the opponents at bay with their spells and get item 3092 's tree as their gold earning item, The last group consist of the Tanks with the likes of Alistar Leona and Taric, Tanks often lack the safety of poking but make up for it with diving in on weak teams and taking the blows of the ADC, the item they usually get is item 3401 to give them money and help heal the ADC. From there we can further divide these groups into Disables, Pulls and Buffs. Of course there are champs with all three but there are also supports that only focus a single one. Disables are champions that can shut down the enemy by stunning, silencing or even polymorphing them. They also have slows, roots and blinds. Pulls are not necessarily Blitzcrank and Thresh . Pulls are champions that can force an enemy to come closer to a danger zone. Champions that can keep them there are even better. Then buffs are champions that boost their ADC's damage output or survivability one way or another. It can be Nami's traveling heal or Leona's passive, but somehow the ADC is hitting harder or living longer. Thats how I divide up the supports and how I end up building them but my question is who's best with who? With pulls is Jinx's beartrap better or is better to have a way to engage on the enemy champ if your a little whiles off such as Ezreal's flash?

I Want to know your opinion on the topic and if you disagree or agree with anything I said.

1 Comments

Sitnoil4/14/2014, 6:59:21 PM1 votes

Here's what I think :

Nami/Morgana/Janna go well with Caitlyn because they allow Cait to farm without having to worry about the enemy team. Since Caitlyn can farm efficiently alone, these champions are great together because they give good opportunities for Caitlyn to poke, set traps up, disengage, or chase as well as buff her stats. Varus also needs these steroids and disengage stats.

Alistar/Blitzcrank/Thresh/Lulu go well with Vayne because they can protect the ADC by staying dangerously close to the enemy and providing key CC for Vayne to hit a Condemn and then go all in. They also rely a lot on all-in opportunities, which fits Vayne's kit very well. Also works with Tristana.

Leona/Soraka/Annie go well with pretty much any ADC (I'm thinking

Lucian/Ezreal/Ashe/Graves/MissFortune/Urgot/KogMaw/Jinx/Sivir) because they offer great sustained fights and burst potential which fits well with champions that are heavy mana consumers in a very short period of time.

As for Taric/Sona, I think these choices are now very weak and more dangerous to play in a match up because they don't offer as much power as the other supports. Sona can become very strong, but her auras are not so strong currently.

Nidalee/Lux/Karma/Zyra offer the same style of play, where you need to catch people off and constantly poke in lane. However, they fall off if your lane is losing and don't do considerable damage although they have high based damage. They are also very squishy, which can sometimes cause them to die while trying to CC somebody as they are overextending. They would synergize well with any other poking ADC that could dish out good damage in a short amount of time.

Draven can work with anyone because he's broken and does too much damage.

Sivir+Morgana lanes are a btch. :| Imagine if they run double heal also...