How to Carry as a Support (Humourus Guide)

Don't know if others have done something similar, but I wanted to do this for fun. Enjoy!

1. Champion Select In Champion Select, your teammates will expect you to choose the typical champions fitted for the support role such as: , , , , or . However, there are certain champions that fulfill the support role with greater strength such as: , , , and . Your teammates will expect you to select said champions, thus this narrows your selection quite a bit. As a support, you goal is to help carry your team to victory. In order to achieve that goal, you must select champions that would normally be reserved for other roles such as: , , , or . Though you may be discouraged heavily by your teammates, reassure them that your decision is for the best of the team. With careful and thoughtful reasoning, they will quickly agree to your choice.

2. Gold/Items As a support you are expected to help carry your team through every fight, from 1v1 to 5v5. It's quite common for the ADC to gather all the gold during the laning phase, but make a strong argument that you should be the one reaping the benefits of last-hitting minions. How else are you to help carry your team while underfunded with little to no items? Speaking of items, the preferred build for a majority of players would be utility items such as , , or . However, the one thing that those items lack is damage. You won't be able to carry your team if you can't kill anyone. Thus, a simple solution is to build items suited to your champion such as: , , or . You will see your kill score rise dramatically, but also the approval of your fellow teammates.

3. Vision It has been highly expected of supports to constantly ward the map for vision of the enemy team. Though vision is important, you should be much more occupied with gaining gold and kills. Why waste your time warding with or , or denying vision with when you could be getting fed to become the hyper carry you were meant to be? The jungler is much more suited to vision-related tasks as they often roam the entire map and aren't reliant on gold or kills to be viable. If, however, your jungler does complain that they will be behind in gold, experience, and creep score , then simply point out that wards reward both gold and creep score. Also reassure them that you will carry the team to victory and that they need not worry about being behind.

4. Buffs Your jungler often gives blue buff to your Mid, and red buff to your ADC. Having both buffs on a support will dramatically increase your power and kill potential. Remind your team that you will carry them all to victory, and make your case on why you should be given both buffs.

5. Teamfights In a teamfight, your main priority is the enemy's support. Whether or not they built the proper items, they are still a large threat to your team. Eliminate them at once without mercy. After successfully killing the enemy's support, proceed down the order as follows: ADC, Mid, Top, Jungler.

After reading this short guide, my hope is that you will lead your allies to victory more often because of your carrying potential. You are the most important role, and be sure to remind others of that. May the Support God bless you in your battles.