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Is there something I'm doing wrong? [support]

Nursing·9/14/2016, 9:16:32 AM·1 votes·385 views

I try to peel as hard as I can, I'll flash to tank the cait ult for someone, I use locket, mikaels, everything I can just to protect someone from getting caught. I make sure to always keep pink wards in my inventory and place them down for the Vayne, Rengar etc and keep baron/dragon warded and swept, I try to even get deep wards in the enemy jungle just so we can keep vision on their jungler, but all my effort always seems to not really matter? I even try to keep everyone positive and collected when they're tilting, but it seems like all I really do is keep plummeting in losses in ranked. I'd play mid, but I can't exactly get that role if support's my secondary (I'm not comfortable with any of my other roles in ranked) so I'm stuck at the despair of being stuck at 51% winrate and staying still in mid gold. What do I do? What can I do to start climbing again? I need genuine advice, and I'd greatly appreciate it.

reference to my match history; http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=stressful

3 Comments

LitAF9/14/2016, 9:20:21 AM1 votes

Stop playing support*[zombie-brand-clap]*

InfernoFøx9/14/2016, 3:42:11 PM1 votes

You can say you are doing something, but you cant really say. Watch replays of your matches and look at what you did wrong. Each game you watch, write down mistakes. After that each game you play, look back at your notes and try to improve on those spots.

theArtifacts9/14/2016, 4:05:47 PM1 votes

I'm probably not the best one to give you advice given my recent match history and rank however looking at your recent games I could say that some areas in improvement could be warding when not playing support. I can't vouch for your warding placement as support but you're definitely placing enough of them.

Choosing which support you take could make a big difference and your builds could use tweaking. For example you're taking Janna who is a great support for giving peel and knock ups but against certain champs that may not be the best support to take even if it is your main; Against Annie if you're in range of her at level 6 she is going to burst you so even getting into range to do a quick knock up is too risky, and she can always flash burst and delete you. Against Rengar if your ward isn't already down when you see that indicator pop he's going to be able to jump to you or your adc before you can effectively peel. Against Lucian, he's just too mobile to be effective in peeling against or chasing down.

With your builds I would suggest not building ancient coin. It's great for the gold but if I'm not mistaken it's also the least gold efficient of the 3 main support items, plus you're gaining no AP from it to give any oomph to your pokes. With Sona, Orianna, even Lux you should probably be building a Lich Bane as all 3 use an AA to proc. bonus damage.

That's all I have for now. Only other suggestion would be to stop playing support since it's so reliant on others doing well. Mid and Jungle are great ways to either carry a game or to help ensure your carries are able to do so.