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Support Mains get Boned in Bronze

Daughter of Aset·12/20/2014, 5:26:57 AM·15 votes·2,203 views

As someone who has over half their total ranked games in the support role, I've noticed how in low elo it's pretty much impossible to promo. I can use pretty much any champ effectively, and prefer high damage or high poke sups (Morgana , Annie , Janna , Sona ), but can even play some non-meta champs with cc as support (Orianna , Poppy , Cassiopeia ).

I find that getting a full team that works together is ridiculous to even dream of in Bronze, but I'm usually just fine with a decent ADC that pairs well with my sup and can at least position moderately well. I've helped carry many games where it's basically 2v5 (bot lane vs all), and raced up the LP hill.

But competent ADCs are insanely hard to find. Is this a hard position to play? I use Quinn or Vayne typically, and usually don't have much trouble, but it seems like, especially with newer ADCs, that everyone loves the role but doesn't understand SYNERGY between sup and ADC. Is this exclusive to Bronze, or is it everywhere.

For Example: I decided to support Orianna, since we had a somewhat sketchy team damage-wise, so I figured a high damage poke sup would be nice, minor cc for the enemy Vayne, and a shield for my ADC. My ADC then picked Kalista, which in my opinion is a tank-needing champ (for ult), but I figured "why not, I can just pop my ult if I get ulted in, double stun ftw right?". She didn't establish the link with me until the first poke battle, which froze me in place and caused me to die. Then when I stepped 2 pixels from her as she was farming (right next to a bush with no wards, Mao was hiding there), I got focused with 2 stuns and died again. Immediately Kalista started shouting how horrible I was, how I was out to feed, and how she can't work with an Orianna support. Every single encounter thereafter, she would attack minions and never the bot team, while I was running 24/7 to try and survive. The whole time she spent the game shouting I was feeding when I was almost always behind her poking safely, and would have Mao jump to me and Vayne wallstun me, with Kalista still attacking minions ignoring what was happening right next to her.

I guess I'm just frustrated, because I LOVE the support role, and with a semi-intelligent ADC I can serve up TONS of good champ food, and it seems I can't get out of this tier simply because I don't troll pick or play huge carry roles.

Is anyone else experiencing this crap? I just want to play this much-hated and underappreciated role (since pretty much no one else wants to, and I"m good at it).

34 Comments

OhBoyItsaMegaman12/20/2014, 6:24:34 AM13 votes

The unsurprising truth is that, yes, you will definitely struggle to find a competent adc. You will also struggle to find a competent jungler, a competent mid, a competent top, and a competent support. This is because you are in an MMR where competent players do not generally venture.

As a support main, you do not need your adc to be any better than the average Bronze V adc in order for you to get out of Bronze. What you do need to do is ask yourself what you're willing to give up in order to become a better League of Legends player.

Are you willing to give up Teleport? Giving up Teleport will make you a better support. I'm sure that you can list the advantages of having Teleport on support, but those advantages do not outweigh the disadvantages of not bringing Flash. If you think they do, it's because you don't fully know the advantages of bringing Flash.

Are you willing to give up Clarity? Giving up Clarity will make you a better support. Again, I'm sure that you can list the advantages of having Clarity on support. They exist. But those advantages do not outweigh the disadvantages of not bringing Exhaust, Heal, or Ignite. If you think they do, it's because you don't fully know the advantages of bringing those spells. I suspect it is also because you view the ability to wastefully spam skills as much higher than it actually is.

Are you willing to give up building AP over Sightstone? Giving up some AP and buying a Sightstone every game will make you a better support. Once again, I'm sure that you can list far better than I can the advantages of having AP on support when your adc is very bad at both farming and positioning. But I say once again, those advantage do not outweigh the disadvantages of having just a trinket ward or two on the map at any given time. If you think they do, it's because you don't fully know the advantages of vision.

I am positive that if you give up all of these things, you will miss them. (At first.) You will miss Teleport every time you can't get out of base in time to be in a teamfight; you will miss Clarity every time you go oom. But you will become a better support player by doing this. It's a matter of priority. What is more important to you: playing the way you're comfortable with, or playing the way that will get you to Silver?

If you are interested in receiving some constructive criticism, I am available to spectate. I've done this for lots of people on the forums before, and I now do it on stream. Respond here if you're interested, or add OhBoyItsaMegaman in game, or come by my stream tomorrow afternoon. Good luck!

doubleguac12/20/2014, 5:39:41 PM5 votes

If you're looking to carry games from the support role, you should try to focus on mage supports that can build and deal significant damage. You list Janna as a high damage/poke support, which doesn't make much sense to me--her damage is pretty atrocious. Her strength is her ability to keep a carry alive. If you don't trust your ADC, I wouldn't pick her.

Champions like Annie Zyra Karma Morgana are probably your best bets. There are some decent off-meta mage supports that would probably work too, like Veigar Velkoz Brand

Nikolas6712/20/2014, 3:34:18 PM4 votes

I never post on these things, but I was in your position all last season and managed to get out (Bronze 4 - Gold 4). I primarily used nami and zyra to get out.

On bronze synergy: You can't always count on, or build items for, extreme synergy through bronze and even low silver. Usually after the first couple of engages you can start to get the feel of how the synergy in lane is (or isn't). If it isn't there you just need to build to be a carry. I see you also like Mage supports so we're built on the same foundation. I would however, always get a tier 1 sightstone because warding can, and does, win games, but other than that I wouldn't be afraid to just build yourself into a pure mage, ignore those "active-support" items, and evolve into the carry your team might need. This strategy falls off a little once team synergy becomes more of a factor.

You control the lane Aggressive mages with the blue item can bring in plenty of gold, not worry about CS, and focus soley on harassing. Using the fact that the opponent is probably lacking in synergy, and prone to rage with their first death, I found that by just being an aggressive, bully, mage often resulted in them mistepping before your ADC does. The big key to doing this is that you need to pretend that your ADC isn't going to act on your pokes, UNTIL he starts doing so. They all behave differently and you can't have your play style depend on it. A lot of the harassing doesn't need to be Big double kill plays either. just poking the carry when he last hits, or hitting a spell anytime that tanky support tries to step up, are things that mentally set a tone of lane control. This passive control helps out your ADC and he wont even know it, but it will help the team.

Support whoever the carry becomes Once lane phase starts to break down and the game turns into more teamfights, objective control, and roaming, you should really asses who is control and carrying your team at the moment. Sometimes this isn't going to be your bot lane. if bot lane is feeding up a storm but you have some mid, top, or jungle carry who is really rocking the world, you should play to the teams strength and become his bodyguard instead. This can sometimes really help out your losing ADC in an indirect way. When you create pressure on the map elsewhere by sticking with a fed carry, you force the enemy to send multiple champs to deal with it, and take pressure off the ADC lane (maybe open up some waves of free farm). You securing the triple kill for a fed rengar helps the team wayyyyy more then you standing next too an 0-4 vayne who still gets dove and killed even when you're there. Even if your ADC is way behind, they can be a team fight factor, but they require your team to make the windows, since they can't make their own.

Personal experience NAMI: very forgiving for sketchy calls because of the heals and bubbles. The E buff is fantastic and makes the ADC think he's stronger then he is. I got away with building her pure mage (Rabbadons, even mejais for the stacks, because I knew i would get in on most assists) and just becoming an unexpected AP carry late game. This lets you control the team fights and decisions later on, and not just instantly die when you find yourself in a jungle 1v1.

ZYRA: Leona, Blitz and Thresh were the most popular supports ever when I was in bronze. They are however, extremely predictable. I picked zyra up to deal with them, and she has now turned into my strongest pick. They are however, extremely predictable. They want to hook, and they will stand in the corner of the bush all day. Zyra can use her snares and plants straight to outzone them, and just wear them down. This basically shuts them down, because now they are too injured and if they pull you close you can probably kill them. Her snare can also travel THROUGH minions, and all their hooks do not. this means you can position behind minions and pull of your combos, and they can do nothing about it. if you can zone these bully's out, then they don't know what to do, and it saves your ADC from a trip to hook city.

This is the first thing I've ever written here, but I hoped this helped in some way. You'll find the support role changes it's feel as you climb up and you wont be able to get away with things like Mejai's nami ect. but Bronze ranked is a unique playing field, and I wish you the best on your escape.

Nick

Daughter of Aset12/21/2014, 4:26:24 AM4 votes

Thank you all for your comments, and I'm sorry it takes me so long to reply, I just have a kid and a life that hate my LoL time.

I'm gonna try and cover everything I feel pertinent, and if I sound defensive, realize I'm tired. Mommy is exhausted.

@ OHBOYITSMEGAMAN: Thank you for your post. I can see that you've looked at my summoner profile from what you wrote, and I appreciate that. My choices of clarity and teleport, as well as lack of sightstone I will say are learned behaviors. I've taken clarity for longevity in lane, due to the short lifespan of my adc's, and teleport to quickly return to their side, because they are too stupid to survive or poke safely without me. This is no real excuse, I know, but I really only choose these spells to win laning phase and get me or my adc fed. I will be the first to say I'd rather carry flash and either exhaust or ignite, and I did so when I started. However, I've met with greater success using those spells in bronze. Sightstone is something I build on my more tanky type supports, but even then, in my experience, laning phase cuts straight to endphase in bronze. There is very little need for wards in most of my games due to how decisively the games cap after laning phase. Again, I'd rather buy Sightstone in most cases, but it seems that vision plays so little part in low bronze that it's ridiculous to waste a slot when you are either already in their nexus or vice versa. Again, I do appreciate the post, and I appreciate the criticism. I'll add you in game and maybe you can take a look-see at my play style and make some more comments on things I could do to improve.

@NIKOLAS67: Thanks for taking the time to post here. On your comments for countering the uber popular Thresh/Leona/Blitzcrank picks, that is exactly why Morgana is my main support. Her spellshield negates so many stun-locking supports that I use her almost exclusively as support. I agree on your points, however, and will take what you said into consideration.

@AGEDRI: Thanks for your input. Like I said to OHBOYITSMEGAMAN, I would LOVE to take those summoner spells and Sightstone. I live for support and would kill for a competent enough adc to carry those spells into lane. I just no longer have confidence in my adc's. I used to have an unbeatable duo to go with every game, and we would carry the game from minute one. Now having to go with pugs, I've sacrificed mobility and kill power for sustainability so that I can be the one holding lane while adc does whatever a brainless keyboard-humper does.

@ALASKANEAGLE: Thanks for your comment. I, however, disagree with the point you made "people tend to listen to the support". In bronze, it seems everyone is a "plat smurf" who can "carry you nubs", and supports are largely ignored and used as scapegoats for others' bad decisions. But that's just my experience.

@2PUDGE1CUP: Duly noted. I am very aware of the crap I do that doesn't help my elo. And in-game, I always own it and usually am able to recover. However, I may not be the best at other roles, but I do know I'm a damned good support in my own right. I make mistakes, I rage, I snowball in a negative fashion now and then, but the majority of the time, I'm doing everything possible to try and save the game and do my job as a support. I'm not incredible, but I know my role and know my play, and most of all, I know how to complement my adc's abilities.

@DOUBLEGUAC: I listed Janna as a high damage because her W does a lot of damage early on, and is great for poking down adc's for farm denial. Maybe it's just in my experience, but shield and W maxing makes for a very good harass janna.

@GUILTYGECKO: Thanks for your tips. I actually started as a mid/adc main, but due to my frustration with no one ever playing or knowing the support role, I took up that mantle. In other MMOs I actually play healers and such, but wanted to be a damage force in LoL. Funny how things work out. I actually have 2 main people in each role that I can play consistently well, so I'm not stuck with my knickers down when someone else gets support. I also prefer to let everyone in the lobby get their requested role if possible, because early positive attitudes help out a lot. I nearly always win my lane with or without my adc's help, and roaming happens almost directly after first waveclear post turret destruction. I immediately help the lane in the most trouble, or I shadow the carry so they can snowball faster.

@PROUD AND BRONZE: While I can appreciate the importance of opinions, I think there is a flaw in yours. Sure, it's vital to have someone good in each of the other roles, and the power is necessary. However, the role of support is twofold: first, you have to keep your end of the game by harassment and engaging depending on your champion, as well as defense of objectives and warding; second, you are there to sustain, aid, and give at least one other player a decisive advantage and even the odds in fights. I have had games where the support was the reason for victory. Leona carries more games in Bronze than I can count. Without a support, teams will die. The support is the hilt of the sword. Not always sharp, but vital.

@FIERCELIGHTNING: What you've said is true. And I do my level best in those situations where I have to be the bot lane. Surprisingly, in low elo, even "passive" supports can end up carrying a game harder than a fed yi on crack in the right situations.

Again, thank you all for your comments, I appreciate your time.

redniwediS12/20/2014, 6:15:00 AM2 votes

The best piece of advice I can give a support main is to not do it until you're in silver. Pick another lane that most closely matches your type of support (usually Top for tanky supports or Mid for burst/sustain ones) and carry yourself out of bronze before playing the most rewarding role in the game full time.

AmazingGoat12/20/2014, 6:22:40 AM2 votes

I love support. I got frustrated in Bronze and started playing other roles.

The main reason I got frustrated playing support in Bronze was that I didn't feel like I was improving any. It felt like games were often won or lost based on things that were outside of my control, so I never knew what to improve on. With other roles, every game I am able to look back and try to figure out what I could have done differently to increase my chance of winning. In some games with support that's possible, but many games I find myself just kind of throwing up my hands. For example, it was not unusual to have a close game throughout but then lose a pivotal team fight after our carries positioned themselves terribly. I can throw out my entire rotation trying to save them, but many times it just won't be possible. Playing support it felt like my best chance to win was to spend half the game instructing everyone else on where to go and what to do. I didn't find that that enjoyable. I love playing support with a solid ADC and a good team, but it's just really frustrating. Late game it is all about keeping your carry alive. Some carries, however, either position so poorly it is next to impossible, or else don't prioritize targets well enough to do enough damage before your team gets wiped out.

I also noticed something in my games. Frequently, if someone on my team called ADC in the lobby, we had a great chance of winning. If no one did, it was going to be an uphill battle. Eventually, based on this, I started trying to learn ADC. I was really bad at ADC. I was roughly positive at every other role and massively negative playing ADC. But I played it and played it and I believe got a bit better. I recently climbed out of Bronze playing mostly ADC and it went pretty well.

I tried playing mid/top and had decent success, but I climbed out of bronze the fastest playing ADC. Many people say that mid is the best role to carry from, and I can see why that would be true, but I am not that good at carrying from mid. I don't tend to play the assassin type champions that you usually see roaming and carrying, and it is not a play style that fits me, so I play ADC. I still love playing support, but I don't play it much. I actually find that more people call support than call ADC.

GuiltyGecko12/20/2014, 7:27:26 PM2 votes

Though it really doesn't matter, I am speaking from the perspective of a support main that started in silver III, and ended up in Platinum.

First I will say I understand your frustration. Support is probably the hardest role to carry with simply due to the nature of the role itself. Support, is generally, a force multiplier and not a force itself. You can think of supports as a x2 multiplier, and each member of your team can have a value of zero or one. The problem with support is that if your whole team is trash (all zeroes) then zero times any type of multiplier is still zero. This is an extreme example, but I hope you get my point.

In order to carry as support, the best thing you can do is:

  1. Make sure you win your lane. Bot lane is largely decided by who has the better support. Sometimes your ADC just keeps getting pulled, but if you're winning bot lane more often than you lose, that's already a good start.
  2. **Learn how to roam. ** I actually didn't start REALLY understand this concept until I started studying mid laners, which I started doing around late gold. Sometimes, you have to just accept that your lane is lost. When that happens, you have to know where else you can go to exert pressure on the map. You all have to understand when you're far ahead. You can sometimes leave your fed ADC in bot lane alone and roam without having to worry about your ADC anymore.
  3. Support Whoever is Fed. Don't stick to just your ADC. If the top lane Riven is fed, support her during mid/late instead of your ADC. It's more important to keep your greatest damage source alive, than to just blindly support and underpowered ADC.
  4. Stick to a small champion pool. Counter picks many VERY little against someone who has mastered a champion. Froggen's Anivia is a great example of this. At last year's Allstar's game, he played Anivia into Zed. Most people expect Zed to win that match-up, but Froggen has Anivia's mechanics down so well, that his mastery trumps counter picks. Pick 1-3 supports, and just play the hell out of them. They don't have to be meta, just stuff you like. Once you master them you will be able to play them into any match-up, regardless of counter-picks. 5.** Have a fall back champ in each off role.** Sometimes you will not get support. You will still need to learn how to play in other roles. I recommend mastering 1 champion in each role you don't main. For example, whenever I have to go top or mid I ALWAYS play Cho'Gath. If I go jungle I ALWAYS play Hecarim, and if I ADC I ALWAYS play Cait. By doing this, you still build up mastery with those champions, even if you don't play them too often.

These are just a few tips, but another important way to get better is to record your games. Whenever you lose a game, go back to the recording go to EVERY TIME YOU DIED. Every time you die, there's a mistake made. Analyze the situation and see what YOU could have done better. Don't say "well if my adc just used Q we would have won." No, that's not productive. You have to look and see what you could have done. Write it down, remember it. Place it on a sticky note on your monitor so you remember before every game. This method probably helped me improve the most.

Just know it's not impossible to carry yourself out of bronze, even with support. The only way I got out of gold was admitting that I wasn't as good as I thought, and started to learn from my mistakes. Self improvement is the only way to get better, since you can't control your teammates.

Brenticus1212/21/2014, 9:39:14 AM2 votes

My friend, just don't play support in Bronze unless you absolutely have to OR you're duo queuing who can play ADC competently and can synergize with you. Ever since I went from Gold 5 to Silver 5, I've stopped playing support all together because of how trashy the allied ADC can be. Most of the time they don't know how to position, don't know when to engage, don't know when to prioritize CS over poke and most of the time, they don't buy any wards, at all. And most of the time they're so egoistical that they blame the support for dying when they were trying to protect them or when they could've fought back but the ADC was busy farming.

But if you are forced to play support, play someone that can carry. Atleast until you reach an MMR that has a higher chance of you getting a decent ADC. Annie , Zyra Morgana Lux Karma Chogath Volibear Anivia etc are some good picks

alaskaneagle12/20/2014, 4:43:44 PM1 votes

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I read some but not all of your post. I wanted to let you know though; I found it easier to carry out of bronze as the support because bronzies know they aren't the greatest and are more willing to listen to the support.

I got out of bronze with an 11 game win streak as support by; knowing where the jung would be at all times (might be harder this season), warding of course, Watching the map and knowing where the enemies were at all times (if you don't see them they are somewhere you don't and those spaces are limited so logic applys), getting the ADC fed of course, calling all plays, securing all objectives, saving any and all teammates, locking down targets with cc, initiating And peeling (yea I'm that good), helping every player play above their skill level, and controlling the flow of the game.

I have found if someone thinks they can't carry as a support they usually don't know the job of a support. It is actually the most intensive job, and is the captains seat of your team. In bronze they may not understand that the support isn't focusing on his farm and can watch the map better than anyone else but they do understand that; if I call a play it's better to follow than wander around the map pointlessly since they don't know exactly what to do anyway.

2pudge1cup12/20/2014, 5:35:38 PM1 votes

Maybe you aren't as good at support as you think you are.

Otherwise, over time you'd eventually rank up simply by playing enough of a sample size since there's crud on each team and allegedly you're the one competent player.

The same thing goes for any role.

Try to be objective about your own game for what you're doing wrong and correct that and you'll rank up. If you blame everyone else then you won't.

Revenix12/20/2014, 3:39:34 PM1 votes

Aww bro I feel your pain. I was stuck in bronze 3 FOREVER last season because I am a support main. After a lot of begging i got my silver 5 ADC main friend to duo with me, we dominated lane every single game and I climbed to silver 5 in a matter of a week or two (just in time for the season ending) That was pure hell so until you hit about silver3+, I advise not maining support and only rolling it when you are forced to. I picked up azir and zed and it is not often i lose when I go mid at this elo just because I have way more experience than anyone else because I was trapped for so long. So i highly advise finding a solid ADC main who you synergize well with and since bot is the most influential lane in the game, you will start climbing extremely fast.

Envy Sin12/21/2014, 9:50:20 AM1 votes

Annie Brand Leblanc Leona Lissandra Ziggs Zilean Thresh

If you play any of these champions go damage with them and carry with the support role, Take kills, And farm up while the adc is gone/dead.

MrSexyHobo12/20/2014, 7:44:57 PM1 votes

this is what drove me away from the idea of being a support. i find alot more supports if im playing with gold players and overall the experience is much btter

proud and bronze12/20/2014, 9:44:08 PM1 votes

supports help to win a game without a doubt. they just aren't nearly as important as top, jungle, mid, adc.

think about it. when the other team has a support that is really good, its kind of inconvenient. when the other team has a really good player in any other role you have a serious problem on your hands.

Spacesuit Spiff12/20/2014, 9:47:38 PM1 votes

From what I recall in bronze, a good 80% of the games would eventually be decided by which teams ADC decided to run around solo and facecheck every bush in the enemy jungle nonstop past 10 minutes. Really wish I was joking. Play ADC in bronze because bronze is the only elo where a team can survive a bad support, but really can't survive a bad adc.

FierceLightning12/20/2014, 11:46:15 PM1 votes

Honestly to get out of low elo you have to pick supports that carry hard, you play annie so i will recommend you use her out of the supports that you listed the other supports are pretty team reliant (you can also go sightstone full ap morg and carry pretty hard) for annie though you need to ignore your adcs bad decisions and die if they are running into the minions to fight the enemy then just let them die and when they rage ignore them (like actually hit the mute button) focus get your spelltheifs, sightsone, upgrade to frostqueen, and then proceed to build full ap annie so that you can 1 shot whoever gets fed. If you are truly good enough to get out of bronze you easily can with annie.

Make sure to keep dragon and baron warded, and if your adc is dying for no reason farm the wave while they are dead. Id recommend you go spellthiefs into sightsone finish frost queen and then either go DFG if your ahead or zhyona if your behind. pick up void staff if you see them buying mr if not get a death cap. keep on if your having trouble landing tibbers use ur q to stun someone then use tibbers and ur guaranteed to land it.

Also consider learning leona braum or thresh they carry too (janna is much better at keeping an adc alive so if your not a fan of adcs at your elo i wouldnt recommend playing her)

TAKE IGNITE AND FLASH ON ANNIE :)

I hope this helps you out add me if you have questions

Note: Sorry im too lazy to relog on my main if youd like to believe me its in plat 3 makes no difference to me.

FierceLightning12/21/2014, 12:02:49 AM1 votes

Last piece or advice when your ahead pink your tri bush when blue side and river bush when your purple side its a free perma ward

AmazingGoat12/20/2014, 7:13:31 AM1 votes

In the interest of trying to help you, I also want to mention that when playing ADC the one thing that gets old is supports who play super aggressively and die and then complain that the ADC doesn't know how to play with them. I'm a big believer that playing support does not mean you can die as much as you want and it doesn't matter. Every death matters. Giving the enemy ADC a kill is generally not worth it.

When I play support I try to take my ADC as he is. If he doesn't seem like the type of player who is going to know what to do in an all in situation, I don't go all in. This is why, consequently, I rarely play all in supports like Leona, much preferring to play poke/disengage casters like Nami/Janna/Zyra.

That doesn't mean you can't play all in supports, as they can be very solid. But you generally want to avoid giving any kills to the enemy to extent practicable. I believe that many players in lower ELOs just monitor the kill count and use that as an indicator of who is winning. If the enemy gets more than a couple kills ahead, they start to feel like the game is lost and play worse and make bad decisions.

The Whamboozler12/21/2014, 4:18:56 PM1 votes

This just in.... bronze players are often bad. You're a role that literally REQUIRES a teammate who isn't huffing paint, so of course you're frustrated. Jungle is nearly as bad, but at least in jungle you can just ignore your lanes and power-farm with Yi or WW, or focus on ganking the lanes that don't have massive derp-syndrome. As a support, you're chained to another person and odds are, they're bad. Even if they're not, they likely have different ideas how to play things and coordination will not exist.

Aspynn12/20/2014, 4:20:03 PM1 votes

My best advice, play a bunch of games, and when you find an adc (or maybe a jungler) who is competent, helpful, and that you work well with, friend request him and duo! Also, since I'm a dick, I like to play full ap supports. Annie, zyra, sometimes ori and syndra. They all have cc and can be useful, but they can also delete people insanely quickly. I played zyra sup once and with a e q ult and instantly got a triple kill under the enemy tower. You champ pool seems fine, but honestly in low elos relying on your adc to do anything is pointless and in most cases you have to carry his ass HARD. Try some AP supports, vel and zyra work amazing with their high damage all game and decent cc. Annie works well too, but shes a bit harder to coordinate with your team mates. Vel doesn't even need very much ap! And zyra has fantastic scalings! Picking ap supports can also benefit your team if you have an AD midlaner.

big boi edri12/20/2014, 4:23:18 PM1 votes

I'm not very good at this game at all, but I did get to Silver. When I play support, I find you can have a very big influence on the game simply by warding. I watched a video once, it said in Solo Queue vision wins games. I try to keep a vision ward and my sight stone wards in use at all times, and it helps turn the tide of games significantly.

In regards to playing a poke support, have you given Karma a shot? She seems to dominate the lower leagues. I love the kit she brings: root, strong poke, and a speed boost+ shield. All of those things really help in the lower leagues. The "q" especially, it just does loads of damage in combination with "r". That or take Blitzcrank, he carries low league games pretty hard in my experience too.

As I said, I'm not good at this game by any means, but I did manage to get out of Bronze, and I played support quite a bit. Just keep great vision on the map, and take champs with the ability to seriously help your ADC. Karma because the root and speed/shield saves them often while her "Q" does heavy damage all game (not to mention a strong slow with "r"), Blitz because he can take a champ in lane from 100%-25% like instantly after level 6 (and not many people can dodge the grab), or if you're really worried Janna. Her kit has saved the day in my experience countless times.

I'll be happy to duo with you as an ADC if you want, I'm only Silver 5 but I generally don't have trouble beating Bronze league players for the most part. agedri

Edit: I should probably add after looking at your profile, you really should look into Flash and Exhaust/Ignite/Heal. Your spell choices seem like they hurt your lane more than help. Also a quick Sight Stone would help. I noticed you don't always get one. Just a couple tips from what I've seen work best. Also, I know builds are reactionary for every game, but as I general guideline I like to look up champions I'm playing on probuilds.net. I've found you can get an idea on the choices they made and why with the information it gives you. It helps a lot!