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Ranked team support main.

Legendarysar·6/5/2017, 11:42:52 PM·1 votes·235 views

Hello, as someone new to rank I am having a hard time climbing. Why you might ask or think its your lack of skill. I am a support main. Getting stuck with randoms who do w/e they want when they want does not work. As a support main my ability to do well in the match depends more highly on my team.

I've tried other roles to be frank support is where I continue to shine.

My strengths are fast cast, strategical shots, thought out builds and what champs go well with others.

My weakness not always sure where exactly to place wards besides the usual dragon/baron placements.

My champion pool is ever expanding currently as support champs I have Soraka (my first support) for healing Nami (my favorite support) for board control, Lux for long range, Braum for defense, and Thresh for carrying people to their kills.

I will not sit here and pretend im exceptional yet I still have a ways to go but I am ever working hard to get better. I will not stop at mid tiers and be happy I'm in the upper levels I aim for someday reaching the top and I will eventually do it. Its just a matter of time, practice, patience and endless learning.

Please reply on here if you are interested or send me a fl request in league. If you want to play normals to get to know each other I would say kudos to that for doing your homework before diving into ranked. My main requirements are people that can consider (not outright follow) criticism and having a microphone. All positions are welcomed.

May we meet as friends or we shall meet on the battlefield!

4 Comments

TheDeadlyRaven6/6/2017, 12:05:14 AM1 votes

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AlienPrimate6/6/2017, 1:53:32 AM1 votes

Here is a quick tip from a fellow support main after looking through your match history. I looked at about 10 of your most recent ranked games and noticed something that really stood out. In those 10 games, you only bought a single control ward and only had sweeper in one game. You should always have a control ward in your inventory and on the field, especially as support. After you get level 9 and have sightstone, switch your trinket to oracle's alteration. If you look at my past Taric games, you will see that I always get a control ward on my first back. Getting into the habit of doing this allows you to control the bottom lane bushes more easily. If you are on blue team playing at your tower, put it in tri-bush and if you are pushing put it in the river bush. On blue team it should always be in the river bush. After it gets destroyed, replace it. This allows your jungler to gank without being seen as well as opens up your trinket to be used in the lane bushes which makes laning easier and allows your top laner to teleport behind the enemy for easy catches. You can also prolong buying sightstone until second item by doing this giving you a pretty big combat boost against the opposing support.

Another thing about support is that if you sound knowledgeable about the game, your team will generally back up your calls. Pinging where the enemy jungler is every time you see them on the map is a good way to build trust with your team. If they can see you are using pings in the correct way and not just spam pinging for no good reason they will begin to listen to your pings. This allows you to control your ADC somewhat in the lane and lets you pick when you are going to fight. I see you like Nami so I will use her as an example. After you land a bubble and get some good damage off on the enemy early game, don't chase them for the kill and ping your ADC not to chase. Win the trade and immediately go back to farming until your abilities are off cooldown. If you can get a good trade in, the enemy will be low health and will play scared. You may not get any kills on them, but in the early game cs is more important anyways. Them sitting back playing scared with low health is almost better than a kill anyways because it allows your ADC to free farm and get a massive gold lead while not risking any deaths from stupid mistakes like tower dives and minion aggro.

That was kind of long, but I hope it helps.

Edit: Here is a great example of vision control. I placed 33 wards, 4 control wards, and destroyed 13 wards and the enemy Rakan placed 30 wards, 2 control wards, and destroyed 13 wards. Vision is a constant battle as a support. You should almost always have 4 wards active and be using a sweeper every time you walk by dragon, baron, or commonly warded bushes. http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2517649380/209287161?tab=stats&participant=8

Lumiëre6/6/2017, 3:39:22 AM1 votes

Honestly you're unranked in solo, and bronze 5 in flex, you are the absolute lowest of the low, there for you simply aren't good, you chose support because it's the role that seems the easiest. If truely want to climb switch from support to mid lane, learn mechanics and awareness from mid lane and hard carry your games. Watch high elo players to learn what to do and what to not do, get through your head that you're trash so get off your high horse, learn the game, the mechanics, the awareness, carry the damn thing, and make it to Diamond. Simple as that.