My favorite role in LoL is supporting, i play support a lot in ranked, and in normals. Now for ranked, i use the mainstream meta champs like Leona or Morgana. But does anyone have any great champs that i could play support in ranked and do very well? A champ who isnt usually played, but is fun and strong? I am willing to work at it, and any champ is accepted.
Thanks!
P.S. Ive done 
support and 
support, both were decent.
Malphite support. They cower in fear of your level 6 all-in. Plus, if you rush a bit of Mana Regen, you harass pretty well.
He's fun and strong if you don't fall super behind. Levels are much more important to you as Vel then gold. If you start to fall down levels you'll soon start to become miserable. Get ahead though, and you should be able to 1v1 anyone in the game. Even champions with insane amounts of mobility.
Gangplank Supp:
Let yourself get caught by Thresh Q and eat oranges is just glorious.
All these champs are viable supports and very fun IMO
I love playing non meta supports
I've tried supporting with these champs to some success.
Why has no one mentioned 
and AP
Don't ask about the Caitlyn. It works somehow.
nautilus veigar sion
Grab a 
and you can poke the enemy laners whenever you want, from wherever you want.
all four of his abbilites can be used to protect someone.
I'm having a lot of fun with Jinx support. She can be built as AD caster with nearly maxed cooldown reduction (ult cooldown of 36 seconds's pretty sweet) and a Sightstone. She also becomes the target of assassins instead of your own ADC while not necessarily easier to kill. I usually manage to survive.
Did someone say lee sin yet? sit in 1st bush at the start of the game. Once some unlucky soul peeks in, pop first Q, auto them as much as you can, ignite. Your adc is also attacking at this point of course. Pop second Q. Nothing could survive that. Flash WILL be down. First blood. you now have a stupid exp lead from level 1.
Continue your role by executing surgical and annoying strikes on their farming with slows, and take over the bush with ward jumping and spell spamming (low level enemy supports will be struggling with mana if they want to fight you). once you hit level 6 (undoubtedly faster than the enemy) roam mid and 1shot their unsuspecting meta-playing loser assassin. 
is like a slightly worse 
, since her hook goes through minions.
has a very strong early game and with a 
gives his marksman quite a large amount of free AD with his E. Either dominate early, or fall behind here.
with a well timed flip can utterly screw over any markman without a dash, and his ult gives him the damage he'll need in lane.
I've tried caitlyn. Frostfang + chip shot + w to gain money. W to prevent ganks. E to slow.
I know some people have builds for 
support, and when you look at his kit it makes sense:
I didn't really look at anyone's build the one time I tried it, and either by my own incompetence or my ADC's incompetence I ended up with most of the kills. It still could be fun to look into if you want a challenge.
Teemo support is my favorite unconventional support. He's actually really strong against a number of matchups, though he'll lose to supports that out-poke him like Sona and Nami. He's also completely infuriating to play against, which is the real reason to play him.
Kennen and Amumu support have both been played by Edward of Gambit Gaming before in tournament games, they're pretty fun.
I play a few odd supports on regular basis. This is how the playstyle is for each of them
- Go full tank and max E first. He plays as a poke support by throwing minions (the 50% damage boost on minion throws is very strong so it works without building AP). Offers lots of utility with his CC, and can still get his W hp growth decently by farming cannon minions on 
- I think someone mentioned him already, I like to think of him as a physical version of . Very strong level 2 engage, if you can hit level 2 first, you can cheese the enemy with an all in for first blood. His passive gives him decent damage without building damage, and he has enough utility to go full tank and be useful.
- I don't really consider him a support, but rather a no cs roaming lane partner. Poke with Q, strong level 3 all in. Typically ganks mid when 6, but easy start a jungle gank by ulting behind the enemy when they push. Falls off at lategame though, but can maximise usefulness by going tanky midgame.
- Some say he's a "conventional" support, yet he's not seen much. His Q offers sustain and/or poke, he has an initiate (bait ult or flash AoE taunt), and his ult synergizes with 
+ 
. Downside is that he is not naturally tanky, so a support budget actually hurts him to some extent.
- People dodge when I try this, and I don't blame them. I haven't had enough successful games... yet... she feels... quite promising as a support. Take your typical ADC setup, start with 
. Poke with W and save your passive crit to poke even more. Very good lane to gank for the jungler, if you're good with your arrow. Ahhh, now that explains why I do badly.
Try malzahar! :D Max his e for stupid good easy poke, and his silence is helpful. Once you get his ult and faceroll your entire combo, it's practicall a guaranteed kill since your adc will likely have some high-burst dmg ult and your ult keeps the enemy locked down for (I believe) 2.5 seconds. He's a blast.
Also, I love playing as anivia support to a vayne adc. Have her pin people to your ice wall, op combo.
Because when is perma-ghost/perma-exhaust and Point-and-click GA on a 30 second cooldown NOT a good thing?
NAUTILUS. Nautilus literally has cc on all of his abilities (passive included!) except his w. His hook is easier to land than Thresh's and can be used as an escape (unlike thresh's hook). Wanna see something funny? Let a Thresh hook a level 3 Naut, then e, shield, and hook stragglers as your adc destroys them.
I've been told Naut isn't a great high elo pick, but in high bronze he works pretty damn well. Just go relic shield and then tank, and you can even buy a little ap if you're really rolling.
I'm suprised no one has brought up Sejuani.
Everyone keeps asking for a tanky support, but overlooking her knockup, AOE damage, slow, and stun/slow. Along with being a tank and having skills that reward her for being a tank.
Definitely 
. I played him support for a while, and it's really powerful. If they all in, you can use W and E, and you can poke them down super low with Q.
support is pretty good so is 
and
Nami is meta... but she's super fun. I hadn't tried her before and found myself having a blast. She makes big plays.
i just had a decent idea... 
.
he requires so little damage items to be relevant in top lane or jungle..he has sustain to harass the enemy laners, manaless so he can just stay there healing with his bloblets and is a giant gooey ball of cc. its so good im gonna try it myself
I agree Malphite support in most team comps is sleeper OP. He pokes well, he just goes OOM a little too easy if harass a lot, so taking Sach's suggestion of some mana sustain can make a good lane bully.
I've been seeing a lot of xin supports lately, viable but risky. I have thought about Jax supports, especially since you can just get gold with targons. My favorite thought is to run a kennen support. Many people hate the thought but I think it could really work with practice.
Jax / Lee Sin bot lane is ridiculous. Or Pantheon / Jax. Love both, it's fun to roflstomp occasionally.
