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Off Meta supports?

Ladrac··1 votes·7,179 views

What do you think about off meta supports? Is there anybody else who enjoy to play Anivia ,Brand ,Lissandra ,Poppy ,Volibear as supports? If yes, I would like to find out more ideas for some fun supports to play, because I played a lot Leona and Braum and I get bored of them. And maybe you could say something about your play style with an off meta support and eventually some usual builds that you make on them.

41 Comments

StoryDuck2 votes

Every once in a blue moon I will play Xerath support. He works pretty well as he is really good at poking the enemy. Has a stun and Slow and lots of AoE for 2v2. Add on to that he can self sustain his mana really well and it works pretty good. His biggest downside is that he is immobile and can be punished pretty heavily for it.

50000000000000002 votes

Maokai support is great. Great all-in and peeling, as well as long range slow to catch up to enemy or slow down a chasing enemy. He also has mini-wards in his kit, which is pretty sweet.

ShaftyMegee2 votes

Poppy is pretty good as a supp.

I love malphite support.

I used to orgasam over xerath support. (Played it to mch)

Oh and taric, just because people underestimate him.

alasarcher1 votes

I like to play Sejuani support. She is similar to Leona.

Ladrac1 votes

I thought about Sejuani as support...but I never try her. Thanks, I'll think I'll try her.

Illidan Tiltrage1 votes

Try Pantheon supp,pretty OP vs Kalista Vayne Ashe and others.

Ladrac1 votes

Nice idea...I think I'll try Pantheon, but the bad thing is that he falls of late game. Can you give me a build as well for him?

HamerDrunk1 votes

well Fiddlesticks was big a season or 2 ago but should still be able to work

StoryDuck1 votes

He's okay but if you don't snowball the lane early he falls off hard.

Pelkrock1 votes

Galio Works okay

StoryDuck1 votes

He's disgusting when teamed with kalista who can just throw Galio into the enemy team.

Pelkrock1 votes

As long as Braum is not here friend

StoryDuck1 votes

Why? Galio ult will not be stopped by Braum.

Pelkrock1 votes

His passive would stack up and you'd get stunned especially if there was more then one person there.

StoryDuck1 votes

Oh yeah. I didn't think of that. I'll have to remember that one.

Ladrac1 votes

Never thought about Galio as support. I didn't even own him xD Anyway, if you play him as support, you build him tank, right? or ap tanky?

Kaeblen1 votes

standard tanky support. transition to AP when you get ahead.

item 3097 item 3111 item 3105

Ladrac1 votes

Ok, thanks...I think I'll give him a try when I'll reach 4800 ip to buy him.

DeloricVI1 votes

Taric item 3070

Everyone forgets taric... I just picked him up, and I have an 80% win rate thus far... I'm sure it will dip down the more I play him, but he still is a good off-meta support.

Ladrac1 votes

I played Taric a few times and I was really impressed of him. He's easy to play and rewarding, but the problem is that I get bored of him. Anyway, maybe I'll try him again soon. Thanks .

Amelie1 votes

I've been enjoying Brand support lately, and played a nice game of Lux support. I build both as full damage mage (with Mejai's on Lux). Also played against Maokai and Sejuani support which was pretty damn annoying.

Lucky Iccy1 votes

I love me some Brand support. He can be a bit toxic tho as is has a really bad habit of taking most the kills, not that thats an issue to winning as a fed brand can really be a boon in teamfights, but that dont be surprised when you adc flames you 4/0/0 score in lane.

My advice is that UNLESS YOU GET AHEAD by a decent margin, i mean a really good early game, not just a kill or two, dont try to build into AP to much and focus more on CDR, MS, mana and basic support utility stuff. The exception is that L's Torment is suuuuper good on him when combined with his passive as that item alone with it means you will always do solid damage.

Oh and always get item 3303. The tick damage of your passive will give you all 3 triggers of it whenever you land anything, hell he may actually be a champ that can get decent results with full item 3092 even.

Ladrac1 votes

I played Brand as support a few times and I enjoyed him, but the problem is, if I don't get ahead, I feel useless. I build ap tanky items, such as item 3151 and item 3116 and my usual build on him as support looks pretty similar to my build when I play mid, except item 3303 and item 2049. Thank you for the comment, maybe I'll try to build item 3050 item 3060 as well.

Divine Hymn1 votes

I've seen successful Kennen supports, Shen supports, and Brand supports.

beastkitty1 votes

Hey man, I usually play malphite support. He has really good sustain in lane and his ult is very useful.

Fucck1 votes

Shaco Ap support is pretty good, your boxes can be wards, has good poke with e, and his q helps with getting away. Overall I think as a supp he's pretty useful. Not to mention the boxes do help prevent ganks and usually if your adc isn't very mobile then Shaco supp would be good. Plus he's really fun imo and has good outplay potential

Kaeblen1 votes

Sion Sion. great CC, and tower pushing. Transitions to late game brusier. Rush item 3401 , item 2049 , and then item 3074 . The rest as you wish. Face of the Mountain can give you great heals from Q, and can also proc while dead, to continue the rampage. The hydra is for damage (people expect it of you), and the AOE lifesteal does wonders for Sion's passive.

I also play Bard . He's definitely not for everyone, but if nothing else I'd say to practice with him just to become more map aware. You roam pretty often, and are constantly checking minimap for chimes, so just practice making the most of those two and it'll help. Also, bard ganks are brutal. R --> walk on over -->Q stun -->auto--> W ally --> by the time you finish that much most allies will have had plenty of time to nuke them to ****. Oh, and for 1st time Bard players, each chime lasts about 10 minutes, so there's no rush to grab them if they are far away. just wait till there are 4 or so in one area. You usually have time to make big sweeps for them after a gank or teamfight.

EDIT: I've also had Ahri used against me bot lane, and the charm is brutal.

Ladrac1 votes

Thanks for your comment. Bard isn't my type of champion, neither Ahri. I like tanky champions with decent cc, like Sion I'll try Sion as support soon.

Zair Umbras1 votes

JarvanIV Damage, tankiness, and CC on top of an ArP shred for your ADC. What more could an ADC ask for? Other than the kill...

Ladrac1 votes

I really love Jarvan and I played as a support a couple of times...but the issue is that he can't peel too good for his adc.

Tyren1 votes

Gragas Great peel and engage. I helps that is base damage is pretty good. Nautilus This guy has so much cc that even his auto attacks cc enemies. Nami Not sure if non - meta or not, but she is a well rounded support only missing hard engage. You can engage and peel with R.

pxst1 votes

I try sejuni sup and mao be4 it's ok. I loveGalio andOrianna they were awesome support

Bixits1 votes

Veigar support is pretty awesome.

greenmachine061 votes

i play galio support and i rush sightstone. then right after that i get athenes for mana regen and thats my only damage item. with him i max e and just poke amd zone them.

7ha7guy7771 votes

Malzahar support is quite interesting. Like Brand, he can proc spellthief 3 times with one ability. His voidlings can block skillshots (and dance). If you duo with a Quinn adc you can effectively prevent your opponent(s) from fighting back for 2 seconds (silence + blind). Voidlings can tank turrets for diving or pushing purposes. Your ult is pretty much a free kill. Once you get rylai's you have a near perma-slow (4 second DoT = 5 second slow with E alone). You have good base damage so ap isn't all that necessary. Your voidlings can tank dragon for easy early dragon kills.

However, you have no escapes. You need to push to get mana back but the adc can still last hit the minions affected by your E. You have no hard cc pre-6. Your team probably won't like it so you may need to duo with an adc who also plays Malzahar.

Ladrac1 votes

Never saw a Malza supp...but I thought about him too. I don't own him, but maybe I'll give him a try once I'll get 4800 ip. Thank you.

DarkDeamonDragon1 votes

I love playing Velkoz support. All you really need to build on him early is mana regen and magic pen and he gets insane damage with his poke and even more if you can proc the passive. His Q is a slow and his E is a knock up so there's some pretty good CC right there.

3tyson1 votes

20% cdr on runes & masteries 20% cdr on frozen mallot/black cleaver usualy fm Full tank from there on on leblanc

Tanky constant flash and 3snares

flash in with w snare for ever with e r e and ward with hyper mobility

JustJayson1 votes

Brand DrMundo Fiddlesticks Malphite Kennen Velkoz Veigar Xerath Shen Volibear Rumble Trundle Olaf

Those are all the off meta supports I enjoy. Most recently I like the Olaf, Mundo and Rumble support

Nitrabyte1 votes

Lissandra support is good, but can only feed the ADC when 6 with the ult Brand support is good all round maybe excluding mana

big sloppy deet1 votes

ive done jax support his stun is pretty good if you know how to time it

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