How can I get out of Bronze When I Main Support?
Maining support in ranked has been difficult for me. I usually get a bad adc or a good adc with a bad team. Does anyone have any tips on how to get out of Bronze (Hell) while continuing to support?
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Some supports like Braum, Thresh, and Bard can only help carry if the ADC is good. For that reason they are awful in low elo and amazing in high elo. Pick a stronger support such as Karma or Annie. OR, have an extremely passive lane and wait for jungler to make it a 3v2. Save your abilities for disengage so your ADC doesn't feed. For this you can use someone with poor carry potential but amazing teamfighting utility such as Janna or Taric.
play taric
Got to plat by playing support. You need to learn how to, and when to, peel and when to engage. It's all about minimizing your own deaths. Be selfish if you have to.
Play Zyra. You can literally win the lane yourself.
land the snares with seeds and youl be fine, honestly she locks you down badly
- Ward more and learn to watch the map
- Support better/know your champs and matchups
- After laning ends, support whoever on your team is doing best
Im thinking maybe twitch because with him the longer you have poison the worse for the enemy, but besides that i think any ranged champ.
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Maining support in ranked has been difficult for me. I usually get a bad adc or a good adc with a bad team. Does anyone have any tips on how to get out of Bronze (Hell) while continuing to support?
I climb out of bronze every season by playing support almost exclusively, and I pick a support that can transform into a late game AP carry. Fiddlesticks is a great option, so is Malphite (frostfang item plus ap runes gives him immense harrassing power and mana sustain early on).
I'm currently Gold 2. I was Diamond 4 as support fiddle 2 seasons ago.
Here is a great tip start counterpicking I know some people think that counters don't exist and in their thought they are right as in i can pick blitz into sivir and it's possible to get good hooks off. however I DO NOT RECOMMENED IT. for instance thresh against morgana isn't that bad because thresh maxes q and morgana maxes q so thresh's q breaks morgana's black shield and he still gets the hooks in. don't just counter pick their support counter their adc for instance no escape adcs are terrible against thresh and morg etc LEARN THE COUNTERS
If you're a fan of all-ins, as people have mentioned, Leona is pretty good. Blitzcrank also falls under that category, because a good hook can get your lane snowballing. Roams to mid with Blitzcrank can also get midlane snowballing, if you pull off his hook.
If you'd rather be ranged/damage based, Sona's helpful up until midgame; she's renowned for the amount of damage her power chord Q does. Once you have 2 stacks on your power chord, you can run up to someone and hit Q and autoattack them, and chunk them for about a fifth of their HP earlygame. Once midgame rolls around, you'll have to rally your team to group otherwise her damage falls off.
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This is how you carry as support:
http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1858873748/213933916?tab=overview
http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1806207433/213933916?tab=overview
http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1801588747/213933916?tab=overview
start out with ward rate, aim for 50+. start out with 30 for now.
what he just said ^ best advice for a losing lane , give up tower let him sit under 2nd for safety if he cant even figure out how to sit at 2nd tower safely. u better off roaming and ganking for others. cause obviously this adc cant figure out how to do basic, guarding him isn't gonna give u plays.
It's tough to really give advice on support. I mean if you want a good build path for like.. a peeling support like Janna/Lulu, I would say rush the sightstone, then the yellow support item ( for move speed bonus ), and then a locket/frozen heart (depending on team comp). If you play Janna, specifically, you have to remember that teammates get move speed running to you so you're better off being on the opposite side of the enemy team so that if you need a disengage you have a quick nado and then your teammates gain quick move speed. If you play Lulu, don't make the mistake of saving your ult for when your adc is about to die. You should be using that early and making sure that your adc doesn't get to low HP. Also, remember to save polymorph for when some1 dives adc, don't try to be engaging with that. For lane phase, I think the most important thing is understanding cooldowns. If you're going against a blitzcrank or thresh, realize that you have a ~15 second window of free poke if they miss their grab/hook. That's when you want to sit in the bush to force the opponents to have to back up and either give up cs or give up aggression. it's the little things that matter. I would say if you're a tanky support, then remember you can tank the minions a little if you're getting pushed under the turret so that your turret doesn't take damage, as well as it not doing damage to minions. Giving you the opportunity to freeze lane right in front of turret, given that your adc knows how to freeze. I think, at the end of the day, you have to try to imagine yourself as a solo lane. The adc's role in lane is to be carried by the support. You'll get the occassional ADC that can out play the enemy ADC, but most likely it will be a CS farm fest. Your job is to maintain pressure on the enemy support/adc so they can't play aggressive against your adc while he farms, as well as warding. Warding is the MOST important thing. And remember, don't go into the fog of war trying to ward because if you die and exclaim "BUT I HAD TO WARD" then that's completely all on you. Recognize where enemy champions are on the map, try to position yourself for an easy escape route if you don't have the luxury of a team that will come with you as you ward. And mid game, try and ask your teammates to upgrade their trinkets. You can add me on League if you ever want to play together or spectate me when I support. I think the biggest thing about supporting, when I do, is that a lot of things that I do can seem minuscule but they end up being small plays that eventually add up to a victory for our side.
EDIT: Additionally, a nice support who says "my bad" and takes blame for the ADC (even if it's the adc's fault) can relieve some pressure off the ADC. If you have an adc that is being toxic to you and attacking you, just say sorry and move on. You're better off making the adc feel better, than you are trying to force yourself to defend yourself or ignore them. How can some1 be toxic if you continually say sorry? :D
The best thing you can do is to make yourself RELEVANT: Most of the time that means a hard cc tanky champ, other times it means counter picking. Relevant in Early game:
- pick a tanky support, that way if your adc sucks and you are getting harassed at least you can try to tank the enemy team so your adc gets CS. and we know CS is key to win.
- pick a hard cc support, if you can go all in with your cc early, even if your adc sucks, your cc can help your adc get an early kill. Relevant in Mid game:
- pick a tanky support because you can absorb damage in case your adc doesnt do enough damage.
- pick a hard cc support because if jungler ganks, and your adc is out of position, you can try to unload cc to stop the gank. Relevant in Late game:
- pick a tanky support because if your team composition doesnt have a reliable tank, you can compensate for that in teamfight.
- as a hard cc support you can peel for your adc
- as a tanky, hard cc support you can help initiate, so you can control the fight and turn the teamfight into your favor.
Obviously this is just in general, you can also just pick a high poke champ and literally just go for the early ko and shut down the lane, after you shut down the lane, act as a jungler and try to gank other lanes, i think if you try to support other lanes instead of just bot, you can actually do alot too.
The best thing you can do is practice anyways. You could literally main one support and carry yourself out.
Funny story, I got out of bronze last season by playing supports all the games out of my 6 games, Won all 4. Leona OP
I main kat now, Climbing out of silver is hard too ;-;
Part of it is getting stronger part of it may be needing to duo.
If you're really strong on a champ you can win hard. A gold or plat level player with Annie support could probably get fed in low bronze to the point of having more gold than the mid. That is kinda unrealistic though to have to improve that much just to get silver so I would suggest duo with someone. I have a support main friend I duo'd through most of silver with. I play top/mid and win consistently so he had less to worry about from his team and I got my favorite roles more consistently bc if he was before me he took support and I'd get mid/top from 4th pick usually and even a decent amount from 5th. Also the biggest way to carry as support is keeping team morale up and controlling objectives. Duo can help with that too, but if you don't shit skittles and rainbows on the team and keep even bad players encouraged and trying to win instead of telling them they are bad you aren't being a carry support in bronze.
leona.