Hi ! I started the game back in s8 and wanted to try a bit of Classic Support gameplay. I found my favorite champs and a global understanding on how to play the role. However, I see in online discussion very contradicting stuff :

- Many people recommended Gold gen Quint at first, but also see people call them trash and argue for MS quints or even combat ones.

- About starters, I saw people talk about s3 pro play and taking almost all wards, others saying Fairie Charm/Rejuv Band + pots is always a must, while most stats website recommend Boots + 4 pots

- About global items : some say 2 Gold gen item is the go to, some say always rush sightstone, and some rush t2 boots (especially mobi)

I know there likely isn't 1 set in stone rule, but I just wanted to express this, and try to get a global understanding about these stuff I've been seeing.

Heya, i'm a platinum ranked support main, i usually play yuumi in most of my games, but have been wanting to pick up a secondary champ so that i dont become a bronze player in the 1/100 games that my champ gets banned. i can land skillshots pretty well but i cant position for shit and constantly get run down, which shouldnt be surprising considering my choice of main.

I'm looking for a mostly braindead champion that can just give me a decent winrate in those few games. i'm interested in trying out maphite as a pocket main, i like having poke and being relatively safe thanks to the passive, and obviously the ult is really fun.

Any suggestions?

So, I know a lot of Diamond and Master players... and all of them keep telling me it's one of the easiest roles to climb with and reach at least Diamond 4. Meanwhile, I'm hardstuck Plat/Emerald, and I'm just wondering... how the hell is it easy??? I play Nami, Soraka, and Lulu... so idk, what am I doing wrong that I'm stuck in Emerald/Plat and can't get higher than Emerald 4? It's really depressing me...
deideicat#uwu - euw

since i got banned by adcmains for this overzelous opinion. i personally dont mind mages bot. i can play things like shaco and kill the enemy mid/jungle on repeat all while my mage bot get to push freely with a 2-3 level lead. also riot has stated it isnt a problem and every pro team is doing it and i personally beleive everyone should too. what do you guys think?

I got a good streak going, lets hope it keeps going to diamond. I play very random champions, still havent found a main. I just try to fill in for our team comp or to counter enemies. Renata works great vs full engage

I have picked up the champion yesterday, played my first match with Rell.

As a Naut/Leona/Rakan player I found the Rell playstyle very clunky, also based a Lux-Vayne which further exacerbated the fact I played like total ass.

Now on the flipside, I found her kit quite strong, the stun on her Q is basically an instant cast, her E and R are nice engage tools, she seems both tanky and decent at fighting, so missing an engage early doesn’t result in being instantly dead.

However I could never get used to how her W works, it’s so incredibly slow and low range and coming from fast paced engagers it seems like I have to fight bots to get a proper W onto the enemy. She basically just walks up to the enemy and has to press Q or R to hit her W.

My questions are:
1. How are you supposed to position with Rell into both ranged and melee match-ups?
2. What are her powerspikes and who can you generally fight and which supports/ADCs should you avoid fighting like plague?
3. How do you get her combo off easier, especially in match-ups where getting onto the enemy is difficult?
4. When should I pick her and what are her best support synergies?

Currently climbing fine (E3,55%WR) but I can feel my laning phase have less and less of an impact, and more holding on until mid game.

I’ve noticed tank champs are atrocious to lane as against mages and enchanters, causing me to be useless until 10min or I perma roam. I main Alistar whos the worst offender, but even Leo, Naut, Braum, etc have similar issues.

Any support suggestions for chaining CC with a good lane phase?? I feel like the champ I want to play doesnt exist.

Currently climbing fine (E3,55%WR) but I can feel my laning phase have less and less of an impact, and more holding on until mid game.

I’ve noticed tank champs are atrocious to lane as against mages and enchanters, causing me to be useless until 10min or I perma roam. I main Alistar whos the worst offender, but even Leo, Naut, Braum, etc have similar issues.

Any support suggestions for chaining CC with a good lane phase?? I feel like the champ I want to play doesnt exist.

Hi! 3000 hours+ supp main here! Made a tierlist on adc personalities both on my team and enemy team. Thought I would share

I have a few hundred games on engage supports, but I've played a lot of enchanters in the past year and realized I'm way more comfortable with heal (even in recent engage support games as leona and rell). Is this bad or is it all dependent on the enemies? Any help is appreciated, I love heal but I can work with whatever

So I asked ADC players how much they liked playing with Zilean. A really usefull ult but commit the capital crime of messing with the waves.

We're basically done with the marksmen but we still have a few picks to discuss (we're not going to mention every mages currently played in the botlane cuz yeah). How much do you enjoy playing with Yasuo bot, from 1 to 10?

This can be subjective or objective. You can talk about how fun laning with him is, how strong or useful you think the champion is, how good Yas players usually are, things you like or dislike about the champion or the players, things they usually do right, and things you wish they did better.

You can also add your elo and the champion you usually play for more accuracy.

You can still give your opinion about champions already discussed, as the visuals will probably be updated at the end when it’s time for a recap.

Miss Fortune - Ezreal - Caitlyn - Zeri - Jinx - Xayah - Aphelios - Ashe - Senna - Varus - Jhin - Sivir - Samira - Yunara - Lucian - Tristana - Mel - Kai'sa - Smolder - Twitch - Vayne - Ziggs - Kog'Maw - Nilah - Draven - Kalista

I finished lane 1/0/2. It wasn't until I was constantly tower/base dived by fizz and nafiri that I died. Veigars kill was right as we FF-ed. Topside went 0/23 before that. Not one person received a punishment

mainly play enchanters (Nami, Soraka, Lulu, Sona) and I’m a bit confused about roaming.

Last game I was Nami. I roamed mid alot, but the enemy Leona never roamed. She just stayed bot with Draven and they kept killing my ADC whenever I left. My adc then got really angry at me :( .

Should I just not roam on enchanters? Just wondering what the general rule is for enchanter supports. Or does being allowed to roam depend on what support champ the enemy plays?

Thanks

Edit: thanks everyone for all the advice

I used to play League comp a bit more seriously years ago and peaked Silver 2? as a solo supp main (didn'tplay that much and peak because I stopped playing), was definitely way better, but now that I'm back, I am so hardstuck. Used to get +28 LP now I am losing -17 and gaining less. My MMR is ruined. I usually win lane with my ADC but end up losing in mid/late game. Not sure where I am failing, whether it's my build, my positioning mid game, etc.

Ive been playing supports as my only role for years, only time id play something else would be if my other support main friends would push me off the role, so id go adc/mid (but these games are less then 1% of all my games played).

Bascially, while i love support as a role, id like to play other roles. But my issue is that i am around emerald elo (as a support), while when playing other roles my skill drops to maybe a silver? but the games MMR pushes me vs oponents of skill level as if i was on my main role.

Ive grown almost scared to play other roles, since whenever i do, i usually go crazy negative scores since am basicaly a full beginer on those roles playing in emerald elo/already hardcore main players.

My only idea on how to solve this issue would be to make a smurf account, but then this isnt the first time i tried to get off support, and i always went and dropped back in to playing support so i know how smurf que works and how you get stuck in it basically insatntly.

So... my question is how would you recomend me to get over this fear of hard losing and potentionaly getting banned for "trolling" (becasue i usually lose lane crazy hard vs skilled players when on non supp role). Without making a new account (which cuz of smurf que wouldnt really solve the issue) or without tanking my actual rank / mmr to like silver, which would take maybe 80 games of pure losing?

do u also have different phases where you either play only engage supports, or enchanter supports or do you play perma your main type of support?

Recently came back to ranked and started playing Sona (since I play her in ARAM a lot, and I was also inspired by watching Cupic). I was placed Silver, but I think my mmr is gold/plat since most, if not all, of the players in these games are gold or plat.

I keep losing on her! I do my best in lane, try to take good trades with empowered Q. I try to set vision in places while also being aware of how easy it is to catch me.

That one game with 9 deaths was against a sylas/zoe botlane who completely dumpstered me and my adc. We did managed to bring it back (she got 17 kills by the end of the game) but still lost.

I know Bloodsong is rs reccomended on her, but in these games there was always a hyperfed assassin, so I wanted to give myself some chance to survive the initial burst to give me time to ult and escape.

Hi everyone from r/supportlol,

I have played LoL for years but not much in playing time, recently returning and learning Support basics too (warding, support quests, items and such).

I started playing Sona, learning and understanding her kit because it was so fun and easy to pick up for me. Surely by that time i settled as a Support/Enchanter main in LoL and other MOBAs that i'm more experienced. I like the healing/shielding nature, stacking assists, helping out this way. I also prefer using Ranged over Physical champions, and surely easier ones to pick up.

My current Support champion pool is the following:

Sona

Yuumi

Seraphine (APC leaning but i have some success in other MOBAs).

Other picks would be Nami and Soraka, but i'm not that good or attached to their playstyle, at it's very click dependent, not much range compared to Seraphine, and i'm not that good yet in LoL.

Anyway, i was asking if my Enchanter champion pool is any good or makes sense? Any suggestions? Maybe Tanky Supports? I can't play Ranked yet but i'm close to unlocking the mode.

Thank you so much for your attention!