Warding

Today's blog will cover warding - this is an essential part in the play-making aspect of a support. I will start covering lane wards, but I will give some warding tips for late game as well.

First of all, I should answer where wards are there for.

The answer to this question seems obvious, but the answer is not simply 'to prevent ganks'. You ward because you want to dictate the pace of the game:

• With good ward coverage you can catch people off-guard
• With wards you deny/gain zoning advantages through bush control
• Wards will allow you to play...

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Bot-lane synergies

Hello peeps!

Time for another blog on how to support! Tonight's blog will cover botlane synergies: how can you theorycraft the best synergizing supports for each ad carry? A rather simple question, and I will not be giving you all synergies. I am just giving a little explanation which should help you out a bit :)

This is a rather important part in botlane, because lacking synergy can pretty much cost you the lane. Keep in mind that synergies are not that important for late game.


Basically, when theorycrafting matchups, you need to ask yourself the... Read More

So I just got the completely random idea to start writing about my experiences as support, and mentoring supports. My goal with this is to write some sort of a support-101 guide to help any aspiring support players. While writing this, I have been inspired by guides/streams by EG.Krepo and TSM.Xpecial. I would recommend anyone to check these players out!


First of all, I would like to cover the common misconception that a support cannot carry games. This is 100% incorrect. The reason people think this, is because they are simply playing too defensively, and simply assisting their carry... Read More

Itemization

So basically I wanted to cover warding, but I wanted to cover GP10's and sightstones because the sighstone is a key element in warding. Thats why I'm going to explain some itemization first :)


Sightstone vs Gp10
Let's start with a comparison in the amount of gold returned on your investment. The Sightstone gives 2 wards in 3 minutes, which equals 50 gold per minute. A Ruby Sightstone comes down to 75 gold per minute and a philosopher's stone is 30 gold per minute. When not looking at the stats the item gives, the sightstone will take you 19 minutes... Read More