janna is the best support for mid/highlvl since her passive gives everyone free movespeed.
In low elo i would spam support lux with full ap runepage, get philo+kages -> mejais + sorcs -> d-cap
dont forget to buy wards
but im usually able to get fed with her easily.
support lb can really do the same thing.
just try around and people wont complain if you get 15 stacks in 10 minutes :)
greez sam
In low elo i would spam support lux with full ap runepage, get philo+kages -> mejais + sorcs -> d-cap
dont forget to buy wards
but im usually able to get fed with her easily.
support lb can really do the same thing.
just try around and people wont complain if you get 15 stacks in 10 minutes :)
greez sam

Also he's a great initiator for team fights.
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There is so much... incorrect with the previous post by Mooninites... Trying to zone out an
Alistar is like trying to zone out a stone wall... it doesnt move.
Alistar is the king of zoning in lane, because everyone is too afraid of being blown into a turret, or at least way out of position and open for ganks.
Soraka lets your AD do whatever he pleases, but she offers almost nothing in the way of kill aid in lane. And as previously stated, aside from making sure your AD doesnt run out of health or mana in lane, she doesnt do much even in teamfights except for offering some heals. And
Lulu is by FAR not the worst champ in game, not even nearly the worst supporter. Support by harass is a great style, one of the main 3 support styles. She offers great harass in game, fantastic CC in teamfights, and even offering herself and other champs great escapes in tight spots. And why is
Nidalee and
Morgana on your support list?????







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OK, here are a few specifics about the support champs most seen.
Alistar
This guy is a fearsome presence. He zones people out just by STANDING somewhere. He plays mind games with the best of em during lanephase, and offers alot to a teamfight after, to boot. Decent heal that works on everyone in a vicinity around him (good for throwing off opponent CS AND for helping keep your team alive later on). But What makes him the mindgame master are his two other abilities, his knockup and
Headbutt. One of the biggest fears for a laner is being out of position, away from your support, away from your turret, and into gank range.
Alistar turns that nightmare into a reality. His
Headbutt throws you a HUGE distance, and if he gets behind an enemy, in between him and his turret, well... its game over. And everyone else in the world KNOWS that. SO they do everything within their power to keep themselves from getting into that position. Thus,
Alistar can walk somewhere, mind his own business, and zone the enemy team completely out, because they are too afraid of being put out of position so horribly to stay anywhere near him. Trying to jungle gank a lane with an
Alistar in it is... tricky, to say the least.
Alistars AD would have to put himself WAY out of position AND be at about half health before its an option. Any other situation, and
Alistar will just knock the jungler into his turret so his AD can eat him.
Janna
This support is very popular atm. She has a shield (which serves same purpose as heals, just requires a little more skill and great reflexes to STOP the damage from happening instead of fixing it AFTER it happens), a knock up, a slow, and her ult, the Big Push (which is the reason she is so popular right now).
Janna is a nice pick for lane phase, assuming the support player has good reflexes and can tell when the enemy AD is about to try and harass and shield her partner before the attack lands, but she REALLY shines once lane phase is over and teamfights start. Her ult is such a massive disruption it by itself can break teamfights into pieces, let alone when combined with someone else, like
Gragas, who can do it AGAIN. Her best partners are
Vayne and
Tristana, again because they both have disruption spells that work very well with the team dynamic
Janna would be put in. Your opponents dont matter too much, as long as your team is following the Disruption Teamfight theory, they wont have a chance in the end anyway. As far as defending from junglers,
Janna gives a passive 3% boost to speed, which is meh at best, but its something. her skillshots hardly ever land outside of the big, brawling teamfights, so counting on those to defend your ad from ganks isnt the best strategy. Overall just spend cash on wards and keep them up by the tribush AND your river bush to get as much warning as possible.
Taric
This support has been, and always will be, very popular. His heals heal his target AND himself in the same spell, which makes up for the fact that its not as powerful a heal as
Soraka. He is tanky, and gives his allys a tanky buff as well, which is very powerful in lane phase. He never runs out of mana, thanks to his passive. His stun is non skillshot, which is great for picking out a target amongst a mass of creeps. The stun helps his ganks, stops enemy ganks, and just helps generate a Zone of Danger around himself, especially if he is partnered with a champ that has long distance blink/dash spells, i.e.,
Ezreal
Corki
Tristana. They can all jump in and take advantage of an enemy putting themselves out of position after
Taric punishes them for it by stunning them. The same concept works, just not as well, for other dash-type ad carries, like
Graves and
Vayne. However
Graves works fantastically well with
Taric in a more passive style (the sit back and crank CS type) because he gets armor from his passive AND
Taric ability. Graves tank? i think so. Also,
Taric stun +
Caitlyn
Yordle Snap Trap = funny as hell and one long *** stun. As far as jungles, probably not the best pick against a
Nocturne or
Lee Sin but other than that he is good against most.
Soraka
The all around, easy to play, easy to learn, OP Healmaster. Choosing
Soraka means your AD will never run out of health or mana.
Ezreal can spam his beam attacks without fear of not being able to escape a gank,
Graves can be as ballsy as he wants with his
Buckshot, it just leaves ALOT of wiggle room for your AD to get a bit sloppy. Which is why i do not recommend her if you are running solo q. Your AD will get too brazen and feel like he has the hand of God on him, do stupid ****, then die, and blame you for it, because hey, you only have so many heals at one time. Not too sure what to counter pick for, all i know is, i HATE
Soraka
Ezreal lane combos. HATE them. Especially if the Ez is on his toes and knows wtf he is doing. So,
Soraka can either lose the game b/c she lets a tard feel like Jesus and get himself killed, or win the game because she allows Actual Jesus with a Shotgun to go wherever he pleases, get all the creeps, all the golems, all the wraiths, and **** all over everyone. SO, its not the champ you should be picking
Soraka to pair with best, its the player. Against junglers, she really falls to
Udyr who goes into the *IMA STUN YOU PASSIVELY AND U CANT GET AWAY HUEHUEHUE* stance BEFORE he gets out of the bush and into silence range, but other than that, her silence can work pretty well.
These are some of the common picks, and i am familiar with them all. However there are a couple of supports that you will see and scratch your head over. These are very situational, yet if put in the RIGHT situation, will destroy bottom lane.
Maokai
The tree to end all trees. The peace-seeker, the sapling-flinger, the woody mammoth. THIS guy is a baws, all the way around. (im not biased, i swear...).
Maokai has a toolkit that looks mish-mash and jumbled at first, but once you get your head around it, you realize how amazing it actually is. And how lethal.
Sapling Toss has HUGE range, and is the main reason why mao is a viable support. He basically supports by harassing the hell out of the enemy and making them afraid to come near your minions to get CS. He out ranges any and all abilities the enemy AD and the enemy support might have. And on top of the range of the ability, it HURTS. ALOT. Good
Maokai players will learn to time the minion waves and keep track of when they will come next, so when his sapling lands and starts chasing whomever it lands next to, they cant run through a creep wave and escape the second, much more powerful blast. Doing things this way also ensures the player never runs out of mana because he takes his time dealing all that damage. Crazy sustain from
Sap Magic. His
Twisted Advance and Arcane Smash are GREAT for taking advantage of enemy laners that put themselves out of position, and also for defending against ganks. and 20% reduced damage from Vengeful Maelstrom is invaluable in teamfights. He works best with characters, like
Taric, that have long range blink/hop abilities, such as
Ezreal
Corki and
Tristana altho i have had best luck with ez and trist. He is a very aggressive support. Does not do well against junglers with great gap closers like
Lee Sin or
Nautilus.
Blitzcrank
THIS guy... oh boy. He only has ONE goal in life, just one. To land his
Rocket Grab from the bush so his perma-partner,
Vayne, can eat your soul while he has you bounced and silenced. The combination of characters allows for a ridiculous CC time; blitz bounce can't be shortened by Tenacity, and
Vayne's
Condemn impales your *** to the wall (which blitz was kind enough to pull you to, thank you very much). Very durable thanks to his shield, and alot of people are idiots and actually attack him instead of his AD. Very stupid thing to do. Fun little fact, his Rocket Grab can't be seen until WAY too late if he launches it from a bush at you. Really only exists as support to run a kill lane (90% of the time with
Vayne), isnt useful at ALL with passive characters/players, but when he is used correctly, it takes ALOT of jungle support from your guy to let you survive the lane. Notice i said "survive", not "win". even with LOTS of jungle help, its still not likely you would win a lane against blitz-vayne if they know what they are doing. Just awful to try and lane against. In teamfights he is great at punishing people for getting too far away from their teammembers, or for isolating the carry's by yanking them out of a fight and over a wall, and who doesnt love AOE silence?
These are some of the most known and most popular supports to run, and i hope this has answered some questions.

This guy is a fearsome presence. He zones people out just by STANDING somewhere. He plays mind games with the best of em during lanephase, and offers alot to a teamfight after, to boot. Decent heal that works on everyone in a vicinity around him (good for throwing off opponent CS AND for helping keep your team alive later on). But What makes him the mindgame master are his two other abilities, his knockup and








This support is very popular atm. She has a shield (which serves same purpose as heals, just requires a little more skill and great reflexes to STOP the damage from happening instead of fixing it AFTER it happens), a knock up, a slow, and her ult, the Big Push (which is the reason she is so popular right now).







This support has been, and always will be, very popular. His heals heal his target AND himself in the same spell, which makes up for the fact that its not as powerful a heal as
















The all around, easy to play, easy to learn, OP Healmaster. Choosing









These are some of the common picks, and i am familiar with them all. However there are a couple of supports that you will see and scratch your head over. These are very situational, yet if put in the RIGHT situation, will destroy bottom lane.

The tree to end all trees. The peace-seeker, the sapling-flinger, the woody mammoth. THIS guy is a baws, all the way around. (im not biased, i swear...).












THIS guy... oh boy. He only has ONE goal in life, just one. To land his





These are some of the most known and most popular supports to run, and i hope this has answered some questions.

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Well i've played supports more competitively and probably longer than you have, i'll bet on my experience over yours any day.
Alistar doesn't zone well at all. if you want someone who zones well just run
Leona or
Blitzcrank. It's so easy to get free shots on him. Warding bushes basically renders him useless or forces him to combo
Headbutt and
Pulverize together. Even then I'd be more afraid of a
Taric stun then an alistar using that combo. He's a good disruptive force in team fights, but that's about it.
You say that sheild's serve the same purpose as heals, and this is so incorrect and shows your lack of knowledge as a support player. Shield's preventdamage. Heals restore HP. There is a big difference, especially considering shielding has to take place before damage is assigned to be effective, the opposite is true for a heal. Additionally her shield is free stats, at rank 5 it's almost 1700g worth of AD. Her shield has multiple purposes other than just preventing damage. She might shine in team fights, but she's quite strong in lane because of her ability to trade. I would disagree with your assessment about lane partners. I don't think
Tristana is that strong with
Janna, neither is
Vayne. They work sure, but I'd say her best lane partners are
Caitlyn and
Kog'Maw. Both
Tristana and
Vayne work better with the likes of
Alistar and
Leona, Additionally in regards to her ultimate; I don't know who would be stupid enough to combo
Gragas' ult and janna's ult. Maybe you, but that's besides the point. Her ultimate has many uses, but the primary use is for a fight reset or to isolate enemies. Good opponent's can work around your ultimate, it's not like just because you use it they're so disoriented they can't win the fight. good players wait for the janna ultimate to end then go balls to the wall.
This is what bothers me the most with your comment, and I've only read 2 paragraghs.
Really? are you really this stupid. Do you even think about what you say? Like my mind is boggled by this statement, and I still have more to read. I can't even comprehend what goes through your mind when typing this. So many people consider this a broken passive, it's the difference between a death and living so often. you probably have no idea though. I can't wait to finish reading, this should be absolutely hilarious
This entire section on
Taric is hilarious.
Taric is a pretty unpopular champion in NA. In fact most European supports are pretty shocked that he isn't seen more. He hasn't always been popular, there was quite a bit of time when he was seen as quite weak, especially when they nerfed his heal and changed his ultimate.
He never runs out of mana, thanks to his passive
well for support expert, The Overmyynd, I guess auto attacking minions all day is the solution, please, this passive is garbage taric very easily runs out of mana. You should play him some time.
He's really not that strong with
Ezreal and he's meh with
Tristana. His armor shred is more useful for champions like
Corki (+1 for actually getting something right!),
Urgot, and
Graves. I don't know why he wouldn't be strong against nocturne or lee sin, seeing as both are heavy AD and he provides passive armor.
Soraka
ALOT of wiggle room for your AD to get a bit sloppy. Which is why i do not recommend her if you are running solo q
/facedesk, you've hit the ceiling of stupidity, or so I think. I don't really know how you reached the conclusion that
Udyr counters soraka, but I'm sure your reason, "cuz udyr has a stun", is justified. rolls eyes.
I guess if you can salvage any hope from this, it's the fact that you realize
Maokai is a good support. I suppose that would be a good place to start. Even then you don't understand why he's a viable support. And no it's not because of
Sapling Toss's range or damage. You would be correct that this aids his kit and makes him unique compared to
Leona but you'd be incorrect for the reason that's viable.
Blitzcrank works well with multiple partner's not just
Vayne. Also Blitz-Vayne is fairly easy to beat, just don't get hooked, that's about it. You don't get hooked, you can win the lane for 18 seconds until his next hook is up. That's how you beat it incase you were wondering.
Also I don't think
Lulu is a bad support, and certainly not a bad champion, don't take my words out of context or i'll tear you a new one like I already have in this post. I just don't think she does anything well compared to other supports. Her ultimate is the only thing I'd say really going for him. Her cc is okay, but there are other champions with better cc, like
Janna,
Alistar,
Leona,
Taric,
Blitzcrank, etc. You wouldn't run Lulu for her CC. Like I said what would you run her for? Her harass/damage? If that were the case I'd just run
Soraka, her
Infuse is comparable to
Lulus
Help, Pix!.
Also, I don't think you know what
Soraka does at all. She has a global heal, that will always make her viable. She does quite a bit of work in team fights also, she has a global allied heal with her ult, a heal that gives 1700g worth of free stats for 5 seconds, a 2.5 second silence, and a multi-target aoe MR shred. I have the feeling you've been playing her strictly as a healbot which would explain why you don't think she does anything.
These are some of the most known and most popular supports to run, and i hope this has answered some questions.
Sure did, I now realize how clueless you are when it comes to supports.
Alistar doesn't zone well at all. if you want someone who zones well just run





You say that sheild's serve the same purpose as heals, and this is so incorrect and shows your lack of knowledge as a support player. Shield's preventdamage. Heals restore HP. There is a big difference, especially considering shielding has to take place before damage is assigned to be effective, the opposite is true for a heal. Additionally her shield is free stats, at rank 5 it's almost 1700g worth of AD. Her shield has multiple purposes other than just preventing damage. She might shine in team fights, but she's quite strong in lane because of her ability to trade. I would disagree with your assessment about lane partners. I don't think










This is what bothers me the most with your comment, and I've only read 2 paragraghs.
The Overmyynd wrote:
Really? are you really this stupid. Do you even think about what you say? Like my mind is boggled by this statement, and I still have more to read. I can't even comprehend what goes through your mind when typing this. So many people consider this a broken passive, it's the difference between a death and living so often. you probably have no idea though. I can't wait to finish reading, this should be absolutely hilarious
This entire section on


The Overmyynd wrote:
He never runs out of mana, thanks to his passive
well for support expert, The Overmyynd, I guess auto attacking minions all day is the solution, please, this passive is garbage taric very easily runs out of mana. You should play him some time.
He's really not that strong with





Soraka
The Overmyynd wrote:
ALOT of wiggle room for your AD to get a bit sloppy. Which is why i do not recommend her if you are running solo q
/facedesk, you've hit the ceiling of stupidity, or so I think. I don't really know how you reached the conclusion that

I guess if you can salvage any hope from this, it's the fact that you realize





Also I don't think










Also, I don't think you know what

The Overmyynd wrote:
These are some of the most known and most popular supports to run, and i hope this has answered some questions.
Sure did, I now realize how clueless you are when it comes to supports.

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+rep for the sheer malevolence of this post. All i said about yours was that alistar isnt that easy to zone out, soraka isnt a god, and lulu isnt that bad, then you go and throw me to the sharks wit a bucket full of fish heads around my neck. Owch. Besides, what you are saying is stuff that works in ranked. Im telling him things that work in low to mid elo. Excuse me if i dont try to teach a second grader the nuances of Shakespear and the iambic pantameter.

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Well i've played supports more competitively and probably longer than you have, i'll bet on my experience over yours any day.
Alistar doesn't zone well at all. if you want someone who zones well just run





You say that sheild's serve the same purpose as heals, and this is so incorrect and shows your lack of knowledge as a support player. Shield's preventdamage. Heals restore HP. There is a big difference, especially considering shielding has to take place before damage is assigned to be effective, the opposite is true for a heal. Additionally her shield is free stats, at rank 5 it's almost 1700g worth of AD. Her shield has multiple purposes other than just preventing damage. She might shine in team fights, but she's quite strong in lane because of her ability to trade. I would disagree with your assessment about lane partners. I don't think










This is what bothers me the most with your comment, and I've only read 2 paragraghs.
Really? are you really this stupid. Do you even think about what you say? Like my mind is boggled by this statement, and I still have more to read. I can't even comprehend what goes through your mind when typing this. So many people consider this a broken passive, it's the difference between a death and living so often. you probably have no idea though. I can't wait to finish reading, this should be absolutely hilarious
This entire section on


well for support expert, The Overmyynd, I guess auto attacking minions all day is the solution, please, this passive is garbage taric very easily runs out of mana. You should play him some time.
He's really not that strong with





Soraka
/facedesk, you've hit the ceiling of stupidity, or so I think. I don't really know how you reached the conclusion that

I guess if you can salvage any hope from this, it's the fact that you realize





Also I don't think










Also, I don't think you know what

Sure did, I now realize how clueless you are when it comes to supports.
To begin with no I don't main support and I never will. I play a pretty good blitz and janna tho.
Most of your points are true but you could have said them nicer lul. Disagree on one point tho
If you ward the bush against ali he got what he wanted and he is still a thread if the jungler comes to gank or if he's on lane with trist he doesn't even need to be in the bush. If you gotta ward the bush every 3 minutes that'll give him a gold advantage/ward advantage.
And this:
"Blitzcrank works well with multiple partner's not just Vayne. Also Blitz-Vayne is fairly easy to beat, just don't get hooked, that's about it. You don't get hooked, you can win the lane for 18 seconds until his next hook is up. That's how you beat it incase you were wondering."
Blitz-Vayne(or any other AD) is fairly easy to beat, just don't get hooked.. cmon now you are assuming that the blitz a real turd. True about the 18 seconds tho.. trick is to make them impatient by zoning them so they miss cs if they go for it don't ALWAYS try to grab them.. as blitz you gotta do random **** like so people can't predict you.
Well most things of your post were right. Especially the janna one.. one of the main reasons if not the main reasons she is the most picked/banned support right now is that passive. 3% global .. that's really strong. 2 MS quints for free for the whole team.

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