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Runes: Guardian Runes

1 2 3

Resolve

Guardian

Shield Bash

Bone Plating

Unflinching

Precision

Presence of Mind

Legend: Tenacity

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

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Exhaust

Flash

Items

Offensive Starting Items

Defensive Starting Items

First Back (Tank)

First Back (AP)

Core Items (Tank)

Core Items (Glacial Augment)

Core Items (AP)

Boot Options

Situational Items (Tank)

Situational/Optional Items (AP)

Example of Full Build (Tank)

Ability Order

Neeko Passive Ability

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Nautilus

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Quinn

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Quinn

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Champion Build Guide

Welcome to my support guide! I hope this guide helps you as you go along your journey of learning The Curious Chameleon! In this guide, I will be going over many runes for , pros & cons, abilities, items, spells, as well as gameplay tips and a warding guide.

Hello, I'm DatKawaiiBunny! I'm a Silver IV Support main. I've been playing League of Legends since April of season 7 as an ADC main My highest mastery champions are , , and , but I plan to make my 3rd highest.

I've been trying out some new items and runes on. My favorite so far is my "tank " build with! I update my guide each time I play her with items, runes, etc. I really appreciate you guys taking the time to read my guide. Thanks a lot, and happy supporting! ♥

Pros

♥ Camouflage

♥ High Burst Damage (AP Runes)

♥ Lots of Crowd Control

♥ Teamfight Potential

♥ Good Poke

brings a lot to the table with her and . Not only does she have a lot of teamfight potential, but she also has good poke in the laning phase and does some great burst damage with .

Cons

♥ Very Squishy

♥ Uses up Mana w/ Poke

♥ Pop Blossom Can Be Canceled

♥ High Cooldowns on Tangle-Barbs

is a very squishy champion. With the "tank " build, she has more sustain throughout the whole game. Like most mages, uses up quite a bit of mana when you poke with and . Another con about is that her ultimate can be canceled, hence why I recommend take .

Guardian
When you're 350 units from an allied champion, if you or a guarded ally takes damage from a tower, enemy, or monster, you both gain a shield for 2 seconds. If you affect an ally with a unit-targeted ability, the shield will also go off. I take this on for the sustain from hooked champion or champions with poke, like or .

Shield Bash
Now, this might be weird to take because you can take over this, but this rune goes well with 's ultimate . It grants her a shield. It should also work with as well. So, this rune wouldn't be the best early, but better once you get level 6 and so forth. You can also take for the extra tower damage.

Bone Plating
Of course, we need . My goal with these runes is to provide with more sustain, especially for teamfights. After taking damage, the next three spells or attacks deal 30 - 60 less damage for 1.5 seconds.

Unflinching
I like for the tenacity and slow resistance. You gain 10% tenacity and slow resistance, which increases based on your missing health to 30% at 30% maximum health or below. You could also take since it goes well with and it gives you more max health. For every 8 minions or monsters, you gain 3 more max health, which is permanent. At 120 minion/monster deaths, you gain an additional 3.5%.

Legend: Tenacity
I choose this rune specifically because of the amount of tenacity you gain. It's great for all forms of crowd control. When you earn 100 points, you get a stack, which are obtained by takedowns, minion kills, and large/epic monster kills. With each stack, you gain 5% tenacity, plus an additional 2.5% for every stack. You can get up to 10 stacks, and they're permanent.

Presence of Mind
Since I tend to use up a lot of mana as , I take . Champion takedowns restore 15% of your mana (and energy), along with increasing your mana regeneration by 1.5 - 11 mana per second (depending on level), reduced to 80% effectiveness for ranged champions, for 4 seconds.

Glacial Augment
is the best rune to take on . It goes well with her abilities, along with making landing and engaging easier. If you hit an enemy with a basic attack, it slows them for 2 seconds. If you have active items, such as and . It shoots a freeze ray at them, which slows them for 5 seconds.

Perfect Timing
provides you with a free . Since 's ultimate can easily be countered, taking allows her to cast the ultimate while being protected by stopwatch, which gives your allies time to pick off the rest of the team. Once you use , you can still use it to build . You can also take for a free pair of .

Biscuit Delivery
is always a handy rune to take, especially since is squishy and uses up quite a bit of mana with her combos. It restores 10% of your missing mana and health for 15 seconds. It also increases your mana cap by 50. You get 3 biscuits in total. 1 every 2 minutes.

Approach Velocity
goes well with because it grants you 7.5% movement speed towards enemy champions with impaired movement speed. It also goes well with and . If you want extra haste, you can always take , or for the extra healing with potions. Consuming a or grants 50% health immediately, and mana. Health/mana per tick is then reduced by half for the effect's regular duration. If consumables (health potions/biscuits) are stacked, the instant restoration is applied after the duration of the initial consumable ends. You also gain 5% movement speed while you're under the effects.

Ingenious Hunter
is the rune to go if you take . It gives you a 15% active item cooldown, plus an additional 5% per bounty stack. You gain bounty stacks from getting takedowns. You can only get one bounty stack per enemy champion. The three main items you want to build on are all active items.

Cheap Shot
allows you to deal 10 - 45 extra damage after damaging an enemy with an impaired movement speed action or ability. There are many ways to impair their movement speed with : , , and .

Arcane Comet
Compared to , is an ok choice to take on . It hurls a comet towards the enemy when you hit them with one of your abilities, and increases her AP damage. This rune provides more poke, but you don't get the extra slow on the active items and your auto attacks, or much sustain. However, it provides you will some good poke damage.

Manaflow Band
gives you 25 mana every time you hit an enemy champion with an ability. It also gives you up to 250 mana. This is a good rune for since you can use up quite a bit of mana with your abilities and combos. You could also take for the shield. When you take magic damage that reduces your health below 30%, you gain a shield that absorbs 40 - 120 magic damage based on level (+ 10% AP) (+ 15% bonus AD) for 4 seconds.

Celerity
goes nicely with because of the movement speed. With this rune, all movement speed bonuses are 7% more effective and you gain 1% movement speed. You can also take for the extra 3 - 30 ability power (based on level) when you're above 70% health.

Scorch
I usually take because I constantly poke with auto attacks, along with her abilities. deals l5 - 35 extra damage when you hit an enemy with an ability. is also a good rune to take on . Every 10 minutes, you gain adaptive damage. At 10 minutes, you gain 8 AP. It increases to 24 and so on. It's great for teamfights.

Perfect Timing
provides you with a free . Since Neeko's ult can easily be countered, taking allows her to cast the ultimate while being protected by stopwatch, which gives your allies time to pick off the rest of the team. Once you use , you can still use it to build .

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

♥ Passive: Inherent Glamour

has a selection of ally champions. She can take the appearance of anyone of them. She will stay disguised unless you cast or . Being attacked by enemy champions will also break the disguise. After the illusion is broken, it's on a 25 - 10-second cooldown, which is based on level. You can select from the selection, which puts on a 2-second cooldown.

♥ Blooming Burst

Cost: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90

throws a seed into a target area, which deals magic damage after a small delay. 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+50% of ability power) If the burst kills an enemy unit, deals damage to an enemy champion, or large monster, it will burst again after another short delay. 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+20% of ability power).

♥ Shapesplitter

Passive: After 3 basic attacks, gains an empowered auto-attack dealing 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 / 130 (+60% of ability power) and gains 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30% movement speed for 1 second.

Active: goes invisible for 0.5 seconds, and makes a clone of herself or disguise for 3 seconds. Her and her clone gains 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.

♥ Tangle-Barbs

Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

throws a skill-shot at a target direction, rooting the first enemy hit for 0.7 / 0.9 / 1.1 / 1.3 / 1.5 seconds, and dealing 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 (+40% of ability power. The root is increased by 1.8 / 2.1 / 2.4 / 2.7 / 3 seconds on other enemy champions hit. If it hits at least 2 enemy units, it grows in size. The ability ratio 0.6 AP.

♥ Pop Blossom

Cost: 100

charges up for 1.25 seconds. If she's disguised, the enemies won't see her charging it. She also shields herself for 75 / 100 / 125 (+75% of ability power)and it also increases 40 / 60 / 80 for each enemy by. After she lands, she stuns all enemies within the area for 1.25 seconds and deals 250 / 425 / 650 (+130% of ability power).

Starter Item Gold: 400
Spellthief's Edge: The standard AP support item you take. If you take guardian or want more sustain, then take Relic Shield. You get 8 AP, 2 gold regeneration, 10 health, and 50% base mana regeneration. After you complete the quest, which is obtaining 500 gold damaging champions and towers, it transforms into Frostfang.

Upgraded Starter Item 1
Frostfang: This is the first transformation of Spellthief's Edge. It takes 500 gold and it upgrades out of combat. This item gives you 15 AP, 3 gold regeneration, 75 health, and 75% base mana regeneration. You also gain 3 Stealth Ward that are refillable when you visit the shop. The item transforms into Shard of True Ice after completing a 1000 gold quest.

Upgraded Starter Item 1
Shard of True Ice: This is the upgraded version of Frostfang and the final transformation of Spellthief's Edge. This gives you 40 AP 3 gold generation, 75 health, and 100% base mana regeneration. You gain one more Stealth Ward, a total of 4 wards that you can refill at the shop.

Mythic Item Gold: 2,700
Shurelya's Battlesong: This is the first item if you take Guardian. I take Shurelya's Battlesong because of the amount of health and movement speed. With this item, you get 20 ability haste, 350 health, 50% base mana regeneration, and 5 movement speed. With Ornn, it gets upgraded into Shurelya's Requiem.

Passive Active: Grants you and all nearby allies 60% bonus movement speed that decays over 4 seconds along with a 35 − 55 bonus magic damage (depending on target's level) on the next 3 attacks or ability hits against champions.

Mythic Item Gold: 3,400
Everfrost: Similar to the old Hextech GLP-800, this is the first item you take for Glacial Augment since it procs the rune. Plus, it goes really well with Neeko's kit because of the amount of crowd control she has. You get 10 ability haste, 80 AP, 200 health, and 600 mana. With Ornn, it gets upgraded with Eternal Winter.

Passive Active: Deal 100 (+30% of ability power) magic damage in a cone, slowing enemies by 65% for 1.5 seconds. Enemies in the center of the cone are rooted for the same duration instead (20 second cooldown).

Mythic Item Gold: 3,400
Hextech Rocketbelt: This is the first item you want to take with Arcane Comet or Electrocute. I take this because of the engage potential. You get 15 ability haste, 90 AP, and 250 health. With Ornn, it gets upgraded with Upgraded Aeropack.

Passive Active: Dash in the target direction, unleashing an arc of rockets that deal 25 (+15% of ability power) magic damage (depending on level). Then, gain 30% bonus movement speed toward enemy champions for 2 seconds (40-second cooldown).

Legendary Item Gold: 2,500
Zhonya's Hourglass: This is the second item for all the runes ( Glacial Augment, Electrocute, and Arcane Comet). If you take Perfect Timing, you get a Commencing Stopwatch, which builds into Zhonya's Hourglass. I mostly take this item for the passive. It can be used for so many reasons.

Passive Active: You put yourself in stasis for 2.5 seconds, rendering yourself untargetable and invulnerable for the duration but also unable to move, declare basic attacks, cast abilities, use summoner spells, or activate items (120 second cooldown).

Legendary Item Gold: 2,400
Zeke's Convergence: Third item (or second item) you take with Guardian. The armor and health are the reason why I take this item. I want as much sustain as possible! You get 20 ability haste, 25 armor, 250 health, and 250 mana.

Unique Passive/Active: When you immobilize an enemy, they receive 25 − 50 {0.075} (+1.5% maximum health) bonus magic damage from your Accomplice's basic attacks on-hit and abilities for the next 4 seconds (depending on level). Designate an allied champion as the Accomplice, forming a tether between you and them. Champions can only be designated as the Accomplice by one Zeke's Convergence at a time (60 second cooldown).

Legendary Item Gold: 3,000
Demonic Embrace: A very interesting item. This is also another item that can be used with all the rune options ( Guardian, Arcane Comet, and Electrocute). There are better situational items to take, like Morellonomicon or Banshee's Veil, depending on the game. You get 70 AP and 350 health.

Unique Passive: Dealing ability damage to enemies causes them to take 1.2%% of their maximum health as magic damage every second for 4 seconds. Gain 10 bonus armor and 10 bonus magic resistance while enemies are afflicted, both increased by 2.5 for each additional champion affected.

Magic Penetration Boots Gold: 1,100
Sorcerer's Shoes: 18 magic penetration and 45 movement speed. I recommend these if there's quite a bit of healing or armor on the enemy team. It also goes well with Arcane Comet and Electrocute.

Tenacity/MR Boots Gold: 1,100
Mercury's Treads: 25 magic resistance, 45 movement speed, and 30 tenacity. These are the boots I take if there's a lot of crowd control or AP champions on the enemy team. You can take the armor equivalent of Plated Steelcaps. which gives you 20 armor and 45 movement speed. It also reduces incoming damage from basic attacks by 12%.

Enhanced Movement Speed Boots Gold: 900
Boots of Swiftness: If you want the extra movement speed, then I suggest you take these. They give you 60 movement speed. You can also take Mobility Boots but they mostly work when you're out of combat. You get 115 movement speed though!

teleports your champion wherever your cursor is. 's ultimate, is a great engage tool. Combining that with flash is an amazing way to gap close, and it doubles as a surprise for the enemy team when you use her passive . It's also a key spell for all champions, except .

deals damage 70 - 410 true damage on a targeted enemy champion for 5 seconds, and applies grievous wounds, which reduces all healing received and regeneration rates by 40%. is great in teamfight, and against enemies that have abilities and items that heal them. It also gives you some kill pressure, and it can be combined with any of abilities.

slows down a targeted enemy champion for 30% of their movement speed, and reduces their damage by 40% for 3 seconds. I've been taking to help with engages. slows targeted enemy champions for 3 seconds for 30% of their movement speed. It also reduces the target's damage by 40%.

Support is one of the most important roles. There's more to it than just playing the champion. You have to understand your job in the laning phase, teamfights, as well as warding and wave control.

Early Game

♥ Level 1:

You just want to get level two. Preferably before the enemies level up. Your job is to set the tone for the lane by either being aggressive, or passive.

♥ Level 2:

Not only does it depend on wave control and lane pressure, but it also depends on which support item you bought. If you take , you have to be aggressive and poke, in order to get the most use of your item. If you take , you have to play passively and get your gold from the minions. The minions that cost the most are (21 gold) and (60 - 90 gold).

♥ Level 3 - 5:

Level 6 is when you get your ultimate, which is your strongest ability. Before then, your job is to get as much money as possible and to provide pressure so you can get objectives, like and first . With , you're going to poke with and make plays with , even if your ADC isn't aggressive. With , you're going to play passively. You're going to do nothing extreme, but it will be your job to set up opportunities for your ADC or jungler to engage.

♥ Level 6:

Now you have your ultimate,. This is a pretty great engage ability. However, your opponents most likely have their ultimates as well. A nice combo for engaging is: , , and . You can also use before your ultimate. makes it easier to land , if you took it over .

Mid/Late Game

♥ Roaming:

Personally, I like to roam when I have my ultimate, but with , you can roam earlier because of . However, roaming can be a tricky thing, especially if you don't communicate with your team. On some occasions, you can roam towards top side for , or even switch lanes with your top laner. You should also roam if the support or ADC roams, so you can help out the mid laner, because they're going to try to look for a kill. Some good times to roam are when:

You and your ADC recalled and the wave is pushed bot lane, you're pushed up and your ADC is farming safely

Mid has priority or the enemy is pushed up to the tower

Your jungle summoned rift herald in the mid lane

♥ Teamfight Tips:

Teamfights are very important, and they can turn the game around. has a bunch of crowd control and good poke. works with because the enemy can't see her channeling the ability. You shouldn't be too cluttered together with your team, especially if they have a . You should also either engage with or or follow up with your frontline, or carry. Targeting the same enemy is also key, especially if they're fed. You should also communicate with your team and come from all angles.

Warding is very important throughout the game. Providing your team with vision can really turn a game around, especially if you ward objectives, such as , , and . From my experiences playing support, you should ward about every 4 - 5ish minutes, if you have any available at that time. The key is to get as much information about the enemy team as possible. Warding entrances, objectives and jungle camps, as well as some bushes are the best places to ward.

Early Game
In the early game, you should prioritize warding as much as possible. You can get your item around 6 - 12 minutes in. If you're ahead, you should try to ward either the enemy's or to get some vision on the jungler, just in case they plan to gank. If you can't do that, ward the tribush with a or a (it's better to ward the bush in the middle of the river over the tribush.) If you're experiencing issues with their jungler, ward the entrances to the bot lane (tribush, over the wall towards their tower, and in the river.)

Mid/Late Game
By this time, you should be out of the bot lane. Your upgraded support item gives you an opportunity to deep ward. You want to focus on warding the enemy's jungle. Specifically, near objectives, entrances, and blast cones. You should always keep warded, preferably with a . Buy an as soon as your item is upgraded and try to deny them vision by looking for wards they've placed in your jungle, as well as theirs.

♥ I would like to thank everyone for reading and voting for my guide! I hope my guide helped you along your journey. I try to make them simple so it can help a wide range of people. Guides are always updated at the start of the new patch and throughout the month. I love answering questions and helping people, so feel free to ask as many questions as you want! Also, feel free to point out typos. I find some from time to time. I repeat runes at times, so.

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