How to successfully play bot support?

[quote=Pølsemanden][quote=Morr33d] Yelling YOLO in allchat instead of pinging works for me as well. [/quote] You just made me lol irl. *you had to be there for that to be funny*[/quote]

[quote=TheRedPenguin]Support usually does more job than the ad carry inlane.So usually you could do something like ward or maybe adapt to the ad carry and poke with him or shield/heal w/e. Ad Carrys job is to cs and not die in a dumb fashion or get freely poked.[/quote]

[quote=Hyogetaki Hisame]If the same thing happens most of the time, then, you might be the on doing something wrong. I'd recommend you to go trough your games replays and watch every single one of your engages that ended bad, was your carry always in a good position to follow you? Did he have enough mana and health to do that? Did you have vision of the surroundings so as not to be counter ganked? Did you have a huge wave of creeps to help you? If only one of this statements is false, then, the engage in itself was unnecessary. Usually, as a support, your role is to zone the opponent by poking/threatening them and allow your ad carry to out farm the opponent ad carry. If he is out farming them, then there is absolutely no reason to engage unless they give you a perfect occasion where there is no risk of death for either of you ( The perfect occasion including that you have both the way and resources to engage, burst them down with none of you dying, and get away alive without having to go base in case you don't succeed). Such occasions happen when the opponent support is MIA or too far from his carry to react in time, while you have knowledge of the opponent jungler position ( happens when the support have backed to base or went to ward the drake while the lane is pushed)[/quote]