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warblob004
Profile Joined January 2011
United States198 Posts
October 26 2012 16:38 GMT
#101
This is awesome
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Dark_Chill
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada3353 Posts
November 07 2012 23:13 GMT
#102
Not sure who did this, but this seems like it could produce a pretty interesting discussion for the support thread.
Support match-ups
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gtrsrs
Profile Joined June 2010
United States9109 Posts
November 08 2012 00:46 GMT
#103
spellsy made that ofc. i'm sure he's going to put it in the OP when he remembers this post. i'll remind him
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Dark_Chill
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada3353 Posts
November 08 2012 01:25 GMT
#104
In that, shouldn't Alistar be a better support for Trist? I know Leona gives more power early on, but he's a lot better at keeping people away, which is what Trist really wants late game.
And I definitely would have thought that Leona is really strong vs to Sona. Sona has no real way to get Leona off until 6, and her low health makes her a really easy target for all the damage Leona brings.
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spellsy
Profile Joined October 2011
United States418 Posts
November 08 2012 04:03 GMT
#105
i was gonna update it and make it cool and then release it here i think
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
November 08 2012 22:18 GMT
#106
Spellsy I saw your visual guide to bot lane support pairing and I have to mention, I strongly suggest you look at Zyra as a support with Varus, they work really really well together, and the ult wombo combo puts ori/malph on notice for most op wombo in the game, you can have boots/fairy left hit 6 and if the ad eats a Zyra E they are a dead character.

I have a specific build for this lane. standard fairy/wards/pots

first back if gold for kages, get kages, leave fairy, if only gold for philo, go philo

then work towards manip and boots1, finish the gp10 you don't already have, then go into full blown soul shroud, thats right, I said it.

From here you can get whatever you need, zekes if time permits (zyra isn't a particularaly good oracle holder) but after the manip it's pretty much buisness as usual for a Zyra support, the main ideas here are just the wombo combo and manip so varus can spam abilities, I started using this lane as a counter to taric ( it does a shitload of magic damage) but I found it works extremely well vs anything but blitz (this combo has nothing to protect them from blitz pre 6.
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spellsy
Profile Joined October 2011
United States418 Posts
November 08 2012 23:31 GMT
#107
yea, zyra varus sounds ok, why would you do zyra over sona though ?

sona has more dmg and has the heal, while zyra has more cc and bush control. I think varus is a medium-low dmg carry, so I think sona pairs with him better than zyra, as its not lack of CC but rather i think cc+ dmg is what he needs.

maybe with the level of cc tho zyra can do more dmg than sona simply cause the plants get lots of hits in cause so much cc.

I think its on par with sona, the thing is when i choose zyra over sona is to deal with whether you are forcing teh engagements or they are forcing them and you are countering. for forcing i choose sona, for countering i choose zyra.
WilDMousE
Profile Joined July 2011
Chile1335 Posts
November 09 2012 01:38 GMT
#108
Any tips on counterwarding/warding against blitzcrank?
Barackopala
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14104 Posts
November 09 2012 05:48 GMT
#109
I would love some tips on how the hell to deal with ali/blitz in lane. They get really crazy sometimes.
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Haasts
Profile Joined October 2011
New Zealand4445 Posts
November 16 2012 10:10 GMT
#110
Ha, came to look at that support match-up image to see which supports suit Twitch, but there's no sign of the rat, hue. I guess either an early-game bully like Sona to give him space to farm, or a buff/debuff-bot like Nunu?
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Thereisnosaurus
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Australia1822 Posts
November 16 2012 12:35 GMT
#111
I would love some tips on how the hell to deal with ali/blitz in lane. They get really crazy sometimes.


try and freeze the lane in a good position, as a support it's your job to sometimes tank a wave for a few seconds so it doesn't push under tower and reset, or help your AD cull them to keep it frozen.

Other than that, brush wards. If they pink ward, call in your jungler to push them back and clear it with a pink of your own. An uncontested brush ward shuts down ali's lane dominance really hard and makes camping out as blitz somewhat trickier. They're still scary and you can't be too cocky, but you should have the advantage if you're a ranged support or taric/leo with your initation combo.

Oh, yes. Vs blitz, make sure your ADC knows that the moment blitz fails a grab you immediately engage for a trade if possible (and no giant wave of enemy minions or something equally problematic). Then make it your job to safely bait grabs (or get your carry to if they're ez/siv/vayne or someone else with an easy pull juke) and then counterpressure. you can pretty effectively wear down blitz's health and mana over time if you do this which renders him incredibly vulnerable to ganks with a depleted shield.
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Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
December 15 2012 01:13 GMT
#112
bump: spellsy i really thought this was the most insightful thing ive read for supports. is it possible to update it for Season 3 if anything are drastically different?
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Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14104 Posts
December 15 2012 02:58 GMT
#113
I would love to hear your thoughts on the new items and what you think people should try out.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
spellsy
Profile Joined October 2011
United States418 Posts
December 17 2012 08:17 GMT
#114
its tough to do it all in one post, especially since ive been experimenting a lot myself, you can get a lot of like my recent thoughts though on this long fiddle guide i did: http://www.lolking.net/guides/48492
spellsy
Profile Joined October 2011
United States418 Posts
December 27 2012 03:41 GMT
#115
Im looking to do a bit of an update / new edition of this ppt, what do you guys like the most / want changed the most ?
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
December 27 2012 04:00 GMT
#116
I think playstyle and match-ups are the most important parts, since you can get a generic runes/masteries setups (worst case you use your bruiser page instead of your support/gp5 for Alistar and run 0-21-9, for example) but knowing where to start is probably the harder, with bad habits not to take and stuff. For example I see Alistar is melee, a bit tanky, and with longish cooldowns. I know I'll probably eat poke and need to get tanky to survive that, rather than stuff like mana regen, but I still have no idea how to play him since excellent new peeling supports came out (Zyra, Nami, and Lulu who got popular) and he received nerfs.
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Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
December 27 2012 21:36 GMT
#117
Dare I say that playing support is actually nice nowadays? After getting Sightstone(/Ruby) and Flask, I actually get to build items without getting flamed! Real items!

I mentioned it in GD, but I rather liked Banner of Command on Soraka. The match sort of turned out that we were constantly sieging (even though our comp wasn't really made for it), so I felt that the extra minion power, especially with the promote, helped immensely. Not to mention bringing a nice hp5 aura for the team, which stacks with Aegis. The AP didn't hurt either.
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Praetorial
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States4241 Posts
December 27 2012 21:47 GMT
#118
spellsy, you broke my heart with the Nautilus/Jarvan/Maokai slides.
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spellsy
Profile Joined October 2011
United States418 Posts
December 28 2012 04:39 GMT
#119
On December 27 2012 13:00 Alaric wrote:
I think playstyle and match-ups are the most important parts, since you can get a generic runes/masteries setups (worst case you use your bruiser page instead of your support/gp5 for Alistar and run 0-21-9, for example) but knowing where to start is probably the harder, with bad habits not to take and stuff. For example I see Alistar is melee, a bit tanky, and with longish cooldowns. I know I'll probably eat poke and need to get tanky to survive that, rather than stuff like mana regen, but I still have no idea how to play him since excellent new peeling supports came out (Zyra, Nami, and Lulu who got popular) and he received nerfs.

ok well what i was thinking about planning to do is 1st do another pick guide type thing which is like this http://imgur.com/boqQE . to cover matchups, then making a new powerpoint updated with general laning / teamfighting advice, some opening builds, masteries, general support stuff, general support item stuff, and then an updated version of this ppt on top of it.. i was gonna adapt this to be more of a pro / con / when to pick +quickguide (aka rune/mastery/item page), do yuo think i should instead go for a smaller when to pick and more how to lane + quickguide ?
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
December 28 2012 14:10 GMT
#120
I... guess it depends on what the objective is.
The stuff I was talking about focused more on on how to play a particular support once you picked it, playstyle and stuff, while what you're planning seems more geared toward people wanting to play support in general (perhaps for maining it so they'll have the time to get experience about it).
So if the objective is to talk about the support role in general I think your approach's better, I was more talking about my own needs as someone who greatly appreciated the resource the first time.
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