Fafnir Support Conquest Guide

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Passive - Endless Greed Fafnir has a crazy passive, allowing him to gain up to 35 protections for free. This passive makes him one of the tankiest early game supports, and the amount he has can be treated as a free defense item all game. This in combination with his jump, allows you to play extremely far up in enemy territory and annoy the enemy without worry of getting caught out. His passive also gives him 2 bonus gold upon kill or assist, from all sources. This is really nice for farming, and why I also like going Sentinel's Embrace on him because you get 8 bonus gold for an assist, and with Fafnir's passive, it goes up to 10 bonus gold for an assist. Which overtime, is a ton of extra gold.

Ability 1 - Cursed Strength This ability is as simple as they come. It's really just a ranged stun with an AOE slow. I level this first and max it first before any other ability because you get more damage but more importantly, you get increased stun duration as it's leveled. Also in dragon form, this ability also prot shreds in an AOE by 20%.

Ability 2 - Coerce Coerce is a very unique ability. A lot of people don't fully understand how it works so here's my best way at explaining it. When you use this ability on an ally, it increase their attack speed but more importantly it does damage based off of that persons power. So that damage is really coming from Fafnir himself but the damage you get is the percentage of the ally you used the ability on. What's cool about this is since its damage is technically coming from you, it does allow proc items, like Divine Ruin for example. If you use this on your ADC for example, and your ADC hits someone, and you have divine ruin, then you're essentially giving your ADC anti-heal (that's what divine ruin does) because it's your damage. In dragon form, this ability becomes AOE and you can use this on multiple allies at once.

Ability 3 - Underhanded Tactics Just like [Fafnir]]'s first ability, this is pretty simple. It's his jump which is considered one of the long in the game, and it disarms enemies at the landing location. Very good against auto attack based jungles like Nem, Kali, etc. In dragon form, this ability also stuns.

Ultimate - Draconic Corruption This ability let's Fafnir turn into a dragon (I know pretty cool right?). In dragon form, Fafnir gets 3 new sets of abilities that are pretty much his normal abilities but buffed in some form. Fafnir also gets dragons breath allow him to do consistent autoattack damage. Note: you cannot proc on hit items with his breath, such as Demonic Grip.

Jump on a target to disarm them, then stun them with your hammer and transform into dragon form. Now you get 2 more stuns and can lock down multiple targets.

• Support should start purple and pull it outwards. In this time your ADC should be pulling Green and dragging it towards you (or vice versa). When both buffs are grouped, as you clear them pull them towards the lane. Watch out for invades!
  
  
• From here you should be sitting in duo lane for a majority of the early game. You want to stay there to contest protection (or shield) buff and pressure with your ADC. If you have enough pressure you can also invade their camps, such as Purple buff and their backcamps, even Green buff.

• Around the mid game you want to now start to play around the middle of the map as more objectives are spawning now.
  
  
• These objectives consist of Beacon, Oracle, and Pyromancer. Try to pressure mid t1 tower too if your team has the pressure for it. Once that's down it creates map pressure from mid lane.

• Here you want to make sure to use your kit effectively. Fafnir can both setup and peel. He can do this with his hammer stun, then immediately transforming to get 2 more stuns. He can engage with these or he can peel for his allies.
  
  
• Try to pick Fafnir into multiple autoattack based comps. Both enemy comps and allied comps (since you buff ally auto attackers super well). If you do this he has a ton of peel because of his disarm on his jump.

That ward you're buying in the early game, you want to place it at the area between their purple and shield camp about 23 seconds or sooner before the game actually starts, if you think you'll have pressure.

If you don't think you'll have pressure, place that same ward on your side in the same area about 10 seconds prior to the game starting. This will give you early gank info.

If you're able to get 2 wards at the start, place one defensively and one offensively in the same spots.

As you're playing through duo lane you really want to ward their backcamps for info for your team. Get 2 wards, typically after you buy Thebes, and place them at their purple buff or their back camps and their green buff.

Try to refresh these wards as often as you can. They give very good info on where the enemy jungler is at and if the enemy team is mobilizing towards duo side to setup for a Gold Fury.

In the map below, the red circles indicate the spots that you should ward aggressively and the blue circles indicate the spots you should ward passively.



Of course this depends where you're at in the game. But around fire giant, same concept. Try to get high wards around their backcamps, red, and even blue buff to give your team info.

On offensive sieges, try to place a sentry ward between their phoenixes that you're about to siege to gain info on people playing that gap. These wards are indicated by the Red circles on the map.

On defensive sieges, place a sentry between phoenixes they're about to siege so you and your team can play that gap area without worry. These wards are indicated by the Blue circles on the map.