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Support role is the most underrated but one of the most important roles in the game. People frequently ask for a swap when they have Support role but once you learn what you are doing, you will never want to swap it anymore! Supports are supposed to absorb incoming damage in order to defend their allies. They are generally on the frontline keeping their teammates safe. Supports also distract enemy damage dealers so they won't be able to do damage.
Where to start?
Benevolence
CompassionAnimosity
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Aggressive start Sentinel's GiftDruid Stone
Healing PotionHealing Potion |
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Simple Start Sentinel's GiftShoes
Hand of the Gods |
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Early Stacking Start Sentinel's GiftGlowing Emerald
Healing PotionHealing Potion |
Benevolence
(a very aggressive relic but works really well on specific gods)
(it is better to buy this as a second relic because when you unlock the second relic you will be pretty tanky to dive in enemies)Horrific Emblem(really good relic to secure kills and counter enemy ADC)Belt of Frenzy(works really well on objectives and in team fights as well) Heavenly Wings(This relic increases your movement speed for 5 seconds It can be used in many situations. For example, when you want to retreat faster or you want to help your teammate by making them faster you can use Heavenly wings. If enemies try to get an objective time becomes even more important you use heavenly wings to reach objective location to either protect or steal the objective)
, This item gives you health and hp5 and provides you with both magical and physical protections as it stacks up. It is one of the best items for the support role. It also provides protection for your allies which is really important when it comes to competitive gameplay. It is better to get this as your third item since you need to stack it up. If you have the aggressive starter with Druid Stone you can upgrade it to
. (if you buy Stone of binding buy Thebes for the 4th item never skip it)
for the 4th item as well. However, it is only good when you play aggressive but it provides no aura for your teammates.
Midgardian Mail
Witchblade
cthulhu
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Spear of the MagusEthereal StaffPythagorem's Piece
(Rod of Asclepius works best on healer supports)
Shogun's Kusari
Terra
: This combo is highly recommended for gods with no mobility
. It still is a great item combo especially for gods with crowd control ultimates like Xing Tian
This stands for boots replacement. You can buy Elixir of Speed to get rid of your boots when you have enough golds.|
High auto attack based enemy team
Bakasura
Erlang Shen
For a team like this you should build items that reduces their attack speed. For example: Sentinel's EmbraceReinforced Shoes
MIDGARDIAN MAILWitchbladePestilence +
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High healing based enemy team
For a team like this you should build antiheal items earlier in order to reduce their sustainability . For example: Sentinel's EmbraceReinforced Shoes
Shogun's Kusari
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High critical damage based enemy team
Olorun
Terra For a team like this you should build anti-crit items in order to counter them. For example: Note: Geb's passive reduces taken critical damage by 75%. In ranked gameplay grab him if you have the chance when you have this kind of enemies. Sentinel's EmbraceReinforced Shoes
Pestilence
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Tanky team
VamanaZhong kui
For a team like this you should build protection reduction items in order to counter them. For example: Sentinel's EmbraceReinforced Shoes
Shogun's Kusari
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Kuzenbo
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is more effective both offensive and defensive. In season 7 jungle areas weren't that wide that enemy ADC would probably toss a wall and stick to their Support so they would stay safe. Now you can throw them miles away so enemy Support won't be able to protect the ADC or you can pull the threats back so ally ADC stays safe.
TerraFafnirXing Tian
Kumbhakarna
Horus
Chang'e|
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3. Do not dive before you are tanky enough. Your gameplays should be in the middle of the ADC lane. If you dive too much and get closer to their tower in early game you are most likely to be ganked. |
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The biggest reason for this is your gameplay section. I am mostly seeing early game things and 1 late-game/teamfighting stage thing. This will need quite some big improvements. Some stuff beginners to the role usually struggle with is the big question of when to rotate and when to stay in the duo lane. While you do say something about it at the start it does not answer the question.
Now from top to bottom:
The role is actually called support in the selection screen. I would recommend changing the title to that as you also include warriors in the tier list and only cover the support role, while some guardians are also seen in the solo lane.
For the warding map, I recommend better visibility of the map. The circles' colours are a bit hard to see.
For the rotating part it's such an amount of surface lvl information that for beginners it's not going to help that much. either causing no rotations or weak rotations. Causing them to fall behind.
For the starter section
In your boots start is impossible as hands of the gods consumes a consumable slot so you miss out on one type of potion.
Also, I expect after the testing of the upgrades to also see a bit more of when to grab starter X as that is kinda lacking. you slightly did this for war banner but there is more to it than your plan to play aggressive. enemy duo and your adc impact it a lot.
on the relic suggestions. Start relics are fine the 2 most common ones. your second relic choice is a bit limited. no
On the part of the boots, nicely explained although I would change traveller's shoes description towards if you plan to rotate a lot. The 4% higher movement speed isn't that noticeable the 20% out of combat MS is.
for the other items, I am missing
would change the grab
On a support I would not recommend
Not happy with the late recommended
All in all for the item section while most item picks are good it isn't really clear what thoughts someone should think when getting certain items for a certain slot. This is partly caused by the huge amount of recommendations.
I am also missing some more aggressive item options which are grabbed on supports like
Not really gonna discuss your tier list. the only note I have to make is that
already said it but the gameplay tips section is a bit shallow.
On that page is a higher quality image of the Conquest map if you wish to use it to make your warding image much clearer and better quality.