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Reinforced Shoes
Hide of the Urchin
Sovereignty
Heartward Amulet
Mantle of Discord
Stone of Gaia
Soul Stone
Shoes
Healing Potion
Ward
Cloak of Meditation
Cloak of Meditation
Purification Beads
Heavenly Wings
Blink Rune
Magic Shell
Cursed Ankh
Hello! I hope you are doing well today, if not, then I hope this guide makes your day a little better :) Ymir is a great support who offers a ton of CC and can really be a hassle the enemy team can't deal with. You will be able to set up kills for both yourself and teammates, while protecting your entire team. Ymir is an aggressive support that can dominate the early game and can (I believe) stay relevant all game.
Pros:
Aggressive
Sets teammates up well
Has killing power
Great peel
High health
High defense
High sustain
Good initiator
Small chase potential
Very cheap build
Qin's Sais is your kryptonite
Frostbite - "All of Ymir's abilities that affect enemies apply a Debuff to the enemy called Frostbite. All of Ymir's Basic Attacks against a target afflicted by Frostbite do 100% more damage. Enemies afflicted by Frostbite deal 10% less damage. Lasts for 4s."
This allows you to really punish an enemy that gets caught in your combo. Though, one might argue your damage from abilities is punishing enough...
Starter Items
Soul Stone: I like this item on 
Ymir since it gives you extra power and mad mana regeneration. It gives you a base 20 magical power, but at 5 stacks, you get 60 extra power for your next ability and 20 MP5. Getting this over Watcher's Gift allows you to use more abilities and only buy health pots, which lets you buy wards from the start. As a more aggressive support with a good clear (
Glacial Strike), you can help clear, which will let you not fall behind.
Boots: This gives you some much needed movement speed. Healing Potion: These give you health. Health lets you live. Living is good. Health pots are good. Ward: Placed correctly, two wards will suppress the possibility of surprise ganks to a great degree. Granted, someone like 
Thor or 
Thanatos can still gank you without you knowing. But, for the most part, you will at least know the enemy is approaching. Reinforced Shoes: You can choose 
Shoes of Focus if you want; those work just fine. I prefer the early health over the mana since I pick up Soul Stone. The 10% cool down from Shoes of Focus is nice as it cuts 1.8 seconds off the cool down for 
Frost Breath. But realistically, I have found that I can wait the extra two seconds usually. But I think this is more of a preference than anything. Reinforced Shoes also offers 30% CCR, which can help if you are against a support with a lot of CC. Hide of the Urchin: I get this first because it provides protection for both physical and magical damage as well as both health and mana. It also gives you more protection with kills and assists, so the earlier you get it the better. Some might go with the 
Breastplate of Valor, but I find that often times supports will do enough damage to warrant Hide of the Urchin. Think Ymir, 
Sobek, 
Ares, 
Xing Tian, 
Cabrakan... Sovereignty: Not a popular item, but I find it to be worth getting. It give you 60 physical protection, 200 health, and 25 HP5. It gives nearby allies 30 physical protection and 25 HP5. Basically, it will keep you and your neighbors breathing a little longer. Heartward Amulet: This is basically the magical version of Sovereignty. 65 magical protection, 200 health, and 20 MP5. Your neighbors get 20 magical protection and 20 MP5. This and Soul Stone mean you probably won't run out of mana. Mantle of Discord: Mantle of Discord gives you good protections and cool down. It also has a handy passive that is okay, but not fantastic. Though, it does go with Ymir's desire to stop people in their tracks. This, to me, is just an efficient way to complete your protections since in one item it offers so much of each protection. Stone of Gaia: If you are far enough into the game where you can get this, you will be far enough into the game where going back to base constantly will be a detriment. Stone of Gaia gives you 400 health, which means that at level 20, you will have over 3500 health. I think over 3700, actually. This gives you more MP5 and HP5. The passive on this also works extremely well with Ymir and this build. Say you have 3700 health. 2% of that is 74. Combined with the base 25 HP5, this item gives you 100 HP5. You will regenerate over 1000 health a minute. So, the sustain provided will allow you to stay in the battlefield long after anyone else would have died. If you get knocked down to low health, you will regenerate it quickly and be relevant once again.
Meditation: Mediation allows you to Med bait, save yourself, and save your allies. Maybe all three at once. End game when you have 3700 health, this will restore ~500 health. To you, that may not be significant, but to the assassin, mage, or ADC next to you, that is a butt load of health. Getting this early can let you and your ADC stay in lane just a little longer than your opponent.
Purification: If your enemy teams has someone with a big CC ult, this may be a good choice. If Thor ganks you, use this as he lands, freeze him then kill him to remind him not to gank you.
Sprint: You are slow. This makes you not as slow.
Blink: SURPRISE FREEZE, MOFOS!!!
Shell: Not my top pick with this build, but if you and your teammates need more protection, maybe consider this.
Curse: You are slow. Now everyone is slow. You can finally catch them.
Your full combo consists of Frost Breath, Glacial Strike, 
Ice Wall, then 
Shards of Ice. You stun them, hurt them, trap them, then kill them.
If your ult isn't up, Frost Breath, Glacial Strike, a few punches, then an Ice Wall as you run away to protect yourself.
If they are running away, give them a wall to run into, stun them, then hurt them badly.
If you know someone like 
Loki or Thor is trying to gank, save your Frost Breath so you can stun them and either drive them away or kill them.
As a support, you are really only as good as your team. Ymir has lots of tankiness and a good amount of damage output. But without a good team, you will fail miserably.
Wards: Try to keep two wards up. Basically, you can get vision on the junction from the nearest and middle side entrance to the lane with one ward. Same for the far and middle junction. Doing this means two wards covers three entrances.
Xbalanque, don't worry about kill stealing. The thing is, if you are helping clear the lane, CCing the enemy, doing a fair bit of damage to them, and end up with the kill, I don't know if that is a kill steal, even if you are a support. A fed Ymir is a scary Ymir. You get to dictate who dies. Of course, let your ADC get kills when you can, but don't be afraid to kill. WARD WARD WARD. Qin's Sais will possibly wreck you. You are not invincible. But wandering around and jungling for a minute or so will give you back more than enough health to re-engage safely. WARD.
Ymir is a fun god to play as. You have a lot of control over a fight and you are strong enough to get kills as a support. Being a support is about helping your teammates, but admittedly it is fun to fight and kill people. I enjoy playing as Ymir and I hope you do too.
This is my first guild and I am by no means an expert or crazy amazing good player. But, I have found that this build and strategy works for me and so it might work for you. Certainly there are other viable builds for Ymir and maybe this one isn't for you. That said, if you have any thoughts on what could be better, feel free to let me know!
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Soul stone - I find it interesting that youd build soul stone on ymir. I used to try it on sylvanus myself back in the day, and should probably revise my guide of why I dont think its very good anymore.
In duo lane, you are not going to be last hitting minions which puts you behind in gold. You want your adc to be last hitting so their complete their build as fast as possible. Watcehr's gift helps with that by giving some of that gold back to the support so you can still build your defense items quickly.
You do have some sustain mp5 wise with
I build ob shard in my ymir build, and if im feeling super greedy Ill go pen boots, dynasty helm, and void stone.
Mobility - I see you put gaia in your build, and the reason its not popular in main game modes is how badly it falls off late game. Raw health with no protections and slight regen in whats considered a burst meta. The only time I see it being usefull is Assault since you cant back to base.
How about using
Skills - Also your guide is missing a skill levelling sequence.
Beads - you have cc immunity in your ult, so I dont see the need for purification.
But other than that, okay build overall. Just needing a few tweaks. I should really update my guide as well.
You know,
So perhaps, by your suggestion,
It is indeed missing a skill leveling sequence! Though, I do mention the order to level things when I talk about the abilities. I might argue, though, that leveling
Yes, I agree. I usually don't choose Purification myself. However, if one feels uncomfortable using an ult to avoid CC, it can be an okay choice. I think there are better options, but I wouldn't hassle someone too much if they chose it in some circumstances.
I will update my guide to reflect your input tomorrow or some day soon. I will, of course, credit you! :) Also, I hope you update your guide; I would love to learn how to play Ymir better.