The Support

What is a Support and what do Supports do?

Support = Someone who helps the team to get kills/prevent team from being killed

Support is a Champion who spend most of their time with the AD Carry. Most of the time the Support just shields/heals/buffs the AD Carry while harrassing the opponent's AD Carry. Supports usually relies on buying 5 Gold per 10 seconds items, warding the map to provide vision to the team and healing their teamates to contribute winning the game, although some Support prefer having high CC to help the AD Carry get kills so the AD Carry can scale faster into late game (eg. Leona, Alistar). Most Supports have low damage but have high Utility(eg. Janna, Alistar, Kayle)

Definition of a support:

- A champion who often duo lanes bottom with a ranged AD carry who helps protect allied champions, zone enemy champions in the laning phase, or provides team utility later in the game.

- These champions get gold per 10 items to make their gold as they won't be taking any gold from last hitting minions as their job is to make sure their AD carry gets farmed.

- Supports will be buying the most wards for the team and will often carry the summoner spell Clairvoyance for added vision across the map.

- Some of these champions are also quite good at roaming and will often leave the AD carry alone to roam the map and gank.

Quoted from http://www.reignofgaming.net/tier-lists/competitive-tier-list/support-champions


How to Spot Supports:

Sexy Type

Hybrid-Animal Type

Fabulous Type

Pros:

NO NEED TO LAST HIT AT ALL!!!!

Ability to make your AD Carry Invincible

Significant Impact during Laning Phrase

Controls the Dragon/Baron with Wards/Oracles
Easy to get Assists

Cons:

Boring

Not much Action
Just hide in brush/behind the team most of the time
Little to No Damage
Terrible Kill to Death Ratio
Does not get credit for Warding or Sacrificing for the team