Hey guys, this is Hector who's been unfairly criticised in videos such as the 5 second
rule and stop complaining and start carrying.
As a heads up, this is a guide I made from our website from a couple of months ago before
the alcoves got added, but I wanted to release this here because you support players out
there NEED to learn this really easy concept to stop inting your ADC.
So, I tend to both smurf and look at low elo replays quite often to see what players struggle
with.
There's just 1 consistent thing that every ranged support does or rather doesn't do,
which loses them so many lanes.
Let's get right into it
You have 1 mission.
Just one.
Hit....The....Minion.....Wave
That's it.
Congratulations, you're now better than 99% of low elo supports.
Let's get into the smurf game.
I was AFK at the start of the game, my team invades without me I go to help, and I don't
even know what my positioning is, so I lose my flash.
Then, I get to lane and start mission 1, but I get cheesed.
Been a while since I've been cheesed that way, but hey, well done enemy bot lane.
Now we're really behind.
As I walk back to lane, let's play a game.
Try to count how many times Janna auto attacks the minion wave until the laning phase ends.
If you don't want to, don't worry, I'll tell you at the end.
As I get back to the lane, Ashe has been poked quite a bit, and the wave is crashing.
I'll just be helping her get most of these.
Knowing how to CS as a support indirectly helps your ADC farm, so try and learn that.
Awesome, we just won the lane.
Let's talk about why.
Look at the minion wave.
It's clumped up, not in a line, like theirs, and it's closer to our side.
So, when the waves crash, our wave will focus fire 1 melee, whereas the enemy wave will
be less coordinated.
This naturally gives minion advantage.
Also, since the wave is closer to our side, our reinforcing wave in base should get here
first, which would also give us minion advantage.
So how does the eenmy bot lane avoid this potentially game losing play.
All they have to do is pressure us while we last hit under tower and begin hitting the
next wave.
This would allow them to retain wave control.
A concern they may arise here is that both Ashe and I don't have flash.
Wouldn't we just get ganked while we push this aggressively?
Not to worry, we'll address this once we actually get ganked.
Janna then randomly trades, cool
Okay, Kaisa is trying to fight back for wave control, so I'm going to chime in with auto
attacks, so that she can't do it on her own
But when it's clear that she can't contest the wave, I stop auto attacking.
You want that slow push so that you can deny them as much gold and experience as possible
I then go to place a random ward, honestly, I was pretty zoned out.
This ward is bad and random
As we've discussed before, my major trading pattern is just going to be 1 spell to proc
Aery, Scorch and Spellthief's edge
Janna then outplays me and dodges my Q with Faker level movement.
I could not have seen that coming.
Well played
We saw Zac gank top earlier, and so Lee counter jungled his blue side.
Kind of standard, this allows us to play very aggressively at the moment
We end up continually spotting Zac as we play aggressively.
There really shouldn't be any way we die here.
That is, unless my Ashe stands next to the only wall Zac could come from.
Awesome
I go for the sneaky cheese play here, and if I hadn't stuttered my auto on Janna and
landed my Q, this should have been an easy double kill, but I suck.
What can ya do
Oh darn.
Their Kaisa is 3-0 to my 0-2 Ashe.
Guess we'll have to play safe and hope the team carries.
Darn, I guess auto attacking minions must be bad
Oh wait, that's right.
They can't interact with us because we have wave control.
Nice
I then go get vision control to allow us to keep playing aggressively with our wave.
In high elo this could potentially be a throw, while I'm out of lane the Kaisa and Janna
could use their advantage to thin the wave and get control back.
But I wasn't worried about this, since no one in low elo thinks about this whatsoever
Janna then decides it's the perfect time to trade and walks into our entire minion wave.
I walked a bit too far back trying to bait this, which is definitely a mistake by me
since we could've punished much harder had I been in range to Q her
We continue our pressure with our big wave collapse, and again, as the enemy wave comes
in, we can thin it while they're distracted.
This way the enemy Kaisa can never play the game.
We then have a good hunch that Zac is trying to gank us, so I bait it.
This is good information to know specifically against Zac.
At level 5 with 3 points in E, this is as far as he can go from this wall.
That's why I specifically stand here, wanting him to go in, I knew I wouldn't get hit by
the knock up
then we can kite into our wave.
This is why ganks are easy to avoid when you're pushing.
You have the vision to see them coming, and if you kite into your own wave, the enemy
takes a ton of damage from creeps and the gank becomes sloppy.
This may feel like incredibly specific information.
What if they had a fed Xin Zhao jungle and a Leona support.
As with any concept we teach, you need to learn to apply it to the specific circumstances
in your game.
In that scenario, use the priority you get from pushing to get wards that are specifically
good vs Xin Zhao
After killing Kaisa, we do this.
It's best to not analyze whatever this is
Next time we meet in lane we naturally had wave control due to a bounce back we got from
the wave crashing into our tower.
Because of this Kaisa is still unable to play the game.
And because we continue to have this control, I continue to find meaningful poke onto the
Janna.
This is especially important as Lee is bot side at the moment, and setting up a dive
with Ashe arrow is likely.
And because we see Zac top lane, I do eventually ping to go in, because my Lee Sin was going
away for some reason.
And the dive is an easy success.
I then bait them at blue buff clearing a pink I saw Janna place earlier.
I know that of course they'll take the bait despite them knowing my team is here.
This lets us get Ocean Drake and the bot lane tower since it's so low, because we've been
hitting it uncontested for the entire laning phase because I auto attacked minions a few
times.
Now, the laning phase is over.
Did any of you bother to count Janna's autos.
If you did, and you got 4.
You got it!
Here's 2, when Ashe died early and they had to reset the wave.
It'd be really troll if she didn't auto here
Here's another, this one I think was a misclick as she was walking up to trade randomly
And the 4th one.
Her trying to CS while Kaisa is dead.
You may be wondering what elo this is.
This is platinum 4.
I'm not trying to bash this specific player.
I'm bashing every support in this elo range and lower because 99% of them refuse to have
any influence on the minion wave.
They just sit there hoping their ADC 1v2s the lane.
I'm sure the reason is different for all support players, but everyone seems to be afraid of
touching the wave for whatever reason.
Yea, you'll screw up some CS, yes you will mismanage the wave and get ganked, but it's
better to be proactive and learn from your mistakes than sit there and hope the coin
flip goes in your favor.
But after all this, the phrase win lane win game comes to mind.
We take 2 inhibitors at around 18 minutes and the game at 20 minutes
I really can't stress how important it is to do this.
Doing so will differentiate you from 99% of supports in low elo.
And we're well aware of what some of you may be thinking, auto'ing minions isn't what gave
you priority, it was the matchup.
Your range advantage auto wins the lane.
While that is true, considering I trolled at level one and ashe and I both screwed up
to give Kai'Sa a huge lead, that definitely invalidates the matchup advantage.
and regardless I'd have done the exact same thing even if we had opposite matchups, I'd
just prioritise and auto and janna q the wave while he probably just focuses on landing
Q on me.
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