The document discusses different support playstyles and provides tips for supporting. It outlines two main support playstyles - direct impact supports that focus on kills and teamfight presence, and indirect impact supports that focus on vision control and saving teammates. It also provides advice on warding locations, laning positioning, build paths, champion explanations, and recommendations for strong lane combinations based on the AD carry's strengths and weaknesses.

1. Support – in
Powerpoint Form
By
Spellsy

2. Introduction
• Support is a simple role, but it has many nuances and is the
foundation for the team.
• Since the support does not farm in lane, it gives them more
freedom to position in lane to harass, ward, and etc. because
they are not locked into staying near the creeps.
• Supports are somewhat less traditionally impactful on the
game, meaning that support players have to be very disciplined
and consistent to not make mistakes, because its hard to “come
back” from those mistakes.
• Supports are often blamed, but keep your head up, and look at it
as constructive! 

3. Different Support Playstyles
• Direct impact supports – Better for lower level play
• Win lanes by making kills and CS gaps
• Win teamfights with Skills/Items
• Indirect impact supports – Better for higher level play
• Impact game through more vision control
• Rather saves teammates than makes kills
• These playstyles are character independent. Some characters
suit certain playstyles better, however, they are definitely both
viable on each support.

4. Warding

5. The “Spellsy” Ward

6. The Ninja Baron Ward

7. Laning!
• General Laning:
• Since you are not farming, make sure your positioning is
meaningful
• When you go warding, make sure you’re safe, and your carry is
too! Try to leave when its least impactful.
• Balance avoiding harass with seeking opportunities. Often times
getting close as a support is rewarding (Sona Q, Janna Q)
• How do I choose to be assertive?
• Time your harass with creeps dying, forcing their AD to choose
from retaliating your harass and missing a creep, or, getting the
creep and giving you free harass.

8. Builds
• The one core build:
• Aegis Rush
• Aegis  Shurelya's Reverie
• Doing ok, can rush aegis (can get aegis before 22 min)
• Shurelya's Rush
• Kage’s Lucky Pick  Shurelya's Reverie  Locket of the Iron Solari
• When to get?:
• Doing poorly (just getting your HoG at 15 min), or doing really good (3
gold per 10 in 12 min)
• Starting Builds: VS
• I tend to support the 4 green almost always, but the pink opening
can help for aggressive bush (or gank) control early.

9. Support Explanations
• Alistar – Versatile laner, good if lacking CC and tankyness
• Blitz – Can work bot with kills, reliant on hooks + AD
• Janna – Aggressive and Defensive, good kite and best protect
• Leona – Highest dmg support, High kill potential at 6
• Lux – Fun burst support, can win lanes then game!
• Nunu – Great early with anti- AS, great late with BB
• Sona – Good poke, but moreso ran with W max and ult focus
• Soraka – Great sustain, punishes low dmg comps
• Taric – Reliable stun, burst, and survivability. All around laner

10. Lane Combinations
• Ashe : Has weak dmg in lane, but great range and kite.
• Janna – The kiting duo makes for a counter-aggressive lane
• Counter: Vanye Soraka – Hard to stop farming with ashe.
• Caitlynn : Has strong lane, with high range and
• Sona – Super harass lane with Cait pressure and Sona Q
• Soraka – Push/Pressure lane with Cait Q spam and safeness
• Counter: Taric - High armor makes Cait’s low dmg irrelevant
• Corki : Has a bit of everything, poke, escape, trade.
• Leona – With her burst and his burst/poke, strong kill lane
• Sona – Strong harass, and kill potential at 6
• Counter: MF lanes – Can force trades and abuse Corki’s range

11. Lane Combos - Continued
• Ezreal : Is similar to corki, with more burst and less sustained
• Janna – The shield with aggressiveness of Ez owns.
• Lux – Range on Ez’s Q synergizes with lux Q range! (and burst)
• Counter:
• Graves : Has high armor, High burst, low range
• Sona – The level 6 combo is scary, and high burst 1-3
• Soraka – Armor on Armor makes high pressure unkillable lane
• Counter: Janna or Soraka, Graves punishes aggressive supports
• Kog’Maw : Has great late game, and safe early game
• Nunu – Kog can abuse BB not only late, but also early
• Janna – Can protect Kog’s range gap late game with ult
• Counter: Cait can punish his short natural range

12. Lane Combos – Continued
• MF : Does a TON of dmg in lane, master of “trading”
• Janna – Janna best trading support, MF best trading AD, simple.
• Taric/Leona/Alistar – High damage AD + High CC lane = KILLS
• Counters : People who can disrupt trades, Janna/Nunu/Taric
• Tristana : High burst early, Great late, SHIT mid
• Leona/Alistar – Play up her biggest advantage, early burst
• Counters: Anti-Kill lanes, Cait soraka, Janna Ashe
• Urgot : Great laning, Serious poke and Great trading
• Janna – Shielding with E-Q too good to pass up
• Counters: Farm, but not too weak, lanes such as Kog Nunu/Soraka
• Vayne : Weak laning, Great mid-late, lots of early dmg in ganks
• Soraka – Needs that babysit early game
• Alistar – Can babysit with e and w/q if frisky, or can be offensive
• Counters: Offensive lanes: MF, Cait + Aggressive supports.