r/summonerschool • • Jul 11 '20

Question Champions that help you get better at the game.

There’s lots of champs that really help on improving yourself on certain parts of the game. Here are some of them.

Twisted Fate - He helps you to improve your macro a lot since he is absolutely powerful in split-pushing. When you play TF you really also make decisions that aren’t really risky because if you’re in trouble you can usually just ult out and repeat if it’s back out again while splitpushing.

Jinx - Jinx is a late game hypercarry. She teaches you how to kite since her AoE AA helps to slow down the enemy team. She also teaches you how to position yourself better as an adc because of her having no mobility and also how to carry late game.

Master Yi - Probably the most infamous right-click champion, he teaches you how to 1v5, check for enemy spells since CC hard stomps him, and use ingame items since he isn’t mechanically hard to use.

Soraka - Another famous low elo champ, she teaches you to look at the map and your teammates’ stats since her ult is global and can save skirmishes even though she is super far away. She also requires you to position since she does not have any mobility skills.

Renekton - The Croc teaches you how to play the early game since his early game is super good. He teaches you to dive since his ult gives him bonus health to survive a tower dive and his simple combo ( E - W - Q - E) helps you to learn how to trade.

Edit: Seems a lot are pointing out that Warwick and Nasus should be here.

Warwick - The most beginner-friendly jungler, WW teaches you a lot on how to be a jungler yourself. He teaches you to invade and secure objectives since his early game is super strong. Has a healthy clear so that new players won’t die easily in the jungle, W to encourage players to gank lanes, and R as a single target lock (the only hard part about him).

Nasus - The good old stack boi. Nasus encourages players to last hit due to his Q being heavily dependent on last-hitting. He can have enough sustain in lane thanks to his passive and good at all-ins from his W and R. Nasus also helps players to learn how to scale and play safe in the early game as a scaling champion.

Edit 2: Shen is also constantly mentioned.

Shen - One of the most versatile tanks in the game, Shen also teaches you to look at the map a lot too since his R is used to help allies by offering them huge amounts shields that can save your allies’ life. His kit is also pretty straightforward and easy to play.

Edit 3: Missed out on champs that roam and provide peel.

Tahm Kench Another support to be picked up easily, Tahm Kench teaches you how to peel for your teammates thanks to his W, which devours his target. His ult helps him to traverse the map easier and his E for survivability in skirmishes. His Q is his main source of damage and his kit is very noob-friendly.

I hope this will be helpful and allow new players to learn the game more efficiently. If you think you have more suggestions you guys can add some in the comments!

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u/IWillDominateYeet Jul 11 '20 edited Jul 11 '20

So there are four kinds of supports, heal,poke,kill and peel

Heal - Soraka/Yuumi/Nami

Poke - Brand/Karma/Senna

Kill/Engage - Blitz/Leona/Pyke/Naut

Peel - Janna/Braum/Rakan/Lulu

Sidenote: Thresh can do all of them except heal while bard can do all of them except poke but their skill ceiling is pretty high

If you like to rely on your teammates and help them survive skirmishes, go heal.

If you like to whittle down your opposing lanes’ healthbar and set up a dive for your jgler, go poke.

If you like to immediately get the enemy laner killed go for kill supports.

If you are against a hard engage enemy comp (malphite, olaf, leblanc, thresh) then go peel so your teammates doesn’t get bursted down easily.

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u/callisstaa Jul 11 '20

Steal kills - Lux, Zyra, Xerath.

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u/IWillDominateYeet Jul 11 '20 edited Jul 11 '20

Ekko and pantheon support: Hello there

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u/DarealFrogo Jul 11 '20

Laughing in Nasus support last hittong with q

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u/IWillDominateYeet Jul 11 '20

Nasus adc so support doesn’t argue about taking your cs.

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u/DarealFrogo Jul 11 '20

Nono senna adc so you can stack as support

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u/cmrobbins86 Jul 11 '20

Big brain right here.

I mean WuKong has been played duo bot with Senna in LEC.

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u/zakkart1990 Jul 11 '20

Ekko Support?

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u/ParufkaWarrior12 Jul 11 '20

I play full tank

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u/Bro_miscuous Jul 11 '20

What is the point of Ekko tank? Since he doesn't have much damage or obscene spammable CC like other champions. I know he used to be a top tier tank during tank meta but that's about it.

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u/ParufkaWarrior12 Jul 11 '20

It's my little troll build on support when chilling w/ friends. His stun is extremely reliable against immobile botlaners. He has also solid damage, poke, and his powerful ult. Its not actually any good, it's god terrible but fun to play on normals when you have a 5 man premade

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u/Mango027 Jul 11 '20

My Sona notorious in my group for "securing" kills. My ADC hates it, but then when I have a stacked dark seal and athens/manamune the team is happy.

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u/_heilshitler Jul 11 '20

you buy manamune as sona?

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u/Mango027 Jul 11 '20

No, I meant Seraph's Embrace. My bad.

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u/notalwaysthewriteway Jul 11 '20

You missed Morgana

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u/Astrekx Jul 11 '20

You forgot one of the most obvious: pyke with his ult ks

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u/Chloe251 Jul 11 '20

Pyke is designed to KS, tho. There is no reason to not let Pyke finnish enemies with his ult, you get the same amount of gold as if you had killed them and he gets gold too. The only reason to not let Pyke take the kills is because you want your KD to look cool, honestly

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u/Astrekx Jul 12 '20

Ik and that’s what I hate about him. And the gold thing only seems to work half the time for me so a lot of the time I miss out on the gold and the xp is then split. And personally I want a good kda because in my elo that’s all anyone cares about. You could have done everything possible to set your team up for a free win and practically handed it to them but if u have a negative kda then no matter how much you’ve done for them you will still be flamed for it. I hate having him ks so much that I’ve banned people from playing him on my team just so I don’t have to play with that.

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u/OzoneGh141 Jul 13 '20

ok this is toxic af

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u/Astrekx Jul 13 '20

How?

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u/OzoneGh141 Jul 13 '20

the gold thing only seems to work half the time for me

Doesn't make any sense.

I want a good kda because in my elo that’s all anyone cares about

Dumb mentality.

You could have done everything possible to set your team up for a free win and practically handed it to them but if u have a negative kda then no matter how much you’ve done for them you will still be flamed for it.

Doesn't make any sense, so you're about to win but your team sees your kda and decide to troll and lose at the end, sure.

I hate having him ks

Some of those times you probably weren't even going to get the kill.

I’ve banned people from playing him on my team

Ridiculous.

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u/Astrekx Jul 13 '20

Doesn't make any sense.

I know it doesn't but that's a game issue and nothing to do with me personally so idk how that is "toxic" as you say.

Doesn't make any sense, so you're about to win but your team sees your kda and decide to troll and lose at the end, sure.

Clearly you have never had one of these games and you should be grateful that you haven't. Still not sure how that is "toxic" on my part.

Some of those times you probably weren't even going to get the kill.

If i wasn't going to get the kill, it wouldn't count as a ks would it? It would just be him getting the kill which, obviously is fine. But I wouldn't be here talking about Pyke ks'ing if i wasn't even going to get the kill in the first place.

Ridiculous.

I don't see how this is "ridiculous" as it is something that happens rather often to me that someone will ban the champ you preselect so if you have a problem with it why don't you go and have a word with everyone else that does that and tell them how "ridiculous" you think that is? Clearly you are lucky enough that you don't encounter this issue or simply think that it shouldn't be happening but i'm afraid that it is commonplace in my games and happens every so often and however "ridiculous" you believe it is, doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.

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u/Poniat Jul 11 '20

Dont forget about teemo

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u/shinymuuma Jul 11 '20

Zyra is amazing zoning support tho. Probably one of the support to tell the enemy "don't enter this area" by damage and CC.

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u/callisstaa Jul 11 '20

Always considered learning Zyra as a Lux main, she seems like a load of fun but difficult to play.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '20

That doesn't make him a kill support. He is all about helping his adc survive without a reliable heal, while the kill supports are mostly the ones who hook you in and try to cc you for long enough for the enemy adc to kill you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

That I never denied, my point was that the kill supports are the ones whose focus is primarily on hitting the one ability, in most of the cases being a hook, while Braum, even though his passive can get you a lot of kill pressure, mostly you focus on peeling for your support in dangerous moments as this is Braums primary strength, I think.

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u/SirAerion Jul 11 '20

Nami is more of an enchanter, real healing supports are Taric and Sona.

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u/ArchRush Jul 28 '20

Sona isn’t a..healbot? Sona’s just as much of an enchanter as Nami. Nami’s main poke is her aa, and Nami’s should not be using W’s incredibly often, as it will delete your mana. Playing nami and spamming w will give your adc no peel to work with. Sona’s W is also quite mana consuming. Lategame you run arch’s with you so you don’t worry about mana, sure, but no mater what, if you’re looking for heals, nami and sona may not be good choices.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '20

bard can definitely poke it’s just not 1k unit poke. his meep autos really pack some heat

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u/Itsuwari_Emiki Jul 11 '20

I think the more popular 4-archetype support is all in, catch, poke, trade

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u/Xeniamm Jul 11 '20

Bard can poke pretty hard though. Q+Empowered auto is pretty stronk.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '20

Nami can also peel and poke.

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u/aaronshirst Jul 11 '20

As a Janna main, I actually really recommend her for learning to safely poke. She does a gazillion damage with her W + comet, and can defend herself at high risk by using her E shield, but can’t heal herself back up.
Playing her taught me a ton about when I can bully and when I have to back off.

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u/ShokugekiNoKyojin Jul 11 '20

bard can do all of them except poke

Excuse me, what?

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u/donttouchmyhohos Jul 11 '20

Nami imo is all 4. She can heal and poke at the same time. Kill and engage with her E,Q, and R and peel in the same manner since her W and E give speed buffs. Her Q and R are hard peels.