HOW TO CLIMB AS SUPPORT (STOP MAKING THESE MISTAKES!!!) | Coaching 

Hey man! GQBD here :) Thank you so much for your coaching! It is invaluable the amount of information and good critique you gave me here.

Do you want to see more coaching on this channel?

Support is one of those roles where you can do everything perfectly and still not win anywhere near as much as if you'd mained another role. It doesn't matter how many leads you get your team if they throw the leads constantly. Climbing as support gets significantly easier as you go up in ranks because of this. I like Aphro's advice for climbing from iron to plat, and that's not to pick real supports. Pick a mage support like Lux, build damage, and carry the game that way.

I've been needing some coaching vids on sup! You always do such a good job on how to play support

im so excited to watch you coach a karma player since that's who i main, These coaching videos are so educational and i always learn something from them, Thanks!

It just get’s tough when the matchmaking algorithm expects you to carry every single game

NEED MORE SUPPORT BREAKDOWN VIDEOS LIKE THIS

Hi i0ki! I absolutely love your coaching sessions. I just started playing 2 months ago, am level 29 so about to start ranking. I main Sona (mastery 6 already!) and recently I've been having SUCH a hard time. I've been drafted with people level 300+, 400+ and even once 700+ while I was level 28?! Why the hell?? I got destroyed T_T But watching you I realised I don t know enough about the game itself and have so much to learn! So thank you!!

Supports are a completely different species. Like any other role's coaching and they're literally insulting you and yelling at you... And then there's a support main's coaching, a literal angel, whom we don't deserve.

Wow, that's very first League video guide that has actually taught me something. Very informative, loved the part about positioning in laning phase and aggressive warding. Very cool stuff, thanks for uploading it.

everything ioki said here u can learn by watching his game play ... but i luuved this coaching session nd I hope to see more thank uu 💜

Wait what? You actually did a coaching session after my comment? XD thank you so much! I didn’t believe the notification when I got it

I think this is the best coaching seasion i have ever watched. I got so much with this video

I love these coaching sessions. I’ve seen every one you’ve posted and can’t wait for more. It’s some of the best league education content on the web.

1:43 you can ward that brush from the dragon pit

Great educational video. Funny how you have to fix your mic position again and again.. and it instantly falls back into original position ^^

Hey iOki, greetings from EUW! I've just subscribbed after so many times watching and learning from you for free!!! your videos are a blessing, I love how you speak (don't listen to haters): there is no vulgarity nor condescension though we hear the passion and excitment. Now, you sometimes mentionned ELO HELL and cited Gold-Silver level. But what would be really fun is you to upload a game where you carry as support (I know you would do it with fingers tied) with Iron IV-III (lev 30-45) teammates doing it all wrong (trolling, inting, bad map reading etc)... Just to show how it's done for all the non-believers out there. I hope you'd take that as a fun challenge rather that a waste of time. It'd give courage to all those stuck there.

Your recommendation to roaming mid after first back and rotating in that fashion apply to any support? Or this game in particular?

When you're talking about playing as if you're invincible and using the example of walking into the enemy jungler on drag, that made me think of watching my ADC literally help the enemy jungler take the dragon by attacking dragon and not the jungler. I know trying to explain things in chat during a game is pretty pointless, but I told them that they should attack the jungler and not the dragon. Make it harder for them to take the dragon instead of helping them get it closer to smite range. Of course they called me an idiot, .. smh ..

In these scenario, all lanes are dominating. If u head up, its easier to win. how to play a game, if top is loosing? in low elo, its hard to climb. several games are chaotic. Like 4 kills for the oponents after 3min playtime. I can hold my lane the most time but if i left my adc to roam or help mid/top, my adc dies or top wants, that im tanking with sona. Thats elo hell and not this game. this is heaven.

this is very helpful! love any support advice I can get, and maybe this will get me into Karma a little too haha

awesome video, I make a lot of these mistakes and this will help my game play. Thanks for sharing

i0ki didnt scream GREATEST SUPPORT ALIVE when introducing himself - so humble this video

Yeahhh Karma gameplay 💚

Great video as always!

how am i supposed to rank up when my ranked teammates are iron 3 and troll the whole game going 0/12 every game meanwhile i play a support and do the most damage, how do i get out of this cycle? Not only have i deranked because of my terrible teammates this has led to me having bad teammates in every game please help

Hey, I hope someone will help me with this. I've seen the idea of roaming mid, or even top, after your first reset. You are supporting the entire team after all, not just the ADC. But it seems like whenever I do that, I never can sync back up with bottom lane - my ADC is pushed in 1v2 and I can't get back to her unless either I'm escorted, or I take another reset. And once I reset again, she has been pushed out of lane and I have to save or collect a triple wave. If I save it, I have to reset as soon as she gets back to lane. If I collect it, there is nothing for her to farm now. And we end up just taking turns going back to base instead of going together.

The only thing I don’t like about these coach streams is you don’t know if the client is looking at map and/or how often. I want to climb as support and I’m trying to work on map awareness and I’m looking for tips to improve that for supports and nobody seems to talk about roaming and map awareness

henlo! thanks for such a great teaching video, i`ve noticed some of my own mistakes, but correct actions too. i see you recommending Shurelia`s or Moonstone. but what do you think about Luden`s? saw such item on Karma rather often. thanks for attention in advance :)

hello. i like Karma and trying to main her. good content, thank you for the advices)

coaching video for janna? i really love her as a support

Do you mind moving your video window in the next so we can see what abilities are up for these vod reviews?

Amazing content, thank you

I'd really like to see a Vel Koz support guide in the channel

The mic adjustment dabs 🙃

Do you have some advices for a support that doesn't really no how to move on the map ? When ? Where ? When to come back ? etc Thanks ~ShyieHime

but what if the team just wont get a obvious inhib? if they don’t listen to pings nor chat?

if you wanna climb out of low elo with support all you have to do is not play enchanters or mages, just engage supports its really easy

I know I should rotate more but frfr these low elo adcs esp vayne players like to be making plays when I’m gone I always hesitate to dip unless we got a fully crashed wave 😅

This is the first video I watch from you, could you tell me why place a ward, and back for the trinket? Wouldn't that make you lose vision potential if the lane shoves to the enemy to make sure you dont get ganked by the jungler, or a fight happens in the bushes and you need vision to do dmg?

Hi @ Ioki , hope your doing fine . Found some new Tech for you :) . Coming from a Ranked Game where i tested Faker´s Ap-Kaisa as Support . Changed the Runes to First Strike to get the Gold needed for this expensive build . Rest is same Tear into Muraman,Ludens . going 16-8 kda on Support One shotting them all . my Belly is still hurting from the Laughs i had . This is so broken xd

why do trynda have smite

thanks ioki for the vidro, real like it

As a karma otp with 500k points its nice to learn even more :D

10:18, WHAT DID HE SAY???

Hey i0ki how do you feel about Jax support??

amazing

Nice play karma dude

how can I get an ioki coaching?

hey do u think cassiopeia support is viable? and if so would u post a vid about her?

(Nobody ever climbed on a hardstuck account in low elo as a support btw, the role is that bad and irrelevant) You could be Keria and wouldnt be able to leave Gold/Plat on a stuck account, you rather just buy another smurf and try again to climb

Can someone explain why we are supposed to go back and get oracle? :0

COACHING !!

🥰🥰🥰 very useful

I got to g1 as adc duoed with this guy who was good at support and then plummeted to g4 so i stopped playing ranked lol

Has ioki been challenger?

What was the purpose of the early trinket change and use of it in the bush? I’m not familiar with this When you get coaching is it best to choose your best game, your worst game or a random pick?

I've been hardstuck plat for only 4 years now

HOW DO I CLIMB OUT OF ELO HELL WITH BRAUM?????

27:34 the word you're looking for is uwu

I know you're the GSA and an overall good guy but why do you release your coaching sessions? Like these are EXTREMELY helpful but like if they pay for coaching, why make it public to all of us?

God damn I wish I could afford a Coach to just watch my first few lvls in lane >.

dude is full of him self.." if you for some reason dont know who i am" lmao

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the game doesnt start at 0 sec. it starts at 15 sec. XD

awesome supports have an home

4:00 nah, they did not know where the enemie laners are before zeri and neeko walked down the lane. worst caste scenario: they both sit in the middle bush, waiting for a free kill lvl 1, cause they know, karma does not start her lane with a shield. it actually was risky from the adc to start shoving the wave, if he does, he needs to respect this possibilitie too and position himself on the riverside 20:58 even your adc's have to ask if its ok when they stay in lane with you for the plate lol....the same way they have to be ok with, that you lasthit 30-40% of the wave lol, support items are cheap, so, supporters can do more with less gold not less than the jungler. in this video, you're nitpicking shit, cause you're unable to find stuff to critisize. a lot of the stuff you critisized is objectively wrong. like when you have a feeling that a play will work out, follow your instinct and if it doesnt work, oh well, here in this game, a lot of times, his instincts lead to good results, for example the earlie midlane sej bait, where he had a feeling that hecarim would go in for the kill and got rewarded for it. that is playmaking and cant be taught, what i would say about that though is, that it was lucky that it went that way, he basically set up hecarim to maaaaaybe do something stupid, and especially, when you are carrieing your team, people will jump on everything you point at so be mindfull that there are skill differences between your teammates and yourself, with that i mean, sometimes, its better to not make a play, just cause your team is already leading so high that the only way the enemie team can come back from the loss, is by your own mistakes. if you play these games simply chill to the end without taking any more chances, the already existing leads, automatically snowballs into the win.

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Shurelyas on Karma shouldn't be a go to thing, tbh I think it's almost always kind of useless on her since her E and R+E already speeds up enough and if you combine it with shurelyas you can possibly reach a soft cap on MS which then means the extra MS loses its value. Moonstone healing just provides more and if against a burst dmg oriented comp just go locket at that point since it gives extra shield and especially resists. Mandate is probably not even up for debate on Karma, because increasing others' dmg is not even her forte and her mandate procs aren't as reliable as Nami's for example.

I don't like you that much coz you're cocky. But sometimes you're funny and you make me laugh so I still watch a ton of your vids.

I was with you up until you told me to give my team the plates on the tower.

Think of the worst case scenario: You're Invincible... 😅

MULTI SEASON GLADIATOR

dude, you have no idea what elo hell is...elo hell is when your teammates d/c during the game or run it down mid because they missed cs farm. or if god forbid you don't get a kill during a gank but get sums. they'll run it down. or AFK. unless you have a video on how to 3v5 the game there's no way you can get out of elo hell. I just played a game where the ADC was mad that the support picked "yummy" (that's how he said it) so he trolled mid-lane until the xerath went bot. but by the time he got down bot, the turret was gone by 8 mins. Jinx ADC repeatedly died to ezreal mid 3 times from 8 mins to 11mins...then was farmed by the hecerim jungle until 15 min when we could've FF'd but the ff failed because the ADC didn't want to quit, then we could've ff'd at 20 min but that failed too cause the top lane was too busy afk to click the yes button. so yeah elo hell has nothing to do with skill and everything to do with league not having an age or I.Q. limit to play. - iron 3 support player.

To the nay sayers: elo hell is real. Especially when your adc goes 0/30 in a favored match up.

Isn't it cheating to give live feedback in a game like this? :( Feel bad for the enemy players

2smites...

getting a lesson from ioki is like having Master Roshi as a teacher .. you know Goku's mentor in Dragonball Z, when Goku was just a Young Boy.. you got the best master there is.. oh wait bad example.. Master Roshi is a grade A creep and pervert .. sorry wrong example ((this joke is for the anime geeks only, its for the weebs))

Love the coaching but can you not pause everytime you speak. I felt like I was having a stroke watching this video.