League-of-legends – Do the Doom Bots of Doom have Hidden Bonuses

In most cases, they are not. If you play Leona or Blitzcrank, you basicly WANT to get early kills, cause else the enemy support will outscale you anyways. So if you take gp10 seals, it throws you behind in laning phase, while laning phase is your only strenth and you should try to get an advantage.

On Leona and Blitzcrank, I wouldn't ever take gp10 seals (Armor instead), cause you only win if you are able to play aggressive. On Taric, Alistar and Sona, GP10 seals are okey if you plan on playing deffensive (maxing heals, allowin the AD to farm). If you want to play aggressive on these 3 too (which I, personally, would recommend) you should get Armor seals isntead.

Some "pro" supports even tend to switch their GP10 Quints for Armor/MS/HP quints.

Basicly, not taking gp10 runes is a high risk high reward action on every aggressive support.

This might help you: https://docs.google.com/presentation/pub?id=1kWovClhppZJ7VWr3OSYIF671MhShKY6wRJZoLOH3-OE&start=false&loop=false#slide=id.p14

Its a guide for supporting from spellsy, a 2k elo guy. It has a own rune seciton.

First, what you call "point & click abilities" are usually refered to as "targeted abilities".

I see four ways to deal with this kind of harrassing champions. Depending on who you are exactly facing, some methods are better than others.

• Out-range them. Targeted abilities typically have shorter range than true "skillshots" (non-targeted abilities), e.g. Ezreal's Mystic Shot or Nidalee's spears. If you choose this approach, stay within the range where you can hit your enemy, but he can't hit you. For example, Ryze is very weak against Cassiopeia for this specific reason.

• Out-sustain them. Some champions have very efficient regenerative abilities, e.g. Warwick, Vladimir, or more recently Aatrox. These champions can't be killed simply by being harassed. Let them waste their mana on you while you keep recovering from your wounds. Zilean can't heal himself, so eventually he will have to go back to his base before you do.

• Shield against their attacks. Champions like Shen are great against harassing abilities, especially if you can easily foresee when you will take damage, because your shield will absorb most of the damage taken. This is, is my opinion, Zilean's greatest weakness.

• Attempt to crush them. This is the high risk-high reward method. Champions such as Talon (melee assassins with a gap-closing ability) are efficient against squishy targets, because their full combo deals a scary amount of damage. When the enemy moves towards you to harass, analyze the situation. If you think it favors you (= the enemy jungler is far enough, your opponent is not under his tower, there are enough allied minions and not too many enemy minions), dash in, yell at your monitor and give him everything you have. In some cases, you will even be able to dive under his tower, kill him (unless he is actually Zilean and had his ultimate, of course), and survive.

However, remember that your choice must not only be aimed at the laning phase, but the whole game. For example, don't pick Shen for the mid lane if your team expects heavy burst damage from you later on.