When do I rotate as support?

[SD97]

Title says it all-- I don't seem to get it very much. I feel like my rotations have less effect than the jungler rotating, obviously I am doing it wrong. Can someone explain it in simple terms?
Also I like to play warriors very much, so are warriors like guan yu, ravana and amaterasu viable in support?

[Kass]

Well for rotating I tend to do it when either I start seeing other lanes doing big pushes or when I've destroyed or damaged a tower(In short when I feel like my ADC can handle the lane by themselves). I think some Warriors can work in support Guan yu, Bellona and maybe amaterasu for the cc can work

Edit. Also Rotation as a Supp is great for CC controling or just setting up a great team combo

[King Roger]

Zero Meta.... try everything

[EmethSAS]

Rotating as a Support is something you should be doing as early as possible to maximize your impact on the game. When you see you and your ADC have cleared lane faster than the enemy Duo, you should clear the Jungle camps (both of your team's, and as many of the enemy's as possible), and then you can start making rotations to Mid on your own.

So if you're clearing wave faster than the enemy, and you invade the enemy's jungle camps, your Mid might come help try to clear their Red for instance, you can easily rotate back to middle lane with your Mid to gank the enemy Mid, or just to help clear wave and harpies or oracles. If you haven't gotten your own Red and Purple buffs, you obviously want to help your ADC still with doing that, but once that is done, you'll want to rotate from Duo whenever the enemy minions are going down faster and your minions will be pushing Duo back... This will help provide extra pressure on middle lane to help get the tower down, help Mid farm the jungle camps faster, and help free up your Jungler to rotate to Solo (you can also rotate to Solo, etc.)

If, on the other hand, your Duo is getting outcleared, they will probably be trying to do what I mentioned above. So your job is to call out on VGS when the Support leaves long lane without the ADC and try to follow them to middle lane if you can safely leave your ADC (counter-rotate). Obviously don't leave your ADC to die if the enemy ADC is pushing hard on them and not leaving lane for that reason, but try to keep tabs on the enemy Support so if they disappear, try to go to middle lane also to balance their rotation out.

Either way, by level 10 at the latest, you'll probably be spending most of your time in the middle lane and rotating to long lane or short lane to either gank or help clear wave or try to push down a tower. You'll also want to have enough wards out to keep track of what the enemy team is doing so you know when to go for objectives or contest them going for objectives.

[SD97]

Originally posted by EmethSAS:

Rotating as a Support is something you should be doing as early as possible to maximize your impact on the game. When you see you and your ADC have cleared lane faster than the enemy Duo, you should clear the Jungle camps (both of your team's, and as many of the enemy's as possible), and then you can start making rotations to Mid on your own.

So if you're clearing wave faster than the enemy, and you invade the enemy's jungle camps, your Mid might come help try to clear their Red for instance, you can easily rotate back to middle lane with your Mid to gank the enemy Mid, or just to help clear wave and harpies or oracles. If you haven't gotten your own Red and Purple buffs, you obviously want to help your ADC still with doing that, but once that is done, you'll want to rotate from Duo whenever the enemy minions are going down faster and your minions will be pushing Duo back... This will help provide extra pressure on middle lane to help get the tower down, help Mid farm the jungle camps faster, and help free up your Jungler to rotate to Solo (you can also rotate to Solo, etc.)

If, on the other hand, your Duo is getting outcleared, they will probably be trying to do what I mentioned above. So your job is to call out on VGS when the Support leaves long lane without the ADC and try to follow them to middle lane if you can safely leave your ADC (counter-rotate). Obviously don't leave your ADC to die if the enemy ADC is pushing hard on them and not leaving lane for that reason, but try to keep tabs on the enemy Support so if they disappear, try to go to middle lane also to balance their rotation out.

Either way, by level 10 at the latest, you'll probably be spending most of your time in the middle lane and rotating to long lane or short lane to either gank or help clear wave or try to push down a tower. You'll also want to have enough wards out to keep track of what the enemy team is doing so you know when to go for objectives or contest them going for objectives.

Thanks for that