Play Chang'e as Support ?

[ValusGW]

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[SpinningRat360]

if you like feeding

[WraithNWhimsy]

She can easily be played as support. You just have to be hyper aware of your positioning, cooldowns, etc in regards to the enemy team.

[SD97]

No she can't. in support role, her only positive point is lane pressure due to low cds and antiheal. You have to remember as support you have to initiate you also have to peel. Chang'e's only hard cc comes from her ultimate which is a fantastic initiation no doubt but very very situational. If the jungler goes after your carry and your ult is down, not a lot you can do. So if you play her as support, the carry picks have to be drafted around her which makes her a poor support IMO.
She is a fantastic solo laner tho

[MEITTI]

When you're looking at support, you need to have a few checkboxes marked: 1) Can you initiate? 2) Can you peel? 3)Can you buff/heal? 4)Can you survive a lot of damage coming at you at once?

Change is not really a frontline God so you can technically play her as a backline Support who heals team-members and peels from her teammates with her ult. Problem is her ult is the only peel she has and her sustain is not good enough if you build her supertanky. But if you play Support you need to build tanky because peeling also means bodyblocking shots or being the one who takes the tower or phoenix hits for your team. At the same time you need to have good enough healing which requires Magic Power or healing items.

In other words if you can figure out a good hybrid tanky build where you get enough Magical Power to make your healing good without sacrificing tankiness, then you can do it. But only if your solo laner is a frontline tank. So far I don't think theres good enough items for Chang'e to be an effective Support, either your sustain or your tankiness is going to suck.

Compare to Sylvanus who is a backline support tank/healer hybrid. He's naturally tanky enough, he has 3 peels, a team buff and heal and his ult can initiate with blink. You can just buy all the aura items on him with some cooldown and you're viable support. He ticks all the checkboxes.