Mobile Legends support guide

EstesFlorynRafaelaDiggieMathildaKaja

A healer is strongest when the team brawls in long fights; a utility support is strongest against heroes that rely on crowd control or burst. In ranked solo queue, healers forgive teammates’ mistakes, which is why they are popular at lower ranks. At higher ranks, teams often prefer a tank or a utility support that can start fights.

Season 42 notes: patch 2.2.16 buffed Kaja and adjusted Marcel; the hotfix 2.2.16a nerfed Rafaela and buffed Kalea. Healing items such as Flask of the Oasis exist specifically for heroes like Angela, Estes, Floryn and Carmilla.

Every roamer, tank or support, buys boots and picks a roaming blessing. All four give the holder extra gold and EXP from assists early in the match and share income with the lowest-earning ally. Conceal is the only one with an active button.

1. The jungler for the first buff, so a surprise invade does not take it.
2. The Gold lane marksman for the first minutes, the weakest laner on the map.
3. The Turtle at 2:00 with the jungler.
4. Wherever the next fight is. After the first Turtle, follow the hero who will fight next, usually the jungler or the mid laner.

Later in the match, attach yourself to your main damage dealer, often the marksman. Your skills are worth most on the ally the enemy wants dead.

• Save your key skill for the enemy’s key skill. Diggie’s ultimate is for the enemy tank’s engage; Estes’ heal is for the moment the assassin dives.
• Stand behind your frontline but in range of your carry.
• Give vision. Walk ahead of the team to check bushes when the enemy is missing, but only with your tank or with an escape.
• Buy anti-heal if nobody else does. Dominance Ice or Glowing Wand on a support is often the most important item in a match against a healer.

The Support emblem gives healing effect, cooldown reduction and movement speed; Focusing Mark, which makes your target take more damage from allies, is a strong talent on supports who poke. Spells: Flicker on most supports; Revitalize and Aegis protect the team in long fights; Arrival is a niche choice. See the emblems and battle spells guide and the roam guide.

1. Healing allies who are already safe while the carry dies.
2. Using the key save skill on the first damage instead of the dangerous damage.
3. Taking last hits from the marksman.
4. Walking ahead into fog with no escape and no tank.
5. Staying with a carry who is farming safely instead of helping the jungler at an objective.
6. Skipping anti-heal when nobody else on the team builds it.

In solo queue you do not choose your carry, so read your team before you pick: an immobile marksman wants Estes or Rafaela, a team of divers wants Angela or Mathilda, and a team that lacks crowd control wants Kaja or a tank.

1. Pick one healer and one utility support and play them in Classic until you know their cooldowns by heart.
2. In every match, count how many times your key skill saved an ally; aim to raise that number, not your damage.
3. Watch replays from your carry’s point of view: where did they need you and where were you?
4. Learn the enemy’s dangerous skills by name; a support who knows what to wait for times saves far better.
5. Practise moving with the team: in the late game, a support should almost never be more than a short walk from the main carry.

Supports also carry the team’s mood. Quick chat for objectives and retreats, a calm reaction to mistakes and good timing on “Gather” do more for a solo-queue team than any item. The ranked guide covers solo queue habits in detail.