LoL 14.12 Support Champions Tier List: Best Ranked Picks

We will be ranking the worst and best League of Legends champions you can play in Ranked on Patch 14.12.

LoL 14.12 Support Champions Tier List: Best Ranked Picks
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With Patch 14.12 now live, many League of Legends players are looking for their next OP pick for solo queue. Since every patch brings a lot of changes to the meta, we will be taking a look at the best of the best when it comes to support champions so you can start climbing up the ranked ladder.

We will give several examples of champions per tier, so you can decide for yourself which pick fits your play style and which support will give you the best chances of carrying your team to victory.

Given how much the meta can shake things up, you should pay attention to each patch as your favorite champion might be hit with the nerf hammer, as Riot unleashes a new broken champion on the bot lane.

LoL Support Lane Tier List 14.12
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Tier List Explanation

This tier list will examine some of the most-played League of Legends champions in the support role.

  • D-Tier: You should avoid playing these champions as much as possible.
  • C-Tier: Although they can be somewhat decent, you are better off with other picks.
  • B-Tier: Viable and reliable in most situations, you can manage rather decently.
  • A-Tier: Great options but lacking just slightly either in terms of damage or utility.
  • S-Tier: The best champions you can use to ensure you are always victorious.

NOTE: Although this tier list strives to be as objective as possible in terms of viability, you should not limit yourself to strictly adhere to this list, but rather experiment and see which champion feels fun to play with.

League of Legends Support Lane Champions Tier List
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League of Legends 14.12: D-Tier Support Champions

Yuumi

Yuumi

Yuumi is at the bottom of the list as Riot has heavily butchered her utility, healing, and damage, making her very weak in comparison to other supports.

PROS

  • Easy to play

CONS

  • Insufficient healing
  • Low utility
  • Mana problems
Lux

Lux

Lux is just not as powerful as before. Her pokle can be quite annoying, however, her relevancy falls off as the current meta favors enchanters or heavy-dive supports.

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Morgana

Morgana

Although Morgana can be quite a good way to counter CC-heavy enemy comps, she is not as viable on the other fronts as her ultimate is very difficult to efficiently use. 

Ashe

Ashe

Ashe can be useful in very lane-aggressive and poke comps, however, you will struggle to efficiently use her come late game. 

League of Legends 14.12: C-Tier Support Champions

Nautilus

Nautilus

Nautilus is steadily swimming to the top, however this beloved CC machine is not as viable as other much stronger supports. 

Senna

Senna

Senna is starting to pick up speed, however, the nerfs to her passive stacks has ultimately narrowed down her window of opportunity to present a decent fighting chance.

PROS:

  • Great scaling

CONS:

  • Slow damage and range buildup
  • Low damage
Brand

Brand

Brand is still not as strong as before, and although his damage can be quite oppressive once he gets 1-2 items, his lack of utility can make your ADC suffer in team fights. 

Pantheon

Pantheon

Pantheon is still weak as an aggressive engage support, given how much he relies on Lethality items.

PROS

  • Good damage
  • Great roaming potential with ultimate

CONS:

  • Needs items to pop off
  • Very greedy playstyle

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League of Legends 14.12: B-Tier Support Champions

Rakan

Rakan

Rakan is a great option if your team lacks direct engage, as you can easily set up your team for success in crucial team fights.

PROS:

  • Great CC
  • Amazing setup

CONS:

  • Needs decent followup 
Xerath

Xerath

Xerath has been seeing some play given how powerful his long-ranged poke can be when laning against short-ranged comps or when contesting objectives early into the game. 

Camille

Camille

Despite Riot's attempts to make Camille a top lane champion first, she is still quite the threat in the bot lane as well.

PROS:

  • Great damage
  • Amazing engage

CONS:

  • Lack of utility
  • Lack of crowd control
Renata Glasc

Renata Glasc

Renata can be a great pick if you are looking for fight-oriented champions, especially when paired with a Kalista.

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League of Legends 14.12A-Tier Support Champions

Maokai

Maokai

Maokai is once again setting foot in the bot lane, only this time his roots are not as deep as previously. 

PROS

  • Great gank setup
  • Decent tankiness

CONS

  • Lack of damage
  • Short range CC without ultimate
Bard

Bard

Bard is making a comeback, as his playstyle promotes a heavy roam-oriented strategy where you are constantly collecting chimes and helping out either your laners or jungler.

PROS:

  • Very strong ultimate
  • Decent healing and damage

CONS:

  • Difficult to master
Lulu

Lulu

Lulu has fallen off slightly from the tier list, however, she still remains a great hypercarry enabler.

PROS:

  • Great utility
  • Decent shields
  • Great team fighting

CONS:

  • Can struggle against tanky champions
Neeko

Neeko

Neeko can be quite a fun support to play given her passive and amazing engage potential

PROS

  • Great damage
  • Ultimate can win team fights when landed onto crucial enemies

CONS:

  • Needs a Hextech Rocketbelt and good follow-up from your team to pop off.
Amumu

Amumu

Amumu can be quite a good way of setting up bot ganks as well as help out junglers during skirmishes.

Alistar

Alistar

Alistar has been unchained for quite some time given how much you can impact any skirmish or team fight.

PROS:

  • Super engage potential
  • Incredible team fighting durability and viability
  • Built-in tankiness

CONS:

  • Long cooldowns on abilities can make him feel useless
Seraphine

Seraphine

Seraphine has finally found her sweet spot with Riot devs being able to balance her kit to fit the support role. 

PROS:

  • Good damage
  • Great utility

CONS:

  • Very squishy

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League of Legends 14.12: S-Tier Support Champions

Janna

Janna

Janna still remains one of the best enchanters and anti-engage champions to play as a support.

PROS:

  • Great CC
  • Good shield and healing
  • Very beneficial utility

CONS:

  • Lack of engage
Rell

Rell

Since Rell is now a support champion only, her kit is still incredible for jumping on the enemy bot lane and team overall as she has some of the strongest engage tools on the Rift.

PROS:

  • Great tankiness
  • Incredible CC
  • Amazing lane presence

CONS:

  • Can struggle against ranged bot lanes
Braum

Braum

Braum is one of the best defensive supports as you can ensure your hypercarries scale up nicely, especially when you fear getting dived and ganked constantly.

PROS

  • Incredible utility
  • Good CC
  • Easy to play

CONS:

  • Can struggle if behind
Nami

Nami

Nami is doing great as an enchanter, especially when paired up with a Lucian, you can easily win your lane and offer a lot in team fights.

PROS:

  • Good CC
  • Amazing pressure in lane

CONS:

  • Difficult to land CC

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Pyke

Pyke

Pyke has once again become a menace not only due to his annoying hooks but also his incredible roaming capabilities

PROS:

  • Great snowballing champion
  • Very aggressive and proactive playstyle 
  • Best roaming champion

CONS:

  • Can struggle against poke-heavy comps
Thresh

Thresh

Thresh has everything you need from a support, all packed up in his dreadful box.

PROS:

  • Great utility
  • Amazing engage
  • Great skirmisher

CONS:

  • Relies on landing hooks
Leona

Leona

Leona is simply a much better Nautilus as not only is she much more tankier than most support champions, but the amount of CC she has can be outright disgusting. 

PROS:

  • Very tanky
  • Amazing engage
  • Peeling is off the charts

CONS:

  • Needs decent follow up to set up good team fights with her kit
Shaco

Shaco

Shaco can be quite the strange champion to place as an S-Tier support, however, his damage and utility are some of the strongest on the bot lane.

PROS:

  • Very mobile
  • Great CC and damage
  • Amazing in skirmishes and gank setups

CONS:

  • Can fall behind if the enemy team plays more defensively

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League of Legends Best Support Lane Champions Tier List 14.11
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Summary of Best Support Champions in League of Legends Patch 14.12

All in all, this list is surely to change based on balance changes the devs implement but it should give you a general idea of which champions are strong and which might need some additional tuning to become more viable. The bot lane has exploded due to the recent ADC item changes, making the meta more bot lane-oriented and allowing more aggressive picks to take prevalence. 

League of Legends can be quite challenging at first, but once you master your favorite champion and try out these picks, you should excel in your games a lot more!

Tier Support Champions
D-Tier Yuumi, Lux, Morgana, Ashe
C-Tier NautilusSenna, Brand, Pantheon
B-Tier Rakan, Xerath, Camille, Renata Glasc
A-Tier Maokai, Bard, Lulu, Neeko, Amumu, Alistar, Seraphine
S-Tier

Janna, Rell, Braum, Nami, Pyke, Thresh, Leona, Shaco

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