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What I'm reading is I need to learn how to jungle and support toot-sweet.
I assume bot games are absolutely not the place to go to learn support because of the AI, so solo queue and find the biggest non-idiot and stick to them?
start with normal games, tell them you're learning support, do your best, ask for advice (but take it with a grain of salt).
popular picks at the moment would be thresh and lulu, I guess nami and janna are viable as well.
To put you in the right mindset:
most of the adcs you will get are like adorable but utterly retarded puppies. They will go and urinate against a bear and look at it all cutey eye'ed wagging its tail, the bear won't care much and will try murder your stupid puppy. Depending on your support, you will be shielding your puppy (and pinging a retreat), turning the bear into something harmless, slapping the bear away or worst case scenario, dousing yourself in BBQ sauce and prancing around in front of the bear in the hopes that it decides to eat you.
To start out with learning a support, ensure your ward placement and map awareness are EXCELLENT. also, bush control is a further measurable action.
Basically, if you get ganked out of your tri bush or a lane bush, you've failed.
If you aren't putting some pressure on their adc or support and giving them control of the bushes leading your adc is getting zoned and not being able to cs, you've failed.
if you aren't pinging like a madman when hecarim comes charging through river in such a way that even the most tone-deaf, blind, moronic jizzrag would register it, you've failed.
Man I am sad that Lissandra isn't as good as the other mages on Dom. Q range is too short to really work with and the slow is weak considering what she will normally get to use it on has either a gap closer or speedshrine or both. E cooldown is also real unforgiving until you have 5 ranks in it and 40% cdr, and even then you have to be real judicial in its use.
serves you right for not playing a bruiser!
Or I could just play mages, since they are essentially mandatory in how strong they are.