Best supports to pair with Ashe in LoL

If you’re wondering which supports you should be playing with Ashe, here are the five best champions to play alongside her in season 13.

The best supports to play with Ashe in LoL

Despite being played as a support at the start of season 13, Ashe has gone back to her traditional role as a DPS scaling ADC in the recent meta. The mid-season changes as well as the nerfs to the support items ended up pushing her as one of the best blind picks.

She offers great utility and the ability to dictate engages with her own ultimate which is rare for most marksman champions. She also boasts a relatively simple kit, making it perfect for beginners to play while offering great satisfaction once mastered.

That being said, Ashe’s power can be fully unleashed only with certain supports. Not all champions can empower her to the same degree, and it’s crucial to know which ones are strong with her.

If you’re not sure which champions you should be playing with Ashe, we have compiled a list of the best supports that yield the greatest results. By explaining their strength and weaknesses, you will know better how a specific duo functions.

Milio – the no. 1 support for Ashe

After its release to the LoL roster earlier this season, Milio has become the best support to play alongside Ashe. 

The Ixtal support has a lot going on when played with the Freljord marksman: he can provide good peeling with his shields and stop enemies’ engage attempts with the Q. But what really makes this pairing so strong is the synergy between Milio’s Cozy Campfire (W) and Ashe’s kiting ability.

Since Milio’s W grants additional attack range to champions inside the zone, Ashe can get an even higher attack range to damage and kite people during teamfights and skirmishes. And considering Ashe’s attacks apply a slow, it will be almost impossible for the enemies to run away from her auto attacks.

Furthermore, Milio makes up for Ashe’s lack of mobility with his own ultimate, cleansing incoming crowd controls and granting an instant heal if she’s about to die. As long as you’re able to take advantage of these synergies, you will find incredible success playing Milio and Ashe together.

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Thresh – The best engage support

Thresh is one of the most versatile supports in the entire game, so it’s not a surprise to have him work well with Ashe.

This duo has the great advantage of providing some of the longest, single-target crowd-control chains in the entire game. Thanks to Ashe’s slow and Thresh’s Flay (E) and hook (Q), the two are able to keep a target impaired for seconds.

In addition, Thresh can also use his spells defensively to peel Ashe in case she gets engaged by someone. Thanks to the lantern, she should have no problems repositioning herself.

If you want to play Ashe and you need good engage potential, Thresh is going to be your primary choice. 

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Lulu – The Milio alternative

Just like most traditional ADCs, Ashe works well with an enchanter like Lulu. This is because the latter can protect her carry while also empowering her auto attacks thanks to Pix and increasing Ashe’s attack speed. With the number of defensive tools Lulu provides, Ashe will not die unless she gets caught completely out of position.

The bot lane is also decent early on since both Lulu and Ashe can apply good poke with Ashe’s W and Lulu’s Qs. Having said that, the shining moment for this bot lane is the late game, when Ashe will deal insane DPS.

Janna – another enchanter support alternative

If you’re looking for more enchanter support options to play with Ashe, we recommend playing Janna in the current meta. She has been rising up in popularity now that other supports have been nerfed. Additionally, she’s one of the best counters to engage supports now that they are dominating the bot lane meta.

Ashe and Janna have good poking during the laning phase and a relatively safe laning phase. While they are not particularly aggressive, all you have to do is make sure you don’t bleed advantage and scale to Ashe’s item spikes. Once she gets enough DPS, all Janna has to do is prevent her from dying at the start of a fight, providing the best peeling possible.

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Soraka – Want to kill Ashe? Try if you can…

To last support we recommend playing with Ashe is Soraka, who does a wonderful job in protecting Ashe with her heals. Unless she gets instantly shut down, Soraka will always make sure Ashe is healthy enough to keep fighting and keep up her damage output. 

Moreover, the two have synergizing abilities to lock down enemy champions. Soraka can silence them with her E while Ashe slows them by attacking or using her spells. Unless Ashe and Soraka are facing a stronger poking lane like Varus or Caitlyn, they will have an easy time surviving the laning phase.

That said, both champions are quite immobile so it’s easy to pick them off: be careful about potential ganks or dives. Make sure to have strong vision control while overextending and be aware of the enemy jungler whenever possible.

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