Angela Guide

As a support character with limited mobility, it’s important for Angela to stick with an ally or risk being caught out by assassins in the jungle. Angela shines when paired with a marksman in lane, giving them some nice sustain while adding poke damage to enemies, helping harass them off minion waves and experience.

Angela’s global ultimate can be a lifesaving ability with its powerful shield. Stay aware of what is happening across the map at all times, ready to save allies if needed. Know who is performing well, though — if you use your shield and join an ally in battle and they soon die because they are in a poor position or underperforming, you’ll likely die with them!

Items

As a support character, Angela should start with the mask item to help her avoid losing too much gold and experience while helping out her allies.

Demon Shoes help her with mana regeneration issues. Fleeting Time reduces her ultimate’s cooldown upon killing or assisting in the death of an enemy. This is a perfect item for Angela; having the massive ultimate shields and ability to teleport across the map on a lower cooldown will enable her to save teammates more often.

Items like Dominance Ice, Ice Queen Wand and Necklace of Durance  boost Angela’s power while also adding utility with their passives that slow enemies, reduce healing effects and lower attack speed.

Abilities

Angela’s Lover’s Marks allow her to consistently harass enemies, increasing her damage as she does so. Use this ability wisely. It can heal allies who are being counter-poked or burst down, but you can only store 5 charges. Try to maximize the effectiveness of the ability by positioning yourself to hit both allies and enemies with one mark.

Puppet-on-a-String is another harass tool that Angela can use to immobilize enemies and force them out of lane. Try to stack Lover’s Marks on enemies before using the move to increase the final damage they will take. Don’t put yourself out of position or risk dying just to keep the target on the string for 3 seconds.

Angela’s Ultimate Ability, Heartguard, is a powerful shield that can be used to help allies across the map, and it is arguably one of the harder parts of her simple kit to master. Have awareness of the entire map (and not just the area you are at) and use Heartguard to make powerful plays that can save allies (or get yourself out of trouble by joining an ally across the map.) 

Emblems

As a support character, Angela can use Support Emblems to boost her healing and give her cooldown reduction, allowing her to store Lover’s Marks more quickly with Mastery and Gift talents.

Avarice plays nicely with her poke and harass playstyle, allowing her to get additional gold when damaging enemies.