Summon Aery is slightly less damage than Arcane Comet, but it offers more sustain in lane/late game, especially if playing vs a dangerous comp such as Draven and Brand. It works with your Black Shield, and adds Aery's shield on top, which negates all damage, instead of just magic.

Morgana's mana costs poking with W, and sustaining/protecting with E, can ramp up quickly. Manaflow Band helps negate running out of mana in laning phase as fast, and grants passive mana regen when you reach the 250 threshold.

Stacking as much CDR as possible on Morgana helps reduce the cooldowns of all your abilities, most notably Black Shield. Capping CDR is easy on an enchanter support due to the items they often want to buy. Transcendence converts any excess CDR into AP, so capping is not a problem.

Scorch is used for early game, laning harass. It adds extra damage on your first ability used, and then again after the 10s cooldown. The extra damage can rarely be missed when using Tormented Shadow due to it being a ground targeted aoe, so abuse this in lane for extra presence and poke.

One of Morgana's core items is Zhonya's Hourglass as she likes to get deep into the fray with her Soul Shackles, and she is still a squishy support, so she needs to protect herself. Perfect Timing gives you a free Stopwatch after 10 minutes, that can be then converted into Zhonya's Hourglass, saving 600g.

Biscuit Delivery helps your sustain in lane, and increases your mana cap by 50 anytime you consume or sell a biscuit, which synergizes with Manaflow Band, and helps keep your mana bar healthy as Tormented Shadow cost can ramp up quickly.

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Boots of Mobility > MOVEMENT SPEED Morgana's ult requires her to get into the middle of the enemies, and Mobility Boots can help enable her to do that. The extra movement speed can be invaluable for catching someone out with a Dark Binding. Boots of Swiftness > SLOW RESIST If the enemy team has a lot of slows, you can trade Mobi's out for these. They offer 60 movement speed and 25% slow resistance.. Ionian Boots of Lucidity > DAMAGE f you're wanting to have a little bit more CDR, you can take these boots, helps with getting your abilities out quicker, and reducing the CD on your summoner spells by 10%.

Zhonya's Hourglass > SURVIVABILITY/UTILITY/DAMAGE Zhonya's is a staple part of Morgana's kit, especially when paired with Perfect Timing - saving yourself 600g! Soul Shackles is used up close and personal with the enemy team, and Morgana is very squishy, Zhonya's Hourglass offers protection when in the middle of the fight, and negates damage such as Death Mark and Ignite.

Redemption > CDR/HP+MANA REGEN/SUSTAIN Redemption offers an aoe heal in an area, adding a sustain for her allies that Morgana's kit lacks. It also offers HP and Mana regen, meaning you can stay in the fights longer, recall less, and you can help out even while dead. It also offers an extra 10% shielding power, which synergizes with your Black Shield.

Imperial Mandate > DAMAGE/UTILITY Morgana focuses on doing damage with her kit, making Imperial Mandate a core item in its current state, as the root from her Dark Binding & the stun from her ultimate applies a mark to the enemy, which ally champions can trigger, dealing extra damage and granting you and the triggering ally movement speed. You also gain AP, ability haste and mana regen, along with empowering your other legendary items with an extra 15 ability power.

Morellonomicon > DAMAGE/UTILITY If the enemy team has a lot of healing such as a Soraka or Yuumi, you may want to rush Morellonomicon for the grievous wounds passive it applies. You gain 70 AP to add onto your burst window and 250 HP for extra survivability.

Ardent Censer > DAMAGE/UTILITY/CDR If you have a team comp that relies heavily on fast auto attacks such as Vayne, Kindred, Quinn etc. Ardent Censer is a great pickup to maximize your carries damage output while shielding them, it also offers you a bit more burst, a small bonus to your movement speed, mana sustain and 10% CDR.

Mikael's Crucible > SURVIVABILITY/CDR/UTILITY A good pick when facing an enemy team with hard CC that you need to Cleanse on allies, such as Impale, Death Sentence, Cocoon etc and grants bonus movement speed for 2s after successfully cleansing an ability. Increases your Mana and HP regeneration, while granting you 40 magic resist, and 20% shielding power - good synergy with Black Shield.

Banshee's Veil > SURVIVABILITY/DAMAGE If there's a lot of AP on the enemy team, or they have certain, deadly single target abilities, you might find yourself wanting to pick up Banshee's Veil, you gain 60 magic resist, and gain 70 AP - it can be expensive, and it's not as good as Zhonya's for Morgana, but it's still a good niche pickup sometimes.

You'll most likely want to start with Dark Binding, you can choose to invade,
or it can stop an enemy invade dead in it's tracks.
Your aim of laning phase is to use Dark Binding to try and catch out a squishy target, or use it to peel your ADC during an all-in. You'll not really be utilizing your autoattacks in lane as Morgana has a very short range, obviously this is subjective depending on your lane match up.

Use Black Shield as a potential Death Sentence (or similar) is in flight, don't get baited out by a potential all in, as you waste your shield (long CD!!) and can get engaged on then. If your jungle comes for a gank, you may want to use it on them to negate any incoming CC, or save it to see whether the enemy will try and counter engage, and use it on their primary target.

Tormented Shadow will be a primary poke, proccing spellthiefs and zoning tool, but be aware of it's high mana cost. You can help push the waves with your ADC, and you can place it underneath an enemy you have caught with your Dark Binding. Getting the most out of Tormented Shadow is imperative, and it can heal you with Soul Siphon.



Mid - Late game your job is to disengage, peel, and protect your teams main damage threats. You can also play to catch people out with your Dark Binding, or to initiate an engage with Flash into Soul Shackles.
You should be focusing on catching out a target trying to engage on your team, stopping him in his tracks, or catch a fleeing enemy for easy kills.

Soul Shackles slow the enemy, and if used with Dark Binding, you can root/stun an enemy up to 5 seconds!
Black Shield is going to be used to negate CC incoming on your ADC, or your frontline. You can heal a primary target with Mikael's Blessing to give that extra survivability.

The main thing to be aware of, is making sure your teams threats stay alive, while removing, or zoning, the enemy teams threats.

You'll want to be sticking close to your ADC, while roaming efficiently and safely as possible to place deep wards. You have the advantage of negating CC, immobilizing enemy threats, and high movement speed if you take Mobility Boots. Use all of these to your advantage!

Control Ward's are a staple part of any support, both to deny your enemies vision, and to provide your team extra vision. You should make sure to buy one at least every time you back, preferably to have 2 on you at all times.

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