Angela Guide 2025 (Patch 2.1.18) – Best Build, Spells & How to Carry as Support

Updated for Patch 2.1.18 (September 20, 2025): Angela’s best build and emblem have been revised to match the latest meta.

Angela is one of the best enablers you can pick right now. She doesn’t top the damage charts, but she’s the reason your carries can stay alive long enough to win fights. Her ultimate, Heartguard, is what sets her apart. With Patch 2.1.18 lowering its cooldown to a flat 20 seconds, you can jump into fights over and over again. That single change makes her one of the most reliable supports in the current meta.

When you lock her in, think of yourself as the team’s safety net. You’re not tied to a lane. Your job is to watch the map, anticipate where trouble is coming, and be ready to attach to the right teammate at the right moment. If you play her with that mindset, Angela can easily become the reason your team snowballs to victory.

Angela’s Skills in 2025

Passive Skill: Smart Heart

Every time you use a skill, you gain movement speed. When you’re attached to an ally, they benefit from it too. Patch 2.1.18 added a clear stack indicator, so you can see exactly how much speed you’ve got. It helps you move smarter during rotations and chases.

First Skill: Love Waves

Angela launches waves of energy in a targeted direction, dealing damage to enemies hit and restoring HP to allied heroes hit. With enough stacks of her passive, the final Love Wave will also briefly slow enemies.

Second Skill: Puppet-On-A-String

Tether an enemy to deal continuous damage and slow them. If they stay connected, they’ll be immobilized and take bonus damage. Thanks to the new countdown bar, you’ll know exactly when the root lands, making it easier to coordinate plays.

Ultimate: Heartguard

Heartguard lets you jump onto any ally on the map, giving them a shield while you cast your skills from their position. In Patch 2.1.18, the cooldown was cut down to a fixed 20 seconds and targeting was optimized, so you can use it more often and land on the right teammate more consistently. To balance this, the shield value is lower than before, which means timing matters even more. Use Heartguard when fights are about to break out, not too early, so the shield buys your ally the extra seconds they need to turn the fight.

Best Build for Angela (2025)

Angela thrives with cooldown reduction, utility, and items that keep her alive in messy fights:

• Demon Boots for mana sustain and mobility.
• Flask of the Oasis to power up heals and shields.
• Dominance Ice to shut down enemy sustain while adding armor.
• Fleeting Time so Heartguard is almost always available.
• Immortality to buy you a second chance when assassins collapse on you.

Situational options: grab Oracle for magic-heavy teams or Ice Queen Wand if you want more slows to control fights.

Emblems and Battle Spell

Custom Support Emblem

• Agility: Increases movement speed. This is crucial for Angela as she needs to be able to reposition quickly to heal and support her allies effectively.
• Wilderness Blessing: Reduces Angela’s respawn time, ensuring she spends more time on the battlefield contributing to team fights.
• Focusing Mark: This talent is the core of this build, increasing the damage enemies take from Angela’s chosen teammate after she uses her ultimate (Heartguard). This boosts the offensive power of whatever carry Angela is attached to.

Recommended Battle Spell: Sprint

Angela is naturally squishy, so Sprint gives you the mobility to escape danger or chase down low-HP enemies. If your carry dives in, Sprint helps you keep up and stay connected with Heartguard, keeping your buffs and shields active when they need them most. It also speeds up your rotations between lanes, letting you support teammates faster during ganks or when contesting objectives.

How to Play Angela

Early Game – Laning and Rotations

At the start of the match, stick with your jungler instead of parking yourself in a lane. Your first job is to help secure the buff and check for any early invasions. Once the jungle is safe, move to mid, clear a wave with your team, and then head over to gold. If your gold laner is stable and not under heavy pressure, swing back to mid for another wave and then check in on the exp lane. Keep following this rotation until the first Turtle spawns. Playing this way keeps you active across the map and makes sure every lane feels your presence.

Mid Game – Rotations and Objectives

Once teams start fighting for Turtle or Lord, your role expands. Heartguard being on a 20-second cooldown means you’re ready almost every skirmish. Keep your eyes on the minimap and attach to whoever needs you most—usually your jungler or core damage dealer during objective fights. Communicate when you’re about to ult so your teammate knows they can commit harder.

Late Game – Teamfights

This is where Angela feels game-changing. Your ultimate turns carries into raid bosses if you time it right. Attach when your ally is diving or under focus, then spam Love Waves and Puppet-on-a-String from their position. Stay alive and keep your kit cycling—the longer you’re in the fight, the better your team performs.

Synergies and Counters

Best Partners

• Mobile Fighters (Aldous, Yu Zhong): These EXP laners usually dive, and in most games they should always be the ones going straight into the enemy backline. When you attach with Heartguard, your shield and heals give them the sustain they need to secure kills. Time your ultimate as they engage so they can stay locked on their target without getting forced out too early.
• Control Tanks (Atlas, Khufra): These tanks commit hard with crowd control. If you ult them right before they dive, your heals and slows stack perfectly with their initiation. This often forces enemies to burn spells early, giving your team the edge.
• Snowball Carries (Lesley, Natan): Squishy carries that need room to scale benefit heavily from you. With your shield and sustain, they can hold their ground and put out consistent DPS, especially in drawn-out teamfights.

Tough Opponents

• Anti-shield Specialists (Esmeralda, Yve with Ice Queen Wand): Esme converts your shield, while Yve can chip it away quickly during her ultimate. To counter this, hold Heartguard for the moment burst damage comes through, instead of using it too early.
• Area Control Mages (Pharsa, Vale): Their zoning tools force you to either burn spells or get caught. Always play from fog of war when rotating, and save Puppet-on-a-String to interrupt their channeled skills.
• High-Priority Assassins (Saber, Joy): Both can cut through your HP bar quickly if you’re mispositioned. Ward aggressively, stay with teammates during rotations, and be ready to Flicker or Sprint as soon as they commit.

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