Riot, please make alternatives to sightstone

forresto·2/9/2016, 7:46:18 PM·1 votes·194 views

so basically my thought goes like this:

Plenty of champions can buy sightstone just fine. Champions like braum, leona, anyone tanky in the botlane can build a sightstone no problem. The problem is for champions who don't want HP. Basically, every non-tanky support is pigeonholed into spending 400 gold they don't have on 150 HP they don't want or need. In any other context if you saw for instance a sona, or janna massing HP, they would probably be reported, or at least salted. For at least 50% of support champs, the base stats and build path are extremely unappealing, and the satisfaction of building them is low.

The potential is there. With the recent support item rework adding the alternate support item sightstone build paths, there is a lot of potential to add diversity in warding while making the stats involved more appealing. For instance the poke mage build path(frost queens claim type) could give AP on it's vision item rather than shoehorning 150 HP into a poke mage item. I'm sure something could be devised for the ancient coin variant, perhaps more mana regen/health regen, or bonus cdr or something.

This would also make it so that you could design the sight item vs effect item tradeoff around just deciding between sight vs a special effect. (I've seen this discussed in the patch notes when you added cdr to all the sightstone variants.) I also know that a number of people on the forum have been grumbling about support being unnapealing. While I doubt this would solve the core problems, it would definitely help to ameliorate one of the more bothering peripheral effects.

I guess the thing to take away from this is the importance of designing items around what prospective champions want/need so that everybody feels like they can build items, and stats they inherently want for their champs without being forced into suboptimal choices.

As a side note I would just like to give a shout-out to my high school because I just realized that 6 years later I'm still unconsciously following proper essay format to some extent. XD

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