Can tank supports like leona blitz and alistar be put in the support tab?

Fawksea··63 votes·1,811 views

In champ select when you click on the support tab it wont show up other supports like those 3. i understand people like zyra and stuff who aren't supposed to be supports are put in mages, but seeing alistar/leona/blitz in other lanes is very rare, why not put em in the support role? cant say its cus they're tanks cus braum and taric are in there

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Deep Terror Nami15 votes

Or both. And add custom tabs :3

Fawksea6 votes

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Or both. And add custom tabs :3

yaaaas i've been asking for a custom tab ever since i saw the new champ select! just have all your fave champs there or champs youd wanna try out :D

Deep Terror Nami3 votes

Sort by Mastery and Recently Played would be great automated tabs too.

Mig891 votes

Custom tabs would be amazing.

Velzard of Koz1 votes

Or they could finally use updated classifications and can leave it as it is, as in the updated Classifications, there is no Support class, there are classes that can fill Support such as Wardens, Catchers and Enchanters.

SanKakU2 votes

I want a custom tab for bans. [slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

lol XD

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

What do you need a tab for? Teemo Yasuo just gets banned 11 times every game. ;p

Mr Wind Up Bird11 votes

I think you're missing the point of those tabs. They're not designed to tell you where a champion goes on the map, they're designed to tell you what a champion does with their abilities. Champions on the support tab directly support their teammates with shields, heals, move speed boosts, and so on. If you think 'I like buffing people' or 'My friend is really good at twitch so I want to try to make him even scarier', the support tab is the place for you. The tabs are not designed to help you figure out who to play when you get autofilled at 90 LP.

sir d wreck1 votes

Thank you for posting this! Another good example of this is why Leona is a tank primary and Braum is a support primary. Braum's whole kit revolves around protecting allies, while he is decent at engaging if he has to. Leona's kit revolves around her engaging, but Leona also can protect if she has to.

Based on what their kits are good at: Leona's kit is made to engage fights and shes decent at stopping engages, Braum's kit is designed to protect allies and enable engages.

Doozku1 votes

Yeah but when I click the support tab, I expect to see all the champions that are primarily supports. Why is Nunu in same tab as Janna or Soraka then? If you want to have that argument then the support tab should be removed and replaced with Tabs like Warden, Enchanters, Playmakers "Catchers", etc.

Fairyfleur2 votes

Nunu supports his team with slows, blood boil, and objective control. He isn't meant to engage or peel like a Leona.

Mr Wind Up Bird2 votes

The word is 'support' is definitely overloaded and it might be a good idea for Riot to rename the in-game tab. But for the present time we have to acknowledge that sometimes one word means two things, and moving champions like Leona to the support tab only further muddies the purposes of those tabs.

Jerry SeinfeId2 votes

support? Leona summoner 11

Glory ln Death2 votes

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Can tank supports like leona blitz and alistar be put in the support tab?

And Sion.

LadyRenly2 votes

no. leona should be fighter.

if ur not takin her top with item 3078 item 3748 ur playin her wrong

Espy Psyche1 votes

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no. leona should be fighter.

if ur not takin her top with item 3078 item 3748 ur playin her wrong

Have you tried the item 3068 item 3025 build? Now with item 3193 she can get every bit as unkillable as a Maokai in the top lane.

I Love Thresh1 votes

Always wanted a custom tab. Chop chop riot!

Muzét1 votes

But they're not designed to be support (at least at first for Blitz and Leo) In fact, i think it's linked to the first role - since with those subclasses they changed most of the second role to their subclass on paper - dunno about launcher/tech. And I think that it's also linked to the way they should be play. Since you know Leona / Ali / Blitz don't peel that much they're more a way to engage. Where Thresh or Tahm or Braum are peeling and protecting allies.

PopcornBunni1 votes

A tab or display for chest owned would be ideal.

JuloFreeq1 votes

Custom tabs FTW!!! Upvoting this concept.

NahDogSolRahn1 votes

Leona and blitz were shipped as tanks, alistar was meant to be jg. they tweaked alistar because he wasn't strong enough for the jg then; Blitz pick potential slid him into the Position, and Leona's passive makes people think that she needs someone with her. you give Leona an actual passive and she would run like a normal ap tank

Ariel the Cruel2 votes

alistar was meant to be jg. they tweaked alistar because he wasn't strong enough for the jg then

Opposite, actually. Alistar was meant to be a support. Baring in mind, he was one of the launch champions, so there wasn't really a meta yet. Or even a clear distinction on what roles were.

When Alistar first entered the jungle, his gank reliability steam-rolled the game (Yi was god-tier mobile back then). So they gutted him. A season or two of jungle changes later, they gave him some buffs. Which he used to jungle and steam-roll games again. So he got re-gutted. During the update, Riot responded to questions about Alistar jungle stating that his reliability was too strong and it was unlikely they would ever allow him to go there again.

Not only was Alistar not an intended jungler. He's actually banned from it. (>_>)

Blitz pick potential slid him into the Position

I've always claimed Blitz is a horrible support (why I don't run him). He brings 1 trick to the table, and is otherwise useless. That 1 trick just happens to be near game-breaking and works without gold. :/

Leona's passive makes people think that she needs someone with her. you give Leona an actual passive and she would run like a normal ap tank

I do enjoy me some solo-lane Leona. AP though? AD Leona is stronger thanks to the AA resets.

Luna Ather Solis1 votes

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Opposite, actually. Alistar was meant to be a support. Baring in mind, he was one of the launch champions, so there wasn't really a meta yet. Or even a clear distinction on what roles were.

When Alistar first entered the jungle, his gank reliability steam-rolled the game (Yi was god-tier mobile back then). So they gutted him. A season or two of jungle changes later, they gave him some buffs. Which he used to jungle and steam-roll games again. So he got re-gutted. During the update, Riot responded to questions about Alistar jungle stating that his reliability was too strong and it was unlikely they would ever allow him to go there again.

Not only was Alistar not an intended jungler. He's actually banned from it. (>_>)

I've always claimed Blitz is a horrible support (why I don't run him). He brings 1 trick to the table, and is otherwise useless. That 1 trick just happens to be near game-breaking and works without gold. :/

I do enjoy me some solo-lane Leona. AP though? AD Leona is stronger thanks to the AA resets.

and leona was suppose to be a solo lane tank, but RIOT gave her passive that she can't use her self because they did not want another tank to dominate the jungle, but that decision crippled her solo potential and so people started to take her bot lane but she was too oppressive has a support (because she is not) so RIOT nerf her hard over that past few years

Ps. i got leona lv7 mastery just playing her top and jungle before her last hard nerf

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

Leona wasn't necessarily meant to solo. But she was released during a time of rather turbulent metas (plural!). The 1/1/1/2 EU meta hadn't fully taken hold yet. So duo top and sup/tank bot weren't uncommon. That's the environment she was meant to function in.

Things just didn't stay that way. (>_>)

FNC Adept1 votes

Just want to point out that xerath is also listed as an assasin so don't get your hopes up

DemainaNyx1 votes

Click support in the store and Syndra is there.

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