Support update after adc update?

RedCyclone··9 votes·757 views

Because out of all the classes, support is the stalest every game composes of at least one tank support, most of them have massive pickrates over other supports and it's been that way for over 2 years now

Any word from Riot on support diversity?

6 Comments

Kitten of Evil3 votes

Stale? Hardly. I love being forced to rush an item item 2049 that has no useful stats for many supports and which somehow manages to be worse than the trinkets everyone gets (which at least recharge), despite being the "vision item". /s

Really they just need to fix a couple of the support items -- it's way too easy to overcap CDR and many of the support items are kind of meh -- item 3092 item 3504 item 3060 item 2049 item 2049 item 2049

GinoSoldier2 votes

I have not seen a Sona, Braum, Lulu or Soraka support in a long as hell time. Especially Sona. As a matter of fact i've seen the Maven in the mid lane a lot more than in the bot lane (which i wholeheartedly agree with, i feel like her place is genuinely Mid.).

xFrostKnightx2 votes

We already had a support update. After ADC I want them to focus on other things, otherwise we'll be in an endless cycle of updating each lane again.

Rozzeta2 votes

I agree. The last support update got rid of the cancer of Vision wars, but at the price of introducing the scaling utility. The reduced damage in exchange of utility made it very hard to push out tanky supports, which now dominate the support meta. At least I think the support items should be looked at. Previously Riot had thought that support items should have crap stats and godly actives, but this is incompatible with the supports who had their base damage and utility nerfed in exchange of scaling damage and utility. There should be more AP options, and less CDR/mana regen, even if that AP option only comes from purchasing the last tier of a certain item.

cFlame1 votes

Actually, its been Soraka Sona Braum Thresh Alistar TahmKench Leona, but no Lulu Nami or Morgana. Janna and Bard are picks at high elo.

LankPants4 votes

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Actually, its been Soraka Sona Braum Thresh Alistar TahmKench Leona, but no Lulu Nami or Morgana. Janna and Bard are picks at high elo.

Sona's been considered a sub-par to utter trash pick for a long time now. Tahm Kench has been seeing play, but from what I've seen more as a jungler.

That leaves tanks and Soraka, who is a fairly niche pick, when she fits a team she's amazing sometimes she's just dead weight though.

Nami sees considerably more play than Sona, which makes sense, she's superior to Sona in every single way.

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