I think I figured out how to fix assassin's and supports

BobaFlautist··1 votes·427 views

I want supports to be the most important member of a team. And I don't mean the support position, I mean the support archetype. Specifically, enchanters...Supports with very heavy CC or durability would, of course, not be part of this.

I want supports to have heavily scaling team-oriented utility that's substantially weaker when used selfishly. Things like massive, repeated shields for everyone BUT yourself, big attack speed and/or ad buffs, repeated cc cleanses that you can't use on yourself, etc. Stupidly strong stuff that only works on the team.

I want enchanter-tyoe supports to be the focus of a second type of team fight based team, one that works very differently from the wombo, but is just as effective - and just as easy to counter if you have the game knowledge and coordination.

That's where assassins would come in.

Because as mind-bogglingly overpowered as these supports would be, they'd also be squishier than a sponge made from jello. Any champion that can dance past the Frontline, cripple a target, and slip out again would feast upon these delicate casters. There would be counterplay, of course....But there would be less dedicated peel for the focus of the teanfight, and the ability to get in and snag one target would be much more valuable than it currently is.

Thoughts?

4 Comments

Edge of Daybreak2 votes

Make supports utterly broken but they cannot protect themselves? That sounds cool but only because I can actually touch janna if she cant press 8 different oh shit buttons that all negate my attempt to touch her. However getting to the support atm is easy. The problem comes from all the things that happen when you get there. I feel like a support unable to save their own life would just be free food for most of the game.

Also that feels like there would be a lot of overlap if they were all focused on buffing others. without the cc to differentiate it would just become more of an arms race than it already is.

RogueWill1 votes

you would have another Soraka but o makr things worse an AoE version of her. Meaning Sona on steroids. Remeber how it was when this two champions were at their prime? Do we want that to happen again?

BobaFlautist1 votes

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you would have another Soraka but o makr things worse an AoE version of her. Meaning Sona on steroids. Remeber how it was when this two champions were at their prime? Do we want that to happen again?

Right, basically. They were huge problems because the game wasn't balanced around them. If you make intentional design changes so that they function like that though, and tone down the individual power of mages and ADCs, then it becomes a lot more workable.

The 14th Angel1 votes

revert assassins would work.

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