Support meta is stale...

Hemulen Magi··5 votes·792 views

In my opinion, the support meta has gotten extremely stale. I wish we supports had more freedom to roam around the map, maybe even support the jungler as a tag-team, rather than being expected to stay tethered to the bottom lane early on. Riot, can you experiment with a support line of items that allow shared jungle experience? Or maybe create a mastery that provides shared XP boosts when nearby your team's lowest leveled member, so that the support can roam to losing lanes to help them recover if they fall behind [if no teammate has fallen behind, then the lowest leveled member will probably be the jungler].

Maybe the support should have his/her own minigame, roaming around to "shrines" to activate team buffs. Activating the shrines could provide the support XP+gold as well if they own support-line-items, sort of like how jg items provide bonus XP+gold for monster clears. This would give the supports their own set of objectives while roaming, and it would give supports a gold+XP income. It would also be fun if supports could deactivate eachother's shrines, strategically similar to counterjungling.

Also, more support-themed summoner spells would be welcome additions. I remember there being a rally spell ages ago that boosted teammate's damage output in an area. Also, a reworked version of promote (maybe similar to beta version but weaker) could be nice on supports. Ally castable cleanse, like item 3222 active, could also increase support spell variety. Similarly, if Frenzy returned in a reworked ally-castable form, it could possibly fit on supports.

I am sure there are a lot of great ideas for improving supporting. Something really needs to be done to make the least desired role more rewarding and interesting.

10 Comments

MLDzXnRRR3 votes

People rage, if you don't pick meta support, no wonder that the whole game is stale.

The ADC and sup meta dominates the game for 6 seasons.

Gamer Girl Paige1 votes

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People rage, if you don't pick meta support, no wonder that the whole game is stale.

The ADC and sup meta dominates the game for 6 seasons.

what do you mean? Why would a adc want a non meta support such as Urgot

Painted Celt1 votes

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what do you mean? Why would a adc want a non meta support such as Urgot

What's not to love about Urgod support? That Q poke, W slow, E armor shred, R lockdown.

Gamer Girl Paige1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Painted Celt,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=55YoMFPr,comment-id=000000000000,timestamp=2016-09-17T19:02:32.876+0000)

What's not to love about Urgod support? That Q poke, W slow, E armor shred, R lockdown.

I've tried it before, if the enemy team knows what they are doing it isn't gonna work and I thought the same thing. I usually use it to get people to dodge if my asshole teammates ban my champ.

Painted Celt1 votes

Trust me, Urgot item 2303 item 3047 item 3042 item 3025 item 3071 item 3033 Is a much more useful support than your Soraka item 1083 item 1083 item 1083 item 1083 item 1083 item 1083

Seriously though, a non-meta support is worth way more than a support who will intentionally become useless to try to force their team to forfeit if things start to go badly... Pretty much anything can work with the right attitude and a bit of experimentation.

Gamer Girl Paige1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Painted Celt,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=55YoMFPr,comment-id=00000000000000000000,timestamp=2016-09-17T19:24:54.232+0000)

Trust me, Urgot item 2303 item 3047 item 3042 item 3025 item 3071 item 3033 Is a much more useful support than your Soraka item 1083 item 1083 item 1083 item 1083 item 1083 item 1083

Seriously though, a non-meta support is worth way more than a support who will intentionally become useless to try to force their team to forfeit if things start to go badly... Pretty much anything can work with the right attitude and a bit of experimentation.

nope. I would be a millionaire if I can bet on the games I lose. the games I want to ff on, I am 70-80% right about. actually, 70-80 I am right even when I call gg in the first 5 minutes

xWaters1 votes

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nope. I would be a millionaire if I can bet on the games I lose. the games I want to ff on, I am 70-80% right about. actually, 70-80 I am right even when I call gg in the first 5 minutes

I absolutely hate people who say gg that early...

Gamer Girl Paige1 votes

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I absolutely hate people who say gg that early...

I can see why but most games I am correct at. If a game starts 0-6. 99% it's a lose.

Gamer Girl Paige1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Painted Celt,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=55YoMFPr,comment-id=00000000000000000000,timestamp=2016-09-17T19:24:54.232+0000)

Trust me, Urgot item 2303 item 3047 item 3042 item 3025 item 3071 item 3033 Is a much more useful support than your Soraka item 1083 item 1083 item 1083 item 1083 item 1083 item 1083

Seriously though, a non-meta support is worth way more than a support who will intentionally become useless to try to force their team to forfeit if things start to go badly... Pretty much anything can work with the right attitude and a bit of experimentation.

ok I decided to give it another go. and we both dominated lane but we lost because other shitty teammates and the vayne we shit on got fed off other teammates eventually.

Sagan Forever2 votes

Just go with your heart. I play Tristana as adc, and never see anyone else play her. If you like leaving lane as a sup play dat bard.

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