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D1 Supp main here. Some useful stuff regarding support items:

Sonic Adventure·11/21/2019, 5:17:40 AM·1 votes·841 views

Most people are upset that the tribute/spoils gold generation passive is lost after 1k gold and that's what I'm going to talk about.

First of all, I was just as disappointed at the beginning because one of my approaches in Solo Q that helped me stand out from others supports was making more use of this passive than them after laning phase.

That thing is gone so I'll have to figure out other ways to make a small difference. Not ideal, but let's consider the other aspects.

  • You save a total of 1400 gold (450 + 950) that you had to spend to upgrade the support item and now it's free.

  • You lose gold generation passive, but only after 1000g.

This just means a very simple thing: unless you were making more than 2400g on your average game from tribute passive, you are actually gaining gold.

A lot of people think the 3g/10 instead of 2 is what you used to make with tribute passive mid-late game. This is wrong, 6 extra gold a minute might be useful occasionally but doesn't compensate for tribute loss. What compensates for it is saving 1400g, don't get things mixed = )

Now I wish I had the statistic of my average gold making with tribute in season 9. I bet Riot has information but I really doubt it was higher than 2400 for most players / games.

5 Comments

blindasleep11/21/2019, 6:39:22 AM2 votes

It just seems so much worse if you fall behind early because without the procs you could find yourself in a position where trying to get gold for pink wards sets off your whole team because you need gold from somewhere if your team isn't able to get kills or objectives and a lot of carries will less than politely ask why you think taking farm is okay. On top of that in a general these all favor ranged champs over melee, and if circumstances dictate that you have to help wave clear after certain point you actively punished for helping your team.

WoonStruck11/21/2019, 6:42:52 AM2 votes

Its mostly the stat sets for support itemization.

If I'm, let's say Taric, I don't want to waste effective gold on AD or AP. Both are pretty bad investments on him, where he'd rather have pretty much any other stat in the game outside of the obvious lifesteal, crit, AS, etc.

Melee supports were basically just removed from bot lane, outside pretty much just pyke.

Lost R11/21/2019, 11:22:52 AM1 votes

I pointed out the exact same thing last month and got mass downvoted for it.

I hope the people who didn't believe me or can't do the math get eaten by a bear.