Some solo laners and junglers are starting to buy spellthiefs, adcs buying relic

Rexxiee··30 votes·1,998 views

"We swear support items havent been overbuffed into the heavens and arent overpowered at all, SUPPORTS ARE WEAK REEEE"

On a more serious note, when are support items recieving another balance pass? tank support items + spell thiefs + aftershock all need nerfs.

48 Comments

Remove Jungle34 votes

whole bot lane is out of balance

ExpStealer3 votes

Does that word even exist anymore? On the one hand we have MF one-shotting people, on the other - useless Kalista, Ashe (sort of) and a few others. Like... The whole game has turned into "who's gonna one-shot whom first".

General Esdeath 17 votes

If only we didn't try to force people to play the support role and then buff it to all hell because people didn't want to play it

Lauchmelder2 votes

We'd get more supports if there were more support champions like Rakan

General Esdeath 3 votes

NOOO WE HAV 2 MAYK FULL AY PEE LUX AND BRAND VYEBLE SUPPORTS RIOT PLS BUFF

Hópe3 votes

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If only we didn't try to force people to play the support role and then buff it to all hell because people didn't want to play it

This... Supports are completely out of line right now.

Eedat14 votes

you forgot about top laners taking item 3301

Eternal Torment1 votes

Ezreal with coin and klepto.

BeatzBoyFTW2 votes

Very rare chance for some kind of dickhead going that at top lane.

But specifically, GP & Nasus Klepto with Coin/Spellthief at top lane is the actual problem.

Sõna7 votes

Let's just grant those guys a wish who want "Enchanter/Supporter" to be deleted, let it be 5v5 of full DPS. It can be so fun without Support right? So the support item can be removed.

Sarcastically

GayFluffyUnicorn2 votes

We want enchanter supporters to not be one button wonders acting as a 7th and 8th item slot for adcs while nullifying the existence of any melee fighter by the click of one button.

Sõna1 votes

While your team could have one enchanter supporter as well?

Don't complain if enemy support is an enchanter, your team DOES have a slot for enchant supporter as well.

Furthermore, if that means an enchanter supporter can be an item for ADC, basically it's 4v5. If your team's Support is DPS, why don't you bully the enchanter support in early game with this new rune to prevent them from farming? It's not the problem of why enchanter can be getting into late game, but it's your support and your adc who couldn't punish them.

I hate people saying this all the time about "Enchanter is an item slot for enemy" etc etc, But have you ever thought that, basically it's enemy is 4 and your team is 5. If your team's support cant stop their support, That is the player problem.

LordGeovanni1 votes

adcs do a fine enough job of nullifying melee fighters alone. support players dont want to be an adcs 7th slot either but adcs are too strong putting your stuff on anyone else will lose you the fight when the enemy support puts their buffs and defenses on the adc.

PokladnicaZla5 votes

#preseason

Violet Fields29 votes

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#preseason

Yeah? This doesn't mean anything, Duskblade was an issue last preseason and it still is.

PokladnicaZla1 votes

Well,preseason hit and most RIOTers went on holiday,so they whole game was left in the state it's currently at.

Abibyama2 votes

It really wasn’t an issue till they changed the nightfall passive to deal physical damage and slows and changed the gold efficiency

Unless you’re talking about the Vision part

YumaS2Astral2 votes

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It really wasn’t an issue till they changed the nightfall passive to deal physical damage and slows and changed the gold efficiency

Unless you’re talking about the Vision part

The problem isn't changing it to physical damage - this was technically a nerf, since before it would deal true damage. But they also more than doubled the damage and made it not reliant on stacking lethality to work. And since most of time you are going to target squishies, the fact that it deals physical damage doesn't matter.

Slice n Dice em3 votes

Or you could say 'Exactly the right time to complain about broken shit, so that it doesn't slip into the actual ranked season'.

vincentwu1231 votes

Just because its Preseason doesnt mean its gonna get fix when season starts. People were saying the same thing with Ardent Censor meta, "It will be nerfed before worlds, stop with these posts." 6 months later Ardent finally gets fixed after Riot sees how stupid it was in worlds.

AirKingNeo3 votes

Yeah, preseason. When the most work on the game should be done.

RipReviveFkRito1 votes

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#preseason

nice meme

Darius Strada5 votes

As a support main, support were never weak. Riot just thought making support items completly overpowered would attract more people into it.

ampheon2 votes

The quests were not necessary. They're more or less just a hidden buff, they hardly changed how supports were played (except item 3301 ), and even that just resulted in slightly more effort being put in.

Vapor Wave Vibes3 votes

I long for the simpler days of league

LordGeovanni1 votes

those days are now. no changing builds just pick champions with long ranged poke or assassin in every position except top and poke without commiting while top engages and every other position doesnt follow up

Harden Stepback3 votes

Bot lane and their entire item sets (adcs and support) are in need of a complete overhaul

ampheon2 votes

If only they didn't try to make supports active item centric, rather than improving the supports' kits

Villainous V3 votes

Nothing like dealing with ekko and teemo top lane building frost queen. Boy do I hate top lane atm.

Void Baboon RF3 votes

If you don't need the mana or the wounds, frost queens is a better rush mid than morellos

Ahristocats5 votes

lol nice meme

Blåbæret2 votes

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"We swear support items havent been overbuffed into the heavens and arent overpowered at all, SUPPORTS ARE WEAK REEEE"

On a more serious note, when are support items recieving another balance pass? tank support items + spell thiefs + aftershock all need nerfs.

Aftershock won't get nerfed until Riot gives tanks more viable runes. Atm it's the only one. It's not like Aftershock is the biggest problem anyway.

ampheon1 votes

Guardian is viable on some tanks

Iffy Jarl2 votes

How does spell thief benefit junglers?

Somebody Love Me1 votes

AP carry junglers get spellthiefs for extra damage and gold, to basically have the same impact as a duskblade jungler xD Upgrading to frostfang and stacking it also gives movespeed after dealing damage, so it helps AP assassins be sticky. Mana regen is nice too.

Also damage.

Iffy Jarl2 votes

But it only provides like 100 gold every 10 minutes which junglers are grabbing that over a jungling item

Iffy Jarl1 votes

why are people downvoting my objective questions lol

Somebody Love Me2 votes

When I get it on Eve, I get it right after my jungle item, since it's only 350. You can stack it with ganks/fights and passively. The extra damage can really help. Plus if you snowball, after the upgrade, you can have like 1-2k gold on it, since you don't really sell it till you're on your last item (but what game goes that long anyway?). Basically, gold gen, plus bandit. It also doesn't bother those like Eve or Elise who struggle to clear waves anyway, so the passive getting locked on minion kill doesn't hurt them.

I upgrade to frostfang right after getting runic echoes. There's no downside to this item since it basically pays for itself. And again, being sticky with the tribute passive helps a lot.

For Eve specifically, it synergizes with her really well because of her Q (3 strikes. 3 stacks on spelltheifs before going on cooldown).

Edit: I also forgot about the CDR Frost fang gives. Cheap CDR on a fairly efficient item.

AirKingNeo2 votes

Fairly certain Enchanter support items need a nerf too, otherwise, they'll just be broken once tank stuff gets nerfed.

KlydeFrog2 votes

I swear people think this is new ....ITS NOT NEW. People were getting froat Queens in the mid lane for active passive and damage and cdr .the item is efficiency of stop complaining about something that's been going on for over a year

JoeMG2 votes

item 3303 on Gangplank anyone?

Get that klepo gold bb

Pinkaj1 votes

But every time you take farm with spellthiefs the cooldown for your +15 gold is increased.

Papa Andrei1 votes

You do realize its because of the gold that they are going those items mostly ya? The faster you get the gold for one item, the faster you can insta win the game.

ÈvilMorty1 votes

Tbh i dont think the support items are that bad. Its more of adc items being so cheap and way too cost efficient for the amount of stats they offer, that getting to that 2-3 item power spike 5-10min earlier with support items is whats the problem.

Lux Tizer1 votes

Tbh I'm really just here for the ree


REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Xerath Aim Bot1 votes

Adcs are getting it to help their supps out.

Spellthiefs because it has more to offer for the gold spent specially if you don't need mana.

KyojiTakajo1 votes

I take Frost Queen's on Lux/Zoe and other immobile AP mids. The active + passive once you get 750 gold with it really helps with kiting and running. It also just finished out my 45% CDR without making me go Lich Bane. The fact that it's quite cheap, gives 60 AP and mana regen along with the CDR as well as gold generation + the movespeed, makes it a potent pick.

Ahri Baka1 votes

Support item aren't broken , but being abused by other roles is the problem
But I agree about aftershock needs nerfs

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