@Riot Meddler and Balance Team Plz Do a Better Job with Itemization on Support/Mage
What I do not understand is how contradictory these Developers are with their explanation for not doing a single bit of work on Support and Mage itemization. There is always one class and subclass of champions that are ignored year after year while these Developers constantly work on ADC and other roles. Why is it that Enchanters feel like nothing more than a shield bot with their itemization and play styles because you create dedicated items that are entirely reliant around Enchanters only using shields? You were told this for the past few years and you were also told that certain champions feel like nothing more than a shield bot. What do you do? You create items revolved around being nothing more than a shield abusing champion. You created a meta that allows shield stacking because you dedicated an entire playstyle that forces Enchanters to be nothing more than a shield bot. YOU CREATE THIS RIOT. Now you are talking about giving, probably another ADC/melee item that they can abuse together, that gets rid of shields/shield stacking. Yet you refuse to give alternative play styles to Enchanters other than another shield enchanting item that heals, increased magic damage on AA, and speed . . . w/e. Tackle the problem with Support Enchanter itemization and the champions themselves instead of creating an entire itemization based on of the problem. You really don't get it or care. It would be nice to have more actives on Enchanters. It would be nice to have more items that do something other than increasing heal/shield amounts. It would be nice to not have a specific champion be forced into one playstyle that is only one button click. You are yet again doing counterproductive work that is not actually solving the problem but putting a bandaid on it because you want to, probably, yet again work on ADC itemization.
What did you accomplish with the mage update last year? Nothing. I see no one using those new items. You didn't tackle the problems wrong with assassin/melee ap bruisers or the fact that AP mages only have one armor item and two MR items. They have a very bland itemization and underwhelming selection of things to choose from. You gave us a belt that lunges characters forward and a gun that shoots out icicles. Meanwhile, ADC gets lethality, multiple ways to use their armor pen, and other items that cater to different types of situation. You didn't solve the issues or give something new to mages. You also kind of gimped them even more with the tank update. It is almost impossible to kill a tank now. Tanks are too strong against mages. You know this. You don't care. Rabadons is a terrible buy now becuase of how useless it feels.
What are you going to do about all of these problems? Talk about how shield stacking is a problem and you need to create an item to combat it. Well didn't you create the problem that you have refused to actually work on for the past few years? You created the shield bot playstyle with no work on itemization and champions. You ignored players pleas for new itemization on AP users, but you give us bland hextech items no one every really uses. YOU are the issue Riot. You created the meta and the playstyles and you are doing work on things that are not actually tackling the problems.
Do you care?
