The problem with supports gold gain
Supports gold gain has forever been increased. This is not arguable.
It's arguable whether supports have been spending more gold on necessary things, but heres how I see it.
No longer buy oracles
No longer buy wards
No longer buy sightstone
No longer need to buy higher cost items
No longer buy potions
And yet their gp/10 is through the roof.
Lets take a journey into their items.
You guys remember Heart of Gold? 850 gold, 200 hp and 5 gp/10. Horrible stat efficiency. For 850 gold you get 533 gold worth of health, so that means that the 5gp/10 costed you 320 gold.
Now look at 
. 111% stat efficiency without the passive. That's some of the BEST cost efficiency IN THE GAME on a STARTING item that is a permanent keep slot. And it has a whopping 22 gp/10.
22 gp/10.
So not only are you getting 111% cost efficiency, you are also getting over 1300g in gp/10 stats for literally free.
On a starting item. That you keep.
THAT is why you see those supports doing well.
and 
have TERRIBLE cost efficiency (60% ish) and around half that GP/10.
All the supports that use that starting item do extremely well because they get an absurd amount of gold and stats for literally no reason. They have no more things to spend money on AND get an absurd amount of money doing nothing.
to say that we don’t need that gold quickly is nearsighted. If we DONT have that gold income than we cannot keep up with actual damage dealers or provide the means to keep our team from being slaughtered within the first two seconds of a teamfight.
are examples of othe ritems you will buy.
