Maybe some new support champs might help?

SennaMain Bun··12 votes·655 views

Please give us a dedicated support champion that has something new. The other roles seem to have so much more variety and champions to choose from. It's no wonder that people are taking "interesting picks" into support just to get a little excitement out of the role. I love playing support personally but I can understand why people have opinions of support that it is boring, or doesn't take any skill, or just is a crap role. Seems like every other Role is getting plenty of attention. Now with Riot looking at support, I'm hoping to see some new options, there are basically 12 "real" support champs. I feel like making the supports free isn't going to draw the attention, but making support something new might.

When a new champ comes out people always try and play it in support hoping that it will be interesting and new, taliyah, Ivern... anyone. Maybe this is an indicator that they just don't find the champions interesting. Which leads to singed, syndra and many other supports which people consider troll. Where is the support hype?

TL;DR Give us more support champions to interest players with all kinds of play styles that way people don't have to make "strange" picks to make the role more appealing when they are "stuck" with it.

8 Comments

DrugsForRobots2 votes

+1

I've been trying to get Riot to give us some specialty supports that play with vision as part of their core gameplay (as well as adjust wards to make vision more scarce, fallible, and interesting... that's another post though) but as of yet they haven't gone that route.

Their kits aren't perfect, but ideally you could make flashy plays and I think the concepts have merit:

  1. An oracle champ who plays on the idea of a 'psychic watcher' by controlling her Field of Sight in conjunction with her abilities and manipulating the vision of allies and enemies.

  2. An adorable yordle thief champ who is super sneaky, has invis for her allies, great mobility, and an ability that is reminiscent of wards but is a pretty unique way of getting sight.

SennaMain Bun1 votes

yeah that's what I mean I know people can play anything as support if they really wanted but I was thinking something that is just SO SUPPORT that it can't really be useful anywhere else and is obviously for that role. That is an interesting idea about the "watcher" ability. I'm guilty of playing my supports as carries as well, because I love the role but just wish it was more obviously impactful.

nm10102 votes

Well supports have to have less champion releases since every year another champion gets played as support in worlds. Its kind of like you get an extra release every September-October.

TheEvilQueen1352 votes

braum, nami, lulu, morg, lux, tahm, bard,sona, janna, taric,leona, thresh, blitz, karma and according to riot brand ahri and zyra that's 16 supports. and about 3-5 can be really good carry supports

SennaMain Bun1 votes

Yeah I know how many there are, I play Zyra, Morgana, and Nami often. But I mean someone who epitomizes support, Jana is close. I like the suggestion of the person with the thoughts on support abilities. Thanks for your input i have no idea why you got downvoted, i'm popping it back up. Take care.

Anags1 votes

I'm pretty sure people don't play support because their success feels like it is so dependent on the team.

Making a champ like those you suggest would be great in a 5man team. But in soloq people want to control stuff themselves and not give vision just see if their team can capitalize on it or not.

And if you haven't noticed, soloq seems to be all that matters especially to the boards at any rate.

So good luck with that I guess. And Janna is just a massive peel bot that many people would say is boring to play. Not saying she is, but I've heard it a lot.

I don't think it is a champion problem so much as a role concept issue.

Swiftstrike41 votes

Carries are just going bottom now ha. They don't need to create supports. Get ready for all the Lux supports with the new skin.

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