Pyke just looks like an assassin designed to be viable as a "support"

PaffWasTaken··2 votes·761 views

His whole kit just smells like an assassin, only his pull and ult are actually supportive. I can understand that you wanted to make an "aggressive" support, but making so that an assassin can be viable to lane with an ADC while having the possibility to get fed and make so that the ADC gets fed at the same time (thanks to shared kill bounty, a mechanic that shouldn't exist at all either I believe) isn't a great idea in my opinion. Everyone is complaining that there's way too much damage in the game, adding the possibility to have 2 carries at the same time in botlane without the drawback of lacking scaling/supportive abilities isn't what this game needed when you wanted to make an "aggressive support". His roaming-kind of gameplay is actually interesting for people who like this concept but who wouldn't play Bard because of his general design, but the fact that he roams not only for supporting another lane, but also to get himself fed (and regaining his lost health while returning to botlane because of his passive) is, well, cancerous. He looks fun and interesting, but I don't believe that he should've been released in this current full-burst meta.

Please, don't let him get the typical "newly released champion" treatment: even if his winrate is so-so as first, DONT BUFF HIM, his kit alone is more than enought to make him more than meta, don't do anything idiotic after release please

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Zerenza2 votes

Personally i kind of like it, aggressive support's have been really popular lately, Brand is a prime example(even though he wasn't designed to be, apparently bot lane needed agression and brand fit the bill so people took him.) and to be honest with you we have a burst meta but we also have a "My ADC has 3k health, how much does your's have?" meta, which is the cause for it since we've been in this meta since late season 7 after the assassins nerfs rolled out. This causes agressive laner's in bot to be put on the back peddle in favor of hyper carries because you can actually effectively protect them, but in a lane where there's a viable assassin it's much harder since their your natural enemy.

Side Note: As an assassin main myself i find being forced to Autofill into Support a nightmare because it's the opposite of what my job is. With pyke, i, as an assassin player have a botlane choice just like Mages and Tanks do so it helps me out a lot to have an assassin esc support.

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