Stop Nerfing Specific Supports when you could be....

Civil Dawn··5 votes·535 views

**TLDR; **Why do you guys hate Supports so much? So many people don't play them, claiming they only ever get carried, are useless, and contribute nothing to a team, yet you whine about stupid things like "She moves too fast" and "Janna correctly disengaging for her team to stop me from 1-shotting their whole team is unfair... Nerf!". I don't care if you dont play the support role, you can play what you want. But don't nerf my champions just because I'm good at my job: Protecting my team.

.....Buffing the supports that are being negatively affected by (____) champion. When you nerf supports and warding like you have been since beginning of season 4, you are only strengthening other roles. This immediately leads to:

  1. Unequality in bot lane matchups. There's a champion that is strong, but not op, but you nerf them anyways... That makes their counters stronger but still not OP but then you nerf them too... Cycle continues... You want champions who arent meant to be assassins to stop being assassins? Then stop giving them indirect buffs by letting them 1 shot everybody that walks out of base or tries to ward. You nerfed mana for Mages but it directly nerfed ap supports too. You nerfed exhaust which directly hurt supports trying to stop enemies from prancing into the backline of a team and getting away unharmed.. Zed I mean, unless you have your Zhonyas (if you even have one), either you or your team is dead because even after landing all your cc, it's still not enough. They will still gap-close and 1 shot your ADC and mid. Then they melt your tank too as if he didn't have a full or almost full tank build.
  2. Even less people want to play Support. Why? Because nobody wants to get deleted from the game for over a minute within 20 seconds of spawning every single time. I don't blame them. The only reason I deal with that is because I main support so I've learned good ways to be cautious. But why give the new players' the lesser experience?
  3. Boring gameplay. You aren't capitalizing on each supports' weaknesses, you're nerfing their strenghts which leaves a dull champion behind with no real uniqueness. Which only increases #2. The only support champs I havent felt the nerf train on are Nami and Lulu and Braum since he's new, but I'm sure it's coming.

If you seriously think Sona's damage is too much, even though she has to literally walk up ring your door bell to land it, basically risking her whole life, then just give more HP to the champs who you see are being affected. Sona's movespeed is too high? What? This is a joke right...? How is her movespeed a problem. If you are afraid of her running up and ulting then cc her first, her range is moderate, but not sniper... Nerfing her ms will only decrease immensely any counterplay that exists for her to get away from assassins. i'll have like 700 ms with items activiated and I still get chased down and killed 1 hit by a yi, even after I exhaust and ult him... fair Janna's Q is too big? I get that the indicator was incorrect, but fix the indicator to 150.. Why would you nerf the one champion that can stop these unfair assassins from 1shotting you and your TANK?? I'm seriously, tanks are getting like one shotted and it's not even funny. "Oh no :( I can't 1 hit their whole team, I actually have to think when I engage, better nerf everyone but me!" Morgana Q annoying? Well yeah, I agree with you a lot actually. But if you nerf her then you need to compensate for the people she counters... Leona Thresh. Otherwise people like Sona will once again be indirectly nerfed.

I understand that squishy supports are meant to be squishy supports. I get that. and Im not asking for that to change. What I am asking is to stop nerfing their strengths that compensate for their squishyness. If you remove all the utility and dmg from a a support, all you have left is a duck. Yes that's right, a sitting duck. Might as well be sitting since ms is being nerfed for no reason again.

3 Comments

Gmwho12 votes

I've mained Janna for nearly a year now, and yeah I 100% agree. She wasn't op or anything, that is the weakest excuse to cut her power down by such a huge margin. Season 4 you nerfed her damage, now season 5 you're nerfing her NOT OP utility. Well, thank you. I was a Janna support main but not anymore. I guess I'll play an assassin, since they get nothing but buffs and "support".

S0NA1 votes

Support main, and I 100% agree.

There are some things that need to be toned down some, Thresh's Q hitbox is a little bullshit, and like you said Morg's Q snare time could be dropped a bit.

But nerfs need to be compensated for.

Civil Dawn1 votes

Yep. Thank you.

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