I think League does the best job of any game I've ever played in diversifying supports.

S0NA·9/17/2017, 12:06:06 PM·2 votes·400 views

In most games support just heals. That's it. In League we have damage supports, tank supports, healing supports, and on and on. Our damage supports go from % damage aoe nukes like Brand to disruption cc supports like Zyra, most of our tanks do a great job of having huge tank stats in their kit so they don't need items (Braum E, Kench grey hp/E, Ali ult), and we even have some weird offmeta supports like the resistance-shredding duel-your-adc Trundle.

It's fucking great. Lt. Morales from HotS makes me want to kill myself. There is nobody in League who can heal a team from 10% to 100% in 30 seconds unless you have a very oddly specific Warmogs Soraka build, and even then you can prevent it entirely by hitting her.

Thanks Rito, for making such diverse supports.

2 Comments

MLDzXnRRR9/17/2017, 12:58:31 PM2 votes

You have to thank the community. Most of the supports aren't real supports, but a kill laners including Blitz, Zyra, Brand, Trundle etc. They were never designed as support. Grab anyone with range and damage or tanky with CC and you can go support.

Vashtrall9/17/2017, 1:41:21 PM2 votes

Damage "supports" aren't supports... They're just champions with a slow or stun people take when they hate being autofilled.