Can Riot stop Nerfing the Support role just because other lanes make use of our toys?

Maroon136··3 votes·555 views

Nasus build a Coin. AP Junglers build spelltheif. Marksmans built Relic.

And Supports got nerfed because of it. you have my sarcastic thanks as a support main. i admit, i dreamed of the day where you removed Sightstone, but this fix you put in it's place is just silly!

where is my nice 300 HP shield when i play a tank support? where is my movement speed to position myself or my team during a fight? where is the Active item CDR that i started enjoying to play with the new runes? how about spooky ghosts, HP scaling shields, and shurelia's actives?

you say you're gonna make new items with those actives, but they'll probably be expensive and used by every other role anyway, so what difference did this make to anyone but the actual support role.? it made it more boring and it tied vision to the current support snowball mechanic of quests.

sure, i get to spend gold on something other than sightstone in the early game, but i could already do that. so no difference at all.

you have GOT to stop nerfing the support role just because other roles use our toys. when Taric goes top lane, let him. when Lulu goes top or mid, let her. when someone builds our items, let them. you keep nerfing support and driving more and more people away from what is already a dead role. The popularity of the role speaks for itself. you have the stats so look at them. stop nerfing supports.

5 Comments

PhantomGG2 votes

While I disagree with recent changes, I disagree with your title, the support role keeps getting nerfed for it's been the most broken role for both season 6 andf 7 with supports like Nami, sonand janna regurly hitting absurdly high win rates. It was getting to the point diamonds and plats weren't even calling support mains actual deserving .

chipndip11 votes

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While I disagree with recent changes, I disagree with your title, the support role keeps getting nerfed for it's been the most broken role for both season 6 andf 7 with supports like Nami, sonand janna regurly hitting absurdly high win rates. It was getting to the point diamonds and plats weren't even calling support mains actual deserving .

Nami? Nami's like THE most balanced enchanter in the game...

Probs feeding1 votes

I agree heavily. They should add replacement items, that have certain limitations only supports would be unhindered by.

Example: "Gain a permanent out of combat shield, but killing a minions reduces the shield strength for x seconds. (Stacks)"

Josh1231 votes

Enjoy playing support it while you can. Support role will be near dead by season 9 if this keeps up.

Metal Janna1 votes

Bro where the stats at? In my experience support has been slightly more popular lately.

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