How to make the support role more popular

Madalyne·Jan 12, 2017·2 votes·527 views

In my opinion the most frustrating thing about playing support is 1) being underleveled and 2) not being able to carry games like other roles can.

This could be fixed by:

Add a passive to the sightstone item that lets you earn xp 3 times as fast when you are the lowest level on your team. As soon as you are no longer the lowest level on your team, you earn xp as you would normally.
Increase the amount of gold you can earn from damaging the enemy or turret. Increase the lockout if you last hit minions. This change enables supports to buy more expensive items with more damage.

Thoughts?

3 Comments

swordofsunJan 12, 20173 votes

Question is how do you keep the other roles from abusing it?

Top lane falling behind? Buy a sightstone and then sell when you're leveled back up.

ZT XperimentorJan 12, 20172 votes

Not to mention the primary tool they could've used for map pressure just got gutted. Howevver I'd say the lack of respect is what makes support unpopular; they get next to no commendation even if they make a teamfight successful, but usually get blamed first if anything goes wrong.

ChaddyFantomeJan 19, 20171 votes

First step is removing Sightstone and balancing the vision game accordingly instead of using ti as a crutch. Sightstone's existence is incredibly archaic.

Second step is giving supports proper utility scaling as opposed to the current mess they have with AP scalings that exist for no other reason than to keep them in a needlessly weak state since they have no access to AP on an affordable budget.