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Vision item changes: WHY!?

FunkMasterRouge··1 votes·415 views

WHY WHY WHY!?

Support is already the weakest position. Their role is to be useful to their teams or offtanks. their biggest utility? Vision. Now, with this ridiculous and completely needless change, supports get gimped and cant have wards until about over ten minutes, and it can be much worse if your lane is getting beat. I've had games were our lane was crushed and abandoned... i could get my warding item at 15 minutes in!

The problem you've created with this change is a classic case of the bad lane is gonna get crushed even harder since they'll have no vision for jungler ganks, and the other lane will get ahead much easier with complete vision superiority. I've had to resort to buying control wards all the time, witch is seriously gimping my revenu and thus my builds. This isn't creating interesting gameplay. It's just creating a slant right away. Why kick supports while they are down? They already have the least draw for most players.... why do this? Why now when they'd just finally received some love!?

I'm gonna venture a guess: pro play. You guys are balancing around pro players again aren't you? Yeah, you want more early game deaths so that Esports scene stays good and healthy.

2 Comments

Azadethe1 votes

I have my wards by 7-8 minutes, which is earlier than anyone got Sightstone.

Erockandroll1 votes

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I have my wards by 7-8 minutes, which is earlier than anyone got Sightstone.

At first, sight stone was the item I bought when I was already ahead. If your lane was pushing, and pressuring the opponent, having that extra vision meant we could continue the pressure the opponent without getting caught by the enemy jungler. Inversely, if I was behind, I would take a rain check on the sight stone, because I knew I would not be able to secure vision while our tower was under siege.

Now I say WAS, because I adapted from that. Instead of getting that sight stone, I would get a Control ward, and my 2nd tier gold item. Since the ward duration is indefinite, I could have uncontested vision of the river brush until it was destroyed, yet if my lane is already ahead, Their isn't much that My opponent can do to try and destroy said ward, except get help from their Jungler.

So the new changes don't really impact my opening strategy that much. but now, I don't particularly necessary to finish a tier 3 gold item. (Where I would previously consolidate sight stone with the gold item in the tier 3 upgrade.) Allowing me to get started on my other desired support items.

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