Create items that augment summoner spells to do different things.
Or would this be too hard to balance. Just feel like this could add more customizability into summoner spells and maybe item builds
might make less conventional summoner spells more viable but once you make something more viable it just replaces the current meta
And add more 'OMG you're not building THIS item on that champion with that summoner spell? You're doing it wrong!'
To date, I am constantly hearing my friends bash someone when they build white smite. every time.
It would be good, but in reality it would just go right back to the same issue, plus you would have to add another item slot otherwise waste a slot.
If you had an upgrade for every summoner spell you honestly might as well not have one for any summoner spell, because you would just go back to having the tiers of best used, must use (flash), best for specific roles/lanes (tp top, smite jungler, so on and so forth), and the ones that would likely never be used like the current ones that are never used.
While I think it would be neat, it likely would either create different issues, or put it back to the state it is already in and take time to basically accomplish not much sadly.
the thing is you have to make it do a focused task. Not like: be more tanky, or do more damage. It has to do something specific such as: "An adc's rsponse to an AP burst mage" The problem with riot is they make everything too general.
The idea here is you have to choose the summoner spell, AND buy the item (most preferably the whole item) to get the upgrade.
Maybe something like Heal: Now heals for percentage of health and gives AD/AP equal to 10% of amount healed for 5 seconds. OR Heal: Now casts globally on all allies
Maybe have different items be strong in different stages of the game, cheap upgrade to barrier to make the range global and target cast instead of self cast.
Also perhaps you dont even need to upgrade ur summoner spell, it depends on when and where. You CAN sell items you know in response to enemy builds you can sometimes use an upgrade and sometimes not. No you wouldnt need another item slot that defeats the point, the upgrade needs to be niche (which i might add should be the case for any item)
