Suport still is a awful role

Cenobite Azaziel·Jun 26, 2015·2 votes·341 views

Gold income. In a 54 min game every laner made 10k more than me. And only 8k more than the other team support. Why support is a role with such a poor gold income? You spend 800 gold in a tier 2 sup item and 800 in a sight stone. 1.600 so you can start playing. Add up wards and pinks before that. Could supports at least get some exclusive GOOD items? Make sight stone a gold/5 item or make it an enchantment for the suport item roles. SHAVE some of the gold cost or give us more gold. It is ridiculous playing a 5x5 game where you are the beggar, tossed around the map, making small services to the laners overlords so you can maybe get some change.

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Rıots Bad ClientJun 26, 20152 votes

I think supp need a way to get gold much better but in a way OTHER lanes can ruin it.

Wards/Gold would be abused by anyone.

Sir YamazukiJun 26, 20151 votes

It is a zero farm role where champions are usually designed specifically with low income in mind. If gold income were really that low then mage supports and actually building damage would have never been a thing. Supports are obviously going to have less gold than someone with 10+ kills and 300 farm while they have 0 farm and a 0~3 kills. If supports earned the same amount of gold without any effort as everyone else, then champions designed for bottom lane would all have to be changed and some of them would probably never be used unless some could compete with mages in terms of damage, but then that makes them broken mid laners like before.

Cenobite AzazielJun 26, 20151 votes

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It is a zero farm role where champions are usually designed specifically with low income in mind. If gold income were really that low then mage supports and actually building damage would have never been a thing. Supports are obviously going to have less gold than someone with 10+ kills and 300 farm while they have 0 farm and a 0~3 kills. If supports earned the same amount of gold without any effort as everyone else, then champions designed for bottom lane would all have to be changed and some of them would probably never be used unless some could compete with mages in terms of damage, but then that makes them broken mid laners like before.

In a meta that 1600 gold is necessary to keep you going as support a little more gold during the mid game wouldn't break the meta. You can't go for a kill lane as effective as a mid laner (see annie). As a support you throw away two slots. Count as at least a morelo (80 ap) and probably a void staff (80ap + pen). Another good point is that not all kill lanes work out really well, depending on the picks.