Ideas for underused support/enchanter item reworks

Lets face it, while enchanter supports are stronger than before, they still have issues, primarily in a lack of viable choices for itemization with no really good itemization. Your choices come down to gold gen item, sightstone, redemption, locket. The first two possibly ending up as a single slot. Everything after that is exceptionally meh. We need more unique power chunks like Redemption, not less, and better yet, thanks to the almost entirely selfless nature of these items it'll be hard to abuse them when not playing support.

Many of the rest either have core concept issues, terrible stat distributions, or don't give stats that ultimately are useful for most supports for some reason or another, often being problems of split identity or an overabundance of CDR/mana regen.

Zeke's Harbringer . It's just got issues everywhere. The buff is hard to stack up for a time you want it, most of the stats of the buff are wasted, with practically no one ever being able to use everything it has, and it's awkward stats on the item itself means practically no one really wants to build it. There is a bonus idea for Knight's Vow here as well. Long list of things here to change though for this line of items.

Rework idea : Introduce a new component item building from cloth armor and ruby crystal (Lets call it Squire's Gift) that gives 25 armor and 200 HP. Unique Active : Squire's Aid - Bind to a target and you get 2 gold for every CS they obtain while you are in the area, and you heal for 6% of the damage they do to champions (3% if you are ranged). It gives a bit more durability in lane for supports and faintly increases gold gen of the support. Notably it does nearly nothing when alone, making it pretty much exclusively a support buy by default.

From this item, you can craft Zeke's Harbringer (AD focused link) by combining Squire's Gift with a Forbidden Idol, resulting in an item with 30 armor, 250 HP, 10% CDR, and 10% increased heal and shield power, and Unique active : Squire's Aid, keeps the original boost from Squires Aid, and Unique Passive : Herald of War : When you reach 100 stacks with the person you bound with Squire's Aid (Stacked by staying around eachother, casting abilities, or auto attacking) makes the current buff for Zeke's triggered with these "New" stats. 1. Grants the target 50% crit chance when the buff triggers, and overcapped crit chance is converted into crit damage. 2. Any heal or shield you place on the target gets buffed by an extra 10%. 3. Doubles the potency of the healing from the Squire's Aid. Stacks decay after 4 seconds of leaving the binding radius at 20 stacks per second. This gets rid of the worst aspect of Zeke's, in that some of the crit chance often gets wasted late game as the AD carries build 3 crit items+, by allowing it to convert into crit damage, and that the binding can sometimes the stacks can get dropped a bit too easily. If you micro your positioning you can hold yourself around 50-80 stacks, but it isn't easy, and may end up putting you out of position to help your carry, so it's a risk.

Knight's Vow change - Replace the Chainmail with Squire's Gift. Add the 2 gold per bonded CS mechanic, and change unique active name to Squire's Aid. Adjust price/stats as needed. Done. It's pretty much just the same item, just with the new Squire's Gift as a component item.

Notably with the change to Zeke's, we lost a magic amplification support item. Lets fix that.

New item : Mage's Apprentice. Built from Squire's Gift and Fiendish Codex. 25 armor, 250 HP, 40 AP, 10% CDR. Unique active : Squire's Aid (Same as original bonus from the first Squire's Gift item). Unique Passive : Apprentice's Aid - At 100 stacks (generated by attacking, casting spells, and just staying close to eachother, same as ), grants both the mage and the apprentice +25% AP, of which is the highest value between either granted to both (Meaning that 1k AP Veigar gains 250 AP, and the 200 AP Nami would also get the 250 AP putting her at 450 AP) for 8 seconds. Stacks decay at 20 stacks per second when out of range of bonded player. Main point is giving us the AP user boosting component of the original Zeke's Herald to a new item so that it isn't just flat out lost upon the rework for those cases where you might want to bind to a mage botlane or potentially midgame (Looking at you Ziggs "ADC").

Athene's Unholy Grail : Primarily has an issue of overstacked CDR IMO, and being a healing amping item that doesn't come from the Forbidden Idol line meaning you can't get the shield/heal boost. Practically any support that would even consider it will so heavily overcap CDR with it as to instantly say "Na, not worth." when most of it's power combat power outside of CDR is... 40 AP and 30 MR? Ehh...

Rework idea : Scrap Chalice line entirely. Lets face it, it's got no place in the game today, and many of the supports who might consider it would instantly remember "Oh yea, my base HP/5 is literal ass, amplifying that by my mana regen is nearly worthless when I could just get something to make me have a stronger self heal". Replace Chalice with Forbidden Idol. Harmony Passive is converted into unique passive : Overflowing Cup - Overcapped CDR is converted into shield/heal power. Boom. Now the terrible problem of enchanters of heavily overcapping CDR actually has an outlet to turn it into a useful stat. Remove MR from the completed Grail (As we no longer have chalice granting it).

What about Micheal's Crucible you ask? Change the Chalice in the recipe to QSS , adjust mana regen down, and allow self cast or allied cast (with Allied cast also cleansing self). Can only be self-cast if hard CCed by an effect that would normally disable cast. Still can't cleanse allied suppression, although can self-cleanse it. Notably this gives mages a potential line to build QSS into, sure it grants no AP, but they at least get MR, mana regen, and CDR and the QSS active that they distinctly wanted in the first place, and maybe the heal/shield booster. Grant Unique Passive : Overflowing Cup from Grail rework to this as well.

Ardent Censor : Insanely minor boost, make the health steal from the granted buff scale with heal/shield power. Otherwise leave alone, I don't think it needs any real buffs.

Ohmwrecker : Allow active to be cast on allied towers. If cast on allied tower, increases it's current HP to 25% max hp if below that, and makes it invulnerable to damage and doubles shot speed for 8 seconds. Minion gold from tower kills is granted to user. The same tower can't be buffed again for 2 minutes (same as cooldown of item, prevents stacked cheese blocking a push for 40 seconds). Tower disable duration buffed to 5 seconds (from 3), with the same clause of can't be debuffed again for 2 minutes. If cast on an enemy tower below 25% health, instantly destroys the tower. Point Runner unique passive is granted to all allies near a tower affected by the active.

It's a lot of changes to the active of the item, but hell, it needs a ton. It's literal garbage right now, and if we gotta tune it back later then fine. But right now the item may as well not exist. Lets buff the thing to hell and tune it back and see if it gets the ZZ'rot treatment where it went from unused to OP to fairly well balanced on usage. With the fact that each tower has a 2 minute cooldown on being modified by it, it prevents stack cases from either side (Unlike ZZ'rot where stacking it only made it better), so that should still keep it's usage at acceptable levels without it warping games too much even if we do make it overpowered.

Hopefully, from the massive list of changes here, we could see an actual real change in support itemization throughout the game, with solid use cases for almost all of the support items, from Zeke's being the god of supporting/amplifying your ADC itemization, Mage's Apprentice giving you an avenue to amplifying mages in an appreciable way, Grail not being a trap outside of ARAM where you pretty much always result in seriously overcapping CDR and ultimately wrecking your gold efficiency (which is such a critical issue for support itemization), faint QSS/Michael's buffs giving it a more access-able usage, and making Ohmwrecker possibly viable. Maybe. Hopefully. If this can't do it, nothing can, and we might as well delete the item and finally just say that we gave it our all to make it viable.