Dear Marksman

Radiant Wukong··2 votes·313 views

I've felt this way since I learned the game in S4 (started S2, but had no idea wtf was going on or undrstood the game until about mid S4 lol).

All you need is farm! If your support gets the kill, good for them, that gold will come in handy for them. The majority of your gold should from CS.

CS > kills

Which is why I don't mind having Lux summoner 14 as support because I know she isn't going to touch my farm and can kill secure kills for those slippery enemies so I can get an extra 2 minion waves worth of gold.

To make it clear for you as a top laner main, I've been behind 2 deaths as Irelia, but had my gold than my 2/0 opponent thanks to being up 40 farm (shout out to Irelia Q lol). He gained 574 gold by killing me twice in a row, I have an extra 798 gold for being 40 CS ahead.

Meaning I have a 224 gold advantage which only increased as he focused me for the 3rd kill and I increased minion farm by 50.

Then when I finally killed him, bonus 360 gold. Then I steamrolled from there.

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Noxian Pride2 votes

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Memeing aside, for the most part I agree with you, but there are niche cases like Draven being a thing, and some supports just don't really need gold. In particular I feel like Thresh would function 100% fine itemless, if it wasn't for him being so squishy without any MR.

datfatguy1 votes

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Memeing aside, for the most part I agree with you, but there are niche cases like Draven being a thing, and some supports just don't really need gold. In particular I feel like Thresh would function 100% fine itemless, if it wasn't for him being so squishy without any MR.

True, taking a kill from a Draven especially one with over 100 adoration stacks is a really bad thing. If you constantly take kills from him he will become useless.

Mira Arya Enthe2 votes

In gold economy very few supports and only a couple 'supports' are better off with gold than the ADC. The ADC has very expensive items and is entirely gold reliant. The APC is also gold reliant but scales well with levels which is why it is ADC>APC in terms of gold spread. Bruisers are better with items but mostly scale with levels so it is ADC>APC>Bruiser. Tanks and junglers don't really need a lot of kill gold since junglers get it from the jungle and tanks don't have very expensive items by comparison to carries. So ADC>APC>Bruiser/Fighter>Jungler/Tank. Supports have generally awful scalings, great base stats and damages, and don't really need that many items or levels, they are designed with this in mind and have income items. So they are on the bottom.

The only people who trump the ADC are snowballing skirmishers/fighters/assassins. Like Akali, Riven, Zed, Irelia. But they tend to make their own fortune when snowballing, so it is unnecessary to intentionally give them kills unless they are a 'Riven main' who might tilt otherwise(this is humor).

So by gold economy and macro-game yes it is terrible if Supports steal kills. Not if the kill would have otherwise gotten away, or if it was an accident, fuck ADCs who bitch about that. But no, letting the support have the kills is not ideal.

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