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Shield Strength Runes?

Colgate Minuette·3/16/2017, 9:34:21 PM·4 votes·2,132 views

I feel like runes aren't oriented enough toward supports.

There are cases where other champions who are much less frequent (That is, not being played in every single game) then supports are who have runes specifically for them.

Like:

Lee Sin (Energy regen runes) Zed (Energy regen runes)

And there are runes specific to other classes/types of characters but not to supports

Like:

Critical chance (ADC's) Critcal chance scaling (ADC's) Lethality (AD champs) AP runes (Any APC's and some supports) Magic Pen (Any APC's)

But there are 0 runes for supports specifically.

Like:

Healing % increase (Support - increases the extra % of healing done) If you heal for 100 health 10% extra healing is 110 total heal

Shield % increase (Support - Same as healing % but for shields)

Healing increase (Support - Hard numbers like 30-50 per quint and around 1-3 per rune which adds to shield strength)

Shield increase (Support - Same as healing increase but for shields)

I feel like this would really add some personal choice to the support roles. As Janna you could choose shield strength if you want to rely on your shield, or you could choose healing strength to increase your ults effectiveness in team fights.

As Sona you could choose magic pen/ap to increase your damage, or healing strength to increase your W's effectiveness. Or even shield strength so you have a better presence in team fights since your heal only hits one person.

Does anyone else agree with this or does this seem like it might be super broken? I'm no balance master so the numbers above are nothing but suggestions however since I am a support main it might be a bit bias

11 Comments

Zielmann3/16/2017, 9:40:25 PM2 votes

I'm a support main and I give a resounding no to this idea. At least not with the game as it currently is. Heals/shields (especially shields) are SO strong right now, we don't need another source of bonus to those.

LordGeovanni3/17/2017, 1:00:46 AM2 votes

Id like to see this but with how riot seems to be against defensive spells id hate to see what they reaction nerfs will be

Dreadlocks3/16/2017, 10:04:03 PM1 votes

If they made a rune like that they would have to make it so garbage no1 would buy it. similar to energy runes, champions are balanced around having a restriction as such, breaking that restriction would cause serious balance issues. if u want stronger shields look into masteries.

ModKnightsKemplar3/17/2017, 1:05:11 AM1 votes

These are great ideas. I think this could go a long way to helping supports have good utility that other classes would not be able to abuse easily.

Riot has said they are thinking about runes, so maybe we can plant some ideas they would use. I echo some of the concerns of other people; there's a danger here regarding the strength of the shields in the game, but they could always nerf those items/abilities when this change goes through. People act like the game isn't constantly changing anyway XD

Wolftastic333/24/2017, 7:57:15 AM1 votes

What would prevent non-supports from buying it? I mean, Adc's wouldn't mind having more healing as Seals or Glyphs.