i genuinely hope the new support plays similarly to pre rework gp support

yes and no, his E gave everyone flat AD and movespeed near him when he cast it. the real magic was the way everything (at the time) interacted with each other. because the way a bunch of items interacted + passives/masterys gp would make a ton of gold if played right making him able to get items quick.

basically his passive was a sacking slow and some small dot

his Q which isnt much different than it is now used to refund mana on kill and apply his passive the thing is there was a mastery called "bandit" at the time which gave gold after auto attacking a champ, 3 for ranged 15 for melee. his Q is considered melee. you would also be getting an item called avarice blade and targons, resulting you getting something like 40 gold for executing a minion with q

his W isnt that much diffrent than now but it had a 360hp +100% ap ratio since you would get iceborn(which gave 60 ap at the time) and spirit vistage you would heal something like 700 hp. it made you stupidly hard to kill and lock down.

e dint have any scailings but it would effectively always be up at 45% cdr

ult did some good damage over the duration at a pretty low cd but it gave you global influence letting you help in ganks and skirmishes.

the build would generally be (may be sold depending on how the game is going) sightstone maybe (dependant on game)

TLDR: kinda, E gave team useful stats but he just made a fuckton of gold while perma slowing people and being hard as hell to kill

He was essentially a walking statstick aura, that’s it. That’s literally it but his aura buff was so strong it actually worked.

That and his old Q hurt way more and applied his old DoT passive + slow.

He also already built gp5 items when solo laning so his build wasn’t offset by gp5 item rushing as a support.