Some thoughts on the balance between mages and assassins during laning phase
I wanted to share a thought about laning phase and "fun", from a support player's perspective, and present an idea to the forum.
Let's suppose bottom lane is constantly getting ganked. this means that aside from my own lane's dynamics, I am either responding to a gank initiated by my allies - mid or jungle - or defending my lane from a gank. Both of those actions are initiated not by me or my direct opponent, but by the other roles on our team.
On the other hand if I gank mid lane, I sometimes tag along with the jungler - which is a major investment of time - or i go myself. In both cases I am heavily invested in making the action happen.
This means that my agency on the game is greater when I gank other lanes, than when my own lane is getting ganked. When I say agency i do not mean how much impact I have over the end result, but rather how much of the decisions that led up to the result I was making as opposed to responding to.
From a game agency perspective, it is then better FOR ME that I am able to gank mid lane and enemy jungle. That enemy mid lane and jungle don't have absurd mobility to easy-mode escape any gank attempt and UN-conditional damage with which they can easy mode take me out if I gank them.
[I do not mean better for the game as a whole. I mean for greedily for me as a support player]
On the other hand the more mobility, outplay potential and un-conditional burst the mid lane and jungle have, me as the support player experience a decrease in player agency, during the laning phase - agency that goes to the mid and jungler of both teams.
From that, my interest as a support player IN THE EARLY GAME is that mid lane is populated by relatively less mobile champions than mine who can't just kill me if i get in range (hi annie). I.E. my selfish interest is that mid range and maybe also long range mages can not only survive but win in lane against assassins.
thoughts?
all need nerfs
All need buffs
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Needs ALOT of bug fixes.
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needs to be changed to Melee only
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