Solution to long wait times! - Supports Need a Buff!

Sweet Fean··1 votes·481 views

There are long wait times because instead of 20% of the community choosing the support role, it's more like 5%! Why is this? "It's really hard to make the game winning difference as support, as opposed to all other roles."

Should there really be 1 role that has lower impact and is desired so much less than the rest? In fact, the popular facebook page "League of Legends Memes" shows that more than 20% of commenters identify as support mains. It is sad that support mains feel like they should not pick support role in ranked :(

Solution: BUFF SUPPORTS so that they have as much overall impact as other roles.

Am I saying make them "dmg carries?" No. But make them BETTER at what they do!

Support typically provide CC, peel, frontline, engage, sheilds, and healing. How can we make these stronger? If you simply buff the "support champions" people will take those champions to the mid /top and nothing will. You can only buff the support role by buffing support ITEMS...

THE SOLUTION IS TO BUFF SUPPORTS BY BUFFING SUPPORT ITEMS!

-If supports can earn more passive gold, they will be able to by more items and be a stronger overall presence and more effective in their respective role. -If item 2049 can be combined with support items (while still retaining the support item's original passive item's original passive; item 3401 ), it will free up a whole extra inventory spot, which will allow them to be better at what they do -Allow supports to buy more than one support item! (This would probably require creating new support items) -Allow support items to permit even MORE than the regular CDR cap. Imagine Braum Leona Thresh Morgana TahmKench , with 55% CDR? Then people would pick support role in rank!!

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4 Comments

Marshbouy1 votes

Supports need to be balanced around solo lanes and solo laners. Non supports can still buy support items if they are too strong and buffing supports to have higher CDR caps could make them OP in solo lanes.

Sweet Fean1 votes

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Supports need to be balanced around solo lanes and solo laners. Non supports can still buy support items if they are too strong and buffing supports to have higher CDR caps could make them OP in solo lanes.

Good point, but perhaps there is a way to make sure only supports take those support items. Like 1 item per team. I'm not sure?

Marshbouy1 votes

then trolls could take the support item and lock out the team from having an actual support.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

They just got a good deal of them this patch....?

item 3504 is no longer that "random situational item that people hardly ever build". item 2045 has a slightly better reason to be built earlier. item 3069 item 3096 item 3301 all got directly buffed.

Lulu got an actual support-oriented buff that's not shit for once. TahmKench Leona and even Thresh for some reason got straight up buffs too. Sona will finally get some identity buff, if anything.

So I don't get what you're talking about.

Yes I know you posted it 2 weeks ago but the round of support buffs had been planned for a while now.

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