F in the chat for the support role.
Preseason is upon us and with it comes the new support items. With that, support becomes a dead role.
The freed up early gold is nice, I’m not gonna lie, but it isn’t going to matter when everyone realizes they’ll only be able to complete one item before their gold income falls off a cliff. From then on they’ll be reduced to ward bots as that’s the only thing the’ll be able to afford.
Nobody’s gonna play support anymore. You have no gold, no items, no impact, and no champion diversity. You can either play Pyke, Thresh, Janna, or Soraka. Probably. I dunno. But we will definitely see many, many picks leave the role. No more Swain, Lux, Brand, Morg, Sona, etc.
You can’t even play tanks. With the buffs to lethality items and your nonexistent gold assassins like Pyke or Zed will just shred you. That is, if the enemy Yasuo with 100% crit with two Cloaks doesn’t first. Then you spend the rest of the game doing literally nothing because if you even think about going in the real champs on the enemy team will just step on you. No gold, no tank stats. Worse than useless.
Enchanters will be completely useless. The loss of mana regen and CDR will mean far less up time without sufficient gold income to make up for it. Sure it’ll feel good to rush an early Athene’s but once you have it that only marks the beginning of your rapid decline into irrelevance. Ditto mages. The mana costs of champions like Lux and Morgana will make playing support completely impossible.
Support is returning to being the role you have to tolerate one out of every five games or so. The role where someone has to take one for the team every now and again and be everyone else’s little wardbot. I hope you guys like autofill because it’s about to get much worse.
who's the really only solid pick, and sometimes 
Enchanters have been at their team mercy with 0 impact after lane phase.
Gutted before Worlds again, but also cos toxic Karma top, that now without Klepto i hope she can vanish so support Karma can have some love.
In a weird state. Can be extremely strong in some matchup, completely useless in others. Since enemy just instashot your R'd target anyway.
She was a broken enchanter, now she's just another mage in bot. I wish she could be still reliable qith a more defensive build.
Gutted cos HOW DARE YOU COUNTER THE ENGAGERS WE LOVE FOR LCS. I prefer her as enchanter than with the zonya build. You just survive 2 more seconds and enemy just use their mobiltiy to escape your ulti anyway.
She could be a good enchanter. Now she just outdmg her adc, bursty as hell and already with good stats. Too good since she's so good in 2 roles.
Early game is everything now, and with her mana costs, she will fall to oblivion now. She already has to manage mana correctly to not finish it before this changes. Now with this items and her weak early...she's...what?
One of the most reliable, but cant do anything if enemy has some mobility to kill her or an engager support. All this supports just counter her too much.
RIP
Gutted cos she had to be gutted. Better full ap now, hardly consider her a true enchanter. Still unreliable vs engagers.
