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Remove Support Items From Twisted Treeline -OR- Nerf

Kivolan·2/8/2019, 3:59:36 AM·7 votes·3,333 views

This might hopefully go a long way towards getting rid of funnel comps which are dominating high elo play in 3s.

For those of you who only play on the Rift and have no idea what a funnel comp is, essentially one person plays a hypercarry (popular ones are Lucian, Yasuo, Olaf, etc.) and the top laner plays a tanky support with CC (Braum, Leona, Taric). Instead of playing top lane, they act as a support and follow the hypercarry around the map, quickly clearing camps and using item 3309 to get gold when they go to clear the wave the opposing top laner has pushed in. This funnels the gold / EXP into the hypercarry, putting them an extra level or two ahead of the other team as well as feeding them more gold while leaving the support (who doesn't need as much gold / EXP to be relevant) a level behind.

For the opposing team, this is INCREDIBLY uninteractive to play against. You have one chance to contest them, before the support gets to level 6, or there's virtually nothing your team can do at such a disadvantage unless the other team makes some really stupid mistakes. The Top laner literally has to farm and push as hard as they can without ever even facing anyone in lane.

It's powerful enough that you are essentially forced to play it, or lose a good 75% of the time if you're the team not funneling. It might sound like a good strategy, but because of how uninteractive it is it isn't healthy for the game.

9 Comments

TheOutlawGraves2/8/2019, 4:12:04 AM2 votes

100% agree with this , it is hell to deal with and most of the time you cant

Kivolan2/8/2019, 4:25:14 AM2 votes

Uhhh title got cut off, supposed to say or nerf them, but you get the point LOL

Envy Sin2/8/2019, 4:41:57 AM2 votes

Aw you have to play a support?

Support main here item 3070 item 3070 let me get my violin for you...

Posran po Faci2/8/2019, 8:48:07 AM2 votes

i have to agree, targons is beyond broken on 3s... and only funnel abusers will defend this meta( i play it too, since u are forced to either play fidl jgl or join on the boring cancer meta that is funnel if u want to win)

and the problem is also that jgl creeps heal and regen so much of the carries mana/hp and then the targons also heals both, so its almost impossible to rly punish them if they know what they are doing.

Posran po Faci2/8/2019, 8:51:07 AM2 votes

and there was always support meta on the new 3s map(i'm was challanger in s3 on 3s), but was never this stupid because of these bad support items that totally killed the map.in the old times you invaded their jungle not go back and afk farm yours. sad stuff.

Posran po Faci2/8/2019, 9:02:26 AM2 votes

and lets not forget the totaly broken spider buff that makes melee minions almost unkillable wtf... a and why are super minions stronger on 3s then on 5s?! WTF

Br0sk1e2/12/2019, 4:58:16 AM2 votes

Riot is a trash company. They will never touch the brain-dead funnels on TT unless it reinfects summoner's rift like it did a while back. The stupid thing is that the removed face of the mountain from SR but they left it on TT like a bunch of dumb-fucks.

Aurassos4/21/2019, 10:46:40 PM1 votes

Ye, 3v3 is unplayable in this state...