What's with increasing assassin/fighter damage and lowering supports shields?!

Father Bard·6/14/2018, 4:27:29 PM·2 votes·780 views

It seems riot has been on this kick of increasing the stats of dmg dealers like yasuo, rumble, aatrox and many more fighters/assassins due to the new items. But they LOWERED the ability of supports to save their adc's or carries at the same time (looking at patch 8.12). Are they trying to make adc's unplayable as a role? As a support main it's been hard enough to save your carries because I personally have only been able to save them by dishing out MORE dmg than the enemy team instead of dishing out heals or shields. Not to mention riot seems to have ignored the now insane juggernauts that build triforce/essence reaver. Nasus and renekton to name a few.

6 Comments

ReshiKillim6/14/2018, 4:33:35 PM1 votes

A number of ADCs can be buffed if there's more windows of vulnerability, which is why the shielding/healing has been nerfed the way it has. Preventing things like Kog-balling allows for buffs to both marksmen and other things that supports do.

Kata Ga Kill6/14/2018, 4:40:07 PM1 votes

Think again at the time of League of Stopwatch..... Assassins got ripped.

There alot other Items that making Assasssins Crying item 3026 item 3022 item 3812 and many more. There is pretty to much against Assassins. Also the Game with many Sustain will getting boring.

Now its fast and exciting.

But i dont like that ADC getting ripped for this, with the cost of Crit Items.

Father Bard6/14/2018, 4:52:02 PM1 votes

For these buffs to happen though, Riot has to actually implement them. It will be a painful few patches before ADC's are re-balanced. And while yes there are items that make it slightly more difficult for assassins to nuke ADC's, now it's harder for supports to save their carries, and these items (GA, FM, DD) just provide a small window to win the game. Late game assassins laugh at any attempt that ADC's make to build against them. No item or 3 will save an ADC from a fed/late-game Zed, or Yasuo, or Renekton or any late-game assassin.

Malak6/14/2018, 5:52:01 PM1 votes

8.13 will already have buffs to the adcs that need them, if any. So far I see some xayah buffs in the PBE.

KlydeFrog6/14/2018, 6:30:40 PM1 votes

Because people were crying about janna and raka . and its not a big deal what they did ohhh man you lowered the duration but buffed athenes cool.