Mage support bot lane is a HUGE factor to why the game is so damage heavy.

Not a bad idea, though I don't think the problem here is mid lane oppression as much as it is just mages being good bot vs squishy ADC's. It -might- help slightly, but if you take into account mid has become a home to quite a few AD assassins, that MR becomes meaningless. If you give mages armor, that just amplifies their strength bot lane.

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Well, with the suppression of the old rune system, a lot of squishy champions lost 15 mr at the start of the game. Granting back 10 mr might make lanes less opressives.

this would actually be a perfect response

That's something that will force people to play support at that point. Remember, it would have to be something that wouldn't nerf their viability in lane. Base damage matters to a certain extent, but it's useless if you can't scale with it.

Unless you're talking about it backwards from my sense. Reducing base damage and increasing scaling could theoretically work, but losing base damage on some mages is really gonna hurt them...and now that I think about it, we'd wind up where we started, since you wouldn't need a lot of AP to scale well. I don't think this is a viable solution without hurting their performance in other lanes.

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probally by doing the same thing they did to force laners to not buy jungle items. riot is certainly capable of doing it. the main reason they are viable is because of gold generating items making it very easy for mage supports to get the burst items they want. before the introduction of gold generating items you could actually starve out a mage support as long as they were behind in lane which gave them a risk vs reward factor. right now there is zero risk to taking any burst mage bot because they will ALWAYS be either ahead or on par in gold.

so your solution is "nerf every single support in the game" just so that mage champions go back to mid lane?

The way they did that though requires anyone who wants JG items to take smite. The JG and items are built in such a way that smite becomes necessary, but it makes sense on a JG. How do you propose they do that? Limit someone to taking a certain SS if they want income? That won't work.

Limit it to only certain champions? That won't work either. Just because something isn't a traditional support doesn't mean people don't support with it. We can't go restricting things like spellthief's to certain champions just because other people use it.

There's always going to be something that's stronger than something else. That's just how things work. Even if they somehow changed the game in such a way that you never see mages bot anymore, something else will rise up and become a problem. Then it becomes the opposite of power creep with Riot nerfing everything, which in the end wouldn't solve anything because suddenly everyone has been weakened proportionately to the point where it's as if global numbers were reduced instead of specific things being nerfed.