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What I hope the next Support champion is:

Xebenkeck·7/24/2016, 6:12:42 PM·65 votes·5,416 views

THIS IS NOT A CHAMPION CONCEPT

I loved the way Riot has been going with the Support role as of late is my main and I'm relatively confident his playstyle fits my ADD way of playing League but his kit, and the rest of the supports lack something I've seen done in other MOBA's and other Fantasy type game in general.

DE-BUFFS. We are missing a support who FOCUSES on debuffs. Reduced Attack Speed, reduced damage, heal blocking, maybe anything other than CC. Not saying CC isn't great to have on Supports, obviously a good amount of Crowd Control changes a fight without warning. But I'm talking about more. Maybe something like a reverse Galio shield, whatever damage the enemy does heals one of YOUR guys for a SMALL SMALL SMALL portion and for a very limited time, or an AP based type of Thornmail shield. I want to see someone like Soraka but instead of the focus on healing, I want to see a focus on tricking your opponents into helping you, OR completely crippling them with stacking debuffs. This idea floats around my head of Tahms old passive but with stacking debuffs instead. I hope to see it soon, I've completely fallen out of League as of late, preferring Heroes of the Storm and Battleborn over League. Riot has a way of waiting until I don't even follow the game to bring out something I REALLY wanted to get my money, but I'm hoping this gives an idea to future characters :P

129 Comments

Zane Zephyr7/24/2016, 6:45:17 PM37 votes

I really want a support from the Void. I think that would be pretty interesting and unique.

The Yetii Rider7/24/2016, 10:35:48 PM36 votes

I want a support champion who's like a sniper, and her bullets can either hurt enemies or heal allies. And then she throws this like heal block grenade that increases regeneration for her allies and denies healing or shields for opponents in an area. And she can put someone to sleep for a second with a tranq dart.

Would be pretty sweet.

CrazFight 7/24/2016, 6:26:30 PM15 votes

I want a support that has zero damage in his kit (Literally), so when the champ would build ap it would instead increase another stat. It would have to be a incredibley mobile and cc oriented champ tho :P

Galisper7/25/2016, 12:57:30 AM8 votes

What about the noxian drill Sargent

RogueWill7/24/2016, 11:20:24 PM7 votes

I though that was Trundle with his AD steal and tank stats Steal

PhantomGG7/24/2016, 7:54:16 PM5 votes

You are asking for what people in RPGS call enchanters/bards, we have a few allready and the few we have are horridly hard to balance

LuLu, zillean, sona, karma

all four of these champions are very hard to balance and have always been either to strong or to weak, only zillean atm finds himself in a properly balanced place.

Xebenkeck7/25/2016, 3:25:12 AM3 votes

Sona's Green Chord (Can't remember the name) is the PERFECT example. Look at some DOTA 2 abilities (I don't play DOTA but the abilities are on point) One skill from Warlock chains enemies together and ALL of them take a portion of damage. Let's say you get a Veigar ult, ALL of them take about 20% damage. You lose damage on a single Target, but imagine the teamfight possibilities! Silencer STEALS stats from heroes that die around him within a timeframe of one of his abilities (equivalent of 2 AP) and Shadow Demon is a relaly good example of what I mean when I say debuff. His ultimate gets rid of ALL positive buffs, and slows, which quickly decays. I'm tired of regular CC. Slows, stuns, roots, and suppression are GREAT. But imagine punishing your enemies for attacking, getting CS, having life steal, or something like that. Think of Quinn. Her little bird toss is a visual debuff!

Troll for Trump7/25/2016, 3:48:27 AM2 votes

Urgot support too good for ya?

doombotMECHA7/25/2016, 5:27:06 PM2 votes

what i'd love is a support that naturally shotcalls. say, they'd have gangplank's old e (speedboost/atkboost), and as an ult they'd strip protections off of a given target and reveal them for a long time (like 10+ seconds) to basically say "carry, fetch!" also I want a support who isn't nice. like every pure support is all sunshine and rainbows and "gems are outrageous" meanwhile assassins get stuck with like 100% edgelords let's mix it up a bit.

Cosmic Garbage7/26/2016, 12:30:37 AM2 votes

Quick Ideas:

A debuff focused champion that is able to stack curses on a target, with a expunge like ult that removes all curses around him to provide additional effects.

Examples (Curse - Second effect)

Armor/Mres shredding - Instant double shred w/ lower duration.
Increase the cooldown on next ability cast. - silence
Decrease movement speed when running towards/away from enemy champions - reverse direction
Heal block - causes heals to damage instead.

Troll for Trump7/25/2016, 12:13:59 AM2 votes

I think they tried that a long time ago with the cancelled Witch Doctor champ..

Singady7/25/2016, 12:47:59 AM2 votes

The concept sounds really cool definitely, but I see a problem. This gameplay style would be really engaging for the person playing the champion, but would only be very irritating to play against. There are a few ways to get around this:

High skill cap: This could be in the form of having straight up difficult mechanics(such as azir) or being something like a skill shot with a slower travel time

Situational: So it can only be used in very select situations, but yields a more powerful affect/(Think of Poppy w blocking dashes or even Kassadin e)

Low power: This is likely the worst way of doing it but it could be possible to have a passive like "Whenever a enemy champion casts a spell near you you regain 1/2/3% of your health. 3 second cooldown"

Just a few of my thoughts. Personally i'm a Thresh main and definitly prefer high cc tanky supports to utility mages like bard or morgana, but the premise was interesting enough to put my two cents into.

Lestat S467/25/2016, 1:15:47 AM1 votes

I was super excited for all the jhin teasers. All his teasers showed him shooting people in critcal places to them. Sonas throat, Vis Gauntlets

Was expecting a Bolt action sniper support whos Ult was kindv like a specific silence. A sniper shot that removed whoever you hits ultimate for awile. And debuff abilities. a Q that reduced armor, an E that reduced MR, and a W that did.... something else lol. Instead Got jhin, who on release was just a garbage adc.

Serika Zero7/25/2016, 10:31:17 AM1 votes

I want an assassin. What was the last assassin they've made?

Ekko which is more often played as tank due to stupid amount of cc provided with %hp damage