Simple Nerf to Tank Supports

GottaGoToSpace·10/15/2015, 8:50:01 PM·1 votes·388 views

Recently, a lot of people have been complaining about the total dominance of tank supports like Nautilus and Leona in both solo queue and competitive play. One big factor in their power is the defense and sustain from the Relic Shield item line. A small, simple, and impactful nerf I've considered for it is increasing the cost by just enough to reduce the number of health potions they can buy. This would putt tank supports at greater risk of being forced out of lane at a bad time in the early game.

5 Comments

Archon X10/15/2015, 8:52:01 PM1 votes

http://champion.gg/statistics/#?sortBy=general.winPercent&order=descend&roleSort=Support

of top 10 winrates, only 4 are tanks (Blitz, Naut, Taric, Leona)

Ladrac10/15/2015, 8:55:15 PM1 votes

Bad idea...tank supports are balanced the way they are now. I didn't see someone complaining about them. Most of the complainings were about Vayne and Darius and they got nerfed, but they're still baned almost every game in silver/gold xD

xSleepy10/15/2015, 9:09:47 PM1 votes

i wish there was an option for "No, tank supports/relic shield need a buff" relic shield in particular is the least gold efficient item on average because as you get to late game, you still gain gold from talisman of ascension and frost queens claim, whereas it's pretty tough as an alistar to get your team to stop wave clearing for a sec so you can get one of your face of the mountain procs off

sustain in lane can be tough to deal with especially when the support is already so thick to begin with, but that's kinda the virtue of tanks in general. the tough part about tanks is being punished by range and being kited pretty easily in many cases.