Fix Supports...ideas.

M4nTiCoR3·11/30/2014, 6:42:26 AM·2 votes·855 views

Supports need some love. Just try to que in team builder and you will know what I mean. No one wants to play a champion that is pigeon holed into being forced to buy 2 items ever game. It makes your builds super stale till late game and as a result players just don't want to do it.

My idea for a solution is simple. Free support champions from the shackles of 2 items. Remove sight stone from the game. It's a crutch, a mandatory 1600 gold for wards and flat health every support is almost all but required to get.

Instead give the support items some love and an overhual. The gold generating support items are ok for the most part, and most player can stomach buying them because they upgrade into useful things and generate income. There is some tactical variety, much like the new jungle items. My suggestion would be to work some similar sight stone mechanics into these items as an alternative.

Whether it's simply inheriting wards at level 2 and more at level 3 of the item upgrade , or something more akin to the enchantments on jungle items...idc, just top forcing us into buying 2 items every single game. I want to use more of the situational support items like zekes and banner and twin shadows ect ... and if we all could you might see more support players who feel they actually make a real impact earlier in the game, and want to play support more.

7 Comments

Jeddite11/30/2014, 6:55:15 AM4 votes

Sightstone (as an item/ward-maker) is fine. What's not fine is the lack of (alternate) Sightstone upgrades. Several players have posted suggestions for Sightstone upgrades (other than Ruby Sightstone).

My personal favorite is creating a Sightstone upgrade with Catalyst the Protector to create a Sightstone that provides the +health/+mana gain on level-up (as Rod of Ages does now).

Rexif11/30/2014, 6:48:29 AM3 votes

as a support main, I like sight stones. They give some much needed early game tankiness.

M4nTiCoR311/30/2014, 2:10:40 PM3 votes

What if I told you you...could get wards from your support item. If you wanted tankiness build ruby crystale into one of the half dozen support items that actual make a difference with the hold you saved from sight stone. Hell Kindle gem is the same price and builds into many of them.

Sarutobi11/30/2014, 6:52:04 AM1 votes

Granted while I usually play support in team builder it's usually the jungle we have to wait on when waiting for players to join!