Support Item Cooldowns

SahmoSamson·2/19/2015, 8:11:54 PM·1 votes·390 views

Why can't I hold all these cool-downs? As a support main I really love the changes to supports that season 4 brought with Coin Edge and Shield . And their final forms are all excellent. It's great that so many items have good cool-downs too but I can't help feel like sometimes I'm wasting my money. If during laneing phase Frozen heart or athenes is the best item the wham I already have 40% cd, the later my team needs a little more health and some MR that's Iron Solari. A lot of good support items are like that: . Huge cd and it's not always an easy choice between money efficient and what the team needs. Should I ignore the wasted stats if those items would be most helpful or should i itemize to suit myself.

1 Comments

NoMonku2/19/2015, 11:14:00 PM1 votes

Technically SV isn't really a good support item and FH is really situational, but I feel the main reason good support items provide a LOT of cdr is because it is a stat that is extremely useful to them. A lot of supports have abilities that provide good team utility, be it some shield, CC, heal, etc... and being able to spam those abilites helps their ability to perform increase. A support income is based on the assumption that they won't be getting a large amount of gold, so the items allow them to get close to max CDR so they can work on other things like wards or more tankiness/aura items.

If you can win by buying whatever you want, go for. Just know that certain items are more efficient to get overall. As long as you are buying a stat that provides you some benefit then its fine. The only time it is a poor decision is buying MR vs Zed or armor against Syndra.