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Radiant Wukong··6 votes·3,258 views

Alistar Braum Leona TahmKench Blitzcrank Thresh Taric Nautilus Sion Volibear JarvanIV Maokai Shen

There's no longer a place for you guys in bottom lane after support item changes in season 10

[sg-zephyr]

Hopefully RIOT adds some sustain in your kits (lowers the CD/mana cost for those that already have it)

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blindasleep1 votes

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Alistar Braum Leona TahmKench Blitzcrank Thresh Taric Nautilus Sion Volibear JarvanIV Maokai Shen

There's no longer a place for you guys in bottom lane after support item changes in season 10

[sg-zephyr]

Hopefully RIOT adds some sustain in your kits (lowers the CD/mana cost for those that already have it)

Seems like it opens up support to almost any champ, but it does so by turning them into ward/ult bots again, because after you hit the 1000 gold the only thing makes any of them special is the shear amount of utility they can throw down before going pop. Unless they have some other mechanic that is not reliant in any capacity on spending gold to be relevant.

Radiant Wukong1 votes

{quoted}

Seems like it opens up support to almost any champ, but it does so by turning them into ward/ult bots again, because after you hit the 1000 gold the only thing makes any of them special is the shear amount of utility they can throw down before going pop. Unless they have some other mechanic that is not reliant in any capacity on spending gold to be relevant.

Why pick a tank that's destined to get poked out of lane and force their carry to farm under turret for 10 minutes and risk going 0/4 (or worse) in 10 minutes when you can pick Lux Janna Senna Pyke and dominate.

On a positive note my beloved MonkeyKing Fizz can become relevant again with their free poke and escapes.

blindasleep1 votes

That's kind of my point. The problem you'll run into with most of those champs you put up is that you wont have CDR/mana/mana regen to be effective past early game, aside from Senna and Pyke with their passives/kits, which are game altering in how they function/get paid to the point that your team might not flip because you took farm/kills/objectives. The only one of those champs that isn't thought of as a potential hard carry by most players is Janna, a mistake to tell the truth, and she wont have enough sustain/CDR if you don't risk getting flamed, without expensive items the others wont have the damage/durability aside from Lux and she will still suffer from CDR/sustain issues. There are going to be a lot of bicuit+mana flow band for runes, which limits that part of builds severely, and support starter into tear/dark seal, then nothing else after boots and consumables eat the rest of you income unless you play a character that can dump the item and become a carry if your team is just failing. Most supports are just going to be relegated back to ward/ult/heal bots. Most engage supports will just become martyrs to the team fight hoping to get off their rotation before staring at a grey screen..... again. It's way less fun to play support for most people and these changes are going to shrink the pool of players that don't dodge/troll/throw/AFK when put in support even further.

FURRY V21 votes

This mana regen removal will hit Yuumi at the face. One Q is already 80 mana (more than many other skill shots). You had to save your mana and spend it wisely to manage it already. At least, the first update with 450G helped it, but now? Hah.

Larcos1 votes

I guess it means you gotta go for a rejuv bead or fairie charm early in the first back with the new gold income that comes with the support item changes.

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