Face of the Mountain Changes, rito pls:

Added: +7 gold per 10 seconds (or some other number, this is to replace the stacks) Added: Basic attacks deal 20% current health damage to minions (or some other number, this is to help push without taking cs) Removed: The stacking mechanic

Relic shield was a good idea for a lot of reasons, but by the time you get the third tier item your carries are going to be exploding the waves and unless they're surprisingly generous, you will have 4 stacks for 99% of lategame. The only time you can actually last-hit, it's because there's nobody there to contest the farm, so you still aren't using the stacks. That leads to me often focusing on getting to a wave and trying to cash in, rather than actually applying pressure or deep warding or all the things a support should be doing lategame.

Eventually Riot is gonna remove this and we'll all go "why did we leave this in the game for so long?" A mechanic that pretty much forces the support to compete with the rest of the team is anti-fun, enough that it gets brought up in every "be nice to your support" thread.

There is one awkward factor in this: the transition between Targons and Face, so for that you could either keep your stacks or just lose them, both of which could lead to problems. Additionally, any time the support still doesn't have a Face finished during lategame (from having to rush locket or whatever), they'll be even worse off than usual. But that's probably worth taking this distraction out of the game.

tldr: Replace Face's stacks with GP10 because getting stacks lategame is a pain.