Supports, what to do, and why GP10 should return

Lets face it. Supports get WAY too much for doing absolutely nothing. Supports are basically dominant roles on their own now, which in retrospect would be ok if they actually had to do something to earn it. Its not abnormal to see supports only 1k gold behind other lanes at the end of the game, because they get too much. They rival gold intakes of mid lane and even ADC without actually having to CS.

Ambient gold increased Support items giving gold AND stats First blood ambient gold Assist gold increased Cheaper item cores Higher base damage

All these things allow a support to compete with a real laner without any of the effort.

Support before had to build items like Heart of Gold and Philosophers stone to keep up. And yes, lots of supports didnt buy those in favor of early stats but ultimately their gold income fell off if they didnt kill a lot.

Now they have the best of both worlds. Supports had to choose to invest early gold and forgo stats for later gold income, or give up later gold income for stats.

Now they have stats AND get gold for doing nothing.

Support Zyra lands her combo on me. Ok, she got 30 gold from that for no reason. Which is going to get her her cheaper support item which will give her more gold and GAHH

But heres the thing. Free gold shouldn't come with stats, and arguably it never has until now. Heart of gold gave health sure, but no more than a ruby crystal and wasnt built into anything and philosopher stone was just some regen to help be in lane longer.

Supports needed the gold before because they had to BUY wards. With sight ward removal, a FREE sightstone, cheaper item cores, and all the other chanegs I just listed they get to be as strong as any other lane for ABSOLUTELY FREE. No thought process, no strategy, no CSing or taking gold from teammates, 100% free.

This is the problem. They get too much gold for not doing anything.