Why has virtually 0 effort gone into making the crap support items no longer crap?

RedCyclone·Mar 20, 2017·2 votes·701 views

Yeah we know that Locket and Redemption own the support class as a whole at the moment, but it's annoying that are all either considered trash since forever, trash after they became for supports, or just way too situational that they get built in like 0.001% of games

Why the hell hasn't Riot even attempted to make these items good? loving all this excess AD and shit you keep handing out for free, yet we have 3 support items basically being used in every game, on every support (Not "SAPport") when the item line indicates different paths and techniques to support your team that essentially play around the actual support champion because of synergy

Builds should look more like this

Tank focused Kite protection focused Heal focused Poke focused

Not

4 Comments

MrHaZeYoMar 20, 20173 votes

item 3504 Is actually a good item, but it's not built as often because non mage secondary carries choose to go tanky so they don't get deleted by all the damage in the game,

item 3117 are used a lot on high end roaming supports.

item 3222 is still used in the right situations

item 3109 is used all the time on tank supports and top lane tanks

item 3069 item 3092 item 3401 are all used a lot or you wouldn't see item 2045 . item 2303 item 2302 item 2301 Are also good viable options if you want the extra item slot.

item 3050 needs another rework, it was to broken and is now trash item 3056 the Idea is cool but if it were better it'd be to broken item 3060 Without the AP just isn't worth, still has its niche situations. item 3800 again has its niche uses, I don't consider it as a Supp item though, just a item that can be used on supports item 3174 same as item 3504 , has its good uses, its a niche item. item 3047 I actually don't see these on Supports that often but if AD damage wasn't through the roof they wouldn't need them.

Trap or a TrickMar 20, 20172 votes

to be fair I build banner almost every game of support :)

OleandervineMar 20, 20172 votes

The only items I agree with from your list are Zeke's, Mikael's, Ohmwrecker, and Athene's. Righteous Glory isn't a support item, even though it needs major redefining. The other items are in a good spot and are not trash items, and were pretty much all upgraded recently. The problem you're seeing is not that these items are bad, they are just severely overshadowed by Locket (again) and Redemption.