Support Idea: Make SS a once-per-team trinket buy

holycraptastical·Nov 15, 2016·1 votes·452 views

As title.

Opens up build diversity instantly by allowing that 800g to go to otherwise neglected buys in addition to an entire slot. Also if you have Jungle Lee Sin and he wants to ward hop, he can ward while he is at it.

Support gets flak when not rushing SS but ADC doesn't from not rushing BF sword.
You want more people to want to play support? 800g-->better items-->more impact-->doesn't unbalance every other lane

P.S. Rename support to lane support, otherwise as long as you are "supporting" a win who cares if you stay in lane or not. (Roaming used to be a thing).

8 Comments

JoesNov 15, 20161 votes

** ROGER The Support mains are learning, we need to get them back in the hole fast** In all seriousness people do ward, the wards may expire but they do ward. I myself even when I jungle try to buy a what was a pink, I guess they are called controls now, but whatever no matter what lane I play if I have the money I will buy one to put in a bush in the dragon side of river. I feel that all people do a similar thing but may not do it with controls.

khorneyNov 15, 20161 votes

Support gets flak when not rushing SS but ADC doesn't from not rushing BF sword. You want more people to want to play support?

lol i like this becuase your right and this is hilarious

Mecha MaIphiteNov 15, 20161 votes

if i was playing jax top or something, i'd probably just steal the ss for ward hops

SGT Dingle BerryNov 15, 20161 votes

Unfortunately brosef supports buying SS/being ward bots is just the way it is. It makes sense financially to buy it early as every ward purchased is gold lost. It takes a special person to REALLY main support, someone who can look past those flashy numbers at the end of the game and know it was the vision/clutch shielding or healing etc that helped win the day because your teammates sure as hell won't.

AmetDeCryptNov 15, 20161 votes

there's a difference between 40 ad and a tonne of vision, you're comparing apples to oranges. it's more akin to the adc not taking heal for how you're pretty much expected to have it.

RogueWillNov 15, 20161 votes

I have always said that rushing SS is a waste of money. You rush tier 2 boots and one advanced item (sometimes 2 f you are ahead) before the SS. SS is purely utility and really doesn't help you on lane (it helps with ganks but not on the 2v2) so if you get an advanced item vs SS the one with the SS will lose the trade, smart warding with the trinket and some help from your jungler should keep you safe most of the early game (ask him to drop his trinket whenever he clears the buff on bot side). You get the tier 2 boots so you can roam and also get your midlaner ahead or simply because it helps you dodge skillshots

AmetDeCryptNov 15, 20161 votes

yeah I used to rush chalice but now that that's been nerfed to a later pickup I usually go that healing totem into boots and tier 2 support item before starting ss. but I think we were talking about not getting SS at all, not delaying it.

holycraptasticalNov 15, 20161 votes

Hey guys just to clarify, the smaller point of a change like this would be to free up a bit of gold and a slot, but the big point is to remove the salt from the rest of the team.

After that Riot news post asking how to make support more ideal I figured it would be nice if having Sightstone was not tied to an item slot, this way the support does not get yelled at for not rushing it since it would be a time-gated GUARANTEE instead of a gold expense dependent on lane conditions.

ADC happy from wards. Support happy from build diversity.

No more "n00b support no SS at 5 min GG"(/s)