Support starting items

Hello everyone,

The cost of starting support items have increased by 50 gold with patch 8.15, making them 400 gold.

The reason of Riot their change is: "The current cost of support items lets support players mitigate a pretty high amount of poke through potions, which makes trading feel more ineffective than we'd like."

However by doing so they completely shut down alternative starting items paths such as getting Faerie Charm or Rejuvenation Bead instead of Health Potions, as these two items costs 125g and 150g respectively.

Support players taking this alternative starting item path (no potions start) don't mitigate any high amount of poke and take the risk vs reward approach (completing upgrades earlier). This change forces support players to buy 2 Health Potions because only 100 gold is available.

My solution for a middle ground would be: Gold generating item down to 375g and Rejuvenation Bead down to 125g.

This way you still can only buy 2 Health Potions or you can opt for the alternative way of going Faerie Charm or Rejuvenation Bead. But it also would open up a new path which would be a gold generating item, 1 Health Potion and 1 Control Ward.

Hopefully some Rioter's will come across my post and consider the suggestion. Thank you for taking your time.

~SwelteringMuffin Guidemaker, season one player, support main.