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Can't pretend anymore tbh

AninLegions777·6/12/2017, 12:05:25 PM·2 votes·620 views

I have to say this.

Healing and Shielding are getting out of hand in this game. Assassins have been rendered useless by Healing/Shielding supps/items and Tank supps are weak AF.

Let's see some problems. First a scenario. I'm playing Zed. Catch out a Caitlyn and ult, hit 2 Qs and my E plus one auto. She's 200-400 hp with my mark on her. She's dead right? Nope. Next thing I see a 650+ heal ult from Soraka and then she runs with hecarim speed to use locket and her W to bring Cait to full HP with 2.30 AS thanks to Ardent Censer. Ofc I get destroyed since I just blew all my abilities on my botched attempt.

I could give many more scenarios involving Janna (which also rhymes with cancer), Nami, Karma, Sona, Lulu, Bard and Taric. But what's the point? You already know there is a problem. ADCs with healing/Shielding supps don't need to play safe. Just go ham and your supp will heal all the damage with no repercussions. And then there's the items and keystones. Supps get +20% heal and shield power from items and windspeakers. They get outrageous mana regen at level 1. And then to top it all off, they rush Redemption/Locket without completing supp item which further makes them more obnoxious.

Want to know why ADCs are REALLY strong? It's not because of BoTRK. It's not because of BC. It's because the Heals and Shields in this game coupled with the ABUNDANCE of CDR are making them practically strong ALL game. There is no "Early, mid or late" game. They are just strong all round.

Riot should looking into the healing mechanic. It's not even close to balanced atm.

13 Comments

Starcraft243ver6/12/2017, 12:25:10 PM6 votes

item 3123 summoner 14

Essychu6/12/2017, 12:21:36 PM5 votes

kogmaw/lulu/ivern/karma

the most cancerous team comp u will ever see.

u will never kill that kog if he has 1/10TH of a brain

Plague Infested6/12/2017, 12:43:12 PM3 votes

janna : strong at disengage, strong sheilds w/ an ad buff (can shield turrets) bad at: engaging, damaging, tanking

soraka: strong at: healing, silencing assassins who dive in bad at: engaging, damaging (once out of the laning phase), tanking. (morrelo/executioners calling/ignite are direct counters)

lulu: strong: harass in lane, shielding (moderately good at in comparison), hard cc (long CD) bad at: engaging (her polymorph ahs long cd and short range), damaing (outside of lane), tanking.

karma: strong: harass in lane, multi shields, disengage bad at: engaging, damaing post lane, tanking.

bard: his heal is trash and he has no shields.

taric: hes only good in extended team fights, his early game is terribly weak and short skurmishes arent what he wants. he does okay in them.

nami: good harass in lane, decent sustain, only cc has long CD. bad at damage (post lane), bad at tanking, bad at engaging.

sona: excellent harass in lane, decent sustain, aoe stun ult bad at, tanking, engaging, damage (post lane)

as you can see, there is a few things they all share. they do pretty much no damage in team fights (unless they build AP inwhich case their shields/heals are weak becaus the scaling on these abilities is low despite them scaling with ap - %increase is much better)

they are the definition of supports. their job is to bring utility. heals and shields and little bit of cc. when you go to assassinate an isolated player, if they arent isolated, it doesnt work so well does it? the only global on one of these supports is raka ult, but raka is so heavily countered by 1 standard item on most mages, 1 anti-tank item (since adc's these days like runnans for the most part, it combos well as grevious applies to eveyone in that team fight)

TLDR, i dont think they are unfair. i think they are the true defintion of a support and their heals and shields are only crazy good in laning phase (as base numbers are strong), and late game. because you get 50% increase. 20% miakels, 10% ardent 10% redemption 10% windspeakers.

and yes, they are all cheap items but bare in mind support has very low income. im a support main, and unless we're hyper fed (which means im getting tons of assists), it takes a while to get max build despite the cheap total cost.

Smoke and Steel6/12/2017, 3:23:08 PM1 votes

Wait... Janna and cancer don't rhyme.