Support Items in 6.1

Sir Chasm·1/14/2016, 12:46:37 AM·4 votes·420 views

This has been bugging me for a while but the latest changes imply that either someone is oblivious to the abundance of CDR in items useful to supports or it's intentional and the context is a sham.

From the patch notes: "If you're a support in 2016, mana regeneration's just about everywhere you look when it comes to full item builds. In the interest of providing supports with a different stat (while still keeping these items focused on spellcasting), we're trying out cooldown reduction..." Really? Is CDR not everywhere you look? It's a filler stat on a good chunk of the caster items, and is creeping into the tank/AD itemization as well. You can't even build a mana regen item without getting CDR thrown in. Good luck fitting a Morellonomicon/Frozen Heart/Hextech Sweeper into a support build without going over the cap. Assuming you take a gold item and Lucidity boots for the Summoner spell cooldown, any of those items puts you at cap, never mind your locket/censor/harbinger/etc... I shouldn't feel bad about buying items that benefit the team because they have wasted stats.

TL; DR Stop using CDR as a filler stat, since raising the cap probably isn't  really a viable option.

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