Honest Post About Supports and Needed Overhaul.

Lets keep it as simple as possible and keep the love at the same time :)

Personally support look like they need a much needed overhaul in-game due to the fact they just dont have a good toolset or items that balance out their kits.

From Soraka building AP to buff her heals (which no Soraka stacks outright AP) to Janna having AP scaling on her shield, to tank supports getting more self shields per health they have themselves.

PERHAPS a new stack is needed, one that overhauls all support style champs that gives a % ration on all their abilities off CC and protection to reduce the amount of weird builds and downright uselessness as support and help them be able to carry, because lets face it, if you're supporting, you either are a support main or you got auto filled there cause no one wants the role, because no one feels like they have an impact on the game.

in reality, if you're are 0/3/18 on support Janna, your shield only lasts about 6 seconds give or take the level, and has about a 10 second cooldown, meaning as a essentially +6 KDA on Janna, youre almost useless if not for your shield and ult which mostly disengage. so a +6 KDA champ who is more than ready to carry has been nearly locked into a set playstyle on just how Janna's kit is designed. Which is based around other champions playing their part, meaning youre team reliant, meaning the game is nearly out of your hands. Pair that Janna with a positive KDA Ashe and we should be ok, now pair that with a negative Ashe and you will be hard pressed to get that Janna off the ground because she has little potential to carry herself.

Final thoughts,

Supports need a new stat that brings carry potential to teh role when others are not pulling their own, AP and health scaling are not good implements on supports being that most supports will not be going for a solid AP build to maximize their scaling like most ADCs would. The role feels ignored due to a lack of feeling that they can make a difference in mid early or even late game, when you see certain champion have threshholds where they get a powerspike from a certain item or ability. They cant reach items to support with fast enough and they dont offer large enough buffs or stats to make enough of a difference or a lasting influence in the skirmish (even more so when you pop an AoE shield on your team and then 3 AoE Ultimates rip through it like it was never used).

We are lost, we are overlooked and we are constantly falling behind. We sacrifice gold and kills to further the team only to have good play potential and good KDA's but cant carry.

Thoughts and feelings? :3