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Let supports be free!

Madjack01··2 votes·361 views

As a support main I like to find ways to assist my entire team instead of being shackled to an adc during the entire laning phase.

How often were you stuck with a passive bot lane or an adc which despite all efforts couldn't survive/farm against that 100-0 in 2 seconds enemy bot lane?

How often would have just a little bit of extra help turned a losing mid laner into an actual carry?

Give the support more possibilities to roam free and spread his/her wings of doom over other lanes/the jungle.

How about letting support items enable you to place something like an invisible ward (but without the vision) that soaks exp in your place for 1 or 2 minutes? In the mean time your champ would not be able to soak exp from minions (to prevent double soaking).

Pink ward and sweeping lens would counter that 'exp soaking ward'. To prevent griefing, your teammates would also be able to destroy said exp ward if they don't feel like sharing exp.

Any thoughts on this?

2 Comments

B00B002 votes

Supports are fine, they are gradually buffing the XP and stuff anyway for them but they can't make them too powerful too early due to their kits.

  • your ward idea is interesting but would need to be limited to 1 and to not work if your in-lane or getting XP from anything as your effectively give yourself x2 xp, not only that if it was killable from your team no one would leave it up as they wouldn't want there xp going to you. and not be targetable by any TP or forms of anything else due to it being invisible.

as for roaming, you can buy mobi or swift boots you could even be unconventional and use ghost instead of exhaust seeing as exhaust is a LOT weaker now anyway.

you have going/talisman for speed you can also build move speed items depending on support.

the only thing stopping you from roaming is yourself, if your bot partner is too passive and not performing and you think your mid can carry, ditch your ADC and go and help mid, swing by bot of course and try to help still but ward up ask him to play safe and roam the map.

Madjack011 votes

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Supports are fine, they are gradually buffing the XP and stuff anyway for them but they can't make them too powerful too early due to their kits.

  • your ward idea is interesting but would need to be limited to 1 and to not work if your in-lane or getting XP from anything as your effectively give yourself x2 xp, not only that if it was killable from your team no one would leave it up as they wouldn't want there xp going to you. and not be targetable by any TP or forms of anything else due to it being invisible.

as for roaming, you can buy mobi or swift boots you could even be unconventional and use ghost instead of exhaust seeing as exhaust is a LOT weaker now anyway.

you have going/talisman for speed you can also build move speed items depending on support.

the only thing stopping you from roaming is yourself, if your bot partner is too passive and not performing and you think your mid can carry, ditch your ADC and go and help mid, swing by bot of course and try to help still but ward up ask him to play safe and roam the map.

+1 for being insightful

The double soak prevention is needed, I agree.

I guess the xp ward would mostly be used bot were people are more willing to share. So that you can use the 1 or 2 minute window to roam and then return bot. Might be wrong though...

Im definitely going to try to roam more with your suggestions in mind

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