Supports have no counterplay.

Eight Rocks·2/21/2018, 3:02:39 AM·1 votes·406 views

In an effort to buff the most unfun role in the game, Riot has completely funneled almost all of the game's power into support.

Here's how to win games. Have your jungler gank bot once and get tower FB. Now your support makes your ADC an untouchable god king while being unkillable on their own.

There is nothing you can do against a Janna/Lulu/Soraka who just sit back and smash their buttons on their allies off CD. There is nothing you can do against an Alistar headbutt + pulverize combo. There is nothing you can do against a Tahm Kench devour.

Almost all of the game's problems right now stem from support. Jungle is problematic in its own ways, but bot lane is definitely a bigger problem right now. Most ADCs aren't even that strong on their own. Them buying Tabis is certainly an issue, but they still are squishy on their own.

4 Comments

Death by Glamour2/21/2018, 3:10:55 AM2 votes

It actually hurts as a soraka player to rank me with lulu and janna on skill level... i have to work my ass off to be half as effective as a janna that litterally sits back and does nothing. 800g and im shut down until i get enough heal power to actually heal decent amounts.

Another thing that annoys me is people tend to ignorw how easy and wffective the combos from leona and alistar are but bush the other supports as braindead

Onecimus2/21/2018, 4:42:17 AM1 votes

So which team is overpowered when there's a Janna on one team and a Lulu on the other?

Colton1472/21/2018, 4:46:14 AM1 votes

Janna and Lulu are mechanically intensive and have high skill ceilings.

kaironen2/21/2018, 5:00:02 AM1 votes

Imo lulu's polymorph is the issue. It should probably have a bigger travel time for it to be less instant/effective. Janna needs to not only be about pealing the carry and have more versatility (which lulu has a ton of). Soraka imo, even though she is toxic to play against, she does have a good amount of counters. Bursting a target, focusing her, mortal reminder are the best ways to deal with her. But, if she has warmogs and it's late game, good luck. I haven't had much of an issue when playing vs alistar if I play other champs than supports. Tahm kench devour needs to have more counterplay, he is an issue right now, both due to being op and also lacking counter play. Being easily punished in lane and kiting him should not be the only counterplay to him since it destroys what assassins and divers are supposed to do. Leona q is also slightly an issue with her low cd. However, everyone else is generally fine to play against I believe, at least for mid-late game. Items being too strong is a separate issue.