Feedback : Support item changes.

DarianDoomdancer·1/24/2018, 6:09:50 AM·2 votes·590 views

I'd like to bring up removal of Ruby sightstone (used to reduce active item cd's by 20% )as well as removal frostqueens that would have worked well with glacial augment getting buffed.

Ruby sighstone was core to my game play as I use lot of active items, specially Solari and Redemption if I use tank, and frostqueens if I am ap.

You also can't now effectively go lane manipulation builds as ruby sightstone boosted greatly the effects of banner of legion as well as portal, that allowed you to create lane pressure if your team was behind.

This from of gameplay is now not valid.

Removing of frostqueens just makes me confused, why you buff Glacial augment and remove the item it's most used with?

I can't see supports taking this with hextec items because they are not really suited for that playstyle, but I and few other I saw did take Glacial augment to be used with frostqueens.

Also as for the quest that gives you warding ability, relic coin is now by far superior to all support items in that aspect, it's easiest to stack and you can't harras the user that effectively or just stay away to avoid the stacking, in my test game alone I finished my ward item almost 3 minutes before opponent who went for remnant of the watchers path, despite her extremely heavy agression.

So to sum my worries.

  • Removal of ruby sightstone makes active item and lane manipulation builds weaker.
  • Buffing glacial augment would indicate forstqueens use but you removed frostqueens so I am confused.
  • Gold items are inbalanced in speeds you can stack them for warding.
  • It's now lot slower to get warding item and as such bot lane is extremely vulnerable to ganks with zombie ward nerf.

I hard main supports, according to mobalytics I have 1050+ support matches on ranked on last season alone and I find these changes extremely bad.

6 Comments

z63XnLCMwX1/24/2018, 6:13:51 AM1 votes

Though supports gets nerf, I'll take this as a stop gap for adc nerfs. Until Riot can nerf adcs, I have to support the support item changes.

sensehership1/25/2018, 2:52:47 AM1 votes

gotta say that not having face of the mountain to save my adc and/or myself is probably going to piss me off to no end now.

also not getting to put down banner + portal in a different lane to split push multiple lanes might be why they got rid of ruby SS.

as for your frost queen problem i guess the current "solution" would be to get the hextech item with the frost bolts(cant remember the name) as that will also use glacial augment.