so i'm returning after quite a hiatus from the game

cupcaker·Jul 4, 2016·1 votes·708 views

i'm a support main, and i was wondering; is it still crappy to be a support in s6?

I mainly play Bard, Nami, Braum, and any other high utility/cc support. about 6 months ago i was noticing that by the time my laner and i were level 6, every other lane was 2-3 levels ahead. it made it very hard to survive ganks, or even be useful in a fight because not only was i down an item or two, they had 200-300 more base health and much higher base stats in general thanks to the level advantage.

i'm hoping to get back into supporting as it's my favorite role by far(i pretty much exclusively supported on my main account seasons 3-5)

also is itemization for supports still terrible?

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redfeenixJul 4, 20162 votes

Short answer: yes

Long answer:

A number of support focused changes are coming in 6.13 (which probably releases next week). We've also got some champion changes that showed promise but need more testing time. We'll probably have at least some of those in 6.14 (Leona, maybe Sona, possibly some Alistar stuff we've been playing around with etc).

In terms of the 6.13 changes some of the most significant are those to the XP system and to some items. Couple of posts below from Xypherous that run through a lot of the thinking behind those changes:

http://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-gameplay-feedback/XWNXaWcc-613-planned-adjustments-to-secondary-systems-part-1-experience-changes