support changes and the spell thief line

only zhule·Mar 16, 2018·2 votes·281 views

so finally got a chance to play around with with 8.5 and see how the support item changes effect my average game. Honestly i feel like i'm ending up with the my warding item a lot later then i use to. Also the minor loss in gold income (since i'm not getting the 1 gold per minion death in lane OR the 3 extra gold when i hit an enemy with an auto) feels like a pretty big nerf to my early game. Like it shouldn't be that big but i'm often stuck in lane for an extra 30 second to a min before i can get the gold together to buy the items i need on first back.

1 Comments

ViciousSummonerMar 16, 20181 votes

Losing a bit of gold off the supp items isn't that big of an issue. Losing the gold because laners take it is the real issue. Laners taking support items was also never a big issue. It's not the GP10 that's attracting them it's the stats of said items that is. Outside of that support has become pretty bland and very annoying to play. Prior to patches 8.2 and 8.5 you were a lot more impactful because of T3 support items as well sight stone. Now if your teammates so much as make one mistake you can't do anything about it and have to suffer for it. It's also harder to snowball your lead by playing support with the removal of T3 support items.