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Autofill/Support Role: Idea to fix the problem.

Kassimila·12/7/2016, 10:28:27 PM·2 votes·614 views

So autofill has been enabled because as has been the case for a long time, not many people enjoy the support role. As someone who has support main'd for a while, I completely understand why. So I have a few ideas I feel could improve the role and make it more enjoyable for the player base. The main issue with support champions and the role in general is static build paths, and except for a few champions the inability to 'carry' a game. People like killing people in the game, it's fun. So while Janna is a great support champion, playing her repeatedly gets boring pretty quickly.

Replace - Give ALL players the ability to upgrade their warding trinkets to contain/place more wards. LoL is a team game, warding should never be one players responsibility.

Starting Items - Replace ,, and - with new items one for AD, one for AP, and one for Tanks. Give it comparable stats to Dorans items, with a unique passive that gives you 100% of the gold for a creep killed near you. This passive would be disabled if you CS'd in the last 30-45 seconds.

These changes would allow people to play new and interesting choices bot lane, and allow those choices to scale into the later game play.

9 Comments

Mr Carbon12/7/2016, 10:33:46 PM3 votes

Giving supports that much gold would break the majority of their kits.

Why pick a support champion when you can just add a second APC or ADC to your team because they get 100% of the gold...

It basically undermines what the support role is supposed to be.

BastionKross12/7/2016, 10:39:23 PM1 votes

I've always said the main two things keeping the support role from being popular is the association of supports with vision (something that a lot of players find important if boring), and the increased difficulty of carrying from the role compared to other roles (with a few exceptions like Brand and Zyra).

If you remove sightstone you break the stereotype that supports are "the warding role", and boost support gold income by 800. Win/Win.

If you increase gold flow you not only open up the support role to more champions (helping diversify the role) but also allow supports to get their hands on deathcaps and infinity edges and frozen hearts quicker, making it easier for them to carry. Excellent.

Now people can play their favorite champs as support and have a decent chance of carrying from the role, while warding is now everyone's job and not just mainly the guy with the sightstone.

Legendsofthedark12/7/2016, 10:46:44 PM1 votes

You can't do that for supports. Not counting the fact that support mains like their current situation, if you were to give support items such stats, everyone else would by them and break the game ballance right open. Remember when Runeglaive was a thing? Or even better, when item 3302 was first released, and it completely destroyed junglers, as it make it more gold efficient to go duo top with both players buying . There was a time when item 3092 was a midlane item almost all mages rushed.