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so riot finds it bad that supports are considered to be ward bots

Knight SoIaire ··1 votes·568 views

then maybe you should make them as usefull as other champions

the only reason you would you pick suport is because they dont suffer from lack of gold ... so adc can farm and support can evolve into a ward bot ... who's owerall power is sub par to other champions but still its a safer aproach than other champ who will need to get gold from somewhere to maintain relevance

the only reason champions like annie are able to push normal supports out of botlane is because she isnt gold dependant so she doesnt suffer from giving farm to her adc ... and at the same time she is an actualy strong champion so she isnt usefull only as a warrd bot

you want to make support a role players will want ... you need to redesign botlane first ... then redesign the powerbuget's stance on stuff like utility

and then remove the sight stone which functions like open statement "this is a support and he is warding for this team"

owerall thats also the reason support isnt popular as mid or top ... since support is sacrificing his power to allow adc to get his power

7 Comments

Salidfingers2 votes

i love warding. nothing like a jungle thinking he is safe to come in for a gank. Ive gotten so many triple kills because of my wards

Live2LetDie2 votes

They have made it so ap supports are useful again. That new item is amazing for ap supports considering both get amazing damage when it's done.

Mew Goes AD2 votes

The reason for the lack of popularity of support has absolutely nothing to do with warding or not taking CS.

It is very simple: Supports don't get to run around killing things. That is the entire reason it isn't popular, and unless they suddenly start making supports that get to freely kill opponents without needing someone else on their team to help (like every other role), support will not go up in popularity.

Now, how to do this without breaking the game is another question entirely, and possibly impossible.

Knight SoIaire 1 votes

tanks dont get to run for kills either ... their kill potential is similar ... yet they get to be more popular ... why ? because tank feels impactfull

support most of the time feels like an invisible hand .. ne does something and he might even carry the game ... but he never feels impactfull

they dont have to run for kills to e playyed and enjoyed ... tanks already prove that point what supports need is to feel powerfull ... when a soraka goes into the fight she has to feel like she participates in said fight and that her heals are as important for this team as the damage of the carries and the survivability of the tanks is

Lugg1 votes

There is a lot of truth to what you are saying. If you look at the top ranked supports, they all bring something to the table to help early AND late game. Support is a very important role to the team if played correctly. It's a lot more than warding if you are doing it right.

GinoSoldier1 votes

He's not talking about making people unable to ward, but removing sightstone, and i'd add removing bought wards as well.

In exchange i believe the trinket system can be vastly expanded upon to fill the role sightstone has right now, and add more vision options.

lofi n chillhop1 votes

supports are fine. they aren't for you, sure, but don't think that makes them trash. most league players will like one role and dislike some other role.

honestly, the whole "this player sacrifices creeps so this one can get lots of creep gold safe" is actually a really cool flavor of league. it's strategic. with 3 lanes and 5 team members, it's gonna happen no matter what you do with items, tbh.

I'd like a little more good support items, but they seem to be doing that so I'm cool with it.

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