@Riot, about APs getting the Supports mana balance changes

La9wa·10/31/2015, 9:26:41 AM·1 votes·591 views

During yesterday's PBE update, a lot of APs received the following changes: +50 base mana and -3mana/level while Supports got: +0.5 manaregen/level. Some of the champs who received the latter weren't supports though like Morgana, Zyra and Karma. This ends up affecting their sololane performance hard and seems like an obvious attempt to force them in their secondary role which is something very unfair to the people who play them the way they are supposed to be played.

Not like they were already underwhelming in sololane, especially Morg due to various base damage nerfs and no AP ratios compensation unlike champions like Annie (when played support like her) and Ekko (when played jungle).

If I were to do some quick math and compare between these changes, then after 10secs (average time to cast a spell): At lvl1: APs get: 47+ 12= 59 mana while SUPs get: 17 mana At lvl9: APs get: 23+ 12= 35 mana while SUPs get: 17 mana Obvious differences there making the laning phase for those 3 even harder against your regular AP pick.

**At lvl18:**APs get only 8 mana compared to 17 mana, but does it matter at that point when you already have your manaregen items and getting into lategame.

What's even more unfair about this is that the real supports have higher manaregen/level. For example Janna, Soraka, Sona and Nami all have +2.3 manaregen/sec, even Lulu has +2.2 manaregen/sec while the 3 mentioned APs are stuck with +1.7 manaregen/sec.

So you can see not only didn't they get the obviously preferable APs changes, their Supports changes don't even get close to those of the real supports.

1 Comments

Refdow10/31/2015, 9:41:54 AM1 votes

Once they cast a spell, the 50 mana will quickly disappear and you will be in an advantageous situation with your +5 manaregen/10sec. So in the end it's all good. The base manaregen you get from having +50 mana is also not much too talk about. Strong champions who have gotten too much attention lately didn't receive any buffs: Ahri, Annie, Diana, Viktor, etc, which is what I liked about these changes the most.