Idea to make support role more fun
Many items have active abilities that supports might use for utility, but can't afford to buy the whole item. So attach the active ability to one of the components of an item rather than the completed item. Then, to balance the efficiency of the component, remove the stats from the component. So that leaves supports with the opportunity to buy many components of items that give them useful active effects that are cheap because they don't give many raw stats, meaning AP or AD or HP or resistences. Plus, because they don't give many stats, other positions won't likely buy them because they are very item slot inefficient.