Congrats Riot you've completely homogenized supporting as a role

We've never had a debuff support and we never will. The most we got on a champion was Sona hitting people with her green chord but even then that wasn't TRUE debuff champs. Hell, Trundle has more debuffs than any support champ. (Hence why support trundle is a thing)

And IDK where you're getting that. Damage/Tanking/etc is still a thing. It's just that locket/redemption is so good that you can make them work on any champ. Braum tanks better with both. Nami heals/sustains better with both, etc etc etc. On the plus side it means almost any support can work thanks to the items but, on the downside, it also means that whoever works the best with these items is the "best" character.

Which is irony, since they recently defined entire subclass of Mage Supports without heal or shield focus but with CC and displacement focus. Lol.

bashing supp itemization aside it did open up new possiblities for support right now

just that items such as need their cooldown on their unique passive removed. nothing sucks more then putting it on someone and have them die because they thought they could 1v5 and now you gotta wait 70-90 seconds for it to come back.

rename it to something like knights sanctuary

Aside from the fact that's riot's incompetence at work, damage items don't warp the game as much as cheap aoe shields/healing that scale off level rather than gold do, especially ones that you can't miss at all. Atm the support has been turned into a second hp bar for their team and that's their defining trait now. A lot of terrible supp players love to say "well now we can impact the game durr" when they don't realize essentially a bot can do what they do with redemption and locket.

draven jhin and mf still get ie

And that's an issue as well. Marksman itemization was intended to be more diverse and less static, but while the marksman update did introduce significantly more build diversity, the class is still stuck with a lot of fixed items, whether it be for some or all members. The larger issue, though, is that marksmen all tend to contribute much of the same overall, e.g. pushing power, team DPS, objective control, etc., and much in the same way, i.e. basic attacks, so even though some of their items are pure stat sticks, they at least don't make the marksman class drastically more homogenous in its contributions than it already is.

The problem with support itemization right now, specifically, is that it's homogenizing what is probably the most innately diverse class in the game. Even with common effects like heals and shields, every support plays and contributes in a manner completely different from every other, so it's kind of disappointing to have their items do practically nothing to emphasize the power of their respective kits, and instead all give them actives with so much raw strength that they all basically end up with about 3-4 extra basic abilities in common.

To be clear, the issue isn't especially that supports have powerful actives; that much is fantastic. The issue right now is that these actives end up practically eclipsing the innate power of the support wielding them, to the point where supports don't really feel valued for their champion's unique contribution so much as the items they bought, which repeat themselves across matches. Effectively, it makes the support class feel less diverse than it truly is, and thereby less interesting than it could be, at a time when supporting is still the least popular role in the game by far.

Add a in there and you will be Challenger in no time.

is obviously a perfect support right? Passive: reduce the enemy damage Q: Ehh some damage ability (but it can slow with W) W: Makes auto attacks and Q slow (unless they break the shield but then they are hitting the support) E: Armor shred (and easier to slow with Q) R: Suppression + damage reduction

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It's less "two champions are building the same items" and more "these items are powerful enough that they actually matter more than the champion's kits".

Which is sad in a role where the champion's specific kit mattered the most for the longest time.

Well.... 400 hp + 10% CDR + 75% mana and hp regen with the amazing active for only 2100 gold is pretty darn good on almost any support champion (while yes HP isn't amazing it is still somewhat useful)