The support champion we need...

Linna Excel·May 4, 2014·2 votes·916 views

I've been thinking about this for a little bit of time now. We need a support champion with Vayne's E or Lee's kick as a main skill. In other words we need a reverse blitz/thresh. Someone who can punch an enemy member so hard they go flying backwards out of a fight.

Maybe make it a newton's cradle type skill. If the punched champion hits one of his teammates, he stops moving and the teammate starts flying for the remained of the distance. And so on.

He'd also need to have built in CC reduction. I imagine him as a soft counter to hard initiation, however if he were a hard imitator, he'd be able to disrupt the enemy team's lines and scatter them. Maybe use his punch to knock someone backwards into your team if he's good enough.

12 Comments

MackleDogeMay 4, 20149 votes

I mean....there is Alistair....

OaklenMay 4, 20142 votes

We all know he isn't viable.

Cosmic WarperMay 4, 20141 votes

every champion is viable...

MackleDogeMay 4, 20144 votes

Which is why he has been played recently in Challenger to plenty of good effect and has seen professional play as well? You not being good with a champion =/= champion not being viable. For example, I'm terrible with Ryze, Ryze is still plenty viable. Alistair is one of the strongest if not the strongest support in the late game and has very high play making potential. 100% viable, just not popular.

Linna ExcelMay 4, 20141 votes

His headbutt is sort of right, but it doesn't knock people away far enough IMO. I'm not talking about a little love tap like that, I'm talking about moving them halfway across your screen or more.

MackleDogeMay 4, 20144 votes

I see what you're saying, but Alistair's knock back distance is limited by the other utility in his kit and the fact that his headbutt is an engage or a disengage. Personally, things like Lee Sin's ultimate or Tristana's knock back as far as distance is concerned, runs into things like being overpowered, or more accurately, something known as an "overloaded kit". I do agree that we could use some more diversity as far as supports are concerned, especially if it's done well and can shake things up a bit and inject some more aggressive (or at the very least entertaining) play into the bottom lane.

Remlap1223May 4, 20142 votes

Um... Hi. Alistar

MistifyMay 4, 20141 votes

i would love to see a champ that has a slow passive, similar to ashes but instead of it being mana based i would like it to have a cooldown. This will make it easier to peel for the adc. I also like the idea of having a stun ability similar to vaynes where they are stunned on contact.

WhyuMay 4, 20141 votes

So, basically he stands around his ADC, doing nothing, waiting for someone to engage on his ADC in order to be able to do anything?

Hyrum GraffMay 4, 20141 votes

He'll have 3 other abilities, too...

And he can make plays the same way alistar can: knocking an enemy towards his adc/tower.

WhyuMay 4, 20141 votes

It seems to me like it would be a move towards making a support who's essentially just an extension of his ADC. He would be as undervalued as Alistar is regardless of whether he was strong or not. Similar to how Alistar is generally undervalued regardless of how strong he actually is.

I'm not saying that it couldn't appeal to anyone, I'm just saying it's not something that I feel I would find appealing.

Does seem like a step back in time to the older style support(s) though.

Hyrum GraffMay 4, 20141 votes

I like the idea of being able to knock an allied champ to safety, though there's high troll potential here too. Maybe it'd be like a reverse thresh lantern.