@Statikk Position on supports

eztarg3t·Jul 22, 2014·5 votes·633 views

I know that you are doing a Q&A but I fear that you won't be able to see my question in that long list of posts. So here is the question I posted on the Q&A:

What is your position on season 4 traditional supports? Ever since this season started many of them have seen nothing but nerfs. I thought this was suppose to be the season where supports could actually participate. So far, this has only applied to tank supports (excluding Alister and Taric) and even got mages capable of supporting as well. Was this intended to happen or did you not anticipate this?

Further more, because the traditional supports cannot compete with the current Meta they ended up going to different lanes and have suffered for it. It seems the balancing department is very inconstant when it come to balancing certain champions. For example, Soraka was practically destroyed after she went into mid lane with the 4.8 patch. But Lulu, which people have said is causing the same problem, has seen very little nerfing. I like to thank you guys for being careful about Lulu and trying to find a way to nerf her without destroying her supporting capabilities instead of gutting her flat out. But my question is this: Why is it you give some champions special treatment, while you flat out gut others without a second thought?

I prefer not to talk about Lee Sin, he is a whole different can of worms. A bigger one too.

[Why am I wasting time posting this? Well my question was actually getting good traction with upvotes (up to 12 i think), but then the next day it was back down to 1. No idea if that was because people didn't want to talk about that, or I hit some sort of hot button issue that no one liked. Either way, I'm posting this in hopes of getting an answer.]

[[I hope I have the right board.]]

7 Comments

MrBuffingtonJul 22, 20141 votes

He answered a question about supports, dunno if it'll answer your question, but I'm sure he's busy with the Q&A and maybe will have a hard time coming to this thread. Hope it helps.

eztarg3tJul 22, 20142 votes

Kind of, glad to see that they haven't completely forgotten about those three. But my question is more directed towards wondering what they have in store of the traditional supports and the process of them balancing some champions carefully while others are, well...

I kinda assumed that I may not get an answer but if enough upvotes do bring this up, it might entice a RED nonetheless. If not, hey, I tried. but, regardless, thank you for bring this post to me.

MrBuffingtonJul 22, 20142 votes

Yea, I just keep looking at the red comments on the Q&A since my question seems to have gotten lost in the flood too. Hoping I'll get some answers if someone asked a similar question (actually I forget what my question was, lol)

ratcharmerJul 22, 20141 votes

Except he sort of focused on really small details while sidestepping the main thrust of the question.

. . . In fact he seems to have sidesepped/ignored/not seen most questions regarding supports.

eztarg3tJul 22, 20142 votes

possibly

or it could be balancing supports is not his forte? I mean he may not even touch supports when it comes to balancing and I'm just asking the wrong person.

ratcharmerJul 22, 20141 votes

Quite possible, although for several other things he just flat out said "so-and-so would know more about this" so I'm not sure why he wouldn't just say that if he's not the guy to ask about supports.

eztarg3tJul 23, 20142 votes

It was probably becuase the main focus in that thread was about Bruisers and low mobility Mages. That's two cans of worms he had no choice but to discuss (or dodge if you prefer). Why open more?

I just hope someone from riot comes around and just tells us what they want from their traditional supports. Just feels that they are kinda being neglected and riot seems almost content with keeping supports this way for the rest of the year.