A New Support Needed

ModMaybeFiftyOtters·12/21/2016, 5:48:54 PM·10 votes·900 views

With auto fill putting more and more people into support due to the lack of dedicated support players and the last however many champions not having a dedicated support I think it's high time for a new support champion that can appeal to most players.

This is probably where it gets tricky because so many people hate the support role how would you make a champion that is fun for lets say a top laner (because many mid laner can just take a mid laner as sup) My thoughts are a heavy cc melee support that gets stronger by helping their adc get stronger. So something like an ability that enhances the adc's damage and an amount or percent of that damage is added to the supports next ability meaning you get your adc to do big damage you can do big damage. I'm only talking mainly about damage coop here because that's what I'd assume top lanes would want or maybe there could be something where they had an ability where they would share some health they have with another player so they cast an ability and for X amount of time the other player has X amount of health taken from your maximum health pool and if one dies it's returned to the owner or ends the effect so there is an incentive to keep one another alive.

Got any other ideas for what the next support could have feel free to put in the comments

5 Comments

MrNhbdy12/21/2016, 6:00:32 PM1 votes

I agree with this fully and with Riot wanting to help the Support role like they said I was surprised they released a Assassin/fighter/skirmsher. That probably couldn't be helped though due to time windows.

As for the New Support, your idea actually parallels my concept for a support champ that I will be working on and releasing in the next few days. That being said, I believe you have the right idea about the support getting stronger by helping the Adc.

Your post is great, you should make a couple champion concepts!

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

PlanetWarwick12/21/2016, 9:44:19 PM1 votes

We need a ziggs support tbh

MrSuperCat12/22/2016, 4:53:13 AM1 votes

tl;dr i think to good support in the s7 meta, rito needs to make one that ganks well or rewards roaming (no one wants more meeps). This way you reward people for roaming to ward. Or just make a way for support champs to get kills/objective and still give xp/gold to the adc. What if supports could buy items for their adc?

The Manly Fairy12/22/2016, 12:14:46 PM1 votes

Everything you wrote sounds somewhat similar to my champion concept.

DrugsForRobots12/25/2016, 1:50:55 AM1 votes

I'm trying to get Riot to make a mousey yordle thief who'd be League's premier Support / Marksman. She could potentially duo with a melee champion and make it work.