Rather than utility scaling with AP, it should scale with a completely new stat

Mister Support·1/18/2017, 7:59:03 PM·6 votes·725 views

I don't have any ideas for an exact number for ratios or items (that's for riot to decide). But the general idea is having both damage and utility scale with ability power creates a risky situation for certain champions to be too powerful in both categories when ahead, but dangerously weak when behind. With a new stat for utility to scale off of, the former would be little to no worry since it would be difficult to get excess amounts of AP and this new stat. It will also allow for much more dedicated utility itemization that will be good for supports, tanks, and utility mages that doesn't overlap too hard with damage dealers.

Thoughts?

14 Comments

Big Lincoln1/18/2017, 8:04:20 PM2 votes

utility shouldn't scale at all.

I think, barring heals and shields (maybe not even those) it should all be level dependant. CC, speed boosts, debuffs - all of it.

Spoofghoul1/19/2017, 12:10:40 PM1 votes

utility scaling with a stat, any stat is fine

however

as far as supports are concerned there is a problem with utility scaling with stats in general

and that is, stats cost gold, and supports don't have any, this is why utility champions have always been played as support, because said utility did not scale other then with ability ranks for the most part, but mostly in the cooldown department and cdr has always been plenty available in sup itemization

for this reason they were not reliant on gold and only mildy reliant on xp, and therefore the perfect ''class'' to put botlane with another class whos mostly reliant on gold only

making utility scale with stats for which gold is required brings all kinds of problems

for example supports wont have enough utility untill they get their items, if one side snowballs one sup has utility while the other sup lacks

not only will life be more difficult for them in general but once they fall behind they fall behind twice as fast

so before we do a utility scaling with stats implementation of any kind we need to address support resource income

Meep Man1/19/2017, 4:18:24 PM1 votes

Willpower?