New Gold Income Support Item for Duo Carry Lane and Regular Supports
Purpose: The purpose of this item is to create a gold income item for people in the support position that will replace the current gold income support items.
This item will allow for a support to buy more expensive items and allow non-traditional supports to build more expensive items.
Why: Supports are limited to what they can build because they have the least amount of gold in the game unless they get fed. They have no control over their income unless they steal cs from other champions. This system also limits what can be a duo lane. Either the non-traditional support has to build standard support items, get ahead to pay for more compatible items, or take cs.
Solution: This gold income item will replace the current gold income items . This item will have 3 actives. The first active sets up the item. The other two actives can be used through the course of the game.
Initial Active- Bonding: Use by activating on an ally champion (who you are sharing the lane with).
Unique Passive Dual Income: Make a bond with one champion. Killing a minion within a range of 1000 units gives the full gold value of the killed minion to both people in the bond.
Explanation: Think of how Kalista's 
. In terms of bonding, it works the same way except the item isn't consumed after use. I haven't decided if this should be a one time effect or a recurring effect when targeted on an ally. With this item, when either person in the bond kills a minion, both get the full gold value. It is also important to note that only one person still can be the only one last hitting minions. However, there might be more negativity about missing minions.
Active 2: Warding: Same as other support items. Allows the same number of wards as current support items and works the same.
Active 3: Transmission: Active on self. Extend the Dual Income Passive to a range of 5000 units, for 10 seconds (experience is also shared). 60 second cooldown.
Explanation: The purpose of this active is to allow supports to continue to get gold while the support is out warding for someone else to cs.
Other Rules
- This item cannot be bought if the user has a jungle item, and someone with this item cannot buy a jungle item.
- Only two people can be in one bond. If someone has a bond on them, another person cannot bond with them.
- If the bonded partner is 1000 units out of range, someone else can bond with them, and the first bond is undone.
- (Optional): People assigned the support role are the only ones able to buy the item. The ability to buy the item can be passed along to other people in champ select (works the same way Champion trading works)
Explanations
- Not allowing people with jungle items to buy the item is meant to prevent camping situations in solo lanes.
- The second rule is so multiple people don't bond to one person, and they all share a bunch of gold.
- The third rule is to try to prevent anyone who decides to troll the support and bond to an ally, locking out the support from bonding to them. Like in games today, if they person trolling just follows them around, there is nothing to do about that.
- The fourth rule is for the same reason as the third rule. To prevent trolling or unexpected meta results. Additionally, in the case of a duo carry lane, there can be a disagreement on who will purchase this as their starting item. This rule ensures the support has this item. The flexibility of it being tradeable in champ select is for convenience.
Required Changes
- Increase the cost of current support items and adjust the stats
etc. - Adjust current support balance/stats
Results
- Allows supports to have more control of their income
- Allows supports to have more diverse builds
- Allows for duo carry laners (do to being able to purchase carry items)
- Defines support role as a person has warding duties.
Let me know any issues/feedback.
Sorry for format and bad spelling and grammar at points.