Talk:Champion classes/@comment-4910996-20120309140639/@comment-5052127-20120828144322

Very nice wall of text... agree with everything you said... just want to add a point, the support really isn't giving up much of their own effectiveness either, BECAUSE they have abilities that scale well. That scaling is there to make you need LESS gold, and to make what little you CAN get on a stat that you can't afford to focus much on be a lot more efficient for you. (Also, there is nothing stopping a support from getting morello's tome later on, it's quite a good support item and builds from the gp5 item you should have already)

For example, a lot of pure AD champs have an ability that strongly scales with AP... why? Certainly not because they should itemize AP, but because that champ may be getting Sheen or Trinity force often, which has AP on it (as well as mana they alse might not need)... it makes that 'lost gold' not really lost.

Tanks likewise often have very strongly scaling abilities with AD or AP... because they can't afford to buy much of those stats, and won't be itemizing for them particularly. It lets those abilities still be useful even if the best damage items you should be getting are just the hybrid tanking/damage ones. Supports really are in the same boat here, they are getting auras and support items instead of pure AP/AD items, so they scale better to compensate.