User blog comment:Kygehn/Support Rantings/@comment-2112140-20140105103033

Ok, I just came back into LoL I open this blog and I see Thank you Contractas1 for reading my rant now this is creepy o_o

OT: The reason Riot made these changes were to add more diversity to the bottom lane support, as the traditional Sona Janna Nami Lulu got boring over time. Also since supports had very low gold income and also had to use most of their gold on wards, it's not a surprise that they'd usually end the game with boots, sightstone, support item #1, components of support item #2 and wards. That's how Riot came up with the idea of Gold Income items. The problem with these items was simple yet hardly noticable due to Riot thinking they finally got everything right and now every support can be happy and have enough gold to support their team further. They were so happy they didn't notice how easy it was to abuse some of the items on other champions(like Nidalee) that can support but aren't really hard supports like the traditional ones (Janna). The AP Scaling idea was plain retarded. Supports while dealing unnoticable damage were there to support the team, who cares if Zilean's bombs do no damage late game when Zilean has tons of other utility late game such as a spammable haste(if you use Rewind after it) and a free Guardian Angel. I believe rather than remaking a stat (ability power) into a scaling for effects they should've introduced a new stat which would grant increased spell effects and put it on support items. That wouldn't encourage the use of AP supports like Annie or Lux. Either way the problem is they made the changes while not thinking about the consequences and it has hurt the support role a lot. Still going to stick to my Janna tho :P No Annie is gonna go through my overpowered shields and no Hecarims shall catch me as I run :)