User blog comment:Zilverdael/Seperate itemsets and why they are good/@comment-5588011-20140618183850/@comment-5588011-20140619151436

Percieved choice: All characters have the choice to choose whether to be a damage dealer or not. It just depends on their scalings and skills which affect which role they're relegated too. I could play a bruiser Nami, still wouldn't mean it's good. An ADC in varied a team is still going to be better than 5 bruisers because what's the point of having 5 bruisers when an AOE slow from Lulu or Anivia can stop half of them from reaching me and a AOE stun from Sona can stop most if not all of their melee attacks from reaching me.

And you talked about why we're not giving up choices in the game. That's why we have slots in this game? So that we can't get every single item in the entire game in one match and keep carrying till the end of time. ;l We're already giving up something but you want to make us give up even more...

Also one thing that really bugged me.

You said:

"It only has one real disadvantage: it reduces (percieved) choice."

Then said this later:

"Percieved choice: You choose to be a bruiser, you don't get to have tanky items. It's a tradeoff. That's how choices work, you choose something and give up another option as a consequence."

So it actually reduces choice which isn't actually percieved.

New items:Would argue otherwise. If I catch someone out as a Leona my teammates will wipe them out from existence due to the few seconds of helplessness they face. If I play a Anivia my stun can catch someone out or my R can stop that dangerous burster from reaching my backline carries. And if I was a Lulu support that shield and Polymorph on that assassin could save my ADC and give them time to wipe them out. CC is important in this game. That's why you don't see every single support being a LeBlanc.

Your idea of a marksman support still wouldn't work and if it did then it would still be much more useless than a traditional support due to the lack of CC that they have, I could poke that Ashe support to death as a Lulu and when they engage still have enough CC to prevent them from attacking me. And if there are specific items tailored to the ADC supports then as a Lulu support I could probably get those items too and still function the same, if not better.