User blog comment:Kygehn/Support Rantings/@comment-2112140-20140105103033/@comment-5955640-20140105181740

Hmm? Wouldn't a new stat mean that it would require a whole new list of items spefically for that and wouldn't that be exploitable if the sort of power you get from putting AP on a support was now a purchasable item? You do know how some of these scalings go don't you? Massive shields, incredible speeds, Debilitating slows?

How would you begin to make that work?

Zilean is a bad example. He is in for a rework and is not a common support pick and wasn't the main focus for the utility scalings. You don't make THAT much money from the support items. The strongest gold income you can make is from the Coin and that's a passive laning phase with your carry mostly farming. And again it's not about the damage you didn't quite take note on what they did. For example that Janna you are using. They brought down some of her front loaded power so she won't do so much direct damage when building AP but when she does build AP your Shield will be much stronger and give your target a more generous amount of AD rather than just the base amount.

There is nothing wrong with AP supports and I don't know where people started making this mistake but Lux has always been a support champ. She just also makes a good mid champ. Snare, Slow down, sheild. That's a support kit. She's just always been allowed to do good damage. Other choices like Annie are just for CC. When they got the kill for their carries they built AP then as well. If they didn't they usually didn't have the sense to buy the more affordable support items. That is still consistent.