Reign of Gaming

As it has been said already learn 2-3 mid/top champions and play them a lot. Like 500 games lot.

Learn to play at least two of the following supports well - taric/leona/nunu/sona/lulu (1 poke and 1 tanky support would be best). so that you feel comforable when there is no one elso to play support.

When you lose 2 games in a row give yourself a break for the day - play dominion or aram or just dont play at all. If you continue to play you may end with a long loss streak (as you'll prolly end up raging which will have a negative impact on your play).

Do toggle abilities proc tear now??

Out of the left field Rylais and Liandry will probably become the new morde core items - cc, hp, mpen, ap all the things he likes. Finish the build with the new dfg (for ze cdr) and you should have both single target burst and great aoe dmg with the e.

Yes more or less. At least in the current meta a support to be good has to be usefull since lvl 1, without any gold and offer a lot of utility/poke/sustain. Rammus does none of these things.

@xcalibro

50% healing >>>> no healing and no sustain. And I'm not overestimating taric.I know exactly what he can do. 

Also low lvls taric does has same ammount of cc as rammus and its ranged. And is tankier. And has burst dmg . And has auras.

@ViperiousTAW

So you waste your flash and are out of position near my carry. All i have to do is to keep your carry in place with my stun  and you can't do squat solo. So in one fell swoop you've just wasted all your cooldowns, endangered yourself and have little means of escape. Come gank time you are dead.

@xcalibro

What tricks?? Rammus is a one trick pony. You go in, you taunt the carry, you tank the dmg. You literally can't do anything else. While i can easily outsustain you in lane with the heal.

No sustain and no poke. Maxing taunt means no dmg and that you can more or less be ignored (also clense). Also very weak early game (till you get all the skills and lvl up that taunt). Also you need to get very close in (making you very easy to gank).

So counters would be lanes that can kill early, that can outpoke him, or that can outsutain him. That means almost every currently popular support. Seriously i take taric and you can't get anywhere near my carry (you ball i just run into you) you taunt me i can tank it and then just heal while you can't.

It's a numbers game. It's bout being able to win more games than you lose pure and simple. It doesn't mean you will be great or even good in each and every game. I've had some atrocious games and was still able to reach 2050 elo.

Any thoughts on how these changes will affect Mordekaiser?? His whole laning phase is after all based around his shiled (which takes into account his resistancies). I think that going tanky/mpen instead of just full ap might become viable again.

IMHO support meta is "stale" because of the current state of ad carry meta more than anything. The second factor would be the low number of dedicated supports - which is 10(9 if you discount ali and 8 if you discount karma - coz she sucks ballz).

The trinity all are kill lanes thus supports who can help with that (blitz/sona/taric and leona) are in while soraka/janna more passive lanes are out.

Ali has morphed into a ganking jungler after the nerfs to support heals.

Nunu otoh is viable with ad carries that love the as and ms boost (vayne and kog mainly).
That rly leaves only lulu and karma. The first one is just a bit strange and the latter just sucks.