Reign of Gaming

I would say that, considering how big of an earlygame/lane bullying nerf there was, it was an overall nerf. That is because he used to be a 8-9/10 in earlygame and a 3/10 late. Now he is like, a 5/10 early, and 4/10 late. Without the abusive earlygame, what is the point?

Lizard elder is an awesome item right now. 

That's really why it works. 

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I think the wealth of information for amateur teams plays a huge factor. In the NA relegations, most teams kinda expected coL to lose, as they had the most feared amateur team, and were sporadic about performance at best. I was still sad to see them lose, but saw it coming. But the tragedy was MRN, that wasn't expected. VES got to play on knowledge of how MRN plays and their common tricks like beefing Nien up, or weaknesses they have like to split pushing. I feel it's the same reason why CLG 3-0'd Azure Cats when many expected that to be a really close fight. CLG used to play with Jiji and knew how he plays, and could adapt around that and plan ahead to counter his hyper aggressive style.

Jiji's Hyper Aggressive style? You mean his passive, always splitpush, style?

Well, the problem with this entire article, and Riot's rework is it assumes (falsely) that a manaless champion with a heal, a stealth, a jump, and a snare, is able to be balanced. 

Nope.

Ahh. Riot still doesn't understand that the only clear that really matters right now is the first clear.

Pshh, a Melle Carry needs to have his offense and defense scale off the same stats. That is the only way you can do carry damage while being in melle range. 

Of those only Morello is the kind of item I am talking about, and only Janna and Zyra get really good use from it (because they are the only supports with real ratios now after lulu and soraka's ratios got killed!). Wota is also good, but still very expensive for the amount of AP it gives. 

But if you look at Sona, for instance, she is basically a ranged character that only benefits from tank stats, and that is bizarre. Like I said, its not the items, its that Riot has tried to kick Supports out of Solo Lanes (Only Janna and Zyra have survived this, and just in niche situations) and the jungle by making them scale poorly. 

CDR is great on supports. But the "problem" is not and has never been about the actual effect of a support. It is, and continues to be how the support feels. And CDR doesn't feel as sexy as AP, or the satisfaction of being totally unkillable (like how a farmed Shen feels). 

I am tired of wards being the focus of the support "problem". Wards and lack of items isn't the problem. This is only a soloQ problem as well (cus the pros dont care), and the problem is that when you get gold it still doesnt feel good. 

So you are a support and happen to pick up a few kills midgame, then shove and back with a sizeable amount of gold. If your team already has an Aegis and Locket what is the item that you want to build to to really help your team in a gamechanging way? 

Not enough supports can get a benefit out of big ticket (selfish) items even when they buy them. 

"Worth"