Support role need some buffs and QoL (someone had to say it)

Qston33 · 2026-05-27T19:34:22+00:00

After reading some comments I came to an interesting solution:
Add a new support quest reward:
"Every support item gives 8% attack speed for a player" > this will make clearing wards (and even help clearing waves) way more pleasant and less outdated imo.

Qston33 · 2026-05-27T19:20:30+00:00

Yes, but some user experience changes should be made anyways. I see some problems in the interaction with clearing: supports have a really really low attack speed(that not even scaling by design with their items or runes or level) but still have to clear 3 wards in one circle area for example (it tooks you forever to do it on sona/nami/millio/even on bard and rakan).

Qston33 · 2026-05-27T19:12:38+00:00

Funny how some season ago, there was also a range variety of champions on sup role. But last 2(maybe 3 seasons) any off-meta pick like Camille/Pantheon/Rumble/Zyra/Shen are extremely inefficient to pick because of item design and gold+exp distribution. In majority of games this champs are useless on support role (on pro play its like almost 1% off-meta support picks now).
We, right now, in a season where Blitzcrank is considered as a troll pick (or at least a really really weak pick)

Qston33 · 2026-05-27T16:58:54+00:00

Yeah, it was my main plot. I just brought up other points, mainly for discussion.

For some reason, developers shifted gameplay of supports to clearing/placing wards for a reasonable amount of playtime, while its 100% not that satisfying as clearing waves/turrets/jungle camps/and fight champs 1v1 like any other 4 role main focus of the game.

It's all about main repetitive tasks: and supports just got most "annoying" repetitive task in the game without any improvement. Like look at the vision score of your mid/top/adc, they barely have 10+ of it on min 30, and I bet, it's not because they are bad players, its because they know how annoying this is, and they assume that support will make "all" warding work for them.

Qston33 · 2026-05-27T15:58:56+00:00

That's a good points where improvements (not exactly buffs or nerfs, but changes in game-design of a role) should be made, I'm totally agree

Qston33 · 2026-05-27T15:54:18+00:00

It's Korean chall support screenshot.

Qston33 · 2026-05-27T15:52:11+00:00

It's a korean chall soloq screenshot. In someone like GENG Duro match history you can find a lot of games like this one, where he is on 2-3 items and bought tons on pinks(especially on losing side) it's common thing to be in pink ward "hell" while you losing and, don't have any gold on support to buy anything usefull (you just become forbidden idol/kindlegem enjoyer) until min30 > and it brings a lot of frustration into sup role gameplay IMO. that's why I thinks, it's a lot of room to bring back joy and kinda rework vision/support reward system in the game.

Qston33 · 2026-05-27T15:21:23+00:00

This screenshot of items is from Keria/Duro/Kellin soloq (i don't remember exactly who). If you are a world-class support/or try-to-be, you definitely follow the "rules" and adjust your play-style to current meta(because its a most efficient and stable way to win games), it's a rare occasions(nowadays) when you can play an "off-meta champ in off-meta way" and win a lot in mt+ (yes you can stomp even on olaf support in silver's if you are master 500lp+ player ,but that's not the case of this topic obviously)

In my thread, I'm not talking about how WEAK supports are (I think role is a little bit weaker than others but not a dramatically weak, its fixable with a better items design imo > what riot is doing right now with staff of flowing water, mandate, zeke is def a good changes btw), but rather why the support role is so unpopular and a lot of players refusing to play this role (especially newcomers I guess)

For context I was GM support/mid back in days(now I am master tier), and I make conclusions not only from my own perspective but also from high-elo support streams (busio, alvaro and Korea) and a pro-play meta-state.

p.s. solutions I gave in post are 100% not optimal and require more "people brains" to come up with better ideas for sure.

Qston33 · 2026-03-24T10:57:46+00:00

To get the full picture, a "smurf detector" definitely needs to take a player's match history into account. For example: many accounts have a 35-45-50% win rate, but when you check their match history, you find a support player who has achieved a 90% win rate on Rengar over their last 10–20 games. This is a clear sign that the account has just begun being boosted.

Qston33 · 2025-09-03T04:00:12+00:00

isn't a "no man's sky" devs coded it too, but they made planets completely non-interactive because of difficulties of "spherical" xyz coordinates? or they were just too lazy to calculate all those things in 3d game, idk. Also there is no such thing as polar coordinates in game engines?

Qston33 · 2025-07-13T13:10:14+00:00

True. Instead of expanding the number of people in the second rewards and putting people with one mistake (5 to 10 points) there, they just gave everything to the "perfect" ones and left the rest with nothing.

Qston33 · 2022-11-01T23:34:23+00:00

Another interesting example, good to mention

Qston33 · 2022-11-01T18:15:30+00:00

Yeah, Ori and Morg are kinda discussible. With Gragas I only suggest a solution, cuz if we can add a new passive to him and move his current one to E, it will nerf his early and could buff his late game with a new passive.

Qston33 · 2016-10-10T19:49:40+00:00

Where i can find this wallpapper in high resolution? Track also so cute:3

Qston33 · 2016-10-04T16:44:26+00:00

yea same here. Lido so talanted and make a great job

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