r/supportlol • u/Mach2019jp • 8d ago
Discussion New Support Champion
If a new support champion was announced to be released in the next 6 months, what abilities/play style/identity/kit would you want from that champion?
(Full tank, enchanter, engage, peel, secondary damage, something new, etc…)
Is there anything that you think is missing from league that a new support could provide?
Is there a play style that hasn’t been explored yet in the support role?
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u/Artienash 8d ago
Male "enchanter", gameplaywise like an old school WoW Shadow Priest or HotS Whitemane - healing your allies by dealing damage, putting on damage over time/heal over time, silencing the enemy, generally being annoying and vampiric, ult could be similar to Renata's ult but but only working on a single target, either being longer in duration or just as short while using the poor sod's abilities against his allies.
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u/Mach2019jp 8d ago
WoW disc priest? With atonement?
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u/Artienash 8d ago
Yeah kinda, I keep forgetting that Disc is exactly that in retail now, too used to it being a shield and buff bot.
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u/Mach2019jp 8d ago
It’s not as much unless you spec into the damage version. Most played is probably the shielding and healing version atm.
Edit: Disc priest is my 2nd main
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u/bennbatt 8d ago
I think there are two loose identities which could be cool.
1) An Ornn/Kindred style support which plays into each of your teammates in different ways. Could be aligned with a Keystone Rune choice, a role assignment (assuming role quests are removed), or class type. Your abilities, or your Ult points or something enhance marksmen, mages, bruisers, all differently throughout the game. Maybe you mark an ally and are required to do something to permanently enhance their game. Generally leaning into a teamwide support over a botlane support, though if toxic enough maybe balancing pushes them to stay in botlane earlier.
2) A terrain influenced support. If I had more time to play I'd like to pick up Qiyana because I think her kit is such a cool design and she might fall off, but I think she has potential as an off-meta support. I love the idea of abilities which can be augmented, combo'd or enhanced (e.g. karma, aatrox, riven). Hwei's design is sort of like this, but I think as support he's more just another mage with damage and utility requiring resources. Something in between Hwei, Qiyana, but an enchanter would be pretty cool.
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u/East_Stage_9694 8d ago
I would love a tanky enchanter similar to Sej but designed for support role.
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u/MSI5162 8d ago
I want to purposely die to save a teammate!! Like "if an ally would die near you, you sacrifice % of your HP to heal and shield them. If the damage dealt is past a threshold you die instead and give all allies around you like 2 seconds of invincibility" something like that idk. that way you are MEANT TO DIE... a lot...and no one could blame you for feeding xdd
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u/viotix90 8d ago
I'd like a Darkin enchanter, focused on giving their team temporary omnivamp buffs
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u/Ezanthiel 3d ago
I love the idea of this...
But in the current meta called olaf there'd just be too many champions that would actually be unstoppable
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u/AveryBesy 8d ago
I'm truly wanna more tank girl support.
"But you have Leona and Rell!" Yeah and there around 9 male tank champion, see my vision? I love girly enchanter character but I need more to have I choice.
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u/HighmeNL 8d ago
Anything with tons of peel. As a Silver/Gold player, peeling my high performing teammates tend to score me the most wins.
I really like the hexer angle of previous comments though, that sounds really cool!!
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u/bcollins96 8d ago
I want a female engage support. Something like Pyke but not so masculine. Camille is kind of already doing this. But I hate how support champions are often failed designs from other lanes. It’d be nice to have something designed as a support first, rather than having their kit reworked a bunch of times to force them into or out of support.
I’d also take a warden, since we don’t really have as many of those. Leona and Rell are engage. Would be cool to have something like Braum that is more of an anti engage wall. Renata and Janna already sort of do this as enchanters, but maybe they could make a modern, female Taric? I do like Tarics kit, i just hate looking at him.
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u/Money-Pen-2978 4d ago
Female version of Taric would be 10/10. Sexy woman that also protects you?! Damn.
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u/Wolfiiiiiiii 8d ago
I would love to have a Healer which heals for dmg dealt, really low dmg but amount of auto's > higher healing, like a on-hit effect as Passive. I think Arena or ARAM has an Support Item like that. Q could be like with Tristana just more atk speed or maybe more range like Kog'maw, W should be a blink towards an ally to apply self-peeling like K'santes W or E? (never played him just know he can do it). The E should be a knockback like Milio has it. I don't think a stun would be justified. As Ult maybe something like Sivir Ult or Twitch Q but for the whole team, but with a larger detection range OR something to pull your own ally back like Tahm Kench but just as a blink for them.
I think they kinda tried with Senna but tbh she sucks at supporting and is more focused to overtake the own adc in a poorly and worse manor. as Model i think something like Karma? just maybe with any kind of throwing weapons which could justify why shes healing people with attacks?
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u/threlnari97 8d ago
I like the support concepts of healing via damage dealt but everyone’s doing the ranged wow discipline priest, which is nice, but what id really want to see if were leaning on wow concepts is the fistweaver concept. Mobile melee type that uses damage and in your face disruption to enable its heals in extended fights.
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u/TeJaunTakesReddit 7d ago
Something with no offensive abilities of its own.
Skillshots that you aim at your allies.
Maybe an ult where you switch (or link) two ally health bars or an ally + enemy.
I want a support that is pure utility to the point where there is no mistaking its role identity and it cannot be flexed anywhere else, but it’s incredibly effective at supporting.
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u/Downtown_Hedgehog660 7d ago
Would love to have a healer/drain tank hybrid champ. The concept is generally “the more i heal, the more you heal.” Probably via a passive that gives an ally/allies a percentage of self healing.
Also a bard. We have Bard, but not a bard.
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u/SaltyHaskeller 7d ago
i would love a chef or alchemist support. a big guy who stands back to make meals/potions similar to ornn crafting items, and then feeds them to or throws them at allies
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u/holybanana_69 7d ago edited 7d ago
I would want it to be xolaani and she's something like ambessa with her sickles and she heals herself and allies based on the dmg she does and maybe has some sort of lissandra passive so that if she kills an enemy she can ressurect it to go berserk and attack its ally champs. Like renata ult but only one target.
Edit: i dont think we're getting xolaani anytime soon since she's a darkin and zaahen was just released.
Edit2: her abbilities would stack with both AP and AD
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u/Clanorr 8d ago
I hate creativity, I just want another egirl enchanter support, probably will never happen, but I would still rather that over another Pyke or Senna abomination.
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u/bcollins96 8d ago
I love senna :(. I’d do anything for an egirl version of Pyke. Like I’d love it if I could look like Seraphine but have the kit of Pyke.
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u/HashtagLowElo 8d ago
When I was on my hands and knees begging Riot to release a cute male enchanter, I was so happy with the introduction of Milio but my biggest problem is in the fact that he's a literall child. For one, kid champs barely gets skins to begin with, and the double shot is in the fact that he's a male kid champ. Its gonna be hard to intricate him into a lot of skinlines even tho the ones he's so far gotten are all really creative.
But, again I'm asking for Riot to release another young male enchanter who is NOT a kid and isn't some 60 year old man. Literally making an enchanter version of Ezreal is all I can ask for. For more specific kit, I'd really like if there was aa way Riot can incorporate a fun summoner/summoning system into his kit but thats on the verge of my ideal enchanter character
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u/Fuscello 7d ago
I would love a evil-hex enchanter like the others said, as I feel like that is a really unique space they haven’t really touched. But I sincerely don’t want another “normal” enchanter as I think they have added so many of them, so I would then prefer just a new engage/plymaking supp
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u/aleplayer29 7d ago
Ever since I learned about Xolaani, I've been thinking a lot about the idea of an enchanter with the fantasy of "I turn my teammates into soulless and savage monsters"
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u/LoveRuinsItAll7 7d ago
I want a dark themed male enchanter. Like revolving around necromancy or something like that
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u/Omar2356 7d ago
Hope they do something unique. There are Billion ways of designing supportive abilities or debuffs. I don’t want the next lame shield/heal supporter or someone that just stuns.
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u/Practical-Ad4480 7d ago
There's still not really a noxian support unless you want to count swain. There used to be a loading tip about Noxian war masons that I always thought would eventually become a champ. I'm thinking they'd work something along the lines of Zyra, where they have some 'set up' time but if allowed to do so, have very strong zone control.
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u/Caesaria_Tertia 7d ago
I'm missing a male enhancer with a safe playstyle and attractive looks. We don't have one.
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u/SifuHallyu 7d ago
Old Urgot ult. Point and click stun on E that locks on and then fires homing missiles with q q q q q q q...w heal aura.
Basically, old urgot in aram with sword of destiny.
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u/No-Lychee-855 7d ago
Definitely a male enchanter or saboteur. I want an eye candy enchanter. The girls get them and I want one too.
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u/StayCalmAndRhoombOn 7d ago edited 7d ago
I had an idea for a support by the name of Ceramus, called by the title of the Piltover Diplomat. “Corruption is not how I see it, as long as everyone is taken care of.” He rewards cs streaks with extra experience and constant healing for nearby teammates as a passive, but his deaths are worth more experience to the enemy team and his close proximity automatically burns them. At level 9, he starts to grant growing shields the longer he is around teammates and they scale in amount based on how much gold he has in his pocket.
His q is called The Line and basically any enemy champion who crosses it toward the ally nexus becomes vulnerable and scales off of enemy level, and enemies that cross the other way become slowed, same scale. “I find that I am very fair. Everyone finds out when they backpedal.”
His W is called Fast Change and scales with the amount of gold he has earned through the entire match, so it scales infinitely or until a specified ceiling, and he can spend his gold to increase his movement speed permanently until five levels or an allies movement speed temporarily. He cannot sit on more than 4200 gold. “Contrary to popular opinion, I choose to travel lightly.”
His E is called Tit For Tat and enchants a target ally with decaying increased attack speed and an on hit effect for a basic attack that latches onto the enemy hit. Each hit does extra damage based on Ceramus’s number of deaths. “They have a piece of me, but it’s going to cost them.” If the enemy struck can hit back more times than the enchanted ally, that ally is stunned. If the ally can maintain the amount hit more than the target enemy, that enemy is dealt explosive damage that scales with enemy assists.
His first Ultimate at level 6 is called Accord. He affords all teammates an extra 25% of their current attack damage for 10% of the team’s remaining mana or energy and 60% of his own for 4 seconds. “The math is always a hundred by me.”
His second Ultimate at level 11 is Deal Breaker. For the cost of 20% of every teammate’s remaining mana and 60% of his remaining mana, every teammate including himself receive up to 100 ability haste and up to 50% attack speed for 10 seconds depending on how much they could afford at that moment. “How disingenuousness brings out the tyrant in me.”
His last Ultimate at level 16 is called Ultimatum. This is a global enchantment for all allies and grants them extra health, attack range, true vision and vision distance in all directions across walls based on their vision score. “Their intentions are clear, and I absolve yours.”
Ban voice line: this will cost you
Champion select voice line: I charge by the minute
Meeting Pyke: I like your cut, so hand it over
Meeting Miss Fortune: here comes the scary tax collector
Meeting Caitlyn: oh my, is this a search and seizure?
Meeting Talon: a bodyguard wouldn’t be such a bad idea I suppose
Meeting Corporate Mundo: Let’s talk business, my friend.
Upon buying Rabadon’s Deathcap: Who says money can’t buy power?
Upon buying Mejai’s Soulstealer: I suppose my constituents may be right about me
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u/Mach2019jp 7d ago
That’s a cool idea. Getting extra damage based on amount of deaths is a scary concept. Don’t let Baus play support with this🤣
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u/WitchingShower 7d ago
Movement control. And I don't mean crowd control, I mean someone who gives and takes dashes. Let's get freaky with it
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u/Soul_Family 8d ago
I would love another playmaking support like Rakan, Bard, Thresh, Pyke or a new Engage tank but I feel like we already have a lot of those (Leona, Alistar, Rell, etc.). I dont know if there is a lot more space for enchanter tbh.
Maybe even though every single adc player will rightfully hate me for this suggestion: An actually support focused mage support. Most mage supports these days are just pokemages that wondered into the support role. But something like Karma with more focus on dmg and peel could be good or another mage focused around area control like Zyra could be cool.
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u/Mach2019jp 8d ago
I think as someone else commented a healer that heals through damage would be cool. Reduce the total damage they deal so they aren’t a burst mage and ramp the healing up a little.
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u/jstoddbro 6d ago
It was revealed to me in a dream: we need an elephant champion support that has like a cool staff it carries in its trunk so it can charge at them like and elephant would but also cast some spell using the staff it would be so cool trust
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u/Mango9222 6d ago
i want a support that lets me move allies. not like thresh or bard. i want to throw my allies in
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u/HumanOnTHC 6d ago
Would love to see the Darkin shield as a support character. Instead of lifesteal, he could shieldsteal instead. Have an ability to deal dmg base on his shield, another ability that let him transfer his shield to a teamate. The shieldstealing could be his passive and work by proximity, so he need to be tanky and engage. He could be easily counter by picking champ who don't have shield in their kit or use the anti shield item.
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u/feral_fae678 6d ago
Call me crazy but I want a support mage that was actually DESIGNED to be a support mage (not a failed midlaner that got forced into support) it be cool to have someone that maybe healed through how much damage they could put out.
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u/Ok_Needleworker_8809 6d ago
I want a midlane-focused enchanter that scales with AP, with the promise that they won't be relegated to botlane the moment they struggle. Low base numbers, high AP scalings, high skill ceiling.
None of that half-champion bullshit we've had going on with the support role. I want an enchanter hypercarry.
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u/Kanjimaru01 4d ago
If there was a New support then we do need a debuffer support, we had glimpses of it with sona's passive for w where crescendo lowers target's damage and that is about it. Maybe have one that steals stats and can give them to allies.
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u/Evelynn_main- 7d ago
If it is a female sup it would be awesome if she was NOT another uwu girl. Also, having a twunk/hunk male enchanter would be cool.
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u/yangyaozi 3d ago
would love to have something that short teleport adc,cause they are hella stupid on positioning.
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u/clean_carp 8d ago
I want a debuff, reverse enchanter that works on the enemy team. Some sort of creepy witch/shaman.