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Originally Posted by cDnStealth
Completely agree. I've already seen a number of people talking about running a support top instead of a jungle. The loss of GP10s hurt supports as well.
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Their blow has been impacted slightly less - they get the passive gp10 generation, which isn't bad. Most supports will have specced into gold quints (+3) and Utility tree (+2), so they start out with +18 per 10, as opposed to +15 per 10.
I see most supports still building Philo, even though it has been reduced - it is still average on supports, for the initiation / escape.
Supports now build Kage's Pick as that builds into the Shard to True Ice - which actually keeps the GP10 Passive after it is built !!!
Supports are squishier because of the lack of HoG early game, but the Sightstone makes up a bit for that - which also saves them money long term. Also their support items such as the locket give a very nice HP boost now.
I had a couple of very sad games last night. 2 games I was Jungling (we won), but the support had more gold than me in both games (because of assists).
I'm also noticing the assist gold change seems to be hurting a little more than it should. I don't know, but it seems like the calculations were off somewhat from S2. I know they capped it at 150 (they said it was 158 in the notes, but it was 175).
I think the strategy will be to take area CC heavy or naturally tanky Junglers. Going to do some Cho'gath tonight as I haven't tried him since the new patch.