Gli sviluppatori Riot Games hanno iniziato a testare sul campo le novità che molto probabilmente vedremo nella prossima preaseason. Si è parlato tanto dei cambiamenti che interesseranno il ruolo del support e l’arrivo di nuovo items dedicati è sicuramente molto importante.

Queste novità si aggiungono a quelle relative alle abilità dei principali champion support che potete leggere qui.

Di seguito una breve lista degli oggetti introdotti sul PBE e alcune informazioni relative ai cambiamenti di oggetti già esistenti.

New Items

  • Executioner’s Emblem

New Trinkets

  • Farsight Orb
  • Greater Lens

Old items

  • Aegis of the Legion
  • Avarice Blade
  • Banner of Command
  • Bilgewater cutlass
  • Doran’s Blade
  • Eleisa’s Miracle
  • Enthropy
  • Executioner’s Calling

We want all roles and positions to have the opportunity to fulfill their endgame fantasies within each game. Currently Support champions as a role experience the lowest amount of growth in comparison to other roles, and we want to supplement their story. We’re also looking to create a stronger identity for utility-focused supports with additional utility scaling on their abilities (as opposed to simply adding more raw damage).

  • Added a mastery that grants experience every 5 sec.
  • Added the Life Insurance mastery to the Utility tree – grants bonus gold when enemy lane minions die.
  • Added increased assist rewards (assist bonuses) when a player has a very large number of assists (see our Game Flow post for more information)

Support Items

  • Kage’s Pick now grants gold on dealing damage to an enemy. (10 sec cooldown. Cooldown triggers on killing a minion.)
  • Philosopher’s Stone now transmutes minions into gold when they die, but you didn’t kill them.
  • Reaper’s Emblem now shares the gold from your last hits with the nearest ally and heals them (30 sec cd)
  • Kage’s Pick, Philosopher’s Stone and Reaper’s Emblem build from 365 gold starter versions that are intended to be starting items for support lanes

Mid-Game Support Items

  • The above items turn into midgame support items.
  • Kage’s Pick becomes Shard of True Ice, which grants 50 AP and now casts a frost nova on a ranged enemy.
  • Philospher’s Stone becomes Shurelia’s Reverie, which no longer grants health and instead grants 20% CDR and additional mana regen.
  • Reaper’s Emblem becomes Martyr’s Call, a high health item which allows you to sacrifice your health to shield allies and deal damage to opponents near the target.