2012-07-21, 12:11 AM
Raul Wrote:Supports are much harder up for gold than the solo lanes and they have no quick way to make it early game since their gold gain is based strictly off time. And yeah, a double GP10 build with avarice quints and seals and the GP10 mastery will get you to 30.25 GP10. A minion wave is worth at least 117 gold depending on if there is a siege minion and what point in the game it is, and comes every 30 seconds. 90.75 gold every 30 seconds for the support, 156 gold per wave at the minimum with no missed CS for a carry. Less than 60% of a solo lane's gold stream if somehow you manage to get 2 GP10 items before 5 minutes and it goes downhill from there.
Also if you're meaning that the support is going to have to get wards anyhow, I'd suggest you read what I said to Jamesie in that post. If you have a free ward with the ball that's one more place you don't have to ward and one more ward every 3 minutes to use on tribush or the river.
Yes, but to save 75 gold every three minutes you give up many of the things that make a support good. If you leave the ball there you can't use the haste/slow as effectively. You have no CC. A shield is not the only thing that makes a support good.