Support Items

Support Items

In high level play, Mikael's Crucible was often being rushed as a primary 'core' item on most supports (beyond Sight Stone and a finished gold per 5 item), which meant long-cooldown, heavy engage teams had a lot of problems properly kicking off a FAKER teamfight if the enemy simply Mikael'd the caught target to safety. This ends up putting a lot more emphasis on teams who can 'catch' out targets multiple times (Elise, Morgana, etc) so that Mikael's is only useful for one of those cases. A Mikael's in every game also made things doubly sad for utility-focused marksmen like Ashe or Varus who bring big control abilities to the table. Our changes to Mikael's is to push it more toward a mid to late game luxury buy against heavy engage / pick team compositions but isn't so attractive as a purchase that it's found in every game.Froggen

This also lets us introduce a new mid-tier support item in the form of Ardent Censer! We're particularly excited about Censer because of all the possibilities it can bring to the support role, particularly the more defensively focused shield / heal champions like Alistar, Janna, Sona, or Soraka.

NEWArdent Censer

UNIQUE PASSIVE : Your heals and shields on another unit grant them +25% Attack Speed for 6 seconds Bjersen

UNIQUE PASSIVE : +8% movement speed

ABILITY POWER : +30

MANA REGENERATION : 10 mana per 5 seconds

COOLDOWN REDUCTION : +10%

TOTAL COST : 2200 gold

RECIPE : Forbidden Idol + Aether Wisp + 550 gold

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Forbidden Idol

TOTAL COST : 750 gold ⇒ 700 gold

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Mikael's Crucible

TOTAL COST : 1600 gold ⇒ 2450 gold

RECIPE : Chalice of Harmony + 720 gold ⇒ Chalice of Harmony + Forbidden Idol + 870 gold

MANA REGENERATION : 12 mana per 5 seconds ⇒ 20 mana per 5 seconds

COOLDOWN REDUCTION : 0% ⇒ 10% Scarra

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Locket of the Iron Solari

UTILITY : Active's shield amount is now calculated using the recipient champion's level if the recipient is a higher level than the item owner.

Alex Ich