

Supports, since they inherently don’t scale as well as other champions (that’s why they’re supports), are incredibly reliant on casting their skills. But even if they the same amount of gold, champions like Nami want Ancient Coin, because…Īncient Coin is a hack for infinite mana. We did our first back and I finished… about twenty gold behind. Once, when I moronically played Nami with Spellthief into a Janna with Coin, I harassed every single time the Spellthief Passive was up. Especially because, once upgraded, it additionally triggers off every assist, I’ll commonly be a thousand gold ahead of the opposing support just because I have the good starting support item and they don’t. The gold you get from Ancient Coin is ridiculous now. Now, this would be a reasonable advantage if it was still the starting item with the lowest gold per minute, but… With Janna, specifically, her W passive lets her just walk through them. There’s zero risk, because the Ancient Coin champions are the ranged ones whose zones of control allow them to go to the minions whenever. With Ancient Coin, you just have to… be near the minions, at some point, whenever, you know, just get back to us, it’s up to you, really. With Spellthief’s Edge, you actually have to deal damage to trigger it, and take a trade back. With Relic Shield, you actually have to go to the minion at a specific time to get the last hit, and you’re gonna take some harass for that. But now Nami and Sona players are latching on to it, and when someone other than me is benefiting from something, it’s a clear indicator that something is wrong. I’m fine with Janna being broken, because it got me to Diamond. When a support player has too much mana or money, absolutely nothing happens, apparently it’s too subtle for anyone to give a shit about. If a tank is unkillable for way too long, you do the same thing. If someone one-shots you when they very obviously shouldn’t, you look at their items or champion and go, “well that needs a nerf.” So it gets nerfed. So it… stays the same in the current patch? Well, that’s how itemization is. Ancient Coin is so out of line that even Phreak took time from his video from the previous patch to tell people how busted it is. I’m here to complain about something unusual today, as a Janna player: the item that Janna players buy first. Maybe you’re just not high-tier enough to know about it.

Reddit has a pretty sweet deal where they give you $1k per upvote. It’s your friendly support-main complainer again, back from my two-year island vacation off the profits of Vaynespotting.
