6.24 Nerf of Rylai’s

Im getting the feeling that Riot doesn’t like people playing non-assassin mages and support mages these days, and as a support main, I’m not to happy about it.

I just read through the changes for the 6.24 patch and they nerfed a pretty big staple of my build for a few champions.

Killing the slow, health, and AP benefits of Rylai’s will be a big hit to champs like Zyra and Brand who are some of the few supports that can actually do more than use Redemption. And not only will it hurt them in support, but will cripple them in mid lane as they need to figure out where to get AP while dealing with the fact that they are immobile. The slow of Rylai’s was one of the few things that helped offer some protection once their flash was down. For some reason I thought I remembered Riot saying they wanted to encourage different styles of play – with the power of Redemption and the nerfing of Rylai’s, it seems to me Riot is telling us by their actions that they want us to all be heal/shield bots in the support role. And I love the explaination – we’ll nerf the item but make it cheaper so you can get it sooner in a support build.

So glad they’re working on overpowered champs and items – not like Hecarim is still one of the top banned champs after half a dozen patches.