God Forbid a Support be useful in a 3

[quote=Read]Currently, I have been playing a lot of support. I love to play support. Does anyone else feel like they intentionally nerf supports to make them nigh unto useless. Currently i can only really play well as Karma and Janna. Soraka is completely useless in 3s. I dont think that it is right to limit supports to 5 man. I always get yelled at for picking the two aformentioned champs when in 3s. I think that supports defensive capabilties should be given a buff. Sona is my main pet peave. She has very low CD but her heal is absolutely useless in a team fight. People can be bursted down inbetween a heal that heals for maybe one AA to begin with. I think they need to rework her a little and Soraka a little. I would say give sona a three shot heal that will heal anywhere from 2-3 champs. With the 2 heals stacking if there are less than 3 targets. Including herself if need be. Give soraka more scaling on her starfall and decrease the healing ap scale a little. Im a little off topic there. In any case, I believe to make a truely balanced game, an entire archetype of champions (support) should not be excluded from 3s. And i know that soraka is supposed to be a pure healer. But that also makes her purely useless until late game. Anyone else with some thoughts.[/quote]

[quote=Lazukin]I think Support champions are perfectly fine in 5v5, but 3v3 is definitely a different story. I have found a few ways to get around this with a few champions, but then they will barely be supports. For Soraka you can go DPS. Yes, DPS. It sounds weird, but it somehow manages to work quite well. Items like Lich Bane help out with healing here as well.[/quote]

[quote=Read]i agree that they are fine in 5s. Its 3s that i hate. DPS soraka is not really viable. I mean shes barely passable. She has no good CC besides a periodic silence...whoopty frick. And sona is miserable. Janna can lane well but gets destroyed in an actual fight. Karma does alright. But has no nuking whatsoever. She can wear people down and turtle up pretty well though. Zilean is great early game but becomes worse and worse as the game progesses. Finally, Lux is alright but she has always been sort of nukish to me anyway.[/quote]

[quote=wRAthoFVuLK]Janna.[/quote]

[quote=Read]I mentioned her lol[/quote]

[quote=caucheka]there is conformation that sonas passive is getting reworked, along with a few buffs to support champions. there was a link to it in a thread on general discussion i'll find it myself in a second.[/quote]

[quote=Read]awesome sauce post link here for me plz ^_^[/quote]

[quote=Visfarix][quote=Read] i agree that they are fine in 5s. Its 3s that i hate. DPS soraka is not really viable. I mean shes barely passable. She has no good CC besides a periodic silence...whoopty frick. And sona is miserable. Janna can lane well but gets destroyed in an actual fight. Karma does alright. But has no nuking whatsoever. She can wear people down and turtle up pretty well though. Zilean is great early game but becomes worse and worse as the game progesses. Finally, Lux is alright but she has always been sort of nukish to me anyway. [/quote]I don't play much 3s so I assume most of what you just said only applies in 3s....right? Cause I know half of what you said is not true in 5s. BTW here is a link: [url=http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=560013]http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=560013[/url][/quote]

[quote=caucheka]post #6 in that thread has a link to all the red posts btw.[/quote]

[quote=Read]Sorry if I was unclear. I dit only mean supports in 3s (ie Twisted Treeline)[/quote]