League of Legends (LoL) Question: Mage Supports building Tank Items?
Posted in Champions 9,860
Mage Supports building Tank Items?
Is it logical for a mage support (Soraka, Sona, Karma etc.) to go full tank after Sightstone and Mikaels?
Posted in Champions 9,860
The reason is that most supportive items (which give utility and aura's) are essentially defensive items (e.g. Locket of the Iron Solari or Mikael's Blessing). Rules to live by as a support are that you'll (usually) get more damage as a team if you just keep building utility over selfish damage items.
Examples to this rule are supports that have good AP scalings like Karma or Vel'Koz.
It's pretty "logical" if that's your question. It's unwise to build a Warmog's on Soraka but with some utility-like tank items it's absoloutly helpful. Thornmail's good if you find you don't need the other two; while Sunfire seems to be reccomended on a couple of tanky support (Leona, Thresh, etc.) I feel it's not as useful.