TPA Mistake Posts Thoughts on S3 Support Items

TPA Mistake, professional support player from Taiwan, posted his thoughts on facebook about itemization choices for support champions in Season 3. Contrary to what TSM Xpecial recommends, here's a short summary of what Mistake says to do: 

• Mistake believes that buying both P-stone and Flask on support is a GOOD idea. 
• He recommends still purchasing Oracle's Elixir over Xpecial's recommendation of stacking pink wards. 
• Boots of Mobility are his go-to choice on boots. (I concur). 
• He does NOT recommend purchasing Aegis of the Legion, and says to leave it to the junglers since it's too expensive for supports. 

Personally I agree with what he says for the most part, but I'm still a fan of buying Aegis since the majority of my junglers seem to prefer stacking Black Cleavers and Bloodthirsters. Anyway, check out his original post below!

Original Post:

Core Items: Philosopher’s Stone, Ruby Sightstone

Item Build

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↣ Start Crystalline flask, sight ward*4, explorer's ward, biscuit

↣ Early game Sightstone > Philosopher’s Stone > boots

↣ Mid game Oracle, Ruby Sightstone, Boots of Mobility And (if possible) Shurelya’s Reverie

↣ Late game Locket of the Iron Solari or Mikael’s Crucible More wards and oracles

After getting boots, Sightstone, and Philosopher’s Stone, I would buy Oracle’s Elixir and start warding and clearing wards to gain more advantage (and I would keep buying it as long as I can).

In Season 3, the game pace is a lot faster, and so is the gold generation in game. Therefore, it is not necessary to keep gp5 items, so I would upgrade Philosopher’s Stone into Shurelya’s Reverie as soon as I can. Even though Shurelya’s is not as good as it used to be, I still recommend it because it can be used either to initiate a teamfight or to retreat.

Another point is that even if I have purchased Sightstone, I would always buy more wards if I have extra gold.

Boot Choice

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For champions with poking ability, such as Lulu and Sona, get Boots of Mobility so that you would be able to group up with your team as fast as possible. You can also get this for Blitzcrank and enable him to engage into team fights and control enemies’ positioning faster. You may also buy Mercury Treads or Sorcerer's Shoes.

However, I don't recommend Ninja Tabi. As for Ionian Boots of Lucidity, you don't really need them since you already have enough CDR from Shurelya’s and your masteries.

Other Support Items

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☆ Aegis of the Legion Aegis of the Legion is now too expensive for supports to buy. However, junglers can still purchase it since their choice of magic resist items is very limited.

★ Locket of the Iron Solari Currently I highly recommend Locket of the Iron Solari. Kindlegem costs only 850g and provides 200 health. If you upgrade it into Shurelya’s, you gain 250 health (therefore you only get 50 more health from upgrading). Locket, on the other hand, provides 425 health, which means you gain 225 more health. You also get 10% CDR and some armor. It costs no more than 2000g, which is not expensive. Its active is handy against Karthus or enemy teams with lots of AOE.

★ Twin Shadows Twin Shadows gives extra movement speed and CC, and it goes well with initiating champions such as Leona, Taric and Blitzcrank. However, it can only be used to initiate, and its cooldown lasts for 120s, which is quite long.

★ Shard of True Ice This item best suits mana-hungry supports, or teams with many initiating champions (e.g. Amumu, Nocturne). Also, it only takes 60 seconds to cool down.

☆ Zeke’s Herald I don’t recommend this item in the current patch because it only provides 10% Life Steal and 20 Attack Damage, degrading it into nothing more than a Vampiric Scepter plus a Long Sword (1200g). And since both AP and support don’t need this item at all, it doesn’t help the team much.

★ Mikael’s Crucible If the enemy's champions have a lot of CC (e.g. Maokai, Varus), you can use this to remove CC.

*** Transcribed and Translated by MiSTakE's MODs ***

Original Source: http://www.facebook.com/mistakeLoL/posts/473260806071429

Here's the original text in Chinese for those of you that are interested. For the rest of you, do you agree or disagree? Scroll down and leave a comment!

本來的中文:
TPS MiSTakE S3 輔助裝備看法分享
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核心裝備：賢者之石、紅寶視介石

出裝順序
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↣ 開始：水精靈藥、綠眼*4、餅乾一片、60秒眼
↣ 前期：眼石、賢者之石、一速鞋、紫眼
↣ 中期：先知藥劑、五速鞋、紅寶視介石、看情況補蘇瑞亞
↣ 後期：日輪的加冕，看情況出鍋蓋、先知藥劑*n、眼*n

通常出完鞋子、視介石、賢者之石，就需要買先知藥劑去佈眼、清眼來擴大優勢。（而且通常只要經濟允許，先知藥劑會常駐。）另外要注意的是，即使出了視介石，若有多餘的錢我還是會多買幾根眼。

因為S3遊戲節奏變快，遊戲內建金錢給予的速度也變快了，跳錢裝只是一個過渡裝備，不再是必須留在身上的一個裝備，所以我會儘早將賢者之石往上合成蘇瑞亞狂想曲。蘇瑞亞雖然屬性變爛，但他的價值在於可以開戰或者撤退。

鞋子選擇
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poke型的露露及索娜適合出疾行之靴（五速鞋），讓她們可以較快支援到位。另外，布里茲也會出疾行之靴（五速鞋），可以較快進場去限制敵方走位。剩下會選擇出法師之靴（法穿鞋）、水星之靴（魔抗鞋）。
忍者足具（忍鞋）我不太推薦，至於愛歐尼亞之靴（CDR鞋），我是覺得不太需要，因為天賦還有蘇瑞亞都能提供減CD。

其他裝備分析
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☆ 軍團盾
目前給輔助出太貴了，給打野JG出會比較好，因為現在JG的魔抗裝的選擇太少。

★ 日輪的加冕
這是目前我很推薦的輔助裝備。燃燒寶石，價格850g，提供200點生命。合成蘇瑞亞的狂想曲後，這道具提供生命250點，與燃燒寶石相比，只增加了50點生命。但如果合成日輪的加冕，會提供425點生命，等於增加了225點生命。除此之外，還有10%的CDR及物防，價格卻只要2000g，算是不貴的裝備。而且它主動的效果，拿來對付卡爾薩斯和多AOE的隊伍，還是非常好用。

★ 雙影斗篷
有加跑速和遠CC，適合能夠開戰的角色，如：雷歐娜、塔里克、布里茲等。缺點是，它只能用在開戰，而且它的主動CD時間需要120秒，有點偏長。

★ 真霜結晶
適合缺魔的sup，也可以用來搭配同隊有突進開戰的角色（阿姆姆、夜曲），而且主動CD時間只有60秒。

☆ 錫柯的號角（吸血旗）
在目前這個版本，非常不推薦吸血旗。它只提供10%普攻吸血和20點物理攻擊，相當於一把吸血鬼權杖+一把長刀(1200元)。況且ap、sup都不需要這些能力，因此這個裝備對於整個團隊的效益不大。

★ 米凱的魔鍋(鍋蓋)
看對方隊伍的角色，如果CC偏多(茂凱、法洛士)，可以出這件裝備來解CC。


Original Source: http://www.facebook.com/mistakeLoL/posts/473260806071429