Thoughts on 2026 Season 1 changes?
Personally I don't quite feel that Support is as strong as they say, and I don't think relatively nerfing the least popular role in the game is the way to go regardless.
Then again, buffing the other laners just makes funneling them more impactful, does this just make enchanters even stronger? Anyway it's not quite fun them sneezing at you and you insta-die.
What I personally really dislike is "nerfing" neutral-objectives and removing Atakahn, while buffing side-laning. I already think it's bad enough permanently teammates shove waves on side , no need to incentivize it more. A lot of high-level players have been criticizing how the only viable strategy is to group for objectives, but I'm not sure what's so super engaging about pushing lanes on side.
From my perspective it just feels like the laners who want gold on themselves, so they can fulfill their power fantasy.
I really don't get how support is supposedly so strong, when I have laners all the time just completely insta-wipe the entire team, but me stunning a person for 1.5 is simply that strong. Ganking lanes on support isn't free either, and a lower-level ad/c is very vulnerable to ganks and dives when alone. I think a lot of it comes from when engage support ganks, or are stunning an opponent a lot, because people value themselves more than their entirety of their team combined. But anyway if that's supposedly so strong, and yet enchanters are all S+ tier while all the engage supports sit in D tier. Or is Nami or Milio ganks just that strong?
Also the devs mentioning some lanes being more important than others. I absolutely think bot should be more important than the other lanes. There are 2 players on this lane, of course it should matter more. I get that mid having more impact than top though, and yet I'm not quite sure just making tops omega strong is the way to go.
Anyway maybe it's just me as a Taric, where taking objectives is what I excel at. It's already constant that my teamates find more value in clearing waves or camps than taking objectives. What's my objective now? running around trying to protect my laners from getting ganked by 2 assasins for th 50th time. Anyway making the optimal approach even more ambigious in such a complex games, just makes it ever more frustrating, especially considering there's no voice-chat. So much of frustration in this game is not being on the same page, and it's not just low-elo, it's also challenger, making it any more ambiguous just makes the game even more frustrating in my opinion.
But yeah personally I'm not excited for constant 4v5 5v4 teamfights while a teammate is running it down on side.
Posted Dec 1, 2025, 5:52 PM UTC