User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Bot lane supports/@comment-24022269-20131202061411/@comment-3466579-20131202100819

I cannot agree more with you.

Support Annie is a rather new phenomenon in LoL, thus i absolutely understand the need for some evaluation and discussion on her playstyle and effectiveness. However, one should compare support Annie to every other support champion in the League in order to be able to say: support Annie is overall better than champ A, overall worse than champ B and C, better than D in this situation, worse than E and F in teamfights, etc. There's no reason to just compare Annie and Soraka. It's like comparing Renekton and Quinn in the top lane, Talon and Anivia in the mid lane, Lee Sin and Sejuani in the jungle.

Mages that go supporting in the bot lane usually have 2 issues: the gold income and the overall utility.

Mages in the bot lane definitely bring more damage than a dedicated support. It is really important that their damage output keeps increasing in order to be strong in every stage of the game, not only in the early game, and this requires a hefty amount of gold. Even with the buffs to the gold income it is harder to keep the same gold flow in the bot lane, as a support, than in the mid lane as a APC, also considering those items you absolutely need to provide your team with as a support. By the 30th minute, a 120 ap Lux is something you can just ignore; Janna instead can do her job amazingly well even without items.

By overall utility i mean something really simple: Annie is really strong when she lands a stunnig Tibber on top of the opponent bot lane but how strong is she when she get engaged without her stun ready? A mage can be played as a support because of one or two distinctive and strong features but may be really weak in other spots. Nidalee has ridiculous poking potential, map control via traps and a heal. Annie has damage and stuns.This may not be a problem when you're a Challenger Tier player but during everyday games coordination may be so bad that Annie (or other support mages) completely loses all of her potential, while if you're playing Sona or Janna you can adapt to your carry much better.