User blog comment:Kygehn/Support Rantings/@comment-9044052-20131230180545/@comment-5955640-20140105051823

What are you saying? We have at least a dozen standard support choices and you just mentioned four of them and I know for a fact that Lulu, Sona, Janna, and Taric are all picks that people still employ for supports. You even failed to mention Leona who never stopped being a support despite the change in metas and seasons.

Mid laners need their CC for teamfights and to deal good burst damage. Alot of them have a sacrifice of mobility and survivability to deal great crowd control. The meta for the game is length yet not to lengthy matches in which a lot of excitement and goals can be captured. A lot of the old supports were made for sustain lanes which were often very boring.

Thus came Leona and Blitzcrank who were great initiators and The heavy use of Taric who was a good initator and a sustain champ. Heals have now been nerfed in favor of more clutch gameplay which meant that whoever could seal the deal with good crowd control was a good choice for a lane. Hence the Fiddlesticks and Annie and the sort.

Supports aren't going to be given buffs to invisble powers nor are they going to get any real heal buffs that would actually completely nullify a kill lane attempt. Instead they are given the sort of trade off kill lane supports don't usually get to give for mid to late games. Heavy utility. The power to massively modify and magify your allies with spells can far outweigh just a bit more CC.

Besides. Mages have only recently returned to midlane. All of season three there was no real hard CC mages because mid lane was the place for assassins.