Talk:Ivern/@comment-26203093-20160922102157/@comment-26203093-20160927064130

Supports were classically mage-like with kits to control, heal, and generally keep somebody from dying or gain an advantage on the enemy. This is still basically what they are, and they're the ones carrying the label, even though you also send tanks with the adc often do much of the same, but more aggressively.

But if support is a position, then so is adc, as they're as arbitrarily assigned to the bot lane as the support is. But technically, you can have melee as adc - the technical requirement being that they do the amount of physical damage the team needs. Still I assume this is basically because you have "top, mid, bot, jungle and support" as field picks.