User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Why I believe dedicated supports are better than AP supports/@comment-11581326-20131126100747

The bias in the OP is ridiculous. ALL champs, no matter what, are SITUATIONALLY DEPENDENT. That's why you can see the enemy champs in draft and ranked que's. You don't just grab Annie because you wanted to do mid but now you have to be support because you weren't fast enough/pick order or whatever, and you saw CLG or whoever do it that one time. You'd pick annie because you're ADC is Draven or Quinn and they'll be able to collapse upon the opposing ADC/Support and secure you're team first blood or several kills.

Same with someone like support Ashe, Jayce, or Karma. You'd pick those champs for harrass on the enemy team, while someone like Soraka, Taric, and Sona would be used more for sustain on your ADC while you poke every once in a while.

The whole scenerio is retarded, fictional, and assumes WAY too many things. Really, would you pick a Soraka if you're team does not have an APC, for whatever reason? (Example, Quinn/Soraka bot, Zed mid, Riven top, and Aatrox jungle) Her q, Starcall, which lowers enemy MR, would be completely useless to the rest of the team. On the other hand, to use your example of Annie, an AoE stun DoT that is Tibbers would lock up the entire team and allow the rest of your team to easily burst down squish, high value targets, even if Annie isn't building Rabadon's, DFG, Void Staff, ect.

The whole point of taking a mid laner and making them you're support is so that they can help the AD Carry get kills that would be otherwise impossible with a normal support like Soraka or pre-6 Sona. That's why people do support Twisted Fate, or support Malphite. It's not because they're dicking about, it's because situationally, it works.