User blog comment:Warriorkalia/Support Discussion 1/@comment-5266525-20130821220840

You don't play ranked? lolyourgamesdon'tmatter

Joking aside, I find that one of the difficulties with support is that their influence over the game is - to use one of Riot's idioms - locked in the mostly invisible vision mechanic.

Season Three's item rework TRIED to deal with this by providing lots of support items that give much more obvious effects - Shard of True Ice, Mikeal's, etc - but it wasn't enough. When they solve that problem and warding isn't constantly bloating the support's priorities, I expect the support role to become a lot more popular.