User blog comment:YourPrivateNightmare/The Support, an essay/@comment-3466579-20131025091417

Why is it so difficult to understand that the meta game isn't a bad thing? It represents the most efficient, thus the best, way to play the game in a certain period of time, and it is created by players with high skills and understanding of the game.

How can you say Mordekaiser or Gangplank can be good supports? As of now (we don't know how it will be in Season 4) it's ridiculous. You just can't look at one or two champion's skills, or potential plays, and say: yeah, Mordekaiser has a shield, let's play him support! Supporting is about gaining and maintaining vision on the map, engaging & disengaging, peeling, protecting, healing, poking, setting kills, buying the correct, useful items and a lot more.

Do you really think a Deathfire Grasp is a legitimate support item? Lol. 3100 gold just to buff one or two players in your team? Just let the APC buy it, for the Lord's sake! With that huge amount of money you can buy Shurelya and Sightstone, which are a hundred times more useful to your whole team than DFG.

"SUPPORTS DON'T DO DAMAGE, SO DON'T BUY IT!" You're right, that's bullshit. But you know, playing a support only for its damage is also bullshit. Damage won't save your team mates and it won't set up kills without ccs.