User blog comment:Big Lupu/The Curse of the Supports/@comment-4442345-20130419041844/@comment-5955640-20130419052855

You don't quite understand what the balance is do you? If they do too much damage. People won't play them as supports. But sustain champs slow the game down which isn't what they want either. See we have had aggressive Supports. Nidalee, Teemo, Kayle, Lux, And Morgana. And how often do you see those people in bottom lane with the carry? Almost never. They have such a kit to where people see it's more effective to use them in everywhere else but there.

Supports like Thresh and Lulu is what they are working towards. Utility that more directly assists the carry in a token way with some firepower in the kit. The Ap support items give just enough AP so the moves that scale off it are effective. Ya know. Shields, Heal, and Some basic damage.

Unless you are talking about other MOBAs the meaning of support changes dramatically from game to game and genre to genre.