User blog comment:Dantasticjux/Getting out of Bronze Solo Que/@comment-6003864-20130910131253/@comment-12314620-20130910191703

Even support can carry a game in a sense (65% winrate in gold as support even though I don't even play rankeds). I wouldn't recommend supports like Leona or Thresh if you want to carry as a support since they require more reaction from the adc/jungler as well, you're better off as someone with good peel, some poke and lane harass. In that case it's more about carrying your adc through laning phase while setting their bot as far behind as possible and after turrets start going out managing huge amount of vision on the field and doing something ppl are really bad at in low level games: Peeling your now (hopefully decently doing) adc. Since most people at low "elo" have terrible map awareness you should try to ping your team for objectives (as well as write them) and "create" the possible battlefields through warding and counterwarding so tha you have the advantage in terms of vision (it has huge help). As supports your items are of much less importance than any other class and in a seemingly uneventful 40 minute game it's quite possible you have only boots, sightstone and maybe 1 "big items", usually shurelias or Mikaels, since you will be dumping most of your gold to oracles/wards.