User blog comment:Big Lupu/The Curse of the Supports/@comment-3970297-20130419093605/@comment-4708818-20130420085836

Actually, being a good support is way harder than every other role. As a support you have no winning-formula, you have to build Auras, Ward, as if you got tons of money. You will have to know who where is (like junglers do), to be both safe at warding and to warn your ADC, as he will usually focus on farming last hits. If you are alone in the lane you will have to hold and you will have to know how to last hit correctly, so that the lane is exactly where your ADC wants hit when he returns. That is something ADCs don't worry about. You will have to know when and how your ADC wants to engage, so you can support him perfectly. While your ADC will mostly just focus the enemy ADC, the support will have to watch all circumstances, to disrupt anything they want to do to trade or to flee. You have to attack so that you get the few hundreds of damage that is need to get an advantage over the enemy, but you'll have to know exactly when to stop to make your mates get the kill, while they are just stupididly smashing enemy faces. You will have to plan your money correctly, so you don't run out of wards and not out of utility for your ADC.

As a support, you are the Watcher. And I don't mean that you watch your mates to get kills, you are there to watch the battlefield as a whole, be the guard of your mates, the allknowing existence, the mastermind. You are not the leader. You are the voice in the leader's head that leads your leader to victory.