User blog comment:StrategicMagic/Leona - Wasted in Support/@comment-5191586-20130412235815

Err...Well, I main support, and Leona is my go to for support. And, unless we have a terrible early game, to which my ADC gets slaughtered, and they focus me, I still initiate fights mid game, and walk away from the majority of them...Finding the right items is hard in every game, but I will buy a cloth armor to start the game against stun/high ADC comps. By mid game I try to always have warden's mail and or Aegis. Now, I'm not saying that she can't be used other places, I mean, the bots send her top :P
 * 1) "Supports don't get much gold at all. Once mid game hits, you won't have many items and won't be all that tanky.
 * 2) Following on from the previous point, you can't go in to initiate a fight any more, as even if you lock someone down, you will die for it because you aren't tanky enough to take all the focus because you can't afford big enough tank items, because you were support. Can't do your job as initiator? You better have something like Malphite top/jungle, because you certainly can't do it."