User blog comment:Kygehn/Support Rantings/@comment-3466579-20131230100016

Traditional supports are completely viable, perhaps only at a professional level you see a lot more support mages than "classic" ones, but this happened at the end of season 3 too (see Zyra).

At every other level of play traditional supports can easily beat mages, even in the early game.

It seems to me you may have been beaten hard by a support mage, you probably don't know how to manage their damage then, because it's all about that.