User blog comment:TheHellDoIPutHere/Supports and You/@comment-5545048-20130718165531

The reason why supports are often blamed is because it's the most likely role to have an inexperienced player on. Out of all roles, support is the one that is least picked (voluntarily) and therefore has the most players on it that actually don't want to play that role.

When I started playing ranked I was usually the person who wasn't quick enough with claiming roles so I usually became the support. At first I was very bad at it but I was just forced into it so often that I am now actually an experienced support. And now in ranked I actually pick support sometimes when nobody else in my team does because It's always better to have a person on the role that he thinks he's the best with.

So for me, the best supports are most of the time the people that are willingly playing support. They usually know what they're doing.