Talk:Alistar/@comment-24309189-20140823192239/@comment-6281696-20140827160523

O his kit isn't awefull for a support, but like half the champion rooster has reasonable to powerfull supporting capabilities, nearly everything can be quite an effecient support if it weren't for the whole "ADC gets everything and you get bugger all" meta. To give an example of a character with tremendous supporting power who will never go there in the current meta: Nasus. Wither completly shuts down nearly every opposing ADC, spiritfire gives free armor penetration & Nasus himself is enough of a threat to make engaging on them an unattractive option. Not to mention that in the bot-lane situation he's less likely to be kited cuz if you focus on kiting him his ADC will just shoot you. O and all of his skills are reasonable one-hit wonders allowing for quite some flexibility. It'd work perfectly fine, but you'l never see it played seriously at any level due to how the meta currently works.

Anyways, because Alistar got pushed into the support role he's now a problem, because riot then balanced him around being a support with no income, forgetting that this game has absolute freedom so if he gets strong he'd just be abused somewhere else. Had he been balanced around being a top he'd probably never come to this state. And this is frequently an issue. Bulwark got removed because when it finally became awesome for supports bruisers abused it, Lulu & soraka have gone through numerous iterations because of them becoming either unviable as support or being abused in solo-lanes. The poke-focussed gold item had to be rebalanced several times because mages took it. And there's probably more examples. And I'l shut up now cuz I'm going a bit offtopic :P