User blog comment:Big Lupu/The Curse of the Supports/@comment-4442345-20130419041844/@comment-7878249-20130419094518

Why aren't those champions played as supports? Doing damage is in no way antithetical to playing a support. Supports "taking kills" isn't a real issue and if you think so, then the OP is perfectly justified in posting this thread. Nidalee has an execute so it clearly wasn't intended by design for supports to play passively.

You say that support items give just enough AP, but the thing is support AP ratios are already sub-par.

I don't think you know what Riot is working towards and if they are doing that, then they're doing it wrong. Catering only to the competitive meta is a great way to ruin a game. Lulu is supposed to assist the carry? With bonus ability power? Support and 'carry' bot lane is a meta creation not necessarily intended by design so stop forcing this supposed role on champions and summoners. It's not fun.