User blog comment:Canvasofgrey/A New View on Supports v.1.1/@comment-192.223.163.6-20120419185705

Why no mention of Alistar? I'm just curious, but I see him as a great early game support and a solid mid-late game tank.

I build Allistar with Philosopher stone and heart of gold early. I get 1 point into q and w, drop the rest into e, r at 6/11/16 of course. How I play it is I protect/feed my carry. If he's in trouble, I knock up enemies or push them away, then fall back to heal the carry. Additionally if an enemy overextends and I'm sure we can get him, I try to knock them into the air and push them toward my carry. Then when the game transitions, Allistar can start pushing lanes himself for farm and support the team as tank with his Ultimate. Playing like this my Ali can heal the team, disrupt the enemy team, and feed stray kills to the carry.