User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Bot lane supports/@comment-24022269-20131202061411

So you're saying certain things are too un-bear-able for Annie? Au contraire.

But in all seriousness, this ending is unsatisfactory for me. (Can I do a better job? Doubtful, but that still doesn't take away my right to have a high standard.)   You basically shoe-horned two champs with very different playstyle as supports into a comparison where none of their strengths match, then end with one is better due to the arbitrary values of a support. Then of course the ultimate ending comes with how everything is different. Kinda like how family guy off'd Brian with such a weak death after years of taking beatings, tortures and accidents that is so much more severe. Heck, Ernie the Giant Chicken is still alive, and he took a shipload of beating.

I do agree that some mages wouldn't help the adc as much as a typical support would. However, certain mages, like Annie, Veigar, or Lux, they can certainly help as much, if not more, due to their CCs. I'll take Annie stunning that tank who ventures too close to the backlines over Soraka healing any day of the week in late game.

What makes your whole comparison a bit unsatisfactory for me is that you took the two extremities of supports and lumped them together. There are some supports out there who have both some healing and some hard cc. They are truly, truly outrageous since they can combine some benefits from both Annie and Soraka. Kinda like a midfielder, while Annie is like a forward and Soraka is a centre-back. (Who's in net? Blitz, of course)  Sure everybody loves forwards and the backs are often the underappreciated hard workers of the bunch, but midfielders can do a bit of both and good midfielders can change a game in their own way. I don't know. Lost my train of thought. Either way, something about comparing extremities.

I'm not saying you wrote all these to no avail though. Thinking about things from different angles and debating over the different views is certainly fun. Most views are hit and miss and the right way (if there is one) is always forged together from many hit and miss views. Kinda like science.

tl;dr -  Then what are you doing here in this post? Mine ain't that much longer than each part of the series. Go read or do whatever you need to do, then comeback.