User blog comment:Big Lupu/The Curse of the Supports/@comment-8197879-20130422180527

I dunno, I like playing supports because it feels wrong when I DON'T have a way to save someone other than killing their attacker faster. The usual team I go with appreciates the support stuff I do, at least.

I've also seen supports do some rather scary damage. I once ended up in a 4v5 PvP game because our ADC ragequit at about the ten minute mark. Our support (Leona) then stepped up her damage a bit to compensate for the lack of an ADC, and I swapped out of jungle at that point (as Warwick) to help her keep bot lane from being overpushed. There were at least two situations where Leona would dive into a 1v4 fight to save a tower, kill two of them (admittedly weakened from an earlier teamfight, but still), chase off the other two, and then get out alive.

We came back from a seven-kill deficit in a 4v5 without our ADC by not picking fair fights for most of the game. Any time someone on their team wandered off, they would die. I also soloed Dragon whenever it spawned and I could do so safely, so that helped some. We eventually turned a seven-kill deficit into a 16-kill lead, could take them on in fair fights easily, and won the game.

No ADC, and our support was freaking scary. I mean, yes, Leona, huge teamfight presence. Tank-Support Taric, Support Janna, Support Nami. I've seen all of them do some awesome things. Janna's ult is basically I CALL DO-OVER ON THAT TEAMFIGHT, at least in respect to her team's living members. Nami has an on-command sort-of-red-buff, a non-ult area stun, and an ult that's practically a guaranteed disengage. Taric has shiny auras and is good for soaking skillshots (ran into a game with a fed Nidalee running Mejai's for the lulz; my lategame job mostly involved getting in between Nidalee and our carries so the javelins would do 15% of my HP instead of 75% of theirs). Even Soraka can make a difference, what with her magic resist shred, her silence, her dispenser-ness, and her thousands of HP of burst healing. Supports are appreciated, at least when you have a not-jerkish team.

...and failing that, "Protect the Vayne", anyone? I found the Vayne + 4 supports comp amusing.

I'm rambling now. Shutting up.