User blog comment:QuantumFeint/Botlane meta - where did all the supports go?/@comment-6061249-20140906234658

I can accept any kind of supporting as long as the kit is REALLY supposed to help your allies grab more and more kills, zone the opponents, getting vision, whatever.

But people in season four got too far with it.

No. Vel'Koz is not a support, and i will never accept calling him a support. Just because he's got some CC and scales nice without AP because of true damage. I won't call him like this, because his kit is purely designed to kill. And that's how Vel'Koz "supporting" mostly ends - he gets the gold he shouldn't get, while ADC sticks to lane minions and assists (sometimes not even this).

Turning heavy damage dealer into a support is, no offense, a sign of some mental disorder. Why would you want to do that when you can just go for the lane where you are the one who gets as much gold as possible and build that freaking damage, so in late game you actually keep dealing the damage while your real support heals you, shields you, buffs you, CC locks enemy team for hours, grants the vision.

As long as a champion is specified to fit in a role, even if it's the secondary one, i'm fine with it. I can call Leona a support since she's actually doing what everyone expects to be the helping. The things supports are meant to do.

Some champions can be used as supports even at competitive level, but no one, literally no one will tell me that Zyra, Vel'Koz and Annie are supports. They are not. Go to that goddamn middle lane, build the damage, and do what you're intended to do. Thresh and Leona are supports. They, by themselves are just not properly designed to keep a solo lane. They're purely made to build up for team's lack of crowd control and protecting position of teammates.

Supports should buy supporting items. Supporting items barely scale with damaging abilities, since most of them don't bring ability power. Supporting items scale with, and bring UTILITY. You buy Talisman of Ascension a.k.a. Shurelya because you want to grant utility to your team, and improve your own utility. When you're intended to apply CC to the opponent, you don't want damage. Your teammates do damage. You do the control. You don't need damage. You need that goddamn Talisman to get the MS boost and come close enough to the opponent to begin the rumble.

As an important thing - i feel like one of reasons for heavy damage supports being popular is the thing that, in fact, you're playing in similiar way to middle lane. Didn't get mid? Well whatever, i'll pick Vel'Koz and tell everyone i'm supporting. So going by that, i'll pick Darius and tell everyone i'm supporting, because i pull and slow things, and scale good without damage items (althrough only for first levels, but who cares). Then. i'll score kills and become an easy shutdown target. Yeah, definitely the way to go.