User blog comment:Veryverylongname/Who's is the bot lane leading role?/@comment-212.35.118.20-20130308105340

Appart from the gameplay of each player, it also depends heavily on the champions played.

A Blitz or Malphite as support bot HAS to poke and engage. They're tanks, they can afford to take the hits.

On the other hand, I'm playing Lulu a lot. She is really squishy : she can poke and harass a bit, but she'll focus more on neutralizing the ennemy team's attempts than trying to initiate, since getting caught will get her killed immediatly.

And of course, everything depends also on the other team composition and behaviour ; if they are both ranged and playing overly defensive, I know I can afford to harass them, since pushing them away from my adc will be more than enough to protect him.

If they're close ranged with jumps or grabs, or overly aggressive, I can't take the risk of having a skill in cooldown when they'll rush either me or my adc, so I won't harass as much.

At the end of the day, there is no common rule that can apply to every case ; hell, I even had a few games when as Lulu I had to take the last hits on creeps since my close-ranged partner couldn't take them.

The best we can do is improvise each time and find a way to work together ; most of the time, that requires to put egos aside.