User blog comment:Endless Exceptions/Lame Support Excuses./@comment-4929087-20120707012858

Well first of all supports will nearly always end with something like 0/5/23 or something along those lines, so over the course of the game the support should be a primary target on the chopping block for the enemy (Impossible to fight through soraka's sustain, blitz serves as an initiator) So they should be considered primary targets. Support is generally the most frustrating role to play, doublely so when you add it to solo queue, because supports generally need to be in sync with their lane partners, and when two people on different waves lengths go together, unless you're an execeptional support, there's not much you can do. And kills aren't as important as some people hype them up to be. 15 or so minion kills is roughly a champ kill, and supports are there mainly to keep the enemy: 1: Underfarmed, 2: suppressed, allowing the carry to get farmed up, and 3: to sustain or buff the carry to keep them there as long as possible to get minion kills. Try just asking them to play passively in a polite manner and you might have unexpected results, you never know.