Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-5419934-20121223143249/@comment-24836119-20140504021427

Emptylord wrote: For me, "support" and "contributing utility" are the same thing.

So basically everyone who isn't Morde, Fiora or Yi.

I guess kids these days set the bar low now...

Firstly a support (Who is playing their role correctly) is the person who pretty much sacrifices their soul and welfare benefits to make sure you don't get so much as blown on by some whimpy ass breeze. They will waste their time, money and even give up their life JUST so you can have the chance to get a few clicks and presses in before succumbing to the unholy combination of rear magic and physical penetration coming your way.

Syndra is not even close to that. She'll swallow up mountains of gold and will not spend a lick of that to benefit her team unless it involves a climax of pure, magical hell and brimstone shot straight at the enemy teams back-line.

And before you say something like 'Annie/Zyra/Lux/Oh-look-I-have-a-disable/buff! Support' That isn't a support, thats a kill lane. They'll buy wards and pretend to buy that boozy ass support item early on sure, but around the time teamfights start to happen you can bet they'll either consume every creep wave they can get their hands on to supplement their nuclear arsenal or risk becoming Mexico in the area of "I could have some nuking potential but I'd rather not... " And then have their one stun as the only thing to benefit the whole team as the grand master title of 'support' that you seem to like to hand out to any champion who manages to get their Darwins award.

But seriously if you throw around the word support like that you undermine what it means to become a support and pretty much erode the foundations of what being an support actually requires. So you might as well get someone who can *cough*semi*cough* 'support' along with their currently role.

TL:DR. Yes, Syndra has some form of utility and she is great and all but she isn't the pure hunk of a support that Taric is.