User blog comment:JojobaExtract/Supporting in the current meta/@comment-5266525-20130924135731

I see so many blogs and forum threads about how awful and horrible it is and how everyone (read: EV-RY-ONE) is out for you and you only I can't help but wonder if it's all just hyperbolic recountings of a single game generalized to mean all of them. I almost NEVER get the stereotypical angry-at-everything rage monsters that everyone claims to infest ranked queues like rats in a sewer.

I've come to like support after having to spend so many matches (relatively speaking...) in ranked playing it. As a jungler main who mostly plays support tanks like Nautilus and J4, it's barely any different to what I do normally, really. Set up kills, protect your allies, and buy wards and tankiness with what little gold you do get.

There's just one aspect of support which I hate and undoubtedly why it's the least played role - fighting the vision war is frustrating for everyone involved but the support is the one who gets it in the neck because they are the ones doing the bulk of the warding. It ends up hoarding all your gold and prevents you from making very many meaningful item purchases to help you make plays - which leads to the support role being rather lacking in high moments by comparison. I'm pretty sure a Rioter said somewhere that this was basically the biggest problem with support and were going to implement changes in Season Four to fix it, but they did also state that in Preseason Three and not much headway was made, so...