To Supports

I only very rarely take Ignite as support, so it's not like I'm getting defensive here or something, but I don't follow your logic. What if I'm playing a tank support with Bond of Stone, but want to counteract the healing from a Soraka?

Off topic, but your name sounds like it's a screen name for Grindr or Growlr or Scruff.

Expound on this a bit more, please. I get why someone would want to double down on their offensive capabilities, but then some supports either don't proc Thunderlord's Decree reliably or depend on a defensive keystone late game (or even scale better off the bonus resists mastery). I can see arguments for both sides, so why is it adamant that Ignite must be followed with Thunderlord's for you?

The thing that you should consider when taking is who you are against, and if your team has enough CC.

If your team has so much lock down and there's a , take . If there are assassins that worry you, take .

I don't think it's connected to what masteries you take TBH.

I don't think masteries have a correlation with summoner spells, if anything.

I get where you're coming from, but just because you are making a kill lane and pick up Ignite doesn't mean you can proc Thunderlord's efficiently; namely, someone like Blitzcrank. I usually get Ignite on him (unless I need Exhaust to counter Zed or something), but I never get Thunderlord's because he can't proc it very often.

If I'm playing an aggressive Leona because we don't need an exhaust on the team, I'm not taking TLD

not true it depends on the support and what you are against. if i see a im gonna go with and im gonna all in her early so i dont kill her and leave her unable to heal the damage so my adc can easily kill her. or if i see a team with alot of tanks or hp stackers say ill take every game but if i see alot of dps champs like ect ill get .

but as a i never have 18 points in the cunning tree, im either 12-0-18 or 0-12-18 depending on match up, as a leona i like having the extra 2% damage on abilities, the exposed weakness so when my allies damage the target i engage they do 3% more damage and you add in my passive damage that procs on champs that my allies hit after i do damage to them will increase the damage that champ takes by alot. the free 10ad or 15 ap is just egh i take it over lifestea/spell vamp as leona, but the 2.5% more damage to champs that are cc,rooted, taunted ,slowed ect helps with damage cuz it works for your allies when u cc/slow/root an enemy plus the 3% exposed weakness + my daylight passive 2% more damage from abilities. and typically as my runes are flat armor reds, 1 armor quint 2 gold per 10 quints, flat hp yellows and cdr blues.

Please learn the support role properly before commenting on it.