Stop trying to balance every mage around the broken support role.

Lulu, zyra, malzahar, karma, brand. Mages arn't allowed to be strong alone anymore because they're exploited in the support role. Midlaners are systematically being removed from mid and shoehorned into support, maybe it's time to look at support as a role and make some major changes before every fucking mage in the game can only be played as a support.

Nobody wants to play support so it screws up matchmaking, sightstone is an obnoxious goldsink that is pretty much mandatory, it kills every mage it touches, and most support itemization still feels more gimmicky than fun and effective.