Upvote If You Agree The Support Role Should Be Updated

There always seems to be an argument between having longer queue times and getting your selected roles ensured versus shorter queues and getting filled. Support has always been the least desired role, and has caused things like autofill to be implemented into the game. Autofill has been the subject of ridicule in the community since its conception because of 1. it forcefully putting players at a disadvantage by putting them in a role they do not play and 2. it isnt the players choice to do so.

There is a simple problem: support is not fun to play for the majority of the player base. However, forcing people into playing it is only making the situation worse. Rather than making queues 'luck of the draw' as to who gets their role and who gets filled, have the support role be more desirable to play. This will give both faster queue times and players the role they want instead of having to choose one or the other (or with autofill just make the choice for people!).

Currently there seems to be only two playstyles for support, and those are either assisting your team and giving them all of the resources you can give in hopes they will carry you or be greedy and build damage so you can carry early game in hopes of winning before your team has a chance to throw. So basically trust your team (which is terrible for anything below diamond) or dont trust your team and try to 1v9.. pretty bland if you ask me. Also, builds for support are lacking as well. Build to actually support (which is pretty much just resistances and shields) or damage (and try to hog kills from your adc). That's it. Either way is bad for gameplay because 1. the first is boring and makes you less likely to win by putting the responsibility into other peoples hands or 2. play for yourself and defeat the whole purpose of the support role by greedily taking resources from your adc.

There are plenty of ways to change the meta for supports with things like itemization, adding more choices and decisions during early/mid/late game specific to the role, update/change champions all together to make them more entertaining, etc.

It doesnt matter if youre a support main or you dont mind being filled every couple of games, but most of the community cares if they are. When one of the cornerstone roles for a team's success in a "team oriented" game sucks and most people hate it, there is something wrong.