A lot of people don't realize that support IS the easiest way to climb. 80+% of people who get the support role are being auto-filled. So that means if you are a main in this role, you know the matchups and what to do in lane. The other player does not. Seriously, try maining it, you can carry your bot lane like you wouldn't believe.
If you are playing the true supports that specialise in actual peeling of your team, engaging fights and various other support-y things (Thresh, Braum, Alistar etc) and not the not even full AP yet can still oneshot their ADC supports (Zyra, Karma, MF etc...) then your chance of winning is much much smaller as those supports cannot individually carry in lower elos.
Playing support will only frustrate you because at the end of the day the carries need to do the damage and the tanks need to frontline
Maining support is like managing a short bus.
Dont do it
A lot of people don't realize that support IS the easiest way to climb. 80+% of people who get the support role are being auto-filled. So that means if you are a main in this role, you know the matchups and what to do in lane. The other player does not. Seriously, try maining it, you can carry your bot lane like you wouldn't believe.
True supports are what the word entails.
Supports.
They are not called AD or AP Carries.
They are called supports.
What you are saying is basically, "Any healer in a MMORPG can carry a game." which is wrong. If there is no damage, there can be no carrying in the sense of this game. You will run of MP at some point. You can only do so much. What supports complain about is the lack of ability to CS, gain gold, and grab kills quickly. That isn't their job. If you are stuck with a brain dead ADC, you better kiss your LP goodbye. Healing and crowd control can only do so much. I can silence you and stun you for hours. If your ADC refuses to budge, you can't carry anything. Your ADC has to be somewhat decent to even carry him.
What we have because of this is Malzahar, Teemo, Zyra, and other champions who can deal damage on bot lane supportive roles. Even then, they are not pure AP.
Nobody in their right mind would believe that a support can 1 v 1 a mage, assassin, tank, or adc that are not supports.
The thing is ADC's also rely on supports, but to a lesser extent if they are good vs supports who are good.
If you put an ADC main vs a support main and compare their ability to carry, it would be obvious who has an easier time.
Or... main jungle and try to snowball every lane instead of just one.
