Why not just give the support Sightstone to start the game?

Who IS the support to begin with?

In Blind Pick, the client will not recognize on who actually picked support, as I doubt it can actually read call-outs or read the player's mind when he doesn't call shit.

In Draft Pick, this can either be faulty or heavily abused. There can either be someone who got autofilled to Support and got agreed to switch with Mid lane, or some guy who wants to Jungle but then intentionally picks Support so that he gets an early Sightstone as Lee Sin jungle.

It's not that we're that "selfish" to listen to opinions. It's just that your opinion just lacks a lot of details to support it.

Don't tell me it's game breaking.

I mean, is THIS all you can come up with?

which could be resolved by doing the same thing as the junglers - if you take Summoner X then you get a 0g SightStone.

Exhaust/Flash or Ignite/Flash can be used in mid or top. Not good enough.

The most common summoners on supports are flash/exh and flash/ignite, both combinations that are taken by solo laners sometimes. It would very quickly become meta to ensure non-supports had that summoner, because a free sightstone is going to be super useful for everyone until they hit 5-6 items as it'd provide pretty much complete gank immunity from all but the most sneaky junglers.

Having an early sightstone doesn't do anything to help with experience, and if anything it might make it slightly worse. Supports tend to fall behind their adcs because they're expected to go ward, but in the first 10 minutes or so before they have a sightstone they generally keep pace. If they suddenly have a sightstone out of the gate, then they probably should be out warding.

I also feel like supports are at one of the most useful points they've ever been, with items like redemption and locket being relatively cheap and potentially able to turn around teamfights. (Granted, theres been a patch or two recently where everyone dies almost instantly with all the lethality and stuff around, but thats not supports being weak, thats everyone else being too strong.)

There are certainly problems surrounding the support role to be solved, but they're not easy problems, so people don't necessarily have solutions. Someone pointing out flaws with a proposed solution, without having any alternatives themselves, is still useful so people trying to solve the problems can go back to the drawing board and try to address those things. Repeat until an ideal solution is found. It's somewhat human nature for people to feel like people pointing out flaws with their idea(s) is akin to people pointing out flaws with them, but it's important to draw the distinction, since thats how problem solving produces good solutions in the end.

While some amount of the sightstones 800 pricetag is the hp on it, theres still value in having a pile of wards that refreshes whenever you back (after all, green wards weren't free in previous seasons), so simply removing the hp stats wouldn't change that you'd be giving supports some amount of value for free and not other roles. Sure, vision is imperative to the support role, but doing ad damage is imperative to the adc role and you're not giving them an extra free long sword.

First back items are pretty much set in stone for almost every champ (based on their gold at first back), and they all help their usefulness. It just happens that for supports that first back item oftens ends up being a sightstone, which is honestly probably more useful than the adc getting a pickaxe in terms of how it changes the lane dynamics.

my point was that lots of off meta supports then cant get sightstone.

can you explain how your point helps?

How do I start sweeper at level 1? And sweeper does allow you to kill wards, but it also alerts your location.

Your idea is simply way too busted.