The Evolution of Support meta

Hello, I'm a support main, to some that may mean that I'm a %%%*** not worth listening to and that's fine, to others that may say that I whine too much. I'm not here to whine per se however, I'm only here to talk about some interesting observations I've made.

I'm relatively new to league so I haven't played during the earlier seasons when some champs were really wonky (I was told that soraka could heal everything) but I have spent enough time in botlane to remark some interesting things.

START READING HERE TO AVOID THE INTRODUCTIONS : What is support meta ? or a better question, what should a support be able to do ? well, that depends,(Based on my experience) some supports are very good at buffing the adc, shields, heals, mvt speed buffs ...etc some other supports can focus the enemy botlaners better and disabling their ability to fight effectively, whether by stunning, rooting, displacing ...etc and then there are other supports also who have minor or no ability to buff the adc or cc the enemy but instead deal alot of dmg to the enemy botlane, interestingly enough these champs are also and sometimes exclusively midlaners. on a final note some champs may fulfill a multitude of these things .

Now that's fine and dandy, but what happens when a particular champ or more, can fulfill too many of these things, hmmmm... How ? or better yet who ? Enter the holy trio of support meta : Now hold on a sec, am I saying that these champs are broken and need to be nerfed ? No, not exactly, but let's take a very good look at them first:

Leona : a Tank with two stuns (the second is her ult), a dash ability that roots the enemy in place for short duration, normally comboed with her stun and a shield that explodes dealing dmg. so to recap, her stun deals dmg, she can dash to you rooting you for the short dashing duration, her ult stuns and deals dmg, her shield deals dmg also and her passive allows her adc to deal more dmg . Hmmmm, oh and let's not forget, she's a tank (ie, she's not supposed to deal too much dmg, let alone as a support champion) and to top it all off, she doesn't need to build ap or ad, her dmg is lvl based :)

Thresh : ah yes, the beloved mastery 7 spammer who carries botlane every time (I wonder why), this guys has a hook, a relatively slow hook then again one that has a very long range, a hook that if landed, roots, pulls the target a bit then allows thresh to dash to them (that's a hmmm worthy ability right there). he also has a knockback that is area based, his lantern allowing someone to dash quickly to thresh himself and grants a shield (y tho ?) and an ult that cages an enemy with walls that slow big time for the first wall hit and deal dmg. his hook and knockback deal decent dmg, nothing fancy but his passive :))). Thresh's passive, is soul collection, tiny fragments he can collect in lane (unlike bard having to roam for instance) that grant him armor and ap (his abilities scale with ap) and also his basic attacks are not projectiles (oh poor yasuo) but they're ranged :))))))))) HMMMMMMMMMMMMM [gj riot]

Brand : I'm not going to talk too much about this guy because he's a midlaner but one thing to not is that people playing support whether autofilled or by choice seem to spam this guy, and they win lane and the game because of the simple fact that he deals alot of Aoe dmg and can easily zone ppl in botlane denying farm and the like and also he's not as squishy as you might think .

So, what do these 3 folks have in common ? they're have a high pick rate, they can carry botlane easily and thresh and leona particularly are very peculiar because they're basically two tanks that deal plenty of dmg, without ap or ad items and have very good cc and in a nutshell, they're classic examples of champions that accomplish too much.

By contrast, take soraka, janna and nami, 3 champs that buff the adc directly, soraka and nami can heal, janna can shield and heal with her ult,nami can damage and cc with her ult and soraka's only cc is a silence followed up by a root, that hardly lands outside a teamfight. they are all support champs, all squishy and neither of them accomplish everything.

an interesting sample is the new "support", pyke, an assassin with a stun, a pull a dash a blink execute and the ability to go invisible and gain mvt speed ( oh boi ) and lastly he can share gold with his ult. the BIG downside is he gains passive ad instead of bonus health :,) gj riot

Basically, support meta is nonexistent because of this fact, riot makes shit support champs (pardon my french), they have only changed their mind recently with thresh and rakan and went overboard with pyke, this results in traditional supports being abandoned for being useless and ppl either sticking to the same good supports or picking toplane tanks (nautilus, maokai...) with cc or midlaners with a lot of dmg (the good old ks queen, lux and so on)

The only thing that would like to ask of you is, are you satisfied with the current state of affairs, if not, suggestions ? and if you would like to argue with me to correct me or change my mind, you're always welcome .