People don't want supports to be balanced around have no items

They want supports to have gold and buy items, even tho it's literally the same shit. who cares if you can buy redemption and heal for 400 hp when back then your heal on soraka used to heal twice more and give 150 armor.

The problem with this, is when you make the support role depending on golds you end up having and other bs supports showing botlane AND NOBODY LIKES THAT.Did you not realize that all those "supports" started to show after riot gave supports the ability to buy items? the boards literally used to spam threads to ask riot to remove "supports" from the game, but at the same time they want the role to be balanced around being able to buy items. how exactly do you do both at the same time? Cuz if you do the opposite it's pretty straight forwards, your champion has x2 less income than everyone but in return gets a twice more powerful kit but has their waveclear gutted to prevent them from being overbearing in sololane like how riot did with .