We have utility, healing, and tanking supports; and tho some of them do a good amount of damage, none are made primarily for it.
A damage support is a support who uses ap damage to harrasse, and keep enemies low. Closest to it we have is annie. a damage support would be pretty cool
I main zyra support. And i usually do well over 20k more damage dealt to champions than the rest of my team. I'd say she has the highest damage output out of any current "support"
I played nami the other day and our adc wasn't doing to great so i got 11 or 13 kills. She can do some pretty good damage while keeping the enemy in one place.
are all damage supports, granted I don't like to count Zyra as a support because she is my favorite mid laner and hope that Riot makes her mid lane again, same for Lux (being a mid laner), but they still are played as support and fulfill what you are describing
Sona? While she has a good amount of utility she can do crazy damage. Nami can do some damage too.
Also Karma, Raka maybe...Bard sometimes too. Zyra can.
Part of the "utility" is damage because having a support just made for damage wouldn't be as good as having a tanky or ulitity supp imo. They have nothing to offer your adc except extra damage. A support like Sona can do damage (while giving your next auto a boost), heal, and speed you up AS WELL as do extra damage, make the enemy do less damage for a few seconds, and slow the enemy down.
Poke-y utility supports are the ones meant to do damage and help your adc. If you want a support that just does damage literally pick any ap or ad midlaner...
Damage support is an oxymoron. Poking is fine, but damage takes away kills from rest of team. period. If you get 40 kills a game, how much better if those are divided between 4 people instead of 5. Support is there to get others the kills. Otherwise, he dilutes the gold by taking kill gold for himself. Frankly, I had to stop playing adc preseason because the damage support is tilting af.
Any support can be a "damage" support with artificial numbers. Spellblade, Echo, Gunblade, Fire Cape, Thornmail, et cetera.
Many supports weren't even designed with "supporting" in mind. Look at Blitzcrank for example: 3 obscene AP scalings, an AD-multiplier and an AS booster. Literally his only "defensive" tool is his mana-shield passive.
Not to mention how many countless mid-laners have become meta support picks: Morg, Brand, Zyra, Malz, Vel and even Syndra & Lissandra for short moments.
Hell, I once had a support Lucian that did really well, because I didn't want a fucking useless-ass Sona on my team. As far as I'm concerned, this game has 138 viable support options, about to be 139 once Zoe is released.
