Supports/Junglers/Any Champion that goes 20+/0 can carry the team. It's just ONE way to carry a game. Getting 20/0 isn't easy and also being 20/0 doesn't mean you can 1v5 in most cases.
That makes no sense and has nothing at all to do with the discussion. Of course it's not common, she can't lane. The point is with the way the new gold works out for supports there's an actual viable path for supports to reach 4+ item territory. Go play a few arams until you see Janna show up then come back and try this again.
I, too, react violently when my friends launch into a bad-beat story about their most recent LoL game. I can't stand it. I don't have the slightest interest in hitting up my buddies telling them about how I "totally would have won a game but didn't because...". I just absolutely cannot relate to it yet the huge majority of my friends list seems to save up all their harrowing tales just to inundate me with them when I log on. Then they react exactly the way you do when I grumpily start saying "well fucking play better and maybe you'd carry".
When you gank as Nunu do you typically try to get the kill or cede it to the laner? Would you do something differently if you were jungling Master Yi who is typically referred to as a "carry jungler". Do you get why this vernacular is used in regards to how the champ plays in the late game?
I know why the vernacular is used, and I use it myself to try and explain the difference between a tanky jungler & damage jungler.
People sit down at a bar and drink a beer to blow off steam after having a shitty day. This happens every day all over the place, this is nothing different.
Anyone remember the IPL4 game where Dignitas used revamp Soraka middle and Lulu top and were rewarded for their strat with champ bans in all future matches and nerfs to both champions literally the next patch after? Janna has seen changes specifically to keep AP Janna from ever being a thing.
You can carry in S3 as a support. You just need to completely discard the way that supports are played in tournament games. Almost everyone I see goes with the full consumable start and builds Philo, Sightstone, Mobility every single time. That shit is just so retarded.
Aram can be used to tell you things about the regular game. Namely, a lot of supports are EXCELLENT team fighters if farmed. Sona and Janna are good at every point of game, soraka is beast if farmed late game, Taric lulu and karma are excellent early game but get a bit weaker late game, but still remain good.
This is a bit of a chicken and egg argument. Supports now are balanced to be good with minimal amounts of gold and bad scaling. For a long time a lot of the supports had very strong AP scaling back when it was expected for them to build a full set or nearly full set of gear. The meta switched to favor the few champs who could manage with no items and then other support champs were balanced to be able to function in that style meta as well.
Supports make excellentteamfighters if not farmed too that's pretty much what I'm saying. That's why they are supports, they showcase best in TEAM fights.
Shen is an ARAM reroll. No strong poke, no good burst, a CC that requires you to build tanky to survive it and an ult that is completely neutered by the game's mechanics. The only good thing he has is being energy based. I suppose there are worse ARAM champs, but I picked him because he's so not shitty in Champion's Rift to highlight the fact it's a different game.
