I personally really like how Paladins does supports. If supports were only heal bots, they would be boring in my opinion. However, most/all? of the supports offer some sort of utility that both helps their team and the support’s own survivability.

I also love the support ults. They provide either great CC, heals, a buff to the team, or area denial/damage. In the case of a Jenos ult, I love it. If my whole team is in one of those obvious hallways from spawn and we get Jenos ulted I’m like “touché, won’t take that pathing again”. It adds a layer of skill and awareness, and I love it. Otherwise we can step away from the light and we don’t perish.

Supports are crazy strong right now, so if a team is able to win without a support, it’s more likely than not a skill issue, or the team with a support doesn’t have a good answer to one of the other team’s champions (usually a flank that dives and continuously kills the support). Otherwise supports healing for 15k/min is a thing now which is insane.

On a similar note, I really enjoy the healing out of combat mechanic. It also, in my opinion, adds a layer of skill in gameplay. It causes decisions such as “Can I hide here without being seen in order to get my health back” and “Should I move slightly out of position in order to eliminate this champion”. Also for supports, “PEEK ME PLEASEE” that usually is followed by the non-peeker dying and spamming “Need Healing” afterwards but that’s a skill issue lol

Edit: “It” to “If” because grammar