ADC discussions are just like before 8.11 now

D357R0Y3R··5 votes·1,767 views

non adc mains: "wow adcs are meta again, nice diversity riot"

not understanding that: -melees will always be shit against ranged champions unless Riot heavily work on melee vs ranged laning pathern, and mages will push out everyone out of botlane if said diversity was allowed. not believing me? What did we see in high elo right after 8.11? Mages Irelia and Yasuo being played botlane botlane nice, what did we see after 1 week in high elo? Vladimir Ryze Swain Heimerdinger
http://gol.gg/champion/list/season-S8/split-ALL/tournament-ALL/patch-8.11/role-ADC/league-ALL/ witness how irelia had so much picks midlane, but was picked 5 times botlane why? because it sucked Melees in this game cannot duolane because for some reasons their kit scales so much with levels due to not only the amount of power loaded into their base stats but also their spells. They can't go botlane. Said diversity just replaced ADC with ADC that had 3k hp and kept healing/shielding themselves tell me how it's fair to fight vladimir that keeps dealing a shit ton of damage while tanking so much damage and healing himself?

"look X Y and Z were picked, so adcs weren't trash and we had diversity" I main Lucian and Ashe, Lucian was S tier and got nerfed, Ashe was somewhat playable in pro and shit in regular (getting oneshot against vlad everytime, yikes). the problem wasn't that the entire class was garbage I'm not going to say "adcs were all garbage gj riot" because i know that not all adcs were garbage the problem was that half of adcs were legit unplayable, and they could only go botlane. No other lane was open for them. How is that fair? When a champion is weak riot always help them unless said champion does not deserve attention due to design issues. Kalista for instance is not getting attention. I get people want more than one class to be played botlane, but if there are champions in that class who can only go botlane, how is it going to be fair to completely remove them from botlane while they have no other lanes.

Now we have adc mains: "adcs aren't strong, look only X amount of adc has over 50% win rate" "don't nerf kai'sa, buff other adcs" oh boy the return of that argument, not understanding that when adcs play against each other they can't have all >50% win rate because both team have an adc. You know why I also can't stand that argument it's because it's mostly used by jhin and kai'sa mains that want their mains to keep dominating everyone

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

I feel like there is no way to make everyone happy, but there is only a way to make every champion playable somewhere.

I personally have more fun playing against adcs every games, than playing against swain or vlad

19 Comments

Sewer Side4 votes

And yet no one ever considers the supports. It’s like they get a free pass.

Melee bot lane won’t work unless they can literally 1v2, because if you get a dumb, useless support as a melee, two ranged champions will zone you out.

Range vs melee isn’t always disadvantaged, otherwise we’d see more ADCs top. It’s the fact if you have to play against Soraka, Nami, Sona, Janna, Thresh, Pyke, Alistar and a plethora of other supports, their combined efforts with the ADC will zone you from farming gold.

So basically you’d have to make a melee champion immune to ranged harass.

Not to mention melee can’t harass, they’re committed to all ins and a lot of supports can easily peel.

Now why mage bot lane never took off, that’s worth discussing.

D357R0Y3R1 votes

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Range vs melee isn’t always disadvantaged, otherwise we’d see more ADCs top.

Sure, I didn't mention it but ranged champions are safer in a 2v2 scenario than 1v1 unless enemy support is blitzcrank or something like that, and even then blitzcrank is way too windowed, his hook removes half of his mana and has 20 sec cd, his W has 75 mana cost and if he gets cc'ed during it he will be self-slowed at the end.

truth is range is a problem everywhere even botlane cait has 650 base range and that makes her so so impossible to balance against other adcs, because range is such a huge factor in lane right now.

Daddy Ants3 votes

ADC's are fine at the moment.

Just because people PREFER TO PLAY MARKSMEN does not make Mage botlaners unviable.

D357R0Y3R1 votes

ADCs are fine at the moment

Some adcs need to be gutted asap because I'm starting to get carcinoma now: -jhin -kai'sa -Varus needs to be fucking reworked, I can't believe his ult and E stayed like that for 5 years, 47% win rate champ dominating high elo and pro very fun thanks

Daddy Ants2 votes

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ADCs are fine at the moment

Some adcs need to be gutted asap because I'm starting to get carcinoma now: -jhin -kai'sa -Varus needs to be fucking reworked, I can't believe his ult and E stayed like that for 5 years, 47% win rate champ dominating high elo and pro very fun thanks

I'd say

Jhin MF Kai'Sa

Need to be gutted.

MF is legit auto win right now.

Jhin is autowin if you have more than a single digit IQ.

Kai'Sa just needs to survive until 2 items.

Ranmaru1 votes

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I'd say

Jhin MF Kai'Sa

Need to be gutted.

I cant say this enough. Missfortune half healthing squishes level 1 is annoying. Jhin mach 4 move speed is unfun to fight. And kaisas statcheck dps burst play style is annoying.

Daddy Ants1 votes

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I cant say this enough. Missfortune half healthing squishes level 1 is annoying. Jhin mach 4 move speed is unfun to fight. And kaisas statcheck dps burst play style is annoying.

Indeed.

I'm spamming Kai'Sa at the moment and I even think she needs a hard nerf.

Ranmaru1 votes

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Indeed.

I'm spamming Kai'Sa at the moment and I even think she needs a hard nerf.

She's too good at everything right now. If Kaisa buys stormrazor she can burst you down, If she goes on hit she kills tanks.

Daddy Ants1 votes

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She's too good at everything right now. If Kaisa buys stormrazor she can burst you down, If she goes on hit she kills tanks.

As for MF you need to be a special snowflake to lose on her.

She's as braindead auto win as they come.

Press Q mid-late game = If the enemy isn't a Tank/Bruiser they get 1 shot.

saltran1 votes

Considering that a good part of the Gameplay Boards do want all adcs to be garbage I opt for ignoring them because they want to have non adc mages but do you think that they started to play these botlanes themselfs?

No, they expected adc mains to drop the adcs and start playing stuff like Yasuo/Vlad/Heimer/Swain botlane and for some reason that would be the pinnacle of diversity for them: having the same 4-5 S tier champs for Toplane, Midlane and Botlane at the same time.

D357R0Y3R1 votes

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No, they expected adc mains to drop the adcs and start playing stuff like Yasuo/Vlad/Heimer/Swain botlane

I mean some adcs did that (mostly in korea), i tried to play rengar botlane myself but melees are unplayable bot except maybe in low elo and i hate mages so much so i'm never going to play them bot.

saltran1 votes

I also tried a bit of Ziggs and Lux bot at the time, but just that, I knew I wouldn't be playing those champs seriously for longer.

What I mean is that even on 8.11 and 8.12 adcs that were really really weak had higher pickrate than the best performing non adc botlaners.

D357R0Y3R1 votes

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What I mean is that even on 8.11 and 8.12 adcs that were really really weak had higher pickrate than the best performing non adc botlaners.

for sure which is why riot was forced to buff adcs back, it was unplayable

Ranmaru1 votes

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I mean some adcs did that (mostly in korea), i tried to play rengar botlane myself but melees are unplayable bot except maybe in low elo and i hate mages so much so i'm never going to play them bot.

What about that time morde was overpowered after 8.11 :thinking:

D357R0Y3R1 votes

Did you follow LCK=? I guess not since everyone on the boards hates esport

but Deft played him in almost all games, and people banned Morde against him Can't really tell if Morde was overpowered or not (I personally think he was because I fucking hate him) but he was strong It's just that not everyone knows how to play Morde except Deft

Deft was the only one who kept regularly playing Morde after Morde nerfs, he knows the champ by heart (the match ups, everything else is just clicking) He might pocket pick him during world.

Pokemonred2001 votes

I tried (and still have fun with) Yasuo bot, which lets me play him more because I love the champ but dislike the solo lanes. I want to play Cassiopeia and Anivia down there for the same reasons, but that's not been working out because the playstyle just... feels so different. I genuinely feel alienated trying to learn these two atm. (The only mages I've played aside from them are Elise, Lux, Ahri, and Syndra, which I've tried but I'm not doing well with them in a duo lane either)

Fízz v21 votes

yasuo won in lck finals against pretty much the strongest bot lane combo in the game tho, op champ :^]

Idk what I prefer tbh, at least Swain has skillshots and counterplay, but he is also a 3k hp tank assassin mage so... xd

I get people want more than one class to be played botlane, but if there are champions in that class who can only go botlane, how is it going to be fair to completely remove them from botlane while they have no other lanes.

i mean everything is playable in soloq, and if we are talking about high elo/pro play, when will oldschool assassins be playable mid again? :(

saltran1 votes

Yes, KT Alpaca and Mata are probably the strongest botlane on 2vs2 in the world but also helped that GRF Tarzan ganked with Tali at min 3 and gave Yasuo a free first blood.

(Uzi Ming are scary but considering that Deft outclassed him on his LPL days I give KT botlane the benefict of the doubt)

Are non botlane viable on soloQ? Of course.

Daddy Ants1 votes

Mages, Bruiser's and Juggernauts scale with LEVELS anyway.

They are better suited to solo lanes where they get all the xp and gold.

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