adc class is kinda in a bad spot

Knight SoIaire ··2 votes·915 views

this is a question thread as we all know adc deals the damages and thats all they were made to do but as most of us play the adc im preety sure you all noticed that darius volibear shywana mundo vi jarwan xin, basicaly saying any meele champion with randuins omen in early/mid game is able to easily whack the floor with an adc while staying quite healthy after he finished

i could brag about the fact that adc needs at least 3 items (botrk last whisper and something for crit or dmg, without crit adc's dmg is too low to survive) to counter this one while his main task is to hit the frontline (cause its safe), but ill just ask

did anyone of you find a way of dealing with such situations where enemies buy one armour item and basicaly nulify your presence till end game?

i personaly find it often that enemy bruiser gets randuin as first or second big item, this means that i who does not posses enough items to shred a tank yet gets no chance to even fight cause i deal no damage and they can melt me the moment they touch me i could get a quick last whisper but it gives me practicaly no sht without ,ie ,pd and botrk so i still hit a wall

7 Comments

MrSc0tty6 votes

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh no.

Ranged ADCs are in a bad spot because they are currently owning the game. They are the ONLY class that is 100% mandatory in a team comp (tank bruiser Mage assassin support are all optional and can be worked out) they have the best itemization in the game (Botrk LW IE TF BT SS PD are all amazing-meanwhile you have all of TWO items for Magic Resist that aren't crap)

Currently whatever AD gets more fed wins the game 90% of the time. If you're playing ADC and having trouble with Olaf and Volibear you're bad, they're not OP. Those are among the weakest champs in the game.

Knight SoIaire 1 votes

that totaly answered my question besides the fact that it wasnt even close to the topic

MrSc0tty1 votes

Okay, topic answer:

Option 1: first item botrk will cancel out tanks that have randuin as their only defense item. Build LW to cancel frozen heart or thornmail if they build that after Randuins. But treat Randuins, Warmogs and Sunfire as mostly HP items and build Botrk. But remember to use that active as without it, it gets heavily outperformed by IE. Speaking of which

Option 2: just build IE. 250% damage crits are gnarly and in an IE vs a Randuins wins every time.

If you're against a bruiser with offensive item and Randuins and you have IE and Bork, and you're not winning heavily, it is very much your fault.

12tales2 votes

i could get a quick last whisper but it gives me practicaly no sht without ,ie ,pd and botrk so i still hit a wall

You need about one completed item before LW becomes far and away the best item in the game for maximizing damage. Doesn't matter if the other team is even building armor, it's just fantastic.

If you really want to nullify early armor, Youmuu's LW is going to leave you basically dealing true damage to most targets.

Knight SoIaire 1 votes

this post helps i will try it dunno about youmu on draven but sounds sick Thank you

giraffiti01 votes

I don't know what division you are but if it's a low Elo then that is probably your problem. Adc are dominant forces currently and shouldn't have trouble with brusers early game unless they are super fed. You should always be out farming a bruiser as that is almost your only job early game. If you are on par with the bruiser for number of complete items you should be able to kill hem simply by kiting (on your own if you have a dash or with support if not). If a brusrr is ahead of you build LW a little earlier than normal and you should be fine

Knight SoIaire 1 votes

plat 5
lets say toplaner gets fed puts on randuins before i get ie and roams bot with tp or without, usualy puts me in a bad spot

the adc's itemization was undergoing quite a change lately so i as a guy who play adc rather from time to time (i like the role but i dont always feel like i want to play it) get kinda left out

in s3 you were always buying that ie and the damage was good to anyone you found (at least in silver where i was during that time) , now you need to specialize more so lack ot this knowledge actualy hurts (lost me a coupel of games)

More from Gameplay

More by Knight SoIaire