Not a really diverse ADC role this season so far...

JavelinJoe··5 votes·730 views
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I'm getting tired of seeing the same 6 ADC's every game LucianGraves MissFortune Vayne Ezreal Jhin(<- Only because he is new) Can the game speak any louder about how only caster based, high burst marksmen (or true damage with Vayne) are kind of the only viable champions right now? The marksmen update sort of removed many champions from the game because they couldn't match the damage of the reworked/updated ones when using the reworked/updated items. Now i'm not saying that those marksmen not listed above are not good in any situation. Depending on who your with and against and how comfortable said champions are to play for you, they can be playable with a decent level of success.

What i am saying is that there is a significant difference in how viable they are when compared to the 6 I have mentioned. For example, Jinx is rarely played anymore (at least in my games) because since her 2 back to back nerfs (ult base damage and scaling reduced at closer range to the point of uselessness and her Q rockets are much slower to fire off) her early game damage and ability to pressure a lane near non-existent without the help of a vary aggressive Support or Jungler to do it for her. She does scale to late game pretty good but the issue is that the "META" champions do not ever fall off.


Ezreal is now a major lane bully since his first completed item (item 3025) now out scales his armor for most ADC's to be able to counter early on with out sacrificing damage or key items (basically the need to rush a item 3036 and sacrifice getting a key core item like item 3031 or item 3508). And the slow is more or less a permanent slow because it is an AOE slow for 2 seconds that is refreshed in 1.5 seconds. Since EZ is a caster class marksmen, who is mana reliant, has short cooldowns, and who's base stats scale fairly well, this item more or less makes him unfairly strong and allows you no form of escaping his chase unless you get some help. Not to mention how slippery he is to apply CC to ( can use his e to get out of hooks and grabs).

At least Vayne is squishy early on.

MF and Graves both scale in damage a bit too much imo. Being able to put you at half health with one q is more than slightly unfair to most because they also have some form of escape to cover for their relatively short ranged basic attacks (graves' dash and MF has her increased movement speed buff and both their kits have an AOE slow). Not to mention how overpowered their ults can be (MF is more).

Lucian actually isn't bad. But his passive allows him to proc thunderlords so easily that he is able to dominate in lane damage. Not to mention that his Q is visually shorter than its hit box implies (IMO again).

Could we see a re-balancing of the ADC role in the near future?


7 Comments

Packun Flower2 votes

I remember when KogMaw was popular after his rework.

Sadly Riot thought he was TO popular and decided to push him out of the AD Marksmen role by removing the AD scaling on his W.

Now he's pretty much useless again.

Well done Riot.

Dessem2 votes

Very accurate assessment of Kog'Maw imo. Feels awful to build AD on him now because of how W reduces the damage by 45%.

Leeerzeichen1 votes

i thought they removed the ad scaling to give him a base value on his w, because his w was to weak at early lvls.

Rebonack1 votes

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i thought they removed the ad scaling to give him a base value on his w, because his w was to weak at early lvls.

They could have just left its scaling alone and gave it 15 minimum damage like they're doing right now on PBE.

Or gave him bonus AD scaling on his W to go along with that base damage.

DrNova2 votes

This is nothing new. There are actually more top ADC picks then there used to be. Used to be cait most of the time, then all jinx all the time. Then kalista. The vayne era.

Whoever didn't get the popular ADC just took whoever they were randomly versed in second but there weren't really other top picks.

Now there are other equally viable options. ( except kog and twitch who are woefully weak early and usually don't get anywhere)

Tocosrevenge1 votes

I still use Tristana Sivir Kalista <3

Drehirth1 votes

it hasn't been long enough since patch 6.1 to use the stats for the last month on na.op in other words those stats are actually useless right now. Graves isn't played botlane very much and hes pretty much played just because he is stupid strong right now (but in the jungle or top). He has like 4% playrate as adc right now.. (Champion.gg). Jinx and kalista are something like 8-10% playrate, and caitlyn is like 15%.

Vayne is just a popular champion like riven, but neither are actually good right now(yes vayne is still played alot, but i jump for joy when im adc and i see a vayne... free win)...ez and lucian are definitely the ones you'll see always but the others you're pretty far off on actually.

and mf needs to scale. I want you to realize how stupid low her base damage is. 63 at level 18.. the next lowest is vayne at 84 with most adc's being around 100. thats like a bf sword worth of ad -.-

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