Unpopular Opinion: Marksmen were not OP in Solo Que before the changes.

Now it's not that they didn't have their problems and they were definitely a really good class but they were not OP. Yes, they were too strong in pro play, I agree, but that is a by-product of exceptional ADC players who are also receiving exceptional peel and attention from great teammates in great comps. These things rarely ever coincide with each other in Solo Que. And even then, that is the team making the class strong, not the class by itself. Even after the initial gutting of their itemization, ADCs still weren't half bad in pro play after a couple of buffs. That's mainly because those things I just mentioned were still continuing to help them at that level of play. In solo que they only had a couple problems that should've been addressed and here they are.

1. They blew up squishies way too fast for a dps class with the 250% damage crits late in the game.

2. They had too much poke with the energized weapons once mid game rolled around. This problem was only made worse with the addition of , so the new items didn't even solve this. :\

3. They felt pretty strong at just 2 items, which is a lot for a scaling class. This problem is pretty much just a by-product of the other two.

All Riot had to do to fix these problems was one, Nerf critical strike damage from IE by a reasonable amount and two, reduce energized attacks base damage and make it scale into the game, or increase once you get both RFC and Shiv, rather than just one. And in return give them more defensive itemization.

If they did that then they would have avoided this entire situation to begin with.