Any ADC tips?

Ranoe·9/21/2015, 2:21:47 AM·1 votes·846 views

If you look at my match history as you can see from my Sivir/Tristana/Jinx games (don't think i've played jinx in my past 20 games) I'm not the greatest ADC. And as you will see I'm not that great of a player in general but that's not what this is about. I was wondering if there were any tips for getting better with ADC you could help me with and maybe some build tips. I main trist when I do ADC and basically what I do is I get a few of the starter items then build Runaans Using my E to poke at the enemy champs whenever it's cooldown is off. I think I get an OK amount of Minions dead but I really think it's in the way I play which I'm working on myself but I was wondering if there were any tips you guys could give me because it is one of my favorite roles and I love playing it especially since I'm coming up on ranked play in a few levels (don't worry I'm not rushing into it)

16 Comments

Smegma1239/21/2015, 3:35:01 AM2 votes

First and foremost, learn to do this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prb47MkDX98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNpdezx8ep0 It'll take time but you'll really benefit. Practice it during laning phase, since all you do is attack minions anyway, so might as well practice it then.

LANING : So in lane what you wanna do is farm and harass. Farming is pretty simple, you click the minion about to die, and get the gold. Harassing is a bit tougher - basically what you wanna do is find ways to hit the enemies without taking damage yourself and without losing creeps. So the way to do it is you watch your own minion HP. When your minion gets low, go a little in front. The enemy AD will come forward to take the creep, and at that moment you auto attack once or twice and back off to farm your own creeps. If you do this like 10 times, that's 10 autos maybe which is easily 70-80% of their HP. So when your creep is about to die, you get ready to attack the enemy AD. And any time the enemy support is in range, land a couple of shots on him too.

Here's a more detailed video series explaining how to lane : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnE6tiHElSc

You also need to know how and when to back :

Back when you have gold for your item. For example, don't back with 1350g for no reason. Wait 200g for the BF.
Back when you are really low.
Before you back, shove the wave into enemy turret if possible. This means the turret will kill all your allied minions, and the enemy minions will come unscathed into lane(so you save a bunch of minions).
If the enemies back, shove the wave. This time what happens is since they backed, if you shove the wave in, the turret kills all the minions and they don't get any of the gold and exp.

Here's a good video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc63DWeIr3Q

TEAMFIGHTS : Stand in the back of the fight, always try to attack the closest target that will keep you safe. So each fight you have to figure out who can kill you, and where you should stand to prevent that. Once you've found out where to stand, you need to find the closest target you can and just attack him. Try to stay alive for as long as possible, even if it means people sometimes walk away from you with low health. That means 90% of the time you will be standing far in the back, attacking tanks, cause trying to go in for a carry means their tanks/assassins/bruisers will wreck you.

Your job is to deal as many auto attacks as you can, and the only way you can do that is by standing at the back, not dying and always auto attacking.

Couple of good videos about teamfighting :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DkXUcKDrcs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G50boEuYeVo

ITEMS : There's no point standing in the back and attacking tanks if you deal no damage to them. To do damage to tanks, you will need last whisper 3rd item almost every time. If you're behind, get it even earlier. Get PD if ahead. Get Statikk if behind. On most AD's you want IE first item. And in general you want IE pretty much every game on every ADC. Try to find out good builds for each ADC (pretty much the same with a couple of exceptions).

DrShoking9/21/2015, 2:30:08 AM1 votes

don't build ruunans

autoattack cancel( auto attack then click away once you see the projectile to cancel your auto attack animation/same with melee champs but on the hit.

upgrade your trinket. Blue if your team's good and warding/ yellow if not.

DrShoking9/21/2015, 3:33:31 AM1 votes

there are just better items.

Trist doesn't need the wave clear or the attackspeed.

if you really want it get it as a last item or buy kalista.

Rysophage9/21/2015, 3:35:55 AM1 votes

Learn how to stutter step and threat assessment in teamfights. you'll be high silver/gold just from that.

Fiveofswords9/21/2015, 3:44:27 AM1 votes

with pretty much the singular exception of soraka, harrassing is more the supports job. Focus mroe on minions. adc harrass is sortof unecessary, but do take advantage of bad positioning, or support landing, hooks, stuff liek that.