So, if Marksmen are still totally viable, then why not play them mid/top/jungle?

JoeAnarchy··1 votes·1,010 views

besides the few cheese picks like Quinn, or twitch, being played outside of bot lane, we all know that top laners, mid laners, and junglers would never play them against the typical top/mid lane/jungle meta. I don't care about bruisers and mages being played bot lane, but at least tweak marksmen to be able to be played in another lane. i mean, if Hashinshin thinks that supports and ADC were so strong, why didn't he just take them top lane? oh right, because they were only that strong going bot lane. the thing is, they gutted marksmen, who were ONLY viable bot lane, while other champs were viable in multiple roles. ADC players aren't bitch about our champions being nerfed, we're bitching because now they are just generally unplayable, in general. lets say Riot returns everything to them, completely undoes everything they did, you still wouldn't take them top or mid, you still wouldn't jungle with them. they would go back to only being played botlane, with the exception of the few cheese picks, and everyone would go back to complaining about them being "broken" while still not playing them in any other lane, because deep down you know they aren't viable in your lane. Hashinshin would go back to bitching about them, while not actually playing them himself, because he knows they would be a bad pick.. get what i'm saying?

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Awhegark4 votes

Why is hashinshin your main topic.

I Support Solar3 votes

There are quite a few ADCs that are perfectly fine mid. The reason they are taken bot instead is because assassins and mages scale much better off of levels, so it makes more sense to put the assassin or mage midlane rather than bot where they would have to share XP.

If you don't mind your team raging your pick, you can even try it yourself. Caitlyn, Ezreal, MF, etc. are perfectly fine midlane, especially before 6.

420 grams1 votes

They do though

saltran1 votes

2/10 quality bait

Critmaster Garen1 votes

if bruisers are overpowering adc, then why dont you just take garen bot lane?

champion diversity in one lane, and individual champion viability in different lanes are two separate issues. a champion can be viable in a lane with diverse picks, and not be viable in a different lane at the same time.

AmonTheFallen1 votes

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if bruisers are overpowering adc, then why dont you just take garen bot lane?

champion diversity in one lane, and individual champion viability in different lanes are two separate issues. a champion can be viable in a lane with diverse picks, and not be viable in a different lane at the same time.

ADCs are not great in any role really. Maybe Kaisa because shes OP but really ADCs were whiped out.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

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ADCs are not great in any role really. Maybe Kaisa because shes OP but really ADCs were whiped out.

kindred and graves are currently strong in the jungle.

on bot lane 4 out of 10 of the top tier picks are crit marksmen with draven, ashe, jinx, and jhinn. the rest is made up of lethality marksmen, swain and yasuo.

less than a hand full of non marksmen are even currently viable on bot lane.

yes, marksmen are not overwhelmingly stupid like they used to be throughout the entire last year, but theyre still top tier picks. and the others of their class arent far behind. then again, the situation wasnt different when marksmen were overtuned. there were always a hand full of them that were simply stronger than the rest.

Gabresol1 votes

Ezreal has always been viable in midlane. Lucian has been going mid and top as counter picks at least. Lethality Varus is still an option and Kog'maw works just fine on AP as mid.

Corkis IS a midlaner and some players play Jhin ther as well. Kindred and Graves are both marksmen and are both junglers.

Vayne has a histoy of getting picked top into tanks

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