Why do ADCs get to have unlimited BPS with no caps while literally everyone else in the game has to deal with mana and other buffered resources? There is just no check on their power. Jhin is a good example of what ADCs should be. It's too late now, but there should have been an ammunition bar for ranged champions.
Thematics and animations. What is Ashes reload animation and how is it different from Varus? What is Kai'Sa's? Or Kog. These champions would need new animations and Riot isn't gonna give them that just for an attempted balance change.
I guess this is how you could do it thematically. There are a few non ADC champs in here. They're included because if you're going to change every ADC you have to include other champs that can also function as ADCs or just thematically fall under the reload mechanic.
No AS cap + Reload
Faster AS means burning through AA's faster and putting you into reload more often.
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AS cap
Majority of these actually have super slow weapons that wouldn't be able to fire off more than once every few seconds. Giving them an AS cap on top of an ammo cap/reload would hurt them too much. Realistically speaking they'd only have 1 shot before needing to reload outside of MF who has 2 guns.
Sivir, Draven, and Gnar are a special case. You could split them into having a mechanic where they have to catch their weapons like Draven's Q constantly in order to AA repeatedly. Doing so would make them really awkward to play with because you'd have to constantly run around and position in order to AA more than once. Thus is why I decided that just limiting their AS was the best route to go with.
Kalista and Kindred are also another special case. They both use magic, but putting a recharge or ammunition restriction on them just didn't feel right.
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Recharge mechanic similar to Rumbles heat bar, but only applies to ranged abilities and AA's. They'd still use their normal resource.
The weapons they use don't really use ammunition so it'd be really weird to put that restriction onto them.
Since he's a confirmed Darkin he should just be reworked so that he uses HP instead of mana.
His AA's should also cost HP cause blood magic n shizz.
Kog'Maw should just a get a full rework that's thematically fitting.
Killing a unit restores a certain amount of resource.
AA's consume resource because you can't spit infinitely if you've nothing to spit.
If they made every single champion the same that would be boring wouldn't it? They would also be criticized heavily for not having any original ideas, there are other ways to balance out ADCs without the use of a reload mechanic.
