ADCs

Attack Damage Creep Score

That's all they are anymore. Top laners and mid laners look at these small, ranged people and ask, "What type of minion is this?" 100% slow and massive, massive CHUNKS for a low-cd q Windwall and having more crit than you Ignores your damage, fears you then slices you down to shreds Does more damage than you, has more crit and can simply not die if you somehow manage to get him low enough BARRELS Tentacles have more range than your autos, so you're dead if you don't constantly run away from her Dash into you and stun you for massive damage Doesn't even need to land his stun -- can just Q R you in the blink of an eye Can just E R very efficiently Can poof in, poof your health bar away and poof out with it if your 60-second Crystal Arrow is on its 60-second cooldown.

The list continues.

Is it because ADC's are bad? Goodness, no! It's the fact that they're the only champions required to build more damage items than defensive items in order to do damage over a period of time. Top laners generally buy many, many defensive items. But regardless of that, they still have enough damage to wreck an ADC. Mid-laners are able to expend all of their damage in a swift half a second, faster than an adc can react, and especially faster than an adc can deal the same damage.

Look at Graves, for example. Is he an ADC? Technically, yes, but the fact that he's strong enough to battle head-to-head with other top laners makes him usually go top. Or jungle. He's strong because he has high base-damages and a built-in armour passive. And that crippling blind. He's allowed to be beefy *and strong; a privilege most marksmen are banished from.

She goes top lane because she can kick miles out of danger, and also has a crippling blind. Few marksmen are that lucky. I take Vayne top for this exact same reason --- being able to push danger far away.

There's a reason this "Meta" exists, which pins juggernauts top, assassins mid and weak, pitiful marksmen bot. If any of these lanes swapped around, it would be entirely unfair towards the underpowered marksmen like Ashe or Varus. Their only use is to stun a single target and run away as actually good teammates finish the job, which used to be the support's job a long time ago.