The issues we need to address to get Marksmen out of the Bot Lane Carry role

So another thread is rising up wanting champs other than typical ADCs to be locked in bot lane, and tangentially Junglers not being a necessity, so sure, let's figure out the major hurdles we have to face in order to get something other than a Marksman in bot lane.

1. The Jungler, the Support, and Experience Because of how many stats multiply with each other in this game, it should not be a surprise when I say that gold has an exponential effect as you stack and multiply the stats you buy on top of each other. In other words, forcing two people to share gold is far less effective than focusing all that gold into a single person and the other finding a way to operate without gold.

This is the issue that creates the Jungler and the Support. The short story is that player 4 is evicted from one of the 3 lanes full of minion granting gold and instead takes advantage of the Jungle's pool of gold, whereas player 5 must now act without gold. Due to all the geographical highlights that centers around bot lane, they'll typically go there.

So why does this cause Marksmen to take over Bot Lane?

With the Support finding its home in bot, the Bot Laner will still have all the gold they want, but they'll lose the level advantage that being a solo laner grants. This creates an environment where you want champions who scale the best on items (gold) and don't need to rely on a level advantage. Normal Mages, Tanks, Supports, and Assassins thus immediately fall out as candidates for bot lane, where they scale much better on flat base stats like levels and timed power spikes than purchasing their power over time. This leaves Marksmen and Fighters, well at least some of the latter, the only viable candidates for the Bot Lane Gold Carry.

This leads to the next issue:

2. The advantages of Ranged Champions This should be self evident but let's run through some major points. It's far easier to farm and wave clear offensively and defensively with a Ranged Champ than a melee when it comes to reaching minions without overextending. They are a significantly greater threat against towers, being able to poke you from outside the tower range and not having to commit to being so far forward if they want to damage the tower. There's a lot of innate defenses from being ranged and farther away from danger that melees can not simulate without a lot of defensive stats and abilities. So on and so forth, being ranged is just almost always better, or at least more efficient, then the alternative. Strategically speaking, between Gold based Fighters or Gold based Marksmen, the Marksmen will always be the favorable choice to take to bot.

There are other, usually more specific, issues regarding why we don't take anything other than Marksmen bot lane, but I believe that these are the most universally applicable. Any champion that we want to throw bot lane must be able to operate with gold and the power of the items they buy over their base kit and the power leveling up brings. At the same time as making this theoretical champion gold reliant and not level and thus not ability reliant, that champion must have ways built into their kit to either simulate the strengths that being a ranged Marksman brings, or find strategic niches that Marksmen don't already bring. It should be obvious at this point that most typical ways to solve one of these two problems exaggerates the issues presented by the other problem. Once a good solution is found that solves both of these problems at the same time, we may see more than just Marksmen in bot lane.