Why riot ruined adc my opinion

deadmendontlie··2 votes·1,719 views

I see what riot was trying to do balancing bot, and make them fight more, but they made it winning lane easier to do and much more of a priority. Lanes will end up one of two ways now either you have a sustain support with something like a kai'sa, and just farm it out. A sustain support with a caitlyn, or lucian, and win through out poking and pushing. Finally you have double poke/lane bully, and you win lane that way. Poke, and sustain is now too powerful, and most games will come down to whoever out pokes or out sustains not who fights better, or plays better. Then there is all in champs where the only time you will win lane hard is if they do not pick a sustain support, or poke champion, and they do not do their job, and let you get free all ins and poke. The other issue is that crit adcs do not have a good build anymore with just stormrazor to help balance out the early lack of damage, and most adcs cannot fully use it like riot intended. Stormrazor fully only suits burst champions like draven, or jhin, but even then their are better things to build first. The adcs that are okay building it are things like caitlyn, or jinx etc where its okay, but will still most of the time lose out in fights because of getting poked out, losing out in damage/ missing damage, and not having sustain especially now that fleet has become the worst keystone in the game. Straight crit build adcs also suffered because their overall build order, has been torn apart due to loss of damage from IE earlier in the game, and the expensiveness of the build. Allowing anyone that has a cheaper build, poke, or sustain to win the lane with a decent advantage bringing things like guinsoos more into the meta even after riot tried stomping out on-hit builds and getting them into a decent place, because they are cheaper, spike faster, and games are ending earlier meaning crit adcs will most of the time lose because they do not scale up fast enough. Riot has realistically 5 choices here buff fleet, buff health regen, nerf poke/sustain lanes, give more items that add sustain/damage/just more options that will better suit most adcs, and finally revert back what they have done to adcs, and work on balancing the game overall in a different way by making other lanes more impactful, or some other option then basically gutting a whole role/destroying over half the champs in it, because of lack of build options, and in the end encourages strong laning phase matchups to destory your opponent, or play with a extremely sustained lane. Thanks for reading, and let me know what you think. Update to this it has gotten worse now that since marksmen themselves are in a much weaker state bruisers, and mages who will have a larger early advantage over their counterparts especially if played poorly will cause snowball out of control on one side depending on how it is played.

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HimynameisHi1 votes

Praise the lord, somr one who fully understands what riot has done to our lovely adc rolesummoner 3

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