Are we still allowed to complain about ADCs?

Ahri Body Pillow··1 votes·236 views

Cause boy oh boy, was last game a fuckin doozy. They had a Jhin ADC, which wasn't terrible all in itself, but they literally just played "babysit the carry".

A rundown of their roster: -Jhin -Full AP Orianna -AP Lux with sightstone -Ivern with Knight's Vow, Redemption, and Locket of the Iron Solari -Standard tank Nautilus

What am I actually supposed to do against that as an assassin? The only way I could prevent them from loading all of their actives and shields on him was by stunning at least four of the five people on their team. I'd consider building Morellonomicon, but the issue wasn't even the heals. It was the ~2k health worth of shields being dumped on him and that 12 percent damage reduction to really rub the salt in that wound. The game felt so god awful. I am seriously struggling to find a champion of comp that can counter that sort of thing, maybe a Blitzcrank.

Obviously, if you're playing skillfully, you should be able to protect your carry and keep them alive. However, I seriously disagree with any sort of notion that mindlessly using item actives on your carry is "skillful play".

4 Comments

Hópe1 votes

Against popular belief, assassins are actually pretty horrible. Especially when lulu is meta, but the Jhin did have triple your kills, that urgot jungle didnt look like it worked out well on your team.

Either way, yeah. Way too many shields in the game right now.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

oh noes! they were actually playing smart and preventing you from doing your job? nah that's not skillful play at all! You do know that you have a team of your own right? an assassin is supposed to look for openings. If you cannot make one yourself wait until your team makes one for you. You want to know something? if they are using everything on Jhin then simply blow up the Orianna or Lux. Your job as an assassin isn't to "kill the enemy ADC at all costs" it's to identify a target you can kill and wait for an opportunity to present itself and kill that champion. Whether it's you who makes that opportunity happen or your team it doesn't matter.

Ahri Body Pillow1 votes

You could have said this a bit less condescendingly, but you make some fair points.

TreeDayBan1 votes

For every game where an ADC has a heaven team, you get your games where you are Jhin, facing Akali/j4/fizz/leona and your team consists of garbage like Kat/Yasuo/Kha/Lux, and you are basically food.

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