Can we please mitigate the impact a losing bottom lane has on the outcome of the game?

Yenn·Jul 20, 2019·2 votes·1,050 views

There's way too much gold in this lane.

I just had a game where my bottom lane was curbstomped. The ADC was borderline intentionally feeding. It was level 4 with 21 CS around 10 minutes, and both it and the support had died 11 times.

Despite being 6-0 and having won lane, including a successful roam to bottom, there was nothing I could do to deal with the fed ADC, because it had thousands of gold over me.

This happens everyone single time someone wins bottom lane early, and it's pretty stupid. It completely invalidates the outcome of every other lane, because they don't have as much potential gold.

4 Comments

Death by GlamourJul 20, 20192 votes

Honestly i feel that having a poor jungler has more impact on a game than any other lane

PhearBunnyJul 20, 20191 votes

better bot lane wins. 74.78% of the time, according to LoL Statistics. So theres a 25% chance you can still win if your bot lane loses brah!!!

Teh SongJul 20, 20191 votes

adCARRY.

The champions in that role are supposed to carry games, and scale with gold. A large part of what moba is is making your adc money and stoping their adc from making money.

The two ways to beat an adc (match not fights) are to end the game before it's late game, or get your adc to late game build before their's. In a given fight, you beat them in the way half the threads on these boards are complaining about people doing. Bursting them with an assassin or mage who doesn't need to be ahead in gold. On that note, when your bot lane was falling behind and you were getting ahead, you should have traded lanes with one of them, or started roaming bot more. Which depends on the specific champions in question.

The thing about adc's is that they have to be this way. If you make it so that adc's can't Uber carry a game once rich, they stop existing. "Carry" comes off their name, and you're left with a group of champions who are just "adnothing" instead of filling a role. Then everybody stops playing them altogether.