ADC's aren't the problem

Kraizor··5 votes·431 views

I can't understand why people are always hating on the marksman class, complaining that they are always viable and always played. Yes, they are always viable AND always played, because of their damage output in the lategame.

No, they aren't broken/busted or whatever because nearly every class shits on them early/mid game, because they need to scale up to be effective. What I am not understanding is, why do people hate on adc's beeing always played and sometimes in other positions, when there are tanks as support, top or jungle, or when there are mages in the jungle support, top, mid, and support.

To name some examples as tanks in support: malphite, maokai, sion, nautilus, shen. Mages in other lanes: lissandra, kennen, rumble top // zyra, brand, annie support // elise, fiddlesticks (tf, brand) jungle.

No one bats an eye when those champions are all over the place, but hell no if there is a vayne or something not on the botlane. Yes, we all know Vayne is broken and should nerf this champ, but there is really no way, where ADC's are busted.

Yes, Vayne oneshots, but no one cared about Syndra beeing able to oneshot ppl with q r.

For the love of god, stop the hate on ADC's.

PS: You can keep the typos :)

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Ralanr3 votes

"No one cares about Syndra" "Cares about Syndra" "Syndra"

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Syndra was a bad example for you.

Anyway, yes other classes can fill certain roles, but only one class can fill the ADC role and it's for the same reason why any melee champion hates life after fighting a ranged laner.

Simply put, we can't fight back. We're basically a free 300g minion to any ADC that can properly kite in these solo lanes. It feels very unfair for us, especially when fighting a carry with self peel (like Vayne) so that when you finally do get on them, they push you away and retreat. With a high chance of it being off cooldown the next time.

The main factor is that it is annoying and unfun to fight a ranged champion as melee. Midlane melee assassins can get away with it because they have abilities that poke and harass way outside their melee range. This is not true for the majority of fighters and tanks.

Penns1 votes

"melee assassins can get away with it because they have abilities that poke and harass way outside their melee range" item 3070

Ralanr1 votes

Beyond your ult, I can see your point. But Fizz himself is rather slippery.

Penns1 votes

Generally I agree because "adcs" are a role by now, so its like saying "in every meta, we still play mid laners". But comparing a burst mages Q+ult (which people rightfully complain about anyway) to an adcs auto attack enhancer + dash on >2s cooldown... wasnt a good idea lel

Rebonack1 votes

Top laners complain primarily because of how oppressive range combined with disengage are in a solo lane.

This is mostly an artifact of how mind-numbingly awful the design of Rift's laning phase is and is nearly impossible to solve without massive changes to the map and its objectives.

However, Riot decided to focus on adding plants to the jungle instead of addressing Rift's systemic issues that make the map unfun and promote toxic behavior.

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