I Love Solokilling Marksmen Without Defensive Items . . .

But we have to acknowlegde how hard it is for them to properly defend themselves against physical damage and armor pen stacking.

You can't build Dead Man's, it's melee only.

You can't go for Randuin's either, its active is super awkward to use since it's also melee.

The only real option that is left is GA and it's also the best option available. But it's still kinda meh. While melee champions have no problems with the stasis while getting revived - they have the tankiness and/or mobility to get out or they just keep going while they are in the midst of the enemy team - for marksmen it's pretty much a death sentence in most cases. As everyone knows, positioning is key to playing marksmen properly but being in stasis for 4 seconds straight makes that impossible in most cases. Plus, in some cases you don't even really want the MR since the enemy is full AD.

Then there's the pre-season changes to armor pen, now being lethality. I made the maths, when you get a full armor penetration/ lethality build, an enemy marksman without any armor besides runes will have a little more than 0 armor or just straight up 0 armor, depending on the enemy champion. Because of the way diminishing returns work, this means a lot.

Right now it's kinda fine since armor pen doesn't scale and armor pen builders will only murder marksmen in the early to midgame but in the next few patches it's just gonna be hell for them.

I'm not even an ADC main, I just feel bad for them. Give them at least one option to deal with high physical damage threats and armor pen stackers.

I mean just look at MR on marksmen for comparison. Sure, marksmen get no MR per level besides runes but a) magic pen stacking is a lot harder than armor pen stacking, both Sorcerer's Boots and Liandry's are getting outclassed by a lot of other items and Abyssal won't give magic penetration anymore in the preseason and b) marksmen have a lot more options to defend themselves from magic damage and magic pen stacking, they have QSS/Scimitar, Maw, Banshee's and now Edge of Night to deal with that.

I know it sounds a bit outlandish but what about an item that gives you both armor and AD or something similar? If not that, maybe an anti-assassin support item that protects a specific ally from physical damage?

EDIT: Looking at it again, it might not even be as bad as I thought at first. You could probably just buy the new tank support item, Knight's Vow, designate a Janna as your Partner, hug her all game and get 60 armor and 400 HP for only 2.5k. Problem solved.

I know it seems a bit weird at first but it wouldn't be the first time that an item that is intended for a specific group of champions gets abused by a totally different champion group.