Greetings Summoners! I really don't understand why the ADC role has been so bad. I really don't. A few armor, health regeneration, and a few ad changes to me shouldn't have shaken up things so badly, but it did. Even in my solo q Silver games, I see no marksman in the bot lane, just pantheon, aatrox, and jax. I don't understand why this is, so can somebody care to explain why?
The average Marksmen players confidence in thier class is gone. Since they are equivalent to other classes now and Not game warping OP.
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boards make them look bad because apparently having specialization and doing different jobs is a bad thing
they think that adcs being "mandatory" is "a bad thing" and therefore needs to be "balanced" without knowing that playing as them is very disadvantageous now
There are a few simple reasons for this.
Most importantly, games end quickly and snowball heavily. This means it's way more unlikely that a marksman, that usually needs 2-3 items to hit a meaningful power spike over other champs, will have the time they need to become strong and carry the game. Especially crit marksmen, since there builds cost 900 more gold.
Nerfing marksmen's early game and sustain on top of pushing back their power spikes make it a lot easier for other champs to completely shut them out of the game. Picking regular ADCs are much more of a liability.
A marksman is by design the most fragile and team dependent class in the game. They require peel and support to do anything against any champ that can engage on them. With the tower changes that let other classes take turrets almost as well, on top of the late power spikes that may never come, there's not much benefit in picking them over stronger laners.
TL;DR: Marksmen need to either be able to reliably survive lane and carry fights after lane phase, or be necessary to take objectives, to be worth picking. That's not the case right now.
because they were fucking riduculous and the sole deciding factor over games?
because it didnt matter how well you performed on other carries, if you didnt go 5/0 in your lane by 10 minutes, you didnt have a chance to carry from mid or top?
The item nerfs were the reason. Everyone scale faster and better, well maybe except tanks. Nerfs were needed to marksmen, but Riot went over board, they are now giving minor buffs to some marksmen so hopefully we'll reach a good middle ground and not over buff them like before.
You have 3 that are really strong right now(MF, Lucian, and Draven) and you have some that are slightly underperforming that are getting buffs. You are acting like its the end of the world because ADCs are mortals now. goes to show you how long they have been strong, when matched against average champions they think they are weak when they are doing as well/slight worse then the average champion. Most adcs sub 50% are near 50% and the buffs are more then enough and the few that arent, if their buffs aren't enough they will get follow ups. you are making a mountain out of a anthill.
