Play Top/Mid, don't play ADC

WitchQueen Annie··1 votes·374 views

You want to maximise the chances of winning/climbing? Play Top or Mid, not ADC. You have every advantage, no disadvantage.

ADCs...

  1. Have little to no control over who wins their lanes (it depends largely on the Supports and JGs), this GREATLY reduces their early game impact over the game
  2. For 20-30 minutes (sometimes that's the whole game), ADCs actually don't have that much more damage than the other roles because of the nature of team fight dynamics
  3. Kiting is a high stress, low reward, play style (especially with 3+ AS items)
  4. At all points in the game, including your supposed God-like late game, you die INSTANTANEOUSLY if focused

Meanwhile...

Top/Mid

  1. Except for a few JG plays, you have ABSOLUTE control over your lane and if you are better, you will snowball.
  2. You have a LOT of play-making potential in the early game if you get ahead, in the 20-30 minutes of the game (sometimes the whole game), you can easily be the star player
  3. For 20-30 minutes, with just average play you can easily match the damage of the ADC
  4. You fight with abilities which is totally chill compared to the high stress of kiting non-stop with 3 AS items
  5. If you are a Top tank/fighter, you DON'T die instantaneously (meanwhile, see 3.), if you are Mid you STILL have more tools to survive by yourself than the ADC

So I ask...

Why play ADC?

4 Comments

Dokkaebi3 votes

Jungle is still the most impactful

WitchQueen Annie1 votes

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Jungle is still the most impactful

Theoretically.

However, the problem with going JG is that the odds of feeding lanes on your team goes up by a lot (unless you mitigate that by Ganking well and Ganking a lot but its often not possible in games).

I feel its easier to excel at 1 vs 1 in lane and to snowball the game that way. If you go JG, your replacement in the solo lanes likely suck more and in some games you can't Gank enough to offset that...

undesirable team2 votes

take advice from a silver for what position to play xd

undesirable team1 votes

do you even play adc obviously not kiting is very rewarding, as it allows you to avoid damage and deal a lot of damage from the enemies winning lane doesn't matter if you're going to be useful anyway who the fuck builds 3+ attack speed items, whilst doing no damage? whos braindead enough to build attack speed with no damage (exception: KogMaw Kalista ) you don't die when you're focussed due to you having a good position behind your tanks, and close enough to deal a lot of damage

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