The crit changes benefit ADCs and made things miserable for everybody else.

Haze97·6/18/2019, 9:49:42 AM·2 votes·995 views

Back in the days when you had to purchase two items and an item 3031 in order to hit your 'late game powerspike', it actually made sense because most marksmen are supposed to be late game carries.

However as someone who plays top/mid I hate the fact that ADCs hardly need to wait till late game in order to be able to start carrying teamfights. This makes it very difficult for me as a solo laner to keep up with should my bottom lane lose turret and give away a couple of kills because now by 14 minutes we'd already have an ADC doing enough DPS at two items to match most top/midlaners. Albeit a bit squishier.

There's no such thing as a 'late game carry' marksman anymore. The window of a weak early game which they had just doesn't exist and I 100% blame the crit rework for it.

The items were fine but since Riot loves catering to ADC mains, here we have a meta where the winning bot lane takes over the game the moment the turret goes down.

Where is the defined powerspike these days? Where are the windows of opportunity when marksmen weren't reliably dropping nukes before midgame? Why the fuck does the winning adc now do as much damage as any solo laner by 20 mins and still infinitely scale till the end of the game?

7 Comments

Katana Prime6/18/2019, 10:11:02 AM4 votes

I don't really get in what dimension you're living in, but I still get oneshot by bruisers and assassins that are 3 levels below mine and have 2 items, while I already have 4.

If I could simply tunnelvision into anything WITHOUT giving the option to react, simply because any ADC gets deleted in less than 1s, then I'd be a Zed or Kayn main.

So I can't really see what the problem is, since the ADC role has been underperforming or has been considerably harder than mid, jungle or top for about 7 (!) years. Just let that sink in. That's quite a long time.

Kenneky6/18/2019, 12:50:13 PM2 votes

Have you played ADC yourself to talk like that? I love getting blown up by a mage or an assassin that is 2-3 levels below mine, feels really great. Even building defensive items doesn't help much, only to keep me alive for more than a second. ADC always felt bad to play, I mostly play it because my favourite champion is a marksman. You almost never see a solo lane marsman, because almost every class blow them up easily.

actualytryndawin6/18/2019, 12:47:30 PM1 votes

apparently you never heard of Yasuo or Tryndamere