Excluding ziggs of course, I've never really figured this out, but what is it about bott lane that forces people to only choose ranged characters as their carry as well as Riot to only design them as ranged? Dota has melee carries and it works out just fine. What's stopping players and devs from having melee bott carries?
Rebonack4 votesDota has melee carries and it works out just fine. What's stopping players and devs from having melee bott carries?
The way minion aggro vs creep aggro works, mostly.
In Dota, if you so much as click on someone to issue at attack command, creeps will be out for your blood. This means ranged champs are at much less of an advantage since they can't lob one basic attack and then back off to avoid pulling aggro. Melee champs can also use this in their favor to pull aggro from melee creeps and lead them around to a more favorable position. Basically, it leaves their melee creeps closer to your tower and your melee creeps closer to them, giving you even more of a buffer.
When I discovered minions don't work that way in League, my first thought was 'how they hell are melee champs supposed to lane against ranged champs without getting harassed to death?'.
The answer is apparently 'create melee champs like 
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Anatera1 votesOh yeah, I forgot that Dota has that mechanic. That actually makes a lot of sense. Minions can do a fair amount of damage after all. I wonder if this is something Riot could implement to help make bott lane more varied.
Big Lincoln2 votesmelee carries are shit in league and by the time they reach level 2 in a 2v2 lane they've already been zoned hard from CS
Dreadlocks2 votesmorde is why... because you have to break a champion just to make it work. dota 2 has different items and different way of lanning all together. it really does make a big difference. can't compare apples to oranges.
yoshi27901 votesZiggs is ranged, but 
and 
.
Are such champions. Mordekaiser failed, Tryndamere is weak in the botlane.
BUT + 
Is a tough lane.
So, it already excists.
WoonStruck1 votesBecause everyone will downvote you for saying so, but Riot is actually trash at balancing their game, despite it being quite obvious the last year and a half.
FalconPawwwwnch1 votesBecause ranged autoattacks deal way too much damage levels 1-4
sphinxthelion71 votesSo they can sit back and dish out damage by attacking damaging and carrying.
Chaos Milk Tea1 votesThere are melee adcs. They just get their shit harrased for going bot most of the time.
MOST of the time. Sometimes a cheeky 
lane can work out but it's heavily match up dependent. If you end up against two ranged champions like 
and 
you'll be dying under tower a lot.
GULAG 4 U1 votesThere are, Yasuo, Yi, tryndamere, Jax, Fiora, Riven being some of them. Aatrox is a diver-skirm hybrid.
Only Yasuo and Fiora are able to lane against ranged champions though.
tskorahk1 votesBecause there's no turn speed in League, so ranged champs have the ability to kite.
