What is the trade off for being ranged?

Spoofghoul·Sep 1, 2017·1 votes·319 views

I legit want to know

I mean i can't find much at all Sooo maybe someone else knows?

I know mages lack hp sustain, also their itemization makes little sense right now

But what about Ranged AD

Are they slower? Less mobile? Do they have worse defenses? Can you counter build them? Can you out scale them? Do they lack sustain? Is their laning phase weak?

I asked myself these questions and i had to answer NO to all of them. . .

So eh, what are they worse at? What is the trade off to being a ranged AD champion?

5 Comments

DizTheGreatSep 1, 20172 votes

generally, its movements speed and attack damage and hp.

melee champions have stronger base stats than ranged.

SpoofghoulSep 2, 20171 votes

Except range is the strongest base stat

IPERFECTOSep 1, 20172 votes

Are they slower? Less mobile? Do they have worse defenses? Can you counter build them? Can you out scale them? Do they lack sustain? Is their laning phase weak?

1.Yes, their base movement speed is slower than meelee, also there is decent list that adcs that lacks any kind of mobillity 2.Try to compare Kayn Riven Talon LeeSin Yasuo Khazix with Ashe Draven Ezreal Jinx Jhin Kalista Lucian Vayne Tristana then ask your weird question again, only like 2-3 champs from the list can compete with those meele's mobillity 3.Yes, all ranged champions have lesser base thats than melee, including base ad,armor, mres,health regen,etc, yeah adcs has some defensive options, but how would you react trist building item 3046 item 3812 item 3026 item 3047 item 3156 item 3139 and doing fair amount of damage while enemy twitch\vayne built item 3031 item 3087 item 3094 item 3153 item 3036 obliterated your entire team for a moments?.With that being said, they CAN build defensive items with cost of being less impactfull in their primary purpose(deal maximum dmg they can) 4. item 3047 item 3143 item 3075 ? 5.Adcs designed to be late game champs, however there is some scaling meelee on the list too Yasuo Kassadin Fiora Nasus Tryndamere Trundle 6.No, they aren't since it's their only way to stay alive(still you can cc them so they won't be able to heal or just 100-0 them , but it's about their support won't let you do that and not about adc himself) 7.Since most of lane bullies got hardly nerfed or even gutted,hypercarries just have free lanes now...my opinion that they should just revert some nerfs to cait and lucian, and all this hypercarry meta will be extinguished at once, as they will be choked before they can scale,or will scale much longer than now

SpoofghoulSep 2, 20171 votes

hmm lower base movement speed

then they build zeal and can out walk you they can even stack em

as for defenses the health differences aren't that big and while you can build armor it generally feels like building wet paper vs the the damage reductions second lives and cleanses adc's have the options for everyone else feel shit in comparison

While they might have some inherent weaker points, this is generally made up for by their range

they then get to out build you at every turn to cover up any weakness they have

I suppose on their own they aren't that bad to fight, provided you have mobility, but they never are alone are they

QuephaSep 2, 20171 votes

That's because you're treating "ranged champions" as some kind of super champion golem who gets to pick and choose the best attributes of every ranged champion in the game.