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I'm finally understanding the mentality of some ADC's

Epic Murph·9/16/2016, 3:59:26 PM·41 votes·4,213 views

We all know the common ADC stereotype: cocky, always angry, BMs if he/she cannot get kills, farms and carry. I always laughed at this and the memes people come up with, thinking it was true. ADC's were always those salty people who think everyone else was below them. I never understood this way of thinking until I became a Vayne main.

Every CS I don't get, every troll support I am teamed up with, every kill I don't secure makes me both mad at myself and the people I'm playing with. If I cannot CS (whether it be because of personal skill or from teammates) I cannot get the items I need to help my team. If I cannot get items, I am useless by mid game because I cannot do damage. If I cannot do damage, then I cannot do the one job my team needs me for. It really is a sucky feeling, and it gets me easily aggravated. Couple this with either myself or my team feeding and it gets progressively harder to do my job.

So in short, I finally understand the salt behind most ADC's. This does not mean that I condone the "toxic" ADC's that constantly BM their support or team, but rather I understand the root of where all their toxicity is coming from.

95 Comments

OurLestrade9/16/2016, 4:10:59 PM32 votes

I've always said that the ADC is one of the hardest roles in the game, and it deserves more respect than it gets. This is coming from a support main, a role that gets far too much lipservice on the boards.

Ralanr9/16/2016, 4:10:04 PM16 votes

That and how easy it is for everyone to kill you if you don't perform well. The ADC role is very unforgiving.

I main tanks but I play ADC sometimes. The amount of times you need to rely on your team just to survive, it makes you feel like a child.

Get caught out? That's cause you strayed too far from mommy.

It's frustrating because you don't want to rely on people. You're the damage, you should be respected! Right? Instead you're expected to do well and treated like a failure child if you can't. I imagine some just bury it away because they don't want to think about the pressure. Others become neurotic and will blame anyone they think is holding them back first before they can be blamed.

At least that's my take on it. In the family analogy, the ADC being the third child makes the most sense since they are being protected by a mother who thinks she knows how to raise a kid after having two, older siblings who are jealous of the attention their parents give to the baby, and a father who always looks frustrated coming down to help because he's already raised two kids and just wants to be done with the job he hates.

Troy2426219/16/2016, 4:41:09 PM8 votes

Contrary to the name, it's also hard to transition good play into a win as an ADC. In fact, one could make the argument it's the hardest role to carry from.

I say this as a jungle main, mind you.

Critmaster Garen9/16/2016, 6:32:56 PM7 votes

which begs the question. if no one really has fun playing marksmen, unless theyre ungodly broken op.

no one likes babying them and being dependent on that one guy to do his job by midgame, otherwise your team loses out on most of its power.

it sucks playing them, it sucks playing against them, it sucks playing with them.

why is the game so focused around them? sounds like terrible design to me.

ModWulf Helhammer9/16/2016, 6:06:28 PM4 votes

Nothing sucks more when being ADC when, already pretty behind, you are instantly focused out every fight, so that even if your team wins the fight, you get nothing from it, putting you even further behind

HaloDragonX9/17/2016, 12:57:47 AM3 votes

I play ADC time to time, I only have one legit complaint. My support is doing nothing or being an idiot. Like, I myself know how to support, and I know these boards love supports that it's practically illegal to bash them, but come on, pressure the lane at least. Same applies to junglers too, don't just farm. Gank a lane please.

Spoofghoul9/17/2016, 10:10:50 AM2 votes

maybe its because adc's have to rely on others too

big surprise its a team game outside of a few hyper modile/self peel adc's the rest needs proper protection if you pick 4 squishy mages/supports/assassins whos going to stand in fron't of the adc?

there is a reason why i don't like to play the role it's because you often get stuck with a bunch of monkey who do whatever the fuck they want and you can't really do anything that way.

However i think its worse as support or tank/utility jungler since there is often really no solo carry potential at all, as lucian for example you got all the mobility you need to keep kiting/repositioning if that aint enough go grad 50% lifesteal it's not hard these days and you should be good, ideal build? probably not, but you still have the neccessary damage to carry contrary to being a god support or jungler but having vegatable laners/carries

CookyPrince9/16/2016, 9:51:40 PM2 votes

ADC's always get a hard time and most of the people who play adcs with me usually aren't toxic, rather it's just the people and the roles and the many things you can do to upset the person by messing with them in a game people are usually trying to improve on. It's even worse when you're an adc and your support trolls or steals cs and their reasoning is that their adcs always suck or some bs

A Liberal9/17/2016, 3:47:32 AM2 votes

I main support because I'm used to being abused :)

DollaMenunaire9/16/2016, 4:07:56 PM1 votes

I mean I've only really ever seen salty Vaynes but Lucians seem to be more toxic now too seeing as Lucian is pretty weak right now