New player advice on being great in league through out years, if you stick to this game
Hi,
If you are new to league and want to be great or keep ranking up, I have some advice for you. Stick to one role and that role is Bottom(ADC), you need to master only two types/play-types in this role which is distributed among 18 marksman champions. One type is spell based and other type is auto attacks based, and all of those 18 play approximately the same according to the two stated types. Also you can duo with a support main this gives you dominance in one lane and no duo climbing is not boosting. All other roles/lanes(jungle, mid, top) are insignificant in comparison to this role as described by few of the reasons below.
The ADC class was the most and will be the most dominant class in this game. This is the most stable class that if Riot tried to do anything or nerf them the backlash will be to strong that will make the Riot company to pussy out and revert/semi revert the nerfs.
Currently, for two patches this class hasn't been the dominant one and this has made the ADC's mob mad. They have been balanced like every other class and since they don't dominate like before, they will get a-lot of their lost power back as seen by the PBE 8.15 notes.
Now I am not delusional like some ADC mains who think that ADC's are super weak. And to back up this statement, I am going to link you to OP.gg, where out of top 15 bottom picks only 3 of them are not Marksman, which are Yasuo, Vlad and Swain.
Now here comes the argument, Ezreal is 49% WR with 36% PR so this really means he is weak. So the counter argument is what about Lee then he is sitting at 48% WR with 17 % PR, issue with skill shot based champions is that you need to land skill shots for them to be good. And as the pick rate increases, mastery over that particular champion by those new players decreases. Meaning noobs would be trying to play them in the hopes of win and will lose because they would not be able land skill shots.
So the question now is, what are the current weak ADC's? The weak ADC's currently are Tristana, kogmaw, Kalista, Sivir, Varus and Caitlyn. Now the issue with all these ADC's except Sivir is that either they do %age health damage or utilize crit items to the extreme so that they make any other marksman laner straight out quit because of their range(Caitlyn)/team fight(Tristana). But instead of individually buffing to them be reasonable(which they don't need since the whole point of ADC's nerf was to open the lane for other non marksman picks), they are buffing crit items, which will lead again to our original issue of ADC's shitting on rest of league players.
Btw, please ADC mains don't down-vote just because what I stated is the truth, if you want to down vote present me with stats that negate my points. Tell me how am I wrong when ONLY 3 of the top 15 played in bottom are non marksman. Tell me how the ADC role was destroyed? tell me how these three who don't even have the highest pick rate in bot are driving every marksman out of the lane. Please do so, thank you in advance for proving me wrong with the stats/ figures/logic.
Edit: The op.gg stats are from plat + korea. And since Ghostcrawler already comment the balancing is mostly done around high plat+diamondish elo. So the stats should represent the balance decisions to be made.
