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Being an ADC is a bet and a nightmare

Jack Garrus·12/9/2017, 12:19:58 AM·4 votes·732 views

Despite adcs are now the most hated role in league, I speak as an adc player and I am referring to the supports, specially to the autofilled supp. You are a nightmare.

As an adc player I love supports. I recognize their extremely important role and I think that a match without a good supp is a game lost.

But not all supports are the same. Is a fucking nightmare to even hope to get a good support and when you get one the next 10-15 matches are a bet on what will come: the troller, the tilted, the cs stealer, the kill stealer, the afker, the flamer, the first time, the never-get-a-grab blitz, the thresh that builds item 3302 but failes every minion hit in early because he doesn't know how his E works, the 'khartus supp is op', the 'shaco supp is op in Korea', the bards that leave you alone in lane to get his pills like a junkie no matter what. The list can go on forever.

Having a good game as an adc is though, specially when you have one of these 'supps' + trying a new adc + the enemy botlane is a freak wombo-combo + enemy jng camps you like a stalker fan; everybody wants to dive you while your beloved tower needs three hours to notice the fact that you're dead so he can poke the enemy doing the same amount of damage as a feather that falls on the sand.

You may say: ' why the hell you don't find a good supp and make a duo?'. Yes, I may, and I do, but me as many of you out there like to play alone.

It is so masochist being an adc main and play alone, ik, but remember that before you think or say that: adcs are broken, adcs are unstoppable, adcs are op; think that the adc you are facing right now maybe just had some luck to have a good support for once in a while.

You may say: 'I am a good supp and I get always stupid adcs, wtf', and I may agree with you, but you need to consider the fact that people gets autofilled supp a lot more then adc autofill (and ofc there are a lot of more reasons)

In conclusion I just ask to **everybody ** to not undestimate the supp role, even more if you are autofilled: if you don't focus on the role you are playing you can ruin the game easily. I know, to be auto filled supp is annoying but is a fate that we have to face from time to time, just think that there is no a valid reason to ruin the game just because you were placed in a role that is not your main

12 Comments

Lunar Lunacy12/9/2017, 12:24:13 AM3 votes

I don't main adc anymore in solo queue almost solely because my supports are usually toxic. They like to rage at me and then go roam indefinitely or afk if early game trades don't go well. So yeah, support mains often complain about toxic ADC's but there's two sides to every story.

Baron Barian12/9/2017, 12:34:13 AM3 votes

Then of course there have been a lot of mage support players lately who just build full AP and never even buy a sightstone. If they don't upgrade their spellthief into a Frost Queen's Claim, they don't upgrade it at all because they just want damage.

I also feel that I'm the only tank support player who uses the Guardian Keystone. Everyone else usually pick Aftershock for more damage, or Grasp tankiness, even though you'll be poked to death before getting those procs.

HaIlMonitor12/9/2017, 12:43:37 AM1 votes

I am a jungle main but like to ADC for fun sometimes. It is so hard to explain the feeling of a good vs a bad support.

Great support help cs (especially under tower), get lane control, poke, lead and fallow up on plays, Roam (not when that draven karma is right next to your tower lol), and last but not least help control vision.

I will fully admit most games I win when I play adc are on the back of the support.

AFilthyCaitMain12/9/2017, 12:46:36 AM1 votes

Its so true. I find that supports make or break the lane so damn often. Like a few games ago we got first blood, but then blitz was almost always mid, they were zyra tristana, I was Cait (who tbh is shit anyway). Pretty much nothing i could do. I got tower dove 2 or so times because i had no support, and all that jazz. Lane control instantly lost because the support. Feelsbad.

LegitBusinessman12/9/2017, 1:33:11 AM1 votes

I do love the full ap mage support and the whole team is mad that he doesn't have sightstone but not a single one of the other 4 has bought a single pink ward all game.

Woodakoodashooda12/9/2017, 2:39:41 AM1 votes

I get you, honestly, I do. But there's usually going to be someone filled on my team because the system is a bad joke.

It's an automated timer-based system that no one seems to quite understand. Someone will allow themselves to be in the same queue for fifteen minutes or longer and then I get onto a team and all of a sudden, it's "Why did I get this role? This isn't what I picked."

It's because players insist on remaining in the same queue for minutes at a time. They don't get that if you remain in the same one for longer than 2 minutes, you run the risk of being filled.

So, if it isn't the Support who got filled, it's someone else. And that someone else is usually the ADC.

The ADC is the one who deals the highest amount of DPS to enemy structures. It is their job to take those structures out and it is their allies' job to guard them and eliminate enemies so the ADC can do their job.

I tried to become a Support main. I thought, maybe, just maybe, if I could keep them safe and lock down who or what it is need killing then the ADC could do their job with no hassle.

But this is not the case.

You mentioned Thresh not last hitting minions to proc relic shield. How about the ADC's who constantly last hit everything in lane with their insane DPS without stopping to think maybe Thresh needs a little gold too. And then they wonder why they died to the enemy after Thresh landed all his CC. It's because Thresh wasn't able to proc relic shield at all in lane and the ADC wasn't able to heal off of it. Instead, they go balls deep on the enemy the instant they hear Thresh landed a hook on an enemy champion without wondering what the consequences might be.

Maybe Thresh was just poking the enemy a little. Maybe Thresh was just throwing out a hook as a precautionary measure so the ADC could continue farming without fear of being exploded. But no. One landed hook and hell breaks loose. And what's a Thresh to do without his ADC? Nothing.

Because Thresh doesn't have damage, He's nothing but a punching bag the instant he's alone.

And I did try ADC because some of my favorite champions are ADC's because of their personalities. I love Twitch and Draven and I thought to try them out for a time to see if I could get good enough at the role. I also loved Miss Fortune's playful banter at the player for a time before I eventually tired of champion voice lines that repeated incessantly. And I tried. I did good in some games, but it was only with a good support.

You're right. An ADC is a hellish position to play if your support is someone who was filled or someone who just went Support for no other reason than to cut down on their wait for a game.

Over a dozen games later and I can count on one hand the number of times I had fun as ADC.

Twice.

Once as Twitch when I had Nautilus for support and my team blocked for me. Each of them took it in turn to land some form of hard CC so that I could kill everyone. I wasn't good, but it didn't matter. I had a team that made my job cake.

The other time as MF and my support was Braum. With his shield up whenever I needed it most, my movement speed was never interrupted by enemy aggression. I'd farm and then he'd lock down anything that came close enough for me to burst them down. We were a dream team of ADC and Support combo and it was glorious.

But players don't think of what Supoort the ADC might need.

I'd reconsider becoming a Support main if the system would guarantee me an ADC who wasn't filled.

Instead, I'll keep to the jungle where I can farm gold and exp and act as the supporting role from within the shadows of the forest, utilizing stealth, speed, and tact to secure lanes for my allies who need it most.

DragonShea12/9/2017, 3:14:06 AM1 votes

Well good thing that I like tanky champs so having a braum or taric to help out suits my style not to mention that I do go support from time to time. That said. Riot should abolish autofil because it's giving you grey hairs too soon brov.

Unironic SJW12/9/2017, 3:30:08 AM1 votes

Isn't there a fundamental issue with the ADC role when your performance is so heavily determined by whether you have a consistent skilled duo partner?