Why adc are so strong

ISLAMICWARRIOR99··6 votes·1,022 views

Janna Lulu Soraka Nami all broken teir and haven't been nerfed as well as Alistar Leona being able to 1v1 most champs for the first 15 mins of the game

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H1 H0w are Ya5 votes

ADC is broken because Leona and ali do too much damage?

Seems legit

ISLAMICWARRIOR991 votes

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ADC is broken because Leona and ali do too much damage?

Seems legit

ADC aren't broken, adc get massive leads because their support 1 shots the other adc and they last hit for 300 gold. All the clips and whiny posts about getting 1 shot by an adc involve an adc several thousand gold ahead of everyone else.

H1 H0w are Ya5 votes

What game are you playing lol What alistar is running around one shotting ADC's?

If you eat ALi's full CC combo or LEona's you should die bot lane. What is the issue here?

ISLAMICWARRIOR991 votes

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What game are you playing lol What alistar is running around one shotting ADC's?

If you eat ALi's full CC combo or LEona's you should die bot lane. What is the issue here?

So if you eat alis point and click combo or leo e with its terrible hitbox you should die 100% no counterplay? Yep this is boards alright.

H1 H0w are Ya2 votes

If Ali walks directly up to you to do his combo, your support does nothing and you just stand there and eat it then yes you deserve to die. Leona E has a 525 Range, lower then every single ADC outside of Urgot. If you walk close enough to her for her to pull herself to you then you misplayed and deserve what you get.

Why is this so hard for people to understand?

ISLAMICWARRIOR991 votes

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If Ali walks directly up to you to do his combo, your support does nothing and you just stand there and eat it then yes you deserve to die. Leona E has a 525 Range, lower then every single ADC outside of Urgot. If you walk close enough to her for her to pull herself to you then you misplayed and deserve what you get.

Why is this so hard for people to understand?

If ali or leo stand just behing their minions they are in range, so youre basically saying don't cs if your support doesn't know what theyre doing, which just affirms adc is the most team reliant role in the game.

H1 H0w are Ya2 votes

So if their support is better then yours you are saying you shouldn't lose lane?

Sorry but if their player is better then yours they should win. That is how most things work

ISLAMICWARRIOR991 votes

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So if their support is better then yours you are saying you shouldn't lose lane?

Sorry but if their player is better then yours they should win. That is how most things work

Currently you can be 2x as good as the other adc and it wont matter bc 90% of botlane is in the support, it should at least be 50/50

AirKingNeo1 votes

A glass cannon can't hurt you if you break it.

You can't break it if someone puts a fat shield or CCs you into a comatose state.

Dead flag blues3 votes

I guess Janna can hide Twitch and make Tristana jump every 2sec

ISLAMICWARRIOR991 votes

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I guess Janna can hide Twitch and make Tristana jump every 2sec

Both are useless unless fed, and in the current meta the only way to get fed bot is through your support or jungler.

vgamedude2 votes

If fed is allowed to get enough farm for two items and not afk at the fountain then yes.

I'm getting real tired of this "it's the supports not the adcs no nerf pls!" meme

Critmaster Garen3 votes

Why adc are so strong

item 3086 1200 gold

item 3087 item 3094 item 3085 item 3046 2600 gold

item 3031 3400 gold item 3508 3400 gold

item 3036 item 3033 2600 gold

vs.

item 3071 3000 gold item 3078 3733 gold item 3053 3200 gold item 3748 3500 gold

item 3089 3800 gold item 3165 2900 gold item 3285 3200 gold item 3135 2650 gold

yea, its totally just the supports. gtfo. every time marksmen are obviously overtuned, someone comes around and points the finger at either supports, tanks or junglers. marksmen builds are even cheaper than fucking assassin builds, thats the problem.

ISLAMICWARRIOR992 votes

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item 3086 1200 gold

item 3087 item 3094 item 3085 item 3046 2600 gold

item 3031 3400 gold item 3508 3400 gold

item 3036 item 3033 2600 gold

vs.

item 3071 3000 gold item 3078 3733 gold item 3053 3200 gold item 3748 3500 gold

item 3089 3800 gold item 3165 2900 gold item 3285 3200 gold item 3135 2650 gold

yea, its totally just the supports. gtfo. every time marksmen are obviously overtuned, someone comes around and points the finger at either supports, tanks or junglers. marksmen builds are even cheaper than fucking assassin builds, thats the problem.

Item price argument is invalid. Every adc item you named gives 1-2 stats MAX. Either damage and nothing or damage and a small amount of movespeed. Black cleaver gives ad, hp, armor shred, and has phage which gives movespeed. Ludens gives a ton of ap, movespeed, and more waveclear, triforce gives hp, attack speed, cdr, ad, and the sheen proc, titanic gives hp, ad, waveclear, and the reset with its active, steraks gives hp, ad and a shield when low. Please find a valid argument before you tell me to "gtfo" because nothing you mentioned is at all relevant to the class.

Krytoric1 votes

The problem with that argument that everyone ignores is that you're only looking at the price, not what the item does.

For item 3031 or item 3508 to be useful, you need at least one zeal item, but usually want two, so that means for the items to come online and start working well and consistently, you need anywhere from 6000g to 8600g. Where with pretty much every other item in the game, the item gives what it needs to work, item 3071 is a powerspike alone, same with item 3078 item 3053 and item 3748 and they all give more useful stats alone.

Think about it like this - For the Zeal items to be effective, you need AD, so the crits actually do damage, and for IE / ER to be effective, you need the AS and Crit, so you can consistently get the extra crit damage, or the mana back, all of the items suck on their own.

For Black cleaver for an example, you dont need anything else, it gives you the AD, the Armor shred, the HP and the CDR, it serves its purpose alone, ADC items dont.

Also, Assassin builds are about 600-700g more expensive if you get the most expensive assassin items, and they still have an item that deletes people from the game, and its ALWAYS been broken and over loaded - item 3147 item 3147 item 3147 - for 2900g, you can make any ADC (or squishy) not exist if you aren't trash, so yeah, it is the supports LOL

Critmaster Garen1 votes

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The problem with that argument that everyone ignores is that you're only looking at the price, not what the item does.

what the items do is outscsale all the other carry itemization through cubic scaling. crit itemization has ALWAYS done this. it was just never as cheap as it was since last season.

this is the insult that adds to injury. marksmen builds are so cheap that more often than not theyre power spiking at the same time as bruisers, assassins and apc now, and from there on out keep outscaling them.

as far as ad assassins go, theyre garbage if youre not playing in the lower divisions. mostly because support protection invalidates them, and marksmen deal so much burst through crit itemization that a couple auto attacks equal an entire assassin burst chain with 2 or 3 crit items.

Krytoric1 votes

they do outscale, when you get 3 items, where as every other class needs 1 item to serve its purpose.

And AD assassins arent bad because of ADC, they're bad cause everyone takes stop watch, and support items are cheap and give giant shields. And thats such an over exaggeration, once an ADC gets 3 items AND if they're ahead, then yeah they do a shit ton of damage, but when an assassin gets his first item, as long as hes not insanely behind, a brain dead Zed can do the combo and 1 shot any squishy.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

{quoted}

they do outscale, when you get 3 items

bullshit. right now, marksmen are hitting their first big power spike after only two items.

bruisers also usually need two or three items to hit their main power spike. its difficult to carry off a cleaver or a triforce alone on a bruiser. you usually also need a defensive item to go along with it to be able to survive long enough in fights.

for example renekton doesnt hit a real power spike before he gets a cleaver and a titanic hydra or some other second item.

champions like darius, garen etc. need a health/armor item or steraks gage on top of their cleaver/triforce to survive anything more than a small skirmish with more than 2 people on both sides involved.

individually these items are stronger than adc items are individually. the difference is that two crit items already synergize stronger with each other than two bruiser items. so by the time a bruiser finished his first two items and gets his power spike, an adc already finished two crit items and a zeal. so they power spike at the same time with bruisers and outscale them from there atm.

adc dont have to get ahead to deal a shitton of damage for this purpuse. theyre ahead from the start due to their item builds just being much cheaper. on top of that the turret on bot lane is the weakest turret on the map, so more often than not they get that juicy 550 gold turret first blood off a push with their support and their jungler, while its much harder for a top laner to take the first turret. these two factors alone usually get them ahead compared to a top lane bruiser.

its one of the reasons why item 3301 start becomes more and more popular on top lane bruisers. the gp10 passive and the bandit passive together generate a lot of gold over the course of the lane phase, to the point where youre able to compensate for that inherent gold disadvantage over adc and actually manage to afford items and be able to carry now and then.

Krytoric1 votes

its not bullshit, i have literally not seen A SINGLE person in game that complains about ADC, i had to step away from that role for a bit cause e v e r y t h i n g seems so much better than it, only when ADC's are massively ahead or they get insane peel in the late game are they actually good, if an ADC falls even mildly behind, they're out of the game for a long time. Also Garen needs BC and hes set for the entire game, after that he gets something like 45% armor shred, and after his E, he can ult any ADC and they're dead. And you ignored that ADC builds need to be cheaper, cause they dont do ANYTHING on their own, IE alone isnt a powerspike, BC is. And one of your main arguments doesnt mean anything, so you're saying ADC is broken cause 3 people take a tower faster than one? And thats not even entirely true, Junglers live in top now cause thats where the first clear ends usually, so after 1-2 kills or pushing them out of lane, a jungler and a top laner will take the tower.

Your arguments seem super personalized, just cause Bruisers are weak, doesn't mean ADC is OP.

Show me some proof that when an ADC gets 2 items, they become an unstoppable wrecking ball like everyone seems to think they are?

Cause ive been pretty much one shot by a Zoe with half an item, yesterday i crit a Vayne for 1684 on Rengar, it was literally a one shot, and i had the most troll rammus build today, i went full movement speed and tanked a full tower dive 1v1 against an MF after she flashed and healed, she was also 6/2 with 3 items at the time. Also had one fight in the same game where i tanked tower and 3 people while my team killed everyone, which happened to be a riven. Then i had a hec game, exact same thing i went full movespeed and hard carried. Then even more, played an eve game and the ADC couldnt even lane, with an E - AA he died, so i spent all game one shotting him til we won.

You just hate ADC's for existing, when they're the easiest role by far to punish.

Ok sure but why3 votes

So what you're saying is, they're not, but tank-supports are

I can upvote that

AirKingNeo1 votes

Idk, I wouldn't say Nami is broken.

ISLAMICWARRIOR992 votes

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Idk, I wouldn't say Nami is broken.

She does a shit ton of damage in lane, not as bad as the others but a good nami is aids with an aggressive adc

AirKingNeo1 votes

I think she just seems strong due to support being strong in general. She hasn't been changed in years.

FCJAAAAGOOOO1 votes

Well if we really want to get to the bottom of this we'd look at marksmen's autoattacks.

If they had smaller stats like their scaling AD/AS all but three of them would have reason not to opt for IE every single game. Oh, and there would be less damage in the game in general, and botlane wouldn't polarize the game so much.

Revenence1 votes

Why everyone but assassins are so strong

item 2419 [zombie-brand-facepalm]

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