Riot's new item to play without marksmen will do nothing if ADCs are kept in their current state.

Radiant Seraph·1/22/2018, 4:43:22 PM·11 votes·781 views

Let's say it is an starting item which gives melee carries the potential to lane against ranged ADCs, melee-only, with a shared XP passive, some AD and some sustain.

It won't change a thing, because ADCs are just that stupid right now. Crit is stupidly cheap and lets hypercarries do what mages and assassins do at midgame, without ever falling off because they're fucking hypercarries. Crit needs to be more expensive, especially the Zeal items. 2600g? Seriously? For a class designed to be at their strongest in the later stages in the game? Even fucking Duskblade (which is still fucking bullshit) is more expensive, for fuck's sake.

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ModWulf Helhammer1/22/2018, 6:00:03 PM5 votes

Stop looking at indivual crit item prices. No one buys a single crit item. At minimum, the average crit ADC is building 3 crit items, and that’s what you should be comparing in price to Duskblade.

Nearly every other class has 1 item powerspikes, or at the least items that are amazing just by themselves (morrelo, Duskblade, sunfire, redemption, etc.). ADCs don’t have that.

You want ADCs to stop being so dominant? Make crit a more integral part of their builds. Have it so that if a player wants pure damage, they have to dedicate most of their build to it, so that they have to sacrifice defensive stats so that they have enough damage to do their jobs.

Except that’s what it already is.

Seriously people, stop comparing multi-item scaling builds to single spike items. Of course a zeal item is going to cost less, because it does so much less by itself.

Mordepool1/22/2018, 5:36:32 PM2 votes

They did say that they would make the Melees scale better into the late game.

Oxyrotten1/23/2018, 4:50:55 AM2 votes

I think your missing the point, bruisers about to become the new ADC's.

Imagine crit glass cannon builds on melee's who can lock you down. WW leaping from the bush and killing you with his ult alone. Xin diving you and your dead before his Q proc's. Jax leaping and stunning you and your dead before stun lock is over.

Kill lanes (real kill lanes: 2x melee) are gonna make a huge comeback. Whatchu gonna do when XInWu jumps on you?

Xin Wu bot lane is back baby!

Oxyrotten1/23/2018, 4:51:26 AM1 votes

I think your missing the point, bruisers about to become the new ADC's.

Kill lanes (real kill lanes: 2x melee) are gonna make a huge comeback. An unwarded bush will become a place of fear and dread again.

Xin Wu bot lane is back baby! Whatchu gonna do when XInWu jumps on you?