State of Marksman: ala Hashinshin style
First of all the title is sort of a clickbait, I'm not here to rant about the Bottom position, I just got the idea from the video. What I intend to do is discuss a little about the state of marksman as a class. I don't plan to talk about in-depth topics since I'm high silver.. but I do want to take a look at some Marksman and how they should be changed ; as well as some interesting ideas as to what other champions "could be implemented" into the role. I also wanna to get clear that this is my opinion and like I said earlier, I'm a scrub so if you guys have better ideas please share them.
Let's start by giving the marksman definition and use it as our discussion point: A marksman is a ranged attacker that sacrifices defensive power and utility to focus on dealing strong, continuous damage to individual targets. Now, let's get out of the way the marksman that I feel are in a good state and are not really worth the talk; those would be: Caitlyn, Draven, Jhin, Jinx, Kalista, Kog'Maw, Lucian, Miss Fortune, Sivir, Tristana, Twitch, Varus, Vayne and Xayah. Next, let us take a look at what I believe are struggling ad carries and should get a buff/change to bring them to a better position: Ezreal and Ashe. I understand that both of these have their own niches and fans who play them at a high level. However, I feel that more could be done to bring their character fully. For Ashe, I feel that there's need to be changes to her passive and e; q w and r are in a good state. Passive needs more than just a slow and bonus damage when crit'd, her e is just a scouting ability and while it is used optimally in the pro scene, I also think it needs a little more. While I don't have a lot of ideas for her changes, I do have something for Ezreal kit. I think we can keep his q e and r as they are his core abilities, for his w I would make so it would be a AS bonus, where the passive would be his actual passive and its active would give him a bonus AS. His passive would be a completely new one where his passive made him feel like a true explorer: it would be something along the lines of the more you attack an enemy champion, it would buff your damage or AS. This would also count for his abilities making him into a true marksman where he has to wait for his passive to stack up until he is ready to use his abilities. Let me know any suggestions.
Moving forth to what I like to called: "Old Marksman that got taken away, kappa". This would include: Graves, Quinn, Kindred(not really but I wanted to played her bottom), and Corki. These champions are not viable down in the bottom position; however, I think Riot has done a good job in finding them a suitable play style. All except Quinn, which I honestly dont like her position as a semi assassin counter pick in the top. She has the potential of being the unique dual Marksman like she kind of was before. Now I just hope Riot can someday bring her back to bottom with a brand new look. Finally let's take a look at some champions that I feel have a strong potential to be change into Marksman, as a sort of replacement for the lost ones, but more as a new way to bring them to a stable position in the game: Ziggs, Kennen, Mordekaiser, and Teemo. Am I mad? A little bit.. but hear me out first. I think all of these champions check the box for new archetypes for the Marksman role as well giving them a new personality they desperately need. While they all have been played at some point in the role, it hasn't been long lasting. Starting with Ziggs, he is known as the demolisher, or something like that, so I feel that he can be changed to ad(or leave him ap) but change some of his abilities to fit him as an adc, something like making his own schematics from turret's debris...?? Second is Kennen, this little rat ninja thing can be the first lighting adc, using volts as a form to defend himself instead of being aggressive like he is right now; I think that going from his W we can have a really cool marksman. Morder... the first try Riot did at a melee bottom where he worked a bit too much, got nerfed, and now his not touched at all; I think keeping his identity as the Tank AD Carry is the way to go. p.s. let him keep his pet dragon. Finally Teemo, which I have seen so long on the Marksman tab that I want him to be cool; we can go from the "counter" adc archetype with his blind, but giving him a new fulfilling ultimate.
Those are my thoughts, let me know what you think: is it just a lucid dream, is it actually be innovative, or do you guys have better ideas; let me know. Thank you.