It would jus be nice to matter, honestly... like, the boards scream their moronic little heads off that ADCs are a late game class but when ADCs were in their late game with their late game items, it suddenly wasnt okay that they were three and four shotting everyone with AAs...
You literally have to play so perfectly on ADCs right now, even if you have a lead, because you're squishy and your items no longer really do damage to squishy targets and you dont really have the means to 1v1 even a behind assassin. It really sucks that, on an ADC, being 5/1 after laning phase with good CS actually still means you're still behind everyone else by miles. Even if the Assassin midlane is 0/3 with just a dirk or mid game, the Irelia thats been feeding her ass off all game just finished her Trinity, it doesn't matter if you have two or sometimes three completed items over them; they'll still destroy you instantly if you dont play around them.
No other class can honestly say that they still have to play around a behind assassin or bruiser when they're ahead. :/
No matter what the boards say, at high levels of play the only time botlane really mattered was during Ardent Meta. This can be seen in every worlds in existence. What was important this worlds? Mid and jungle. What was important in seasons 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1? Mid and fucking jungle. Bot lane was important one worlds and they had to grossly over buff multiple factors to make that happen.
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