Daily reminder that Ranged AD+ Support has been the duo lane meta since 2011

There isn't a much better way to run things. You need a support just because of the lack of farmable lanes, you need an ADC because no other class can push reliably, and the ADC and support work best together because the ADC isn't level dependent and generally makes for a poor roamer or ganker (making them poor fits for top or mid). You get meta shifts in the specific champions used for those roles.

Because a solid healthy meta staying around is a bad thing?

It doesn't need to. It literally is the meta that meta's are based around. Whatever is most effective at shutting a team down (which usually involves invalidating the enemy ADC) becomes the meta.

Assassin meta - kill the ADC Tank meta - tank all the ADC's damage Fighter meta - break through enemy ranks and dunk on the ADC Splitpush meta - don't even have to involve yourself with that pesky ADC in teamfights Poke meta - force the ADC out of range

And I really don't think that needs to change. I do like that looking at this list almost all of those strategies (previous meta's) are now all almost equally viable. Cooleo, though tank is starting to outshine the others... Cinderhulk >:|

I want it to shift to support and mage. Or support and bruiser. Or the support roams with the jungler. Change it nice.

There are three AP's I could imagine replacing the adc, and I'm not sure how any of these would actually work.

Few people ever even consider melee adc's, and riot doesn't seem to have any intent on shifting the bot lane meta, so this will likely remain an issue for some time.

If you count lane swap in LCS you have had many different lane set ups

support "top laner" vs support adc, adc vs "top", "top" vs "top", adc support jungler vs support jungler "top", etc

Carries have always been Carries - that is, they are vulnerable in the early game "You Carry Me..." and then ramp up to be the primary driving force in the late game "...And I'll Carry You" because ADCs provide sustained damage. Mages can deal more damage at once, but while on CD they tend to be useless, where an ADC has a constant damage output.

When considering their damage, though, you have to remember that most Champions naturally gain armor per level, but not all of them gain MR, and not at the same rate. And Armor / MR are not the same in terms of cost efficiency and itemization. And there are a lot of item tools to slow down an ADC (thornmail reflects damage, frozen heart slows their attack speed, randuins, etc) whereas there might be MR and spell shields, but there aren't items that "reflect % Magic Damage back to the caster" or "increases nearby enemy cooldowns"

Considering all of this - carries have almost always been "supported" in one way or another. Very early on, AD Mids were the meta but eventually they realized that it was more efficient to put them in a lane with a dedicated support - but the support would also take CS, because they needed farm too. So then Riot gave 'dedicated supports' ways of getting gold such as the GP5 items which eventually became the current Coin/Targan/Frost Queen items. At this point, it became more efficient to give the late-game carry all of the early-game farm, and the items and mechanics were built to reinforce this meta.

In the other lanes, however, since they are entirely solo they can more easily be influenced by changes in the items and jungle and even individual Champion strengths.

So the bot meta has stayed around so long because the game has grown up around it.

It's because having a ranged AD on your team is a necessity for single target DPS and objectives, and it's advantageous/ necessary to have a support to protect them and make sure they get farmed.

I think part of the problem is that it is really hard to make a good melee adc who also will be played bot lane, I think yasuo was designed to be an adc who was melee the only problem being that it was 1 very hard to balance him to counter ranged champions without being op against melee champions and 2 riot was unable to find a way to keep him from being more popular in mid and top where he could use the fact that his gap closer which was meant to help him be able to fight ranged adcs was great for avoiding skill shots and in top where he was just really mobile and could kind of just poke and had a shield which protected him a tiny bit when someone tried to go all in.

Played a game with my ranked team where I was planning to go Cass mid, but I was against an Orianna so my ADC Miss Fortune was like, "You go bot with Nami, I will mid." And we both completely destroyed our lanes.

If you want the meta to change then change it yourself. You don't have to follow it.

Mid lane had no meta shifts, it had an algorithm: Is Zed/Kha stupidly overpowered? If yes, call it the "assassin meta", if no, call it the mage meta. And toplane is constantly shifting between asshole bruisers and resourceless ranged twats, based on whether lane swaps are popular. No meta shift has occured in 3+ years.

Hmm, that's funny, I clearly remember mages being popular in bot lane. Oh well, guess it never happened.

They released azir and remade cassiopeia as the 2 first Ap ranged dps but no one use them there. They have the potential to have high ranged dps, sustain and self peel (even escape and tower killing power for azir).

At least that wouldn't be ADC bot + support but carry (from any source) + support (there is already a lot of variety in support role with true supports, mage supports, tank and fighter supports).

They don't even support this possible Ap carry playstyle. This is what bothers me the most.

And this is problem, why?

I am not really sure what this post is about. While the sarcasm is evident, this post neither shows that the lack of a meta shift from ADCs bottom is bad and/or that it needs to change to keep the game interesting.

As others have pointed out the consistency of the AD carry meta is about objective taking, which is what really wins games. After all no matter what kind of plan you make ultimately it comes down to destroying the enemy nexus which is why having a dedicated champion in every game that can rapidly destroy structures late game will always be part of the meta.