Why must ADCs start conquering other roles?

LegitBacon66·Feb 27, 2016·4 votes·562 views

ADCs top - Graves, Lucian, Quinn ADCs mid - Quinn, Corki, Lucian ADCs jungle - Graves, Kindred ADCs bot - All ADCs (obviously) Support is only left.

I HATE, and I mean hate having ADCs everywhere. Having ADCs in all these roles forces assassins to be strong. Also, melee champions have the hardest time in season 6 because of all the range. Can we stop bringing the ADC role into other roles? I wish I could play melee tanks and champions, but no mobility = no success.

9 Comments

TehNACHOFeb 27, 20164 votes

Forgive me for pointing out, but Quinn is only champion 9 of Top Lane's top performing champions. She is beaten by (and these are also the top 4 champs in Top) Gangplank, Garen, Nasus, and Singed, all of which I'd argue are almost completely immobile by today's standards. The next champ, Graves, is 7 champs further down. Lucian is not present.

Furthermore, ADCs mid aren't very much different from a medium or short ranged mage mid. The three you pointed out are Assassin-like, Caster Based, and a Spell Weaver in that order. These are damage archetypes that already exist in mid, and don't really change the environment much by them being there.

And we went from no real Jungle Marksmen to two Jungle Marksmen. That does not look like a champion diversity problem to me, rather, that sounds great in terms of champion diversity. Graves is also champion 16, and Kindred 42; they are nowhere near the top performers.

ZarkkastFeb 27, 20163 votes

Support Ashe :)

VesarixxFeb 27, 20164 votes

AP MF support

Unstoppable MonkFeb 27, 20161 votes

Varus jangle

Rabid HuskyFeb 27, 20162 votes

funny how people complained about only adcs bot just last season how times have changed. i have yet to see a lucian top but quinn has almost always gone top before s6 since she was awkward bot and graves has been going where he wants hes like mundo but hairier. mid is new for quinn but she supports a assassin playstyle so yeah her mid is good more ad mid is interesting, corkie has been mid more hasn't he? i don't see any issues tho now lucian...yeah havent seen him there either you gotta be unlucky tho i have seen varus mid since the pros started doing it. now adc bot is also not entirely true mord teemo tf double assassin blitz thresh ive seen double mage double juggernaut double tank and some good variety then again that is my lifetime of league this season has just been mord as a none marksmen bot lane. honestly i don't see any problems with diversity it opens more plays and if you shut them down early they become less of a issue later

Woook3rFeb 27, 20161 votes

You can also find high dmg tanks everywhere in the game as well. Jungle. Support. Mid. Top. Even mord and Urgot can go bot. There are also mage top laners and supports. Try ahri adc. It works. U have a ton of mobility and self peel + ranged autos. If her auto attack animation were to get a buff, then she would be a perfect adc, regardless of her scalings.

Also, ekko and akali are played as tank now. They have mobility. U should try.

Yes it is hard to play a champ with no mobility. U probably shouldnt do it in solo q.

TehNACHOFeb 27, 20162 votes

high dmg tanks

cough Fighters

Woook3rFeb 27, 20161 votes

Sorry. Ill use the words you want me to use next time. Do you think you could write my posts for me? That would help so much.

MizayaFeb 27, 20161 votes

Lucian has a 96% ADC role rate from what I've noticed. I mean he's pretty much exclusively played bot. A very small fraction of games in other lanes doesn't even come close to making him an actual pick there. As for the other picks:

Graves - Tankier, close ranged bursty early game. He doesn't have DPS, he has burst. Like, that's kinda the point of his reload mechanic is to promote that kind of playstyle. Quinn - You always see them building armor pen like an assassin. She's bursty as well and her ult makes her kinda like an assassin/splitpusher. Corki - This one is obvious. He's always scaled well with levels into the mid-game, and Riot just made him into mostly magic damage and gave him a huge powerful roaming tool in his package. Kindred - She shouldn't even be mentioned honestly. She was kinda made as a jungler, and the jungle has a lot of diversity right now which is good.