We need to talk about bottom lane.

Terrible Taliyah··6 votes·1,332 views

I've been playing league for a long time. I've casually played roughly 5000 matches and I've been on this account since before season 2. I can honestly say that I've never had less fun playing bottom lane, whether it be Marksmen or support. Jungler dominance is a real issue right now, as we have heard from the rioters. Between every game being a 4 man gank-train bottom, it's just not fun to be in that lane anymore. I'm tired of being autofilled to play bottom lane. Marksmen DO NOT have the tools to deal with the tanky meta right now. I have no problem with autofill, but it seems like every autofill I get bottom lane. I play through the game and suffer as their top laner teleports on my lane and dives me and my support.(because the only use turrets have is giving the extra first blood gold) Playing against Syndra (if she makes it through ban phase) is ridiculous. Not only does she out range almost every marksman with her stun, but she's almost certain to hit it if she has max rank w; and once you're stunned, you're dead. (inb4 build item 3140 because that would totally not set you behind until you get item 3139 If your team doesn't respond to the bottom lane clown fiesta, your tower will be gone before you make it back. (thanks, ziggs.) And due to the tower first blood gold, your opposing bottom lane will snowball and leave you in the dust. (unless its another marksmen, then your tank will just outlast them.)

  • tl;dr: I don't care if the meta changes. But playing a marksmen now is completely and totally useless to your team unless you somehow get Ziggs or the enemy team doesn't have a ridiculous tank. Please help marksmen players.
  • Of the 134 champions, maybe 25 are played constantly in many of the games I've played for the past month. Some of them are insta-banned(6), leaving you to play with 19 choices and wondering you're going to handle that Poppy that somehow got through ban phase. I believe that soon if things continue, marksmen will cycle their way into the 109 that aren't played, and that will be a sad time for ADC mains.

3 Comments

Best Kog NA4 votes

That is what the boards wants tho tbh. They want marksmen to be out of the game. It's going to a rough season for marksmen.

Wilbor2 votes

Agreed.

Honestly now, adcs are just left out without a job, who needs them to take objectives when u got an apc (ziggs) that one shots a tower? in this meta they are absolutely useless in terms of damage there is a reason we have a freaking apc playing as adc and owning the win rates charts. things gone a little out of control and needs to be balanced.

Not only that, but can we just stop with the items that gives u tank stats AND ad?

SchmidttyGames2 votes

I've noticed that people are now pushing against both Marksmen and Supports, even though our lives are almost literally hell in the bottom lane as it is. I've figured out what they want.

They want defenseless prey.

That's why I main Zyra

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