ADC

Unlimited Chill·7/18/2017, 5:10:24 PM·1 votes·442 views

I am and have always been an ADC main so forgive me for bias that is present in this discussion.

The main problem that I see a majority of people complaining about ADC's is that they deal too much burst damage.

Also people say that the main goal of the ADC is to shred tanks.

If an ADC is supposed to shred tanks how could they not obliterate squishies as well?

The only possible way to do this, that I can think of, is to make auto attacks deal % health damage. That way they shred tanks but not really squishies. Crit could be removed in this scenario.

Now I'm in no way capable of doing the math needed to try and calculate a logical formula to convert AD into a % damage.

This isn't a great solution (obviously) but I'm not certain there is really another change that could make squishies tankier than tanks for one class.

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Nahui7/18/2017, 5:30:32 PM1 votes

People hate being bursted, not being shredded. There is a difference. When Lucian jumps out, Q-Double AA-W-Double AA-E-Double AA some of which were crits and you die, this is fine. Took a bunch of autos and spell weaving.

When Trist or Cait literally 2-3 shot you because they built super amount of crit and AD, this becomes a problem. This happens to squishies, but not to ADCs because they sport lifesteal and it synergizes insanely well with crit and AD. So the common argument is "Well if you're squishy, build a tanky item" but that won't save you either since it's an ADC that will instead 4 shot you. But, they can afford to go full squishy and drain tank while annihilating anyone else that goes squishy because they'll have 5 items of damage and boots while anyone else is expected to have at most 4 to baseline survive.

This is why some champs are infuriating to ADCs, like Syndra or Zed because they can pull off equal damage to them late game while remaining relatively safe while doing so if done correctly. You can't drain tank Zed or Syndra due to the nature of their burst.

Now in the past, this sort of power for ADCs came in the late game, and that was acceptable. But that damage has moved earlier and earlier. Now I'm not saying mid game they 3 shot you but they are hitting power spikes and solo capability too early in the game and that's what people are annoyed with.