Saying that teams can have multiple ADCs is a bit misleading.

Mizaya··2 votes·507 views

Yes, we see "marksmen" in other lanes. But we need to address what this even means.

There are only three "ADCs" seeing play outside of bot lane. Quinn is played mostly top, Graves is played Jungle/Top, and Corki is played mid. Graves is the only one I have seen commonly in my solo queue games.

Here's the big thing: While these are considered ADCs, they do NOT play the role of an ADC in their respective lanes. Quinn and Graves are close range, bruiser type ranged damage dealers with burst, and Corki is basically a sustained magic damage carry like Azir or Cassiopeia. You wouldn't see a Jinx or Tristana in any lane other than bot lane, because they are what I consider "traditional ADCs", while the Marksman changes created diversity that allows reworked ADCs to fufill different roles in their team. Quinn and Graves are actually poor choices for bot lane now because their kits aren't even geared towards the bot lane ADC playstyle anymore. Corki is still viable, though his package makes him a better choice mid lane and he has always scaled well with levels.

That is why we see Graves/Quinn often building Steraks and Ghostblade. They are more like ranged "Fighters" than ADCs, and they already have an ADC on their team building pure DPS. Corki builds like an ADC to do magic damage. The only time a bot lane ADC should be building defensively is when they are very far ahead or when they have reached the endgame, which nearly never happens in our meta.

So here are some things that are just flatly wrong that some people imply when they talk about "3 ADC comps". 1.) A team with multiple glass cannon, pure DPS ranged Physical damage carries is viable. 2.) Any ADC can play in other lanes besides the three I mentioned. 3.) ADCs are stronger (Rather, they are just more diverse and flexible)

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Xerxes0wnzzz4 votes

Lucian mid/top/adc Kogmaw mid/jung/adc Ezreal Mid/adc Varus Mid/adc Kindred Jung/adc/top Twitch Jung/adc MF Mid/adc

I have seen these marksman played in these roles, and I myself have played them.

alasarcher1 votes

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Lucian mid/top/adc Kogmaw mid/jung/adc Ezreal Mid/adc Varus Mid/adc Kindred Jung/adc/top Twitch Jung/adc MF Mid/adc

I have seen these marksman played in these roles, and I myself have played them.

I have seen Twitch top recently, some streamer was climbing with him from silver to diamond.

mogonk1 votes

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Lucian mid/top/adc Kogmaw mid/jung/adc Ezreal Mid/adc Varus Mid/adc Kindred Jung/adc/top Twitch Jung/adc MF Mid/adc

I have seen these marksman played in these roles, and I myself have played them.

I have seen all of these except MF mid and Kindred top.

So yeah.

Mizaya1 votes

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Lucian mid/top/adc Kogmaw mid/jung/adc Ezreal Mid/adc Varus Mid/adc Kindred Jung/adc/top Twitch Jung/adc MF Mid/adc

I have seen these marksman played in these roles, and I myself have played them.

Lucian only played top and barely at all, 96% play rate at ADC Kogmaw - no, 90% ADC playrate. I played him mid once with an AP rageblade build. Ezreal - played mid when Blue ez bot isn't meta, right now he is. Varus - used to be decent mid but he was a caster anyways and barely played Kindred - Was made to be a jungler by Riot. Twitch - Nah, he's played bot. He can jungle, but anyone can jungle when you don't consider the enemy jungler's ability to punish them. MF - another near 100% ADC play rate, the one time I saw her mid was AP MF (Faker played it once too in soloq.)

Isolated instances of them being played does not make them viable in that lane. A while ago Ryan Choi was carrying games when he had to go bot lane by picking Rengar ADC and his team had no ADC at all.

As for my personal experience, other than Kindred Jungle and AP MF mid I haven't seen any of these outside of bot.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

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Lucian mid/top/adc Kogmaw mid/jung/adc Ezreal Mid/adc Varus Mid/adc Kindred Jung/adc/top Twitch Jung/adc MF Mid/adc

I have seen these marksman played in these roles, and I myself have played them.

except for the fact that these champs are adc no matter where you play them (top, mid jungle or bot), there is also cait on mid lane.

shes actually pretty stupid against a lot of matchups, since she can wall off the entire lane with traps and just comfortably sit behind the line and farm.

tristana also used to see a lot of play in midlane for a time. and im not talking about ap tristana, just the vanilla carry build.

Hayaishi21 votes

Varus, Ezreal, Kog didn't even play like ADCs in mid they were all casters, no difference between playing a mage and playing them.

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