PSA: Marksmen =/= ADC

Ralanr··2 votes·226 views

Not even sure if this is the right part of the forum to post this in. Not sure I care now.

Look, I get that pretty much every marksman is put into the ADC role. But can we please stop referring the marksmen class as ADC? I don't see why we need to differentiate carries like Fiora or MasterYi as "melee carries" when ADC doesn't even specify ranged attacks in the damn name.

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Jefftiffy1 votes

Actually in League terms. Every marksman is an ADC. And not every melee is a mADC. The only ADC that I feel like is misclassified is Ezreal because, let's be honest. His late game is almost none-existent compared to every other ADC so he actually suits the marksman role. Marksman = ranged physical AA champs. And most ranged characters are mage. The only other person I could see classified as a marksman is Gnar , but his primary would be tank/fighter. I guess we could throw Teemo under marksman too. But saying that all marksmans are ADCs is basically true except for outliers.

The only reason Marksman still exists is because Riot can't just call something a carry. It would be so much easier to classify people as mages, tanks, fighters, supports, and carries.

Lord Azır1 votes

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Actually in League terms. Every marksman is an ADC. And not every melee is a mADC. The only ADC that I feel like is misclassified is Ezreal because, let's be honest. His late game is almost none-existent compared to every other ADC so he actually suits the marksman role. Marksman = ranged physical AA champs. And most ranged characters are mage. The only other person I could see classified as a marksman is Gnar , but his primary would be tank/fighter. I guess we could throw Teemo under marksman too. But saying that all marksmans are ADCs is basically true except for outliers.

The only reason Marksman still exists is because Riot can't just call something a carry. It would be so much easier to classify people as mages, tanks, fighters, supports, and carries.

Azir is classified as a marksman and he does magic damage

Hayaishi21 votes

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Azir is classified as a marksman and he does magic damage

Because Riot's tags are inconsistent.

Yi and Fiora both play like light fighters which is what Riven is.

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