In what timeline is it OK for ADC's to build AP, burst as hard as mages and still put out nasty DPS?

Malicious Metal··6 votes·1,417 views

Just hop to any stat site, be it Op.GG, League of graphs or anything in between. Now look up ADC's that build item 3124

You'll notice a pattern, especially with Kaisa and Varus Their core builds look something like this as of now: item 3812 item 3115 item 3124 in kai'sa's case and item 3124 item 3089 item 3115 in Varus'.

Both of these ADC's have high AP ratios that are now being abused because of the reworked Rageblade giving them % AP increases that allow them to Burst extremely hard and fast while also having the standard ADC dps.

And I'm just sitting here asking WHY this is allowed to exist? Once again Rageblade's causing balance problems by warping the entire game around it, it's honestly getting ridiculous and I think it's about time for Riot to delete this abomination of an item.

It's only causing problems and the only champion that relies on it to actually function, that one being Kayle , is tier 1 VGU priority anyways.

So, can we actually fix this, it's getting ridiculous.

4 Comments

Marothennan5 votes

Not saying this is ok but AP Varus is the same stuff as AP varus mid just that he's going bot lane instead

Infernape4 votes

It was always intended to be Varus' thing.

Hethalean3 votes

Kaisa is at least forgiveable since she has absolutely 0 CC unlike most mages who have a kit with at least 1 strong CC. Varus I'm not sure why his kit is soooo versatile with the CC it has.

nelogis2 votes

In what timeline is it OK for ADC's to build AP, burst as hard as mages and still put out nasty DPS?

Since late season 7

I don't know when but the time I noticed is around mid season 7. That was the time I realized that Riot doesn't care about gatings and weaknesses anymore.

Every rework / champion release / balance changes since then lack any kind of true weakness or gating behind anything.

My guess is that they do it so LCS becomes more exciting. Having a weakness means that the champ isn't going to be picked in the LCS that much. (Why pick stuff like Zed when you can just pick Ryze and do almost fine against any match up). So more champ variety in the LCS.

In regards to your question: If ADCs have the ability to burst (A weakness of them SHOULD be enduring and dishing out burst damage) then a weakness is getting nullified. Which means there is a higher chance that a bigger variety of ADCs are going to get played in the LCS.

Doesn't that sound great? That you have to endure this bullshit because of something you propably don't even care about?

:)

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