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Adc problems

Pillar Of Aeons·11/14/2017, 12:22:36 PM·1 votes·496 views

I play adc enough to point out some of the major problems that the role has. And i wanted to have a friendly discussion reguarding some of the said problems.

Im sure everyone agrees thats adc's are weak. Not terrible, but, pretty bad. There are so many things that stops an adc in their path instantly. Because adcs are up against so much armor so much burst and so much cc.

Now you may think "well adc are ranged, shoot from a distance, play safe, and let your team peel for you." Well that has never been and never will be the case. Assassins/bruisers have so many gap closers thats is impossible to do anything. Khazix can leap over my entire team and 1 hit me. Hecarim can simply charge through all of them and instantly half health me. I love this role but god i also hate it.

When you get ahead as an adc you should feel strong as if you got ahead in any other role. But no, me, the 6/0 draven gets one hit by the 0/5 akali who hasent finished her gunblade. Why?

The lulu whom fed me in lane can q auto me and i die instantly. Why?

Why is there so much thats stops an adc in their tracks? Some will say "well its the strongest role in the game and they need to be killed fast." Well no not exacally. Assuming your team is even mildly competent and has the amazing idea of trying to peel for you, it dosent matter because the full tank maokai walks right through, roots me, q's me and BOOM im dead. Why?????

Im a simple minded person. I believe a full tank should not be oneshotting a squishier target. And if i havent build my pen item yet, i will do next to 0 damage to said tank.

And god damn these tanks items. Riot keeps coming out with more and more tanks items that simply punish adcs even harder. Fucking bramble vest. Simply by auto attacking someone, the one thing i can do as an adc, i get grevious wounds put one me and now i cant sustain in a fight. Another item that reduces my attack speed for auto attacking. REDUCES MY ATTACK SPEED FOR DOING THE 1 THING AN ADC DOES WELL. Why??????

The only way you could succeed as an adc is if you outplay their team and show a truly display of skill (ezreal kek) but even thats thrown out the window when some cardboard 12 player simply presses q on annie and i get nuked.

Now im not afraid to admit im a bit salty. I just wanna have a good game as adc and not get one hit by everything in the game.

And now i sit here typing this and am speaking to all tank/assassin/bruiser players. You guys have had a Looooooong run.you guys have had yalls meta for almost 4 seasons now. But i think now its time for riot to tune back the tank items and start giving adcs a helping hand. Have a taste of you own medicine and see how it feels to be in the minority.

Im aware that this was just rambling but im just frusterated at one of my favorite roles being shit on. Please tell me what you think and please be friendly and respectful in the comments. Thank you :3

3 Comments

HarrowR11/14/2017, 12:46:59 PM2 votes

wow prepare to get downvoted to hell man,im an adc main,and im guessing you didn't visit the Boards recently,every third post is bitching about ADCs being op and bursting people in seconds,i cant count the number of nerf tristana/twitch posts with over 100 up votes,and while i agree its iritating sometimes that you'll get into a situation where you're 10/2 and still get killed by 0/8 sejuani tank 1v1,i have to disagree that adcs are pretty weak right now,you probably didnt play a year or two back when the tank meta was in full effect,literally any mis-position was punished with instant death for an adc,no other role basically was so squishy,so fragile and so immobile,hell i remember for the first 30 minutes or so you couldn't even duel the enemy blitzkrank,let alone someone like Sejuani,so yeah,adcs don't have it bad right now,they're a bit squishier again after the update but i feel as like they do more damage too,my piece of advice,cause i was obsessed with dueling people as an adc,play adcs that fit your playstyle,if you want to 1v1 people play Vayne,Tristana,Xayah,Lucian,Twitch ,Draven,build lifesteal 3rd item or even first if you want (Botrk) and build Phantom dancer and Ninja tabi,both will give you a nice boost to tankiness in a 1v1 scenario,its all about the build,i remember a game recently where fizz was one shotting me,until i got a maw,and then his whole burst would leave me to 300-400 health,which was enough time for me to kill him and heal back up

Harlus11/14/2017, 1:12:50 PM2 votes

ADCs are insanely strong right now

Critmaster Garen11/14/2017, 12:53:25 PM1 votes

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Now you may think "well adc are ranged, shoot from a distance, play safe, and let your team peel for you." Well that has never been and never will be the case.

in silver 4.

get better at the game and as you climb, you will find the game and strength of champion types looks entirely different.

adc are still fucking busted like 2 weeks ago, and they deal even more damage now, which is ridiculous. the only thing that keeps them in check right now is that some of the assassins are benefitting with the preseason patch and are able to fight them again.

right now its either a matter of they blow up before they can move, or they murder your entire team in seconds.