Why are non trad adcs looked so bad on

DRFR00TL00PS··1 votes·483 views

I have been playing zyra as an adc lately. Whenever I get a cooperative team I never do bad. However most games ill play it my team will spend most of the game raging at me and well end up losing really hard. I'll get a support who thinks he has to carry me and try to take all the gold. All that does is put you way behind it doesnt help anything at it assures your team will win. I'm not here trying to say that zyra is an amazing adc. however she does have a long attack range good starting ad and a lot of cc for an adc. Even a good amount of extra dmg from her plants cause her base dmg stats are pretty good. It can work very well if your team just rolls with it. I've had games were i destroy teams as zyra adc. I've even carried games, I believe the biggest thing holding off adcs back is this community and just don't understand how a community built around the internet cannot be open to new ideas especially if its well thought out. I'd love to see a conversation start about this and to see riot games start opening up to ideas other then their own. Open the game up to whatever don't hold your own game back because you want the game to be 100% your own.

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Morticianjohn1 votes

Zyra ADC can work but it's sub optimal. Everyone expects to be able to optimize their game and/or their ability to win the game. You are doing something out of their control to make things less ideal. Maybe that's what works for you like a singed support/jg who got to platinum with that strategy. It does make people unhappy however.

I personally would support whomever you choose. I once had an Ashe who went full AP on my team. I asked "do you even have any moves that scale off of AP?" and the response was "yeah". After the game I looked it up and she was right. Her R scales off of AP. Anyway, I just do the best I can with whomever plays with me but I can certainly understand the mindset of those who can not adapt well to certain things.

Picture this, you get a garen support with ghost ignite.... you know as an ADC player this probably won't end well. Even if he buys relic shield and sightstone there is always going to be a part of you that wishes it wasn't Garen.

Mysticman891 votes

I don't think riot games has really cared where you play what champs. They'll be balanced with certain roles in mind, and if they get oppressive (in either their intended role or an off-meta one) then they'll be tweaked, but they don't decicde the meta, the meta is what it is because thats what the community on the whole concluded was best.

Zyra has decent attack range sure, but her abilities have no synergy with ad/crit/AS themselves, so after early game you're basically just playing a strictly worse version of cait/trist/varus/ashe who all have the same range or better and also have abilities that synergise with adc stats.

Her attack range certainly makes her a strong contender for 'adc' in an otherwise all AP team in aram or nemesis draft, but your argument seems to revolve around a strong early game based on her base damages, and there are conventionally strong early game adcs that wouldn't fall off as hard.

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