"We don't want ADCs to be mandatory in bot lane" -Riot dudeman

ChoGathsSon·11/3/2015, 3:01:36 PM·31 votes·1,898 views

"With the marksmen rework, we want them to be mandatory in every lane. On that note, with the timing of this being a complete coincidence, we've released legendary alpha omega banana pajama skins for Caitlyn, Kog'Maw, Graves, Miss Fortune, Vayne and a few other ADCs. If you buy them within the first week of release, your price will be reduced by 1337 RP at a steal for 8,663 RP. Standard price after 10,000 RP. Don't call me fucking greedy." -other riot dudebro

41 Comments

TeCoolMage11/3/2015, 3:07:03 PM16 votes

Wait, so by angering the fan base of every non marksman player, they profit by making a skin for marksmen?

Gee, why didn't they just remove every champion in the game except for one?! Then every player would buy all the skins!!

Meserion11/3/2015, 3:08:52 PM5 votes

The only way I see it to make ADC optional would be to design items or champions to be hard counters to the marksman role (assassins get nerfed into the ground) or cap the damage an ADC can do. Riot won't do either things, their track record shows it.

Its sad because ADCs are the least interesting role, requiring very little real tactical brilliance or skill beyond what every other role already has to do. "But Meserion ADCs need to last hit, position, and line up their abilities!" Well random person, so does Top, Mid, Jungle, and Support; you're not anything special. You just right click to do most of your damage, they have to initiate and make the actual plays, you just have to do the basics. These preseason buffs are absurd for a role that takes less forethought and skill than literally every other role in the game.

Silents42911/3/2015, 8:03:48 PM4 votes

Diversity comes and everyone complains, "We don't want marksmen anywhere except botlane" they say.

"So I am going to make up Riot quotes and argue them to express how displeased I am!" They exclaim.

"Then once season 6 pre season ends I am going to make more threads about how the game has no diversity!" They end up doing.

TurquoiseYoshi11/3/2015, 3:32:57 PM4 votes

Alpha Omega Banana Pajama skins. I would totally buy.

StoryDuck11/3/2015, 5:56:15 PM1 votes

Those Legendary Alpha Omega Banana Pajama skins sound awesome!

SoMNia11/3/2015, 6:35:07 PM1 votes

They want ADCs to be mandatory in every lane...so they're taking away some of their AD and attack speed, and making them rely on crit with funky interactions that make them mildly more interesting to play and itemize than before. And that won't result in people spamming them when the preseason patch hits, getting over it, and going back to diverse team comps because that's more effective and fun, while marksman champions as a whole settle on a more versatile state that is far from mandatory. There's no way that could happen, right? :|

SHlTBUG11/3/2015, 7:35:59 PM1 votes

The problem was not that adc's were necessary, it was that they all did the same thing. The marksman update makes it so that botlane variation is similar to mid or toplane variation.

There was a saying that in mid/top you mained 1-3 champs and as an adc you just mained the role. They are breaking that up and diversity will increase. The entire point is that now, they don't just right click, or at least their right clicks are more interesting than a blip of damage.

Graves is my favorite example of a radically different marksman, who is no longer just "right click on x"

FistOfSharkiesha11/3/2015, 7:58:18 PM1 votes

Time to crack out Quinn mid, Kalista support, Kog'maw jungle, and Vayne top.

ARequestOfDeath11/3/2015, 3:57:28 PM1 votes

HASAGI Yasuo