Support Mains: Anyone Else Bored With The ADC Meta?

Draehl··2 votes·577 views

In particular, I miss ADCs that have a little poke and/or combo potential. Right now so many folks seem to be playing ADCs like Tristana or Xayah that almost assume their support is a potato who offers nothing in lane beyond heals or an all-in engage for lategame. At least Vayne and Jinx offer some crowd control, but I'm truly missing the more AD-mage types like Ashe, Jhin, MF, and (AD stacked, not AS) Varus, who can follow up with your poke/CC for safe kills and/or pushing the enemy ADC out of lane for a large CS differential. It's truly a thing of beauty when an ADC and a support get on the same page with chaining their skills together. I don't know if it's just people following the meta or operating under the assumption that they're going to get a support fill but I'll be quite happy when the meta shifts again!

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ggigotfed2 votes

Because an adc's job isn't to have fun. It's to not feed. Xayah and trist are some of the safest, trist literally having NO downside. You can't catch her, escape her, out trade her. And xayah is the only adc with a "get the fuck away from me you troll" button.

Potchikir1 votes

xayah is a very ad mage type adc xD

Draehl1 votes

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xayah is a very ad mage type adc xD

Maybe it's bad luck then, but nearly all I play with don't seem to do much with her kit beyond autoattack and ult at the first sign of danger :/

Also, fwiw her burst seems very telegraphed.

Eclairius1 votes

I'm a bit bored with the ADC meta as a whole (and i'm not talking excusively about marksmen, Yasuo&Tryndamere behave the same way as said marksmen) but it would be nice to see some Ashe and Sivir again. Honestly, i'm more starting to feel bored with the fact that a support feel more tied to the main carry than the team. I would like to roam, but feel more and more that there is less opportunities to do so, and that the malus while doing so futher discourage supports. Riot announced they wanted to open bot to more champion (notably APC), which is nice. However that will (i think) still not change the fact that support can't help the rest of the team during laning, that sometimes need waayy more help than your carry, because said carry (even when far ahead) can't survive alone (and ironically is a monster when with an ally). I'm not saying that because I "get filled with bad botlaner" (I actually almost excusively play with the same guy), but because it's just painful to watch the other lanes suffer while it's your job to help them, but you can't because it would have desastrous consequenses even when ahead.

Wise Enough1 votes

It's truly a thing of beauty when an ADC and a support get on the same page.

It's orgasm... that rarely happens QQ

ZephyrDrake1 votes

no idea why you think that hard engage supports don't need to be in the same page as their ADC... if they just hard engage whenever they please with their ADC not in range of helping or in the same page as them it's just them taking free damage from the enemy bot lane and potentially losing way too much HP to deter future aggressive plays for a while

Leaf on Bush1 votes

It's not like nobody would play Varus or Ezreal, they just don't know how to do it.

What you are experiencing are just bad ADC players.

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