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How Do I Carry As An AD Carry?

Roll in Grass··1 votes·558 views

It just doesn't make sense to me how an AD Carry main is expected to carry when the other laners can't manage to not die in laning phase. Here's an example of my most recent game: http://i.imgur.com/6mgvppZ.jpg ^That's only 16 minutes into the game. The Jarvan proceeded to rage quit after his 9th death.

When I used to be a midlane main, it was pretty easy. "Just buy wards, roam around when someone is losing, and watch your map." However, you can't do that as an AD Carry. Not only is there massive pressure from the other AD Carry and Support, but you're not in the middle of the map, so you can't just walk to toplane or walk to help the jungler in the enemy team's jungle. Especially maining champions with no early lane shoving capabilities (Vayne, Twitch, and Sivir [I know Twitch and Sivir have a good wave clear but it uses too much mana early game]), it's pretty hard to JUST do those things. I buy plenty of pink wards and I always get Greater Stealth Totem, but warding isn't nearly enough when I have people feeding their lane. And, honestly, I don't understand how people die in laning phase. I almost never die during laning phase, it isn't hard whatsoever.

Anyway, if my teams wouldn't feed early game I can easily carry mid and late game, I've done it several times in the past. ow can I secure a win even if my teams are feeding? How do I carry as an AD Carry during the early game?

9 Comments

Julius Evola1 votes

ADC? Do you mean marksman? . The other team has 3 ADCs. ADCs need to be shut down to win a game.

Roll in Grass1 votes

...Please don't act like a new age League player, you've played since Season 1. You know exactly what I mean by ADC.

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

It's a team game. Only someone like Katarina or Yi can solo carry, if the enemy can't focus them or waste CC.

IcyPepper1 votes

Focus on getting towers and securing dragons. Global gold+buff really helps alleviate the team gold difference if your allies are suffering.

Roll in Grass1 votes

Okay but at the elo I'm at Dragon is always warded, so an AD Carry can't just solo Dragon. It requires at least 2 on the enemy team dead, or just the jungler, which if my team is doing bad then I can't do it. Split pushing to get towers is only good if you can trust your team to not feed, and we're here talking about carrying a team that's doing poorly. How do you suppose going about getting towers if the team is suffering?

IcyPepper1 votes

Hm, tough question I'll give you that.

What I do as an adc (take that with a grain of salt, honestly you can ignore whatever I say if you wanted to) is I typically grab an upgraded blue ward. Really helps if I'm solo pushing lanes, or I want to check dragon if a ward goes out.

If dragon is basically secured by the enemy team and they're setting it up, you can trade dragon for a different objective. If the enemy jungler is going to solo it, you could try collapsing on 'em. If the enemy botlane is there too, you could probably take top or even midlane tower if possible with a three-man gank. Even if your team is feeding, you can try getting something for something instead of nothing when the enemy gets something.

Sometimes, when I play adc and do well (especially with a hypercarry?) but my team is struggling, we shift to a "protect the carry" mentality. I don't demand people do this or even talk about it, but people sometimes rally up and keep me snowballing if I can get a lead like that. I don't blame you, adc's are pretty team reliant (unless you can 1v5 as Vayne, but come on that's unrealistic. Someone helped you get to lategame!) and if your team doesn't cooperate, you can't do everything yourself. If I were your team in that situation, I would have been in front of you and protecting you. Riven could E to tank skillshots for you, and use her Q/W to stun people so you could either chain stun them or just silver bolts them to death. Jarvan should have went full tank and did the same. Ditto with Cho'Gath.

Also, upgrade your trinket. Shit's OP.

BluePolarizer1 votes

what elo are you at lol? I know for a fact that in gold, Dragon is not always warded and its very possible to sneak one if you are fast and decisive.

Basically you need to get better at positioning. If doublelift was in your situation, would he lose to a bunch of random golds? No? Then your problems can be solved by getting better.

M Dragon141 votes

He would if the rest of his team is useless. But the chances of that happening regularly enough to make this an actual issue is very low.

Blastumz1 votes

adcarry is gonna be pretty shitty this patch. Just a heads up. New items make Vi awesome and Skarner is amazing. Prepare to be point and click fucked so hard that you bugsplat.

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