Was it Riots intention for Marksmen to be mandatory?

Ahri Body Pillow·5/20/2019, 6:39:36 PM·6 votes·1,431 views

Ive played this game for 6 years, and 99 percent of that time ADCs have basically been a win consition.

Ive had games with no tanks where i think "damn, this sucks, but its manageable" . Assassins and mages? You can build a comp without one or the other. Support class? Take Brand, Annie, Zyra, Vel, etc instead. Perfectly acceptable.

But 99 times out of one hundred, not having an ADC is an instant loss. Sure there have been outliers such as Ziggs and Morde, but these outliers were quickly nerfed ans Marksmen became mandatory once again. If i see my bot laner lock in a mage (except for maybe 2) or god forbid a bruiser i kiss my LP goodbye.

Whats up with that?

18 Comments

Hammermancer5/20/2019, 6:50:17 PM4 votes

i believe Hashinshin defined it as adcs now have 'burst per second'

boricCentaur15/20/2019, 7:10:04 PM4 votes

Do you remember I think it was around this time last year when marksmen just get murdered. It was fun for like a patch but after it was annoying and basically every marksmen but 3 or 4 were shit and would just lose. Those were not fun times.

I don't want to play, with, or fight yas or daruis bot and because basically everything was reverted most people don't what that either.

The thigh guy5/20/2019, 6:57:59 PM3 votes

Adc is just the best role for consistent late game damage. That’s the reason cassiopia and vlad were being played bot for a while.

Pika Fox5/20/2019, 7:39:06 PM3 votes

Marksmen arent mandatory, what is mandatory is having someone(s) that can kill towers and objectives quickly and safely early, as death timers arent that long. So, having someone build full damage to take objectives is a good idea, and if theyre full damage, youll want them to be as safe as possible because youre trading EHP, the single best builds, for full damage, an objectively weaker build.

Range is the single best stat in the game, so you offset the EHP loss for damage with range, and marksmen have the range as well as being auto attack based.

You can have someone like ziggs or heimer bot and function similarly, or even yasuo and azir. They fill the same conditions of safety and objective control/killing.

Stryder035/20/2019, 8:47:24 PM2 votes

Lately I have seen Taric/sona duos effective bot, even when the team doesn't have a marksman. They have a passive bot lane, but once sona has her quest complete, she switches to cs and hits 6 slot pretty early. Then in team fights, her and taric can sustain through the marksman bursts, while she provides formidable ap burst.

2Charmnot2Charm5/20/2019, 7:02:01 PM1 votes

Ziggs and Morde, but these outliers were quickly nerfed ans Marksmen

Ziggs didn't even get touched, infact since ziggs bot showed he has received nothing but buffs lmao.

You want mage bot to be viable? Then make mage autos scale with their AP so their damage is consistent & reliable, and give them the dps to do baron just as fast as marksmen.

Oh wait, mages have enough reasons for them to be picked already, anymore and they would actually be broken. [sg-miss-fortune]

Marksmen are perfectly fine, stop trying to fix what ain't broke just because you want "diversity".