So I hear marksmen are bad...

"Really?" I think to myself. I wonder if it's because...

• Riot keep pushing lethality as a stat and it has been abused by several ADC's ever since its introduction, to the point that it now completely has taken over their itemization. See Miss Fortune and Jhin for recent examples.

• Riot keeps nerfing vision. If your support has no wards until almost 8 minutes into the game and the enemy jungler decides to sit on bot and help kill the wards you DO have there's not a lot you can do about that. The last person who wants to face check a bush is an ADC.

• ADCs counter tanks, and tanks have been getting steadily weaker or turning over to just building damage since the beginning of the season. So, the thing ADC's by doing continuous damage (damage throughout the fight, not insta burst a target, hello again lethality) are supposed to be there to counter have taken a back seat.

• Riot has been finding ways to buff assassins, fighters, and divers all season. Guess who likes to hunt squishy, usually immobile targets? Guess who also has at least a third more damage than normal? Yeah... those guys.. the ones who hunt ADC's all day long. When they give Lee Sin another buff because "worlds" and Xin Zhao, Graves, Khazix, and Udyr have been popular all season do I really need to say more?

• Ignite is still too strong and is being taken by supports all the time. Earlier support changes also pretty much murdered that role so now-a-days you take just about any damage dealing champion bot lane. If Brand with ignite is a popular support then yeah, a lot of low range ADC's (cough Vayne cough) are going to have a bad time. Getting instantly exploded by the enemy support or constantly poked out isn't fun. When you do get bullied out of lane the enemy bot gets free gold too because turret plating rewarding high aggression even more.

• ADC's are naturally squishy targets who have low HP and defenses. Turrets are terrible right now so you can't hide at your turret because you will get blown up by being dived. If tanks are getting exploded from damage being too high then ADC's have no chance. The defensive options in the game are far outweighed by the offense even in stat shards. You COULD take 10 armor and go secondary resolve tree on an ADC and just try to survive, but you would be severely under powered compared to an enemy ADC who just went ahead and took damage.

Speaking of Vayne I hear they are buffing her because she hasn't been very strong this season. Yeah... obviously, Riot released Kaisa , remember? Vayne 2.0? Given everything I just mentioned above why would you ever play a short range scaling champion into that when you could just play Kaisa instead? Better yet why would you pick Vayne period instead of Kaisa? Kaisa is a stronger champion, period. As often happens when a new release comes out and makes an older champion obsolete that is exactly what happened. Giving her more up time on her tumble is certainly going to make Vayne stronger, but with Kaisa in the game she is just never going to be as good a pick as she used to be.

So, yeah, that's probably why ADC's aren't having a fun time right now.