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ADCs aren't even Being Played Bot Lane in High Elo Anymore

Åeolus·6/13/2018, 3:03:04 AM·4 votes·2,441 views

It's gotten to the point where if Kaisa ,Ezreal , or Lucian aren't picked any off-meta champion is better than any other possible adc you can play. The only reason those 3 marskmen are viable in the first place is because they were unaffected by the horrible changes to the AD items and were in a relatively good state prior to it.

Have we really gotten to this point? Is an entire subgroup of champions going to be unplayable? I understand you guys need to make constant balance changes to keep the game fresh but this seems way too forced. Aren't there better ways to innovate the game and if you do have to make changes can't they be small?

This game is heading in a bad direction and I genuinely hope everything gets fixed, this isn't even a question of the whole meta shifting. All these changes are virtually making every champion worse and less fun to play. I hope enchanters won't be ruined like this next even if that's what looks like is going to happen...

And for those who don't believe me, here's the account of a master-tier player: http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=chaosrain Check what his bot lanes are going and you can find other examples of this on other people's master/challenger accounts.

23 Comments

Mordepool6/13/2018, 3:06:55 AM5 votes

For the majority of games they still get picked. I don't see a problem

Biotic6/13/2018, 3:30:07 AM3 votes

I dont think trivializing an entire class is good for game balance and this is coming from a damn Viktor main..............one of the most mistreated players in the game

With high elo players like rikara, you see more of Irelia bot than most other adcs besides the ones that were previously mentioned...............having diversity of classes shouldnt be at the expense of all the previosly meta botlane champions

Khristophoros6/13/2018, 3:21:15 AM2 votes

If bot lane becomes like 3-4 ADCs + a bunch of other classes that's pretty cool

As long as the former bot lane ADCs find play in other lanes it's fine. It's actually an improvement.

ChargeItDownMid6/13/2018, 3:42:30 AM2 votes

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Harden Stepback6/13/2018, 4:49:54 AM1 votes

good

lolipopevelynn6/13/2018, 12:28:34 PM1 votes

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It's gotten to the point where if Kaisa ,Ezreal , or Lucian aren't picked any off-meta champion is better than any other possible adc you can play. The only reason those 3 marskmen are viable in the first place is because they were unaffected by the horrible changes to the AD items and were in a relatively good state prior to it.

Have we really gotten to this point? Is an entire subgroup of champions going to be unplayable? I understand you guys need to make constant balance changes to keep the game fresh but this seems way too forced. Aren't there better ways to innovate the game and if you do have to make changes can't they be small?

This game is heading in a bad direction and I genuinely hope everything gets fixed, this isn't even a question of the whole meta shifting. All these changes are virtually making every champion worse and less fun to play. I hope enchanters won't be ruined like this next even if that's what looks like is going to happen...

And for those who don't believe me, here's the account of a master-tier player: http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=chaosrain Check what his bot lanes are going and you can find other examples of this on other people's master/challenger accounts.

The entire point of the changes were to weaken adcs enough to where bot lane is open to more champions. Before bot lane was an exclusive adc x support lane. There should be no reason ability power champs cant scale as hard as an adc.