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About Marksmen and the Bot Lane

EsoEs·11/25/2018, 12:04:55 AM·7 votes·1,843 views

Zirene brought up a super interesting point on his stream the other day which I would like to share here.

Basically, Marksmen are a type of champion, just like Bruisers, Assassins, Mages, Fighters, Tanks, etc. Traditionally, every lane has had to be able to play multiple types of champions as the meta shifts and changes. Top players need to be able to play Tanks, Bruisers, and even some Mages and Assasins. Same for Jungle and Mid.

The exception to this rule, for a very long time, has been the Bot lane role, with Bot players ONLY playing one type of champion: the Marksmen.

For whatever reason, Marksmen have ALWAYS been good and meta, creating this idea among ADC players that their champion type (Marksmen) should continue to ALWAYS be good and in-meta. This to me, and many others, is kind of crazy. Assassins have not ALWAYS been good mid, Tanks have not always been good in the Jungle or top, why should the champion type of Marksmen be any different?

I for one welcome the chance to let champions other than Marksmen go, and even excel at, the Bottom lane role.

Edit: I do play several Marksmen in ranked, and I still feel this way.

16 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer11/25/2018, 12:08:26 AM5 votes

I for one welcome the chance to let champions other than Marksmen go, and even excel at, the Bottom lane role.

Then let marksmen go to other lanes.

But you don't want that. You just want the chance to play your mages or your bruisers in another role, on top off the other ones you already can. That's not balanced. That's not fair. And that's why Riot doesn't listen to the boards.

Hayaishi211/25/2018, 12:11:00 AM5 votes

If marksmen are forced out of botlane without letting them go somewhere else then i and a good amount of people would quit this game.

The Bearded Bard11/25/2018, 1:11:25 AM4 votes

Nothing is stopping anyone from playing marksmen other places, just like nothing is stopping people from playing different stuff bot lane.

Do what you wanna do, anything can win if you're good at the game.

Metal Janna11/25/2018, 1:16:17 AM1 votes

I think Marksmen are the one class whose damage is where it should be. Just like Marksmen should not be melting tanks pre-third-item, Assassin, Mage, and Bruiser mids should not be roaming bot to one-combo burst the instant they hit 6 with one completed item. We're sitting ducks down bot for midlaners because they get so much exp that we're still level 4 by the time they hit 6 despite going back for items. How am I supposed to zone off three or four champions without my ult?

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