What is the state of bot lane right now?

DarkKatalyst·9/21/2018, 7:14:48 PM·1 votes·984 views

I want to hear particularly from supports, but ADC's and junglers are also welcome (and anyone else who has good insight to the lane). How stable is bot lane right now? Do you enjoy playing in bot lane? How are other lanes commonly interacting with bot lane? Anything else noteworthy?

10 Comments

Metal Janna9/21/2018, 8:21:50 PM2 votes

I feel like bot itself is good. Team compositions are more varied than ever, which keeps it exciting. My least favorite thing about the lane is that mid is over much sooner than bot is, so we'll often get roamed (3v2) or four-man ganked (4v2) pre-10 minutes. That feels awful.

Ache9/21/2018, 7:24:50 PM1 votes

As an ADC, I have to say if you're ahead, it's ridiculously in your favor. But if you get behind, oooboy, it's a climb.

OtterlyLost9/21/2018, 7:28:42 PM1 votes

It's not in a good state(some ADcs are downright too good with stormrazor while others are mediocre, ER no longer being a crit mana item also continues to hurt several of the more mana and CDR hungry ADCs, pushing them down pretty hard, and overall, I feel that both ER and Stormrazor are extremely polarizing as far as power distribution among champions). I miss when Xayah didnt feel like hot garbage to play because she could get the CDR and mana she needed from ER while not gimping her long term power spike with a lack of crit. That said, I feel like the less strong ADCs are still able to make it through lane if you're really good at them and that stormrazor is an overblown item; it isnt necessarily required for every ADC to actually be a early to mid game threat. I'm finding success on tristana without building storm razor and I feel like other ADCs like Tristana who have AS steroids could get away with buying a zeal and rushing IE just fine.

Overall, it's a pretty neutral state of affairs. It still has the issue that Shiv is still always the correct choice because riot refuses to rework zeal items to give them all their own individual niche and/or interactions with each other.

Quiet Dude9/21/2018, 7:18:10 PM1 votes

Its the most important lane in the game currently. Whether that is a good or bad thing is up to you

ApollyonBainer9/21/2018, 7:44:00 PM1 votes

Caitlyn Draven Sivir Jinx has this item 3095 Vayne Kaisa Varus has this item 3153 item 3124 There are more adcs that build stormrazor but you get the idea. If its not one its the other. Doesnt feel like theres much else you can do

D357R0Y3R9/21/2018, 7:53:50 PM1 votes

Lucian main insight

Enchanters are absolutly unplayable pyke and morgana are fucking destroying bot in regular (alistar and braum in pro)

in the adc department I permaban Draven, when a feast or famin champ like Draven is banned in pro you know there is a problem, cait is Z tier even with stormrazor, no high elo adc plays her not even Uzi the godcait himself Kai'sa can 1v9 and riot thinks it's ok Varus still has no counterplay on E and R in 2018

that's it

chipndip19/21/2018, 7:38:43 PM1 votes

It's not any different from how it's always been.