why is almost every adc item a sword?

[draven-pose]

BECAUSE THIS IS LEAGUE OF DRAVEN. HE THROWS THEM

because theyre not marksmen items. theyre items.

I have to assume that it's because most champions who did damage revolving around auto attacks weren't ranged. Considering how few marksmen there still are (being the class with one of the lowest member counts), I can only assume that there were way fewer back then, and that the items were originally intended FOR melee users, but were adopted by ranged ADCs once more started coming out. During Alpha and Beta I mean

I'm going to go with the obvious answer....because swords are kind of THEE weapon when it comes to medieval fantasy settings.

Agreed, we need more canons, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, machine pistols, and shotguns as items in the game!

This doesn't cut it anymore.