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Marksman has felt so awful to play for years.

LegitBusinessman··3 votes·416 views

This entire class just feels outdated. Game is so snowbally I never feel relevant. Trying to carry climb from bot lane has been atrocious.

Yes! I'm a 3.5 item Jinx it's 30 minutes I'm dumb farmed and got a few kills bot lane let's teamfight!The second you get into auto range there's a million things that are gonna kill you in about .5 seconds. Feels absurd.

I will never. ever. EVER. Solo que as adc again. I feel sorry for everyone who plays this role. It's seriously a garbage fest.

Ok honestly, now that the salt fest is over, here is my legitimate analysis: There was a time when your adc being key to damage output was a well known factor but I feel like this concept is ignored because for the first 30 minutes of the game it's better to play around literally anything else unless you have like +10 kills. It'd be better to play around your 3 kill Tryndamere than your 13 kill Jinx. They could step one feet out of position and get instantly clapped.

Damage creep? An entire seasons worth of crap meta for adcs? I don't know. I don't get it. ADC used to be fun.

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Big Lincoln2 votes

on the other ADCs have never not felt like shit to play against when they get items and then steamroll over your team with crit damage and lifesteal

not to mention how instead of introducing champs who excel at early-mid game into bot lane as foils to ADCs, riot just made early game ADCs who have, unsurprisingly, always turned into some of the biggest balance troubles of the role and swing from ridiculously OP to shit tier constantly Lucian

hypercarries have been turning online sooner and sooner with stuff like rageblade making Kog'maw become relevant sooner, but their late games havent been nerfed to compensate for it

if you want more ADCs to be relevant sooner then they probably need to be redesigned ground-up; the exponential scaling that league's current crit offers is just too high for ADCs to be anything but walking moneybags early on

420 grams1 votes

They've been good for a long time, just now that it's an assassin season they feel bad.

AZ Frost1 votes

I agree, ADC has felt bad to play for almost 3 years now. (and i mean real adc's, not this caster bs adc Lucian )

TheThundersRoar1 votes

You ever wonder why you die in half a second? Not because Jinx is somehow squishier than other glass cannons. But because if they don't manage to kill you in half a second, they can kiss their entire team, towers, baron, dragon, and minions goodbye. They have to focus you even if you're not fed. Even if mid is legendary, they still have to worry about you first, because you're the ADC.

I find it funny how even in the "ADCs are shit" meta, a team still needs at least 1 or gets crushed. No other role has had that privilege. Mages, assassins, fighters, tanks, they all come and go with different metas. Except ADCs, ever since season 1.

But hey, I guess if it's not early season 6 with 3 ADCs per team in the LCS, ADCs are shit and un-fun. Go figure.

Sorry, I just get salty when players aren't satisfied with the exceptional performance of Riot's favorite role.

Jefftiffy1 votes

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You ever wonder why you die in half a second? Not because Jinx is somehow squishier than other glass cannons. But because if they don't manage to kill you in half a second, they can kiss their entire team, towers, baron, dragon, and minions goodbye. They have to focus you even if you're not fed. Even if mid is legendary, they still have to worry about you first, because you're the ADC.

I find it funny how even in the "ADCs are shit" meta, a team still needs at least 1 or gets crushed. No other role has had that privilege. Mages, assassins, fighters, tanks, they all come and go with different metas. Except ADCs, ever since season 1.

But hey, I guess if it's not early season 6 with 3 ADCs per team in the LCS, ADCs are shit and un-fun. Go figure.

Sorry, I just get salty when players aren't satisfied with the exceptional performance of Riot's favorite role.

I mean if any champs prove that ADCs arent necessary to take towers its Ziggs thanks to his passive and W. And Veigar due to his metric shit ton of AP eventually letting him hit towers for 600+ per swing. Jayce is an honorable mention, but his primary focus is killing squishies.

chipndip11 votes

I mean...TO BE FAIR...if mid/a diver/skirmisher top is fed to hell, I'm prioritizing them over the marksman, but other than that spot on.

JackMcSnipeyz1 votes

Disagree, im an adc main, adc got enough love in the last 2 seasons, in probably the best class update (best new items and reworks) and are very much capeable of carrying.

Yes, they arent easy, just because some bronze 5 player says "lul they just right click and penta durrr" , it doesnt mean they are like that.

Learn when to get in, when to kite, when to go out, if they have hard engage wait for them to waste it first (malph, leona etc...) dont try to go after their carry, your job is to do damage to w/e comes into your range, not assassinate.

LegitBusinessman1 votes

On a related topic I forgot Tristana was a champion.

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