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What's the deal with all the ADC hate?

zeskgames··2 votes·566 views

Hey everybody! I'm just a little confused about all this ADC hate, it seems to be out of nowhere. I've been maining ADC off and on for a while now. So I just wanna know what happened (and/or what's happening?). When did ADCs and ADC players go from "Just another role" to "the reason league is terrible". I've seen some pretty crazy stuff said about ADCs. I mean I doubt that a full team of ADCs in every lane and role (unless they're talking about Kindred jungle? but that's not amazing right now unfortunately), could beat an actual comp with an assassin or diver and some CC right? Why are we yelling at ADCs for doing damage, isn't that the reason they exist in the first place? If not than what should the role of Attack Damage Carry be? That's like yelling at an assassin for assassinating people or a jungler for ganking or a tank for building health and armor/magic resist. I guess I'm opening up this post as a place of friendly debate and hopefully a place where lost and threatened ADC players like me can find out what's happening. So I ask once again...

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11 Comments

Darkdemon6532 votes

{quoted}

When did RADs players go from "Just another role" to "the reason league is terrible".

When their power curves started to rarely, if ever, have low points lower than anyone else. It used to be that the majority of RADs started off shit and gradually got better as the game went on. Some got stronger quicker but topped out more quickly and other got stronger more slowly but had a much higher cap. Now they mostly start kind of low, quickly accelerate into being able to hold their own, and then quickly shoot up past everyone else. It also doesn't help that supports have been getting more power (which is good) only when combined with RADs (which is bad).

I do think their strength is exaggerated a little bit, but it's clearly out of hand. They need to be heavily nerfed, and tanks and TDPS need to get some smaller nerfs to bring everyone in line with mages and assassins. And it should all be nerfs because the power creep on champions in the game has been absurd.

Anastaecia2 votes

Because now all the tank and assassin players can't run amok, so they are butt hurt.

Seriously, whichever role is strong in the current meta, all the other roles' mains are gonna complain.

"I can't 1v5 on Yas now cause that dirty Ardent healed/shielded adc that was basically crap the previous 10 months can actually fight back now....oh no!"

Jbels1 votes

{quoted}

Because now all the tank and assassin players can't run amok, so they are butt hurt.

Seriously, whichever role is strong in the current meta, all the other roles' mains are gonna complain.

"I can't 1v5 on Yas now cause that dirty Ardent healed/shielded adc that was basically crap the previous 10 months can actually fight back now....oh no!"

So it's just fine that for the most part these ADCs with Ardent Censer supports are pretty much invalidating everything, something tanks and assassins weren't doing. Yeah, I know, nice meme tanks were/are broken. The longer people perpetuate this stupid idea that tanks are/were somehow too strong when ADCs have been too strong for too long, the longer the game will continue to feel like a steaming pile of shit to play

Jbels1 votes

The sweet, delicious irony of being a tank main and watching ADC mains go "huhn?" when everyone hates their favorite role.

Infernape1 votes

-inhales-

Buffs to crit, the tank update being the Marksman Update Redux, the change to Warlord's that makes it synergise with both RFC and Shiv, supports literally being able to press one button which allows the ADC to mow down the enemy team, certain champions not getting nerfed (fuck Twitch), Shiv, IE and RFC oneshotting everything that isn't a 3k HP tank with Randuins and assassins (that aren't Talon) being absolute shit at their job.

-exhales-

Oleandervine1 votes

I was under the impression that RFC and Shiv shared the same named passive. How do they proc at the same time?

Jbels1 votes

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I was under the impression that RFC and Shiv shared the same named passive. How do they proc at the same time?

RFC causes Shiv's damage to be increased, affect structures, and gives the auto extra range, while also making it so charge up procs like Shiv, RFC, and Warlords come up faster.

Dale Wardark1 votes

It became a problem when Vayne started to instagib squishys with just IE, Shiv, and one Q crit. It became a problem when any ADC who happens to be half an item ahead and one level ahead melts tanks. (slight exaggeration) And if became a problem when Ardent got good and basically carries lane on any enchanter support.

Rainfall1 votes

the assasin update was horrible. the tank update was worse. in every role only 1-2 champions excel the rest are garbage.

Magi Mayvin1 votes

The fact that they are literally unkillable when they have an ardent support and the fact that they take the least amount of skill out of all the other classes to actually apply their insane both burst and dps damage.

When you see a twitch dealing 2/3 of your hp with 2 basic attacks from like 850 range and also melting your full armor tank and being unkillable because their support knows how to point and click shield/heal them it's kind of not balanced.

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

RITO nerfed everything except adcs and made the rest of the game based on skillshots. Right clicks > Skillshots. Look at Orn - you can pretty much dodge his entire kit. Look at Jax, Yi, Trynda and the ranged DPS. You can't dodge their damage. I never feel outplayed because someone pressed the right button and went to make a coffee. The game feels seriosly not fun right now.

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