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What if the ADC class as a whole was ACTUALLY bad for a whole Season?

Akali is SO HOT··14 votes·1,184 views

Every class aside from ADCs have been complete shit at some point in League's history. There have been numerous times where Assassins were God awful for an extended period of time. Bruisers have been kinda ass for a long time aside from a few broken ones. There have been times where Tanks were so bad that Tryndamere was a better tank because of his ultimate. Mages have had periods within the last few seasons where they were weak. And so on and so forth. ADCs as a class have never had to experience an extended period of time where the whole class was awful.

We get the ADC2kX LUL meme every year which is beyond meaningless nowadays. Every time ADCs aren't overpowered or some other class is able to do something that brings them down a notch they are immediately buffed back up to overpowered status. It would be interesting to see what a Season would be like and if the meta would change at all if ADCs were all ass

20 Comments

Nahui7 votes

ADCs cry the hardest so they’ll never be nerfed for too long.

Ben Sharpio6 votes

This would never happen because Riot makes way too much money off of ADC skins and they have a hard on for pentakills

ReshiKillim5 votes

ADCs have actually had such a time, though it was really long ago, when the game was actually significantly more unbalanced than it is now. Or has been since, really. Because no matter what ADC you picked, it wouldn't matter because someone else did everything you did as an ADC, but did it better. While also being significantly harder to kill.

Ruin Lance3 votes

are you going to elaborate on this or just talk bs?

EkyonKun4 votes

I think he's talking about the beginning of season 7, where ONE champion besides an actual ADC went bot lane. Yeah, Ziggs had the AUDACITY to enter the ADCs bot lane, so he had to get nerfed within a patch while ADCs got hyperbuffed so there would be ZERO risk of anyone else even THINKING about taking their place again.

Really, though, the only reason he was even a viable bot laner is because, at the time, bot lane just lost first tower protection. Ziggs was the perfect champ to capitalize on this fact with his passive and W, and thus, the Ziggs bot was formed. Too bad that lasted for a patch, MAYBE two, before Riot panicked and shut that operation down. Because how dare someone besides a ranged attack speed building champion fill the bot role.

If that isn't what he's talking about, then I have no idea. I can't remember a single time besides maybe season 1 where ADCs weren't the best class in the game.

ReshiKillim2 votes

S1 and S2, mostly, though I forgot about the Ziggs shenanigan in the beginning of S7. Burst damage now is relatively low in comparison to back during S2, and ADCs were mostly just outperformed in general in S1 .

Vayne was the only decent ADC back then, really, as she was made with her max % HP true damage because tanks were so broken that they had close to as much, or as much, damage output as ADCs back then, while still being tanks.

Because itemization for other classes were great, while ADCs and supports got the short end of the stick, while assassins, tanks, and mages were just generally better overall.

Pre-Rework Sion for example, was usually capable of getting up to 400 AD, around 300 armor, 100% lifesteal, 3-4K HP, and near 100% crit chance, because there was items that let him do that. And he had a spammable point and click stun.

ReshiKillim2 votes

During season 1, ADCs were almost entirely irrelevant, and Vayne was the only half decent one since a number of champions could build "Tank" while maintaining ADC level damage while being significantly harder to kill, and with CC at the same time.

For season 2, ADCs were in an even rougher spot because a lot of new (at the time) assassins came out. Fizz, Ahri, Rengar, Diana, Kha'zix, and they were all more bursty than current Zoe back then. And no, I'm not kidding. Rengar especially. And Evelynn got her first rework to fix the problems with her kit.

Rengar was capable of 100-0ing people pretty much the instant they saw him back then, once midgame came. Average amount of reaction time you had was about 0.1 seconds, accounting for a good connection. For those that had mediocre/bad connections, you could be dead the instant you saw him, or even before you saw him.

And yes, Evelynn speeding out of stealth and 100-0ing somebody, in about the same amount of time it takes to max distance redirect Zoe's Q, was a significantly more healthy kit back then.

And that's just some of the assassins. Leblanc and Akali, for example, who came out in S1, were also tremendously bursty and had little to no counterplay. And the mages and tanks back then were just as bad.

EG: Pre-rework Sion could have 100% Lifesteal, close to 100% crit chance, around 300 armor, 3-4K HP, and around 400 AD. Pre-rework Xerath could poke you under your turret, from under his turret. And not for any little amount of damage either.

And ADC items were pretty crappy to boot.

Executioner1 votes

No he is talking about season 1, and before then. Basically the beta of league of legends. We didn't get a set meta for the game till the end of season 1. You can also thank the Europeans for this meta.

NekoniClaws4 votes

Janna I'm off to play hots Talon I am SICK of being CC'd by these mages every time I go in! And if it's not a mage they're stupid tanky! Malphite I don't know what you guys are complaining about, this meta is great, I don't have to peel for some dumb rightclicker and no-one can kill me

^ I see adcs as a necessary evil to give people something to do.

3411235456524 votes

wont happen

adcs are the most played role

adcs consist of the youngest, most bitchy (but least talented) playerbase

riot meddler is an adc main and apologist (look up op.gg "meddler")

JackMcSnipeyz2 votes

Damn, you must be a very talented, adult and smart player, if you speak so high and mighty like that. Please teach me what champs you play so i can be as talented and mature as you.

Isnt it also funny you call out adc players for bitching when your entire post history is nothing but shit posting bitching? 🤔

Lauchmelder3 votes

I think we should just start a new meme. How about: "EveryOtherRoleExceptADC in 2k18 LUL"

Maybe if we bitch as much as they do once they aren't OP we might get heard for once.

Colton1472 votes

Jinx is one of the worst ADCs in the game.

ZephyrDrake2 votes

and then you realize that ADCs like most other classes have various type of champions so... what you are saying is for utility ADCs to be bad, lane bully ADCs to be bad, hyper carry ADCs to be bad just because some other random class were bad at some random point in time? for that to happen literally that would mean that AD champions in general would need to be bad for an entire season

GayFluffyUnicorn1 votes

Yes please. Do it.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Yes please. Do it.

so you want AD assassins to be weak, AD bruisers to be weak, AD skirmishers to be weak, AD juggernauts to be weak... and like i said every single AD champion in the game to be weak just because ADCs? wow your priorities are so bad... and people then wonder why Riot doesn't take boards seriously

vgamedude1 votes

Adc players have their numbers on their side, riot and also an entitlement complex.

I hope what riot said about diversity bot lane was right, I'd love to see optimal team comps that don't have some freaking auto attacker melting me from 600 range with unmissable autos on them.

If you go to one of the lol stat sites the top 7 champions picked are all ADCs and Sups.

GayFluffyUnicorn3 votes

When riot says other champs being viable botlane they mean adcs flooding jungle top and midlane i guarantee it.

vgamedude1 votes

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When riot says other champs being viable botlane they mean adcs flooding jungle top and midlane i guarantee it.

I hope not. I'm so tired of having bland auto attacking "hyper carries" in all my games.

Salron1 votes

We did have that brief period last year where adcs were pretty underwhelming and people started playing Ziggs bot (and even other stuff like Cass and some other mages on occasion)

I'm only referring to high elo when I say this

Either way the adc skillset doesn't really transfer to other roles that well(and neither do most of the champions) for the most part A lot of top mains can flex jungle usually mid laners tend to be able to supp/jungle as well

etc

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