Does lacking dmg on an adc mean you played a bad game?
For all you adcs out there, we've all been there right? Where your team flames at you for doing no damage. But is that really your fault? Let me make this clear, I've been maining adc for a while now and I usually get mvp or 2nd as stated by the op.gg website. But there are some games (can't always be perfect) where you just don't play the best game and you end up doing the worst. But is that really your fault? I think it's safe to say that isn't always the case. Well first off, the adc is the least versatile role in the game. The only variation in your pick is between whether you want a strong early game, a strong late game, or a safe pick (aka Ezreal). But at the end of the day, even if you pick a strong early like Lucian, how the rest of your game goes is strongly dependent on how your support plays. Hence, the support is the one that carries the adc. But what happens if you have a bad support (someone who doesn't acknowledge the matchup, an autofill who doesn't realize how much game sense the support needs to have to be effective). We've all had that support who doesn't respect the lv 2 advantage and dies at lv 1. At that point you pretty much just lose the lane, since if your support is bad enough to die that early then I wouldn't get your hopes up about them being good for the rest of the laning phase. A bad laning phase is then met possibly by ganks from the enemy jungle or midlaner and soon enough you're 50 cs down with your tower gone before the 20 min mark. So what happens now? you got one completed item where your enemy adc has 2. This is where we see the ADC dilemma come into play. Obviously you want to farm, get that gold boys! But in low elo, your team will constantly want to fight cause they are so hungry for kills. So while you're farming they are fighting. And what does fighting lead to? more kills and experience for those involved. At this point, all you have is gold and exp from minions whereas your team and the ENEMY TEAM has gold and exp from minions and kills. Not only that but your team is raging at you for not joining in the teamfight. But you being an adc main know that your participation in these fights will do nothing because you are too far behind from having a bad laning phase and it is highly likely that you death count will increase. But lets say instead of staying bot and farming you did group with your team, what happens then? Most likely you'll be hovering back and forth in mid lane waiting for action to start and competing with your midlaner for cs. But your mid laner is going to be a higher level naturally and possibly more items, so they will kill the wave a lot faster than you can with your one item. So now instead of having a constant income from minions, you get at best 1 minion per wave, but hey at least you're there for a fight they may or may not happen right? It's even worse if your jungler thinks you're worthless so they also take your farm. So what does this all lead to? Well in low elo, you're useless as an adc until you get your items, but in essence your team becomes your worst ENEMY!!! Because all they will do is take all the farm and the kills, leaving you to gain gold passively, further extending your deficit. Then they will have the gull at the end of the game to say, "our ADC IS SO TRASH, HE LITERALLY DID NO DMG". Well guess what man, I did no damage because you all denied me any reliable income source, which meant it took forever for me to get the items i need and i'm under leveled because you guys keep insisting on fighting without me, giving over kills to the enemy adc (which in turn allows him to scale much much faster). Look all I'm saying is, don't expect the adc to carry you if you don't allow your adc to get to the point of being a carry. And if you as the jungler, mid, or top laner are the one with kills, you're the carry and i'll be glad to let you carry me until I get to that point where I can start carrying. But that's hard if you're running into a 1v5 because you saw a full health enemy adc and you really want to feel that euphoric rush of one-shooting him so you have some material later to get off on....
ADCS DON'T DO DAMAGE IF YOU DON'T GIVE THEM THE FARM AND THE KILLS!!!!! (at least one lane to farm plz)
If you are behind as an ADC, as long as you don't feed and allow the people who are doing good to carry and be patient for the time you reach your carry peak, then you played a good game. Even if you lose or you did the least damage on the team, if you play "with" your team and they do the same, then you definitely did not play a bad game. I'm also a support main, so I know that Supports are 80% of the time the reason for an adc to have a bad laning phase. Thanks for listening to my rant