Why are most ADC's on auto-pilot for the first 5 minutes of game?

Valhalla Rising·8/27/2017, 8:34:22 AM·2 votes·547 views

I swear it's the only carry role that doesn't take the level 2 and 3 power spikes serious enough, I think it's probably due to the "I'm the late game carry" mentality..

Top, mid, and Jg all take their first few levels extremely seriously in over 90% of my matches but over half the time adc's just start going hard on the first wave of creeps hard shoving trying to be macho/bully not respecting the match up, powerspikes, or potential ganks/engages.

Like if im on a melee tank supp vs 2 ranged Im not able to punish the enemies under their turret so it's pretty much a disadvantage to shove, especially when it's a very long run back to safety if(more like when) we get caught.

Im not being biased either, because many times Im the one who punishes an overzealous ADC thinking they hot..

All they need a teenie bit of patience and a little bit of respect.

5 Comments

CrisisEchoes8/27/2017, 9:27:36 AM2 votes

1)Adc meta is scaling hypercarries 2)If adcs aggress they just get focused. The support has to aggress and adc has to follow up in 9/10 scenarios. Best case scenario adc baits out skillshots and then the support all ins. 3)Camp the botlane seems to be a fun game the junglers play every game 4)Theres little reward to going hard in the first 5 minutes of the game, and lot of risk. 5)Shoving is almost always adventageous as adc for better macroplay.

Sanctimonious8/27/2017, 9:34:30 AM2 votes

The thing about ADC and carry roles in general is that they tend to require a combination of Levels and Gold to be effective. These roles often have vastly different play styles at different spots on the ladder, and something i say here as a Plat / Diamond isn't going to make as much sense in silver 4. Anyway, i would say that the correct way to play the laning phase currently is to try and keep the wave centered (Match Push) and try and scale up until you hit that two item power spike. (Champions like Twitch, Tristana, Caitlyn, etc. thrive on IE + Zeal item). Since two items are required to be relevant in the game, it's typically more of a farm role until mid game.

(P.S. Any adc that auto shoves the wave without context is terrible, and that should be easily punished)

RAT IN GAME UwU 8/27/2017, 9:47:56 AM1 votes

yeah, adc isn't what it used to be, just farm hard and carry mid game

i shove hard in gold and below because the average gold - adc will miss a ton of cs turret farming, i use wave control around p5+ because that's where everyone is spamming gragas, rammus, khazix and never leaving bot lane

AssauIto8/27/2017, 9:52:21 AM1 votes

the funny thing is that eventhough it is adc meta, games are still short now. ADC's are being mid-game carries right now instead of late-game carries.