I think crit based Marksmen need some love

As someone who loves this game and is admittedly a bot lane player typically on crit based ADCs I think they need some help. I found myself for the very first time picking Lux bot instead of crit marksmen which have always been my favorite champs. I carried myself in solo queue to platinum last season just playing Jinx. My plan was always to lane safe and farm up until I got items and then try to carry team fights. I feel like this strategy is honestly no longer viable because it simply takes too long to get items to be able to carry team fights.

Crit marksmen have always needed items to scale up and become a threat. We can argue they came online too early before the Marksmen patch but you still needed 2-3 items to be decent. You need 3200 gold for Stormrazor which isn't much of a power spike, 2900 gold for a zeal item, 1100 for berserkers greaves, and 3600 gold for infinity edge. That's 10,800 gold. Add in 500 for wards/consumables and you are spending likely over 11k gold to reach a point where you can finally do meaningful damage. I bought luden's echo on Lux for 3200 gold and I had lethal potential in one item.

I understand the goal was to make Marksmen power spikes come later but at the current pacing of the game it simply takes far too long to achieve if you get behind at all or have just a relatively even laning phase. If I get fed in lane and get 5 kills early on then it's not as much of an issue but if i have a game where i die a couple of times or just get a kill or two I still find that I'm just not relevant at all because I simply do not do enough damage unless the enemy team is bad enough to just let me stand there for an entire fight shooting them which almost never happens. Too many games I find myself hitting my item spike at 30+ minutes but we have only 1 or 2 inhibitors left and nearly all of our turrets are gone and the enemy team takes baron and ends the game.

This happens because other champions reach their powerspikes very early into the game and the game snowballs or gets out of control while you as a crit marksmen are still trying to become relevant. Other champion types can simply purchase one item and they have lethal threat. I'd have no issue with this if games lasted long enough for a crit marksmen to get items and still have a chance in the game but these days it's so exceedingly rare for that to happen that you lose all agency in the game very early on especially if you get behind. I'm not advocating for champs that are behind to have as large of an impact on the game as a champ thats 10-0 but it doesn't seem like this holds true for a lot of champions. An 0-5 darius can still be a huge threat once he gets black cleaver and can kill you ridiculously fast

Crit marksmen supposedly give up a lot for a great late game and their late game is certainly good but you almost never have games run long enough to see it. I feel most champs have more survivability, damage, more health, and more mobility than I do until 30+ minutes into the game. This feels like to steep of a price with the current pacing of the game.

I mainly just want to feel like I have an impact on the game without needing 30 minutes to do it unless we happen to destroy our opponents in lane.

Another big issue I have with Riot's design is that they want to open up botlane to more champions and not just marksmen and they seem intent on doing that which is fine, but if marksmen can really only go bot and they are being pushed out of it shouldn't the game also be designed so they can go to other lanes as well? It seems like very backwards design to take a type of champion that only really can go 1 lane with a few exceptions and to try to change that but not give them anywhere else to go. I'm not against other options bot besides marksmen I just don't want to feel like I can't play the champs I enjoy without being a hindrance to my team and that's really how it's starting to feel. Why are they trying to make it so champs like Yasuo can have 3 different lanes to go to but Jinx can only go to one? Maybe they should have tried a different approach of making it so Marksmen had more lanes to go to so then more champs could go bot.