2016 ADC Problems

King Odin·Jan 4, 2016·101 votes·8,326 views

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Void NargacugaJan 4, 201634 votes

Playing an assassin... We love our job of making the marksmen go: "POP!"

King OdinJan 4, 20163 votes

This is why I main Amumu and others tanks. To make your life a living hell =D

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20163 votes

I have a love/hate relationship with Tanks: I LOVE playing with ones on my team. I HATE playing as one. XD

I will give props to anyone who stops a good assassin from diving and getting a kill though... And I play Mages and Assassins often now that I've found what I like to play.

RalanrJan 4, 20162 votes

That's why I love playing tanks. Without one, my team is fucked.

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20163 votes

I just can't play the role of tank very well. I'd rather leave it to someone who knows how to play such a role.

RalanrJan 4, 20163 votes

That's how I feel towards carries.

Don't let me carry, I will drop all of you and it will hurt. Seriously, if I get fed but no one can lock them down, we lose.

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20163 votes

Ouch. I can't play an AUTO ATTACK RELIANT marksmen... How sad is THAT?! I rely to much on my abilities to deal my damage... Its ingrained now.

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

OpportunisticJan 4, 20161 votes

Dumbest thing I have read today. Seriously how hard is it to put on tank runes, tank masteries and tank items? You don't NEED damage items on a tank. You literally walk around and absorb damage in fights. Your job is to be the biggest asshole you can be to the other team. So simple how can you NOT play that roll? Take volibear for instance, (pretend he's top) spirit visage, sunfire cape, warmogs, rest of the build lets just say will be banshee and randuins omen. PENTAKILL BEAR pure tank...PENTAKILL. Q > R > E > A A A > W....gg you just killed full health enemy champ without damage items (excluding cape).

RalanrJan 4, 20162 votes

Actually you need to CC and peel as well.

There's more to tanking than damage soaking.

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20162 votes

^ This is why I have difficulty playing a Tank in League of Legends. Sometimes I just cant figure out who or when to CC targets.

When compared to being a Tank in things like Guild Wars or even WoW who just spam abilities to get aggro and just absorb damage to let the rest of their team to kill them off with the DPS classes. I might not even be good at playing that kind of Tank either.

Strangely I can play Leona well (imo) as a support but its mainly because there are mostly 1 or 2 targets I have to lock down with my CC combo pending on if I'm roaming to help another lane or not. And just try to zone the enemy carry away from the minions so they can't last hit.

doombotMECHAJan 5, 20163 votes

my support tank strategy is mostly just "be an ass every cooldown rotation" just try and use bushes to get close for a good tahm slow/taric stun so my adc can chunk 'em. then taric support teamfighting is mostly just "blow everything and try not to die"

Noctius28Jan 4, 20164 votes

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I just can't play the role of tank very well. I'd rather leave it to someone who knows how to play such a role.

Build whatever stops the enemy damage plus health Run into them like a a seamen at a brothel Assume you are playing a 90s side scroller, meaning no back tracking Never surrender, never retreat and most of all DEMACIA! That's how I do it, worked pretty well so far

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20161 votes

Well that was a very hilarious read. XD

Garen is fun agreed, and that will always work with him! But I'm talking more along the lines of most CC centric Tanks. Figuring out who and when (especially in teamfights) to CC certain targets can be difficult for me to figure out.

Noctius28Jan 4, 20167 votes

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Well that was a very hilarious read. XD

is fun agreed, and that will always work with him! But I'm talking more along the lines of most CC centric Tanks. Figuring out who and when (especially in teamfights) to CC certain targets can be difficult for me to figure out.

It works pretty well with Rammus Sion Alistar and Volibear aswell XD With champs like Nautilus I usually just use him as a wall while keeping the damage dealers entertained with me while the rest of my team slaughters theirs

I think it's the easiest role in the game, just be the big bro and be all like "You messin with mah sister hun? Get over here! Imma make you mah woman!" And while they are busy hitting you like idiots your team is cleaning up

The trick is making it look like you are there alone, and by alone I don't mean they hiding in the fun bush, I mean just go in way in front of your team, PRETEND to be an idiot who is overextended, they will follow up but the enemy will only see you (tunnel Vision), you might die but they will have wasted all their cooldowns on you and your team will just cleanup afterwards

Now about assassins, here's the best trick I found to deal with assassins on your back lines that does not require you getting triggered faster than a feminazi on a fashion show Don't give them a chance... seriously, the more you keep playing the waiting game the more likely it is your Jinx is already in the menu of the Rengar lurking in the bush Engage before the enemy assassin has a chance to position himself for an ambush

That is all my Demacian brain can teach, use it wisely in the fields of justice young one Praise Leeroy Jenkins our master

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20162 votes

Thanks for all the helpful info and all the laughs! [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

doombotMECHAJan 5, 20162 votes

i love karthus vs. assassins for a similar reason, like yeah you can die but say goodbye to ur cooldowns. also having a passive'd karthus smack dab in the middle of a tf is not fun for the other guys.

frigginmurlocsJan 4, 201660 votes

assassin, marksman, its all free gold to me Rammus item 3075

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20165 votes

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RaptorKarrJan 4, 20169 votes

{quoted}

assassin, marksman, its all free gold to me

Riven item 3071 item 3036 I'm always ready for you.

frigginmurlocsJan 4, 20165 votes

This shall not stand, I see your damage and raise you: damage item 3157

RaptorKarrJan 4, 201613 votes

{quoted}

This shall not stand, I see your damage and raise you: damage

item 3072 item 3812 I raise you life steal

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20161 votes

I raise you this veigar: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nvq8kYyXz7w/maxresdefault.jpg

RaptorKarrJan 4, 20161 votes

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I raise you this veigar: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nvq8kYyXz7w/maxresdefault.jpg

item 3139 I raise you THIS!

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20164 votes

He has 7061 AP... Your move...

RaptorKarrJan 4, 20162 votes

[{quoted}](name=Bow hunter 16,realm=NA,application-id=Ir7ZrJjF,discussion-id=oE0XEVjc,comment-id=00000001000100000000000000000000,timestamp=2016-01-04T04:54:05.237+0000)

He has 7061 AP... Your move...

I have a Leona

frigginmurlocsJan 4, 20162 votes

Wait, isn't that back when veigar's ult had a 1.2 AP ratio

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20162 votes

Yeah it is from back then... I also think its far enough back when unique passives stacked as well since he does have about 6240 Mana with 5 item 3040 and a item 3089 .

frigginmurlocsJan 4, 20164 votes

Hard to belive it took until season three for them to realise stacking passives shouldn't be allowed

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20162 votes

It took that long?! [zombie-brand-mindblown]

Wow... Kinda glad I wasn't playing back then for that reason now. Though I am still glad I joined LoL in patch 5.6ish!

frigginmurlocsJan 4, 20161 votes

black cleaver passive back then shreded 5 flat armor per instance of physical damage, and made all assassins and MF OPAF

James StoneJan 4, 20162 votes

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black cleaver passive back then shreded 5 flat armor per instance of physical damage, and made all assassins and MF OPAF

AHHAHAHAHAH

Nope. Back then, Black Cleaver was an AD/AS item that did indeed shred 5 per instance, to a maximun of 30, but it was considered completely and totally useless. It did not make all assassins and MF OP, in fact, MF barely ever built the damned thing because there was much more value to be had in Last Whisper.

The only person who reliably built Black Cleaver was Vayne, because back then it was the only AD/AS item in the goddamned game and there were no damage passives on AS items like RPC or Statikk. The entire reason that thing got reworked is because it was seen as buttfuck useless, and it indeed was buttfuck useless

SinlaireJan 4, 20163 votes

You should have seen when Tiamat was a stand alone item and wasn't made a recipe item for Ravenous Hydra. It still had its aoe damage on hit and no unique passive.

Fiora could get a pentakill on a full health enemy team just by pressing R with 5 Tiamats and a last whisper.

SSJTribeJan 4, 20162 votes

Don't forget Garen's standard build of 5 Sunfire Capes and Boots!

frigginmurlocsJan 4, 201633 votes

{quoted}

I raise you life steal

I raise you this question:

http://treasure.diylol.com/uploads/post/image/360860/resized_philosoraptor-meme-generator-does-lifestal-counter-thornmail-or-thornmail-counter-lifesteal-f525db.jpg

(yes, I did take this from your post from two months ago)

RaptorKarrJan 4, 20167 votes

{quoted}

I raise you this question:

http://treasure.diylol.com/uploads/post/image/360860/resized_philosoraptor-meme-generator-does-lifestal-counter-thornmail-or-thornmail-counter-lifesteal-f525db.jpg

(yes, I did take this from your post from two months ago)

Pretty sure it was decided it was in life steals favor

frigginmurlocsJan 4, 201624 votes

I raise you a "your team died because you focused the tank"

RaptorKarrJan 4, 20165 votes

{quoted}

I raise you a "your team died because you focused the tank"

Sucks for you we had a fed Karthus and you have no Soraka or Kindred

frigginmurlocsJan 4, 20163 votes

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo double ace?

RaptorKarrJan 4, 20162 votes

{quoted}

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo double ace?

Looks like it.

frigginmurlocsJan 4, 20163 votes

Had that happen in one of my games, it was a reallllllllllllllly awkward 30 seconds

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20164 votes

I would so start motivating my team's minions in all chat until re-spawn. And maybe see if the enemy team can get into the fun of that.

frigginmurlocsJan 4, 20163 votes

When it happens I ARAM we just start all chatting the lyrics to bohemian rhapsody.

FantasySniperJan 5, 20162 votes

Thornmail counters lifesteal.

Thornmail has become less efficient at its job, but armor still exponentially affects the amount of lifesteal one needs to counter it. Even if 85% lifesteal becomes 50% and you buy Scimitar as one of two of your lifesteal items, you're still not going to realistically acquire enough. Armor penetration counters Thornmail, pure and simple. You deal more damage so you get more health out of it so they die faster and you die slower.

ADepressedLeonaJan 5, 20162 votes

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Playing an assassin... We love our job of making the marksmen go: "POP!"

And as a support main, I love feasting on your tears when I stun lock you before hand :3

morris1Jan 4, 20168 votes

I remember at one point 31/15 full build Rengar tried to burst our 7/13 Graves. The once cigar guy pulled off an EQR combo so fast and didn't take ANY DAMAGE from Rengar. ALL OF THIS WHILE RENGAR WAS MID AIR.

EDIT: Graves killed Rengar.

Void NargacugaJan 4, 201611 votes

How he felt afterwards: http://cdn.leagueoflegends.com/apollo/content/lists-of-legends/6_RememberingZhonyas.gif

I dare you to try that again you darn cat.

morris1Jan 4, 20161 votes

Oh wow Rito didn't reupload that cinematic without his cigar. Kewl

Void NargacugaJan 4, 20162 votes

Since its not actually part of the game... They can let Graves have his cigar back (which I would bet he keeps in his coat in-game).