Other ADC mains, stop making us look bad

BoxOfDOG··8 votes·752 views

You wanna know why ADC mains are being bashed and supports are being raised up like Gods?

Because you are being an ASS. I end up being called a "selfish bastard" in game because my support and mid laner are automatically under the assumption that I'm a jerk because I play ADC.

Stop.. please.

19 Comments

Drunk Rummate4 votes

I stopped maining ADC because the lane phase is so reliant on your support playing well. I completely understand where the frustration is coming from on both ends.

Supports who don't understand that you gain a lead through CS are the worst. They range from types who are too aggressive (trade heavily in 1v2 while you're csing and get dropped so low in hp/mana that they're irrelevant) vs supports who are too passive (never come forward with you to CS causing you to lose far more than you should due to the enemy support zoning.

On the other hand it's not uncommon for ADCs to completely miss out on the value of CS and assume the entire lane phase is about bullying your opponent out. It's like... grats you bullied them out. They came back with a second dorans and here you sit with 2/3 hp and 200 gold less than you could have because you missed CS to fight. And now you're leaking CS for the next 6 minutes while you farm for BF and they have more damage and sustain than you because they CSed and backed for a pickaxe after you bullied them out.

Anyways, I just can't stand bot lane anymore. I dunno how people can do it with enough consistency to call themselves a bot lane main outside of duoing. /Rant

Shogunai1 votes

I completely understand where you coming from, It annoying having to rely on someone else directly for the success of a lane, however its worth it when you come across that support or adc that just energizes well with your playstyle. Now this doesn't happen too often but it does.

One of the main reason's I switched out of support was because I had a bad run of adc. Not all of them were bad, but the decision making an positioning was overall terrible and made the lane match up harder to deal with than it should have been.

Overall I still really like support an I enjoy playing ADC as well, but the frustrations that I get gives me more time to practice with some of the other champions that I really like that doesn't fit those roles.

mvargus2 votes

I seem to be a support main at the moment when I play ranked. (I'd rather jungle, but I'm too willing to take support if someone wants jungle.) I've noticed a few things about ADCs

  1. you get the ADC who doesn't understand that CS is important. I've had Tristana's who arrive at the lane and immediately use their jump to go over the minions so they can try to 1v2 the enemy bot laners. Of course, they then complain. "This Sona is trash." because I don't follow them to their doom. They didn't try to take a single CS before launching into the 1v2 against fed champions.

  2. you can also get the ADC who doesn't fight. I had a Sivir who would hide behind the turret and come out only long enough to clear a wave before running back behind the turret. I was less than impressed with their CS and with the fact that I was forced to try to fight a 1v2 to keep the turret from falling.

And in both cases I was blamed for the problems.

I think a lot of it is that there aren't many true ADC mains. I know a couple of players who are trying to main ADC. They are very good about working with just about any kind of support and have a good awareness of things like wards, jungler patterns and ganks and in lane positioning. They are a joy to support because they want to work with you and will do what they can to improve things.

But many of the ADCs I've worked with have been players who wanted to play top or mid and got ADC by default because they were 3rd or 4th pick. These guys tend to lack knowledge of how to play the position, but will often blame the support.

S H A Y C 01 votes

What world is this that the support gets acknowledged for anything good they do...ever? I would like to live there with you, plz send link for google maps.

Serevas1 votes

I actually see it quite a bit, granted half the time it's stuff that I've typed, but nonetheless.

S H A Y C 02 votes

well...may i play in your games then? id like to get acknowledged when i go 2-5-49 as Bard when he is practically the weakest support out there (-_-)

Serevas1 votes

What do you play? Maybe we'll duo.

S H A Y C 01 votes

i play lots of stuff..if you want a list of supports...its quite long. In ranked i tend to stick with bread and butter though. Leona, Thresh, Morg, Sona, Nami, Braum.

Serevas1 votes

Nah I'm a mid main, I mean what role you prefer to play lol.

S H A Y C 01 votes

Jungle. I don't feel comfortable calling myself a "Blank" Main. I'm not even sure how anybody does. I tried calling Jungle main for a while but the results were the same, i get my role 2/5 times just like always...5 people fighting for their mains and top, jung, mid are highly contested.

Serevas1 votes

I get that I've been pretty lucky though and seem to get it at least half the time. I call myself a mid main because I vastly prefer the role over the other 4 and it's what I do best at.

Edit: I typically put mid highly pref, or mid pref when I post in the chat. So I'm either just lucky, people I get are nice enough, or when they see highly pref they assume I'm garbage at other roles or something, I'm not sure which one it is.

S H A Y C 01 votes

im not sure which it is..i think it really depends on the people you are matched with..if they are D's then it is what is, if they are nice and flexible team oriented folk, it probably works out. I look forward to a final version of ranked team builder.

Serevas1 votes

That'll be interesting. Queues will likely take forever.

S H A Y C 01 votes

they might take a while longer, but i dont think itll be as bad as normal team builder. And i feel that over all the quality will be better, in theory everyone should be on their strongest role and more importantly YOU or I will be guaranteed our strongest role and like all high elo players are fond of saying...if you are good enough to climb, you can solo carry your team in your current tier

BoxOfDOG4 votes

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What world is this that the support gets acknowledged for anything good they do...ever? I would like to live there with you, plz send link for google maps.

I think nice ADCs are a lot more common than you think..

The only thing that can make them toxic is when people give them crap for "Doing bad in such an easy role" "Pointing and clicking isn't hard" "Your CS is terrible for an ADC" says that having 90 CS at 25 minutes

Being toxic makes players toxic.

S H A Y C 01 votes

its got nothing to do with a "nice adc" and everything to do with the support role being the most unappreciated, downplayed, and therefor least appealing role in the meta. I share with you a parody of the life of a caring and very protective support.

Every support game ever

Undefeated1 votes

Especially for vayne mains...

warpenguin5551 votes

adc mains really do get alot of hate for the toxic ones out there. Honestly i have ran into more toxic supports and mid laners recently then toxic adcs. THe truth is you will find bad eggs at every role, if you say thats not true then you're lying.

Waaaow1 votes

I main adc. I have to say a lot of supports in Silver and Bronze even Gold are noobs. They love to play Blitz. While they only have 30% health, they love to pull your full health enemy over here and show off. Then my lovely blitz died. LOL

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