Why Does Everyone Hate ADCs?

Well, if you think about it, it's kind of obvious. I used to main ADC (I still play some on the side, however) and I wasn't the stereotypical ADC - I was an enjoyable player that got honored quite a bit by both my team and the enemy team.

However, ADC's are typically looked down upon because people think they simply hold themselves high on the pedestal. People generally view ADC's as selfish, egotistical and overconfident players, but that's actually not the case. The majority of people probably have this notion because:

• ADC's only have to basic attack and cast abilities every so often.
• ADC's are supposed to be the carry, however, people think this means they should get every kill.
• ADC's literally have their own personal slave (support) to help them in their laning phase.
• ADC's don't have to get into close-range, and are typically protected by their entire team simply because they have a role.

Now, of course, these are extremely over-exaggerated, but that's the notion that most ADC-hater's have. They tend to believe that ADC mains think they're "the shit" and that they deserve everything.

Surprisingly, most ADC mains aren't that bad of people; in fact, we're quite thankful for the support we get. Unfortunately, some of us are irresponsible and never thank you guys.

I feel like it's only the "bad" ADCs people don't like.

The ADCs who don't want their support to roam after laning phase is over, or expect the support to ward everything while they never ward (ADC's should at least ward a bare minimum).

The ADC who uses their mobility spell to get closer to the enemy team and then blame the tanks/support for not peeling. Or just bad positioning in general.

And the ones who complain about killsteals. Who will rage if the support takes 1 cs (yes, I have seen this before). Who farms the jungle when they don't need to.

The ADC role itself seems fine to me, it's just the worst of the worst players who get on everyone's nerves. But that's not really unique, since any role can have that guy if you think about it.

Just my two cents.

Every since Sky Williams made a video about it they've been getting hate trained ever since.

I think another part of the hate is that the specific role of "AD marksman bottom lane with a support" is required by the meta in EVERY game. It's extremely restricting compared to other roles where the other two lanes can have fighters, assassins, mages or certain tanks, and the jungle is being deliberately designed for more roles (Runeglaive especially).

I do wish there was a way to cover the ADC's tactical niche (Which I understand is DPS and objective control) without having a small subset of champions designed for the role, and a way for those champions to work on their own. I think that's where Mordekaiser's rework was headed, but there's been a lot of bile over it since it replaced his traditional playstyle that people knew and loved (that and some shoehorn mechanics like the minion experience passive and his new W). I've been planning to experiment with it myself to see how it works, and it seems fun.

Riot seems to be taking an interest in general in the bottom lane meta and how to spice things up. I remember a thread a bit ago asking about it that got really huge.

I personally hate adc's because (not all i have to practice being an adc some times to or i wouldnt play ranked) I used to split my time between 40%-40% top and support. im talking about the average person playing / maining adc

adcs dont do much early game before they get their gold and items thats usually the support zoneing pokeing and engageing i am an engager i poke the enemy adc out of lane and i need my adc close enough that when i engage they can switch from farming to attacking the enemy champions after numerious pings the adc cant stop farming long enough to attempt to get these kill or at least push the enemy out of lane early leads bottom lane are more often than not caused by supports with their harassment of the enemy to cause damage and cause them to miss out on farm healing of the adc ccing the enemy (though adcs have a fair amount of cc that helps sometimes.... ill get back to that)

you say adcs get their own slave but more than that adc's are given everything in most situations and the people who play them get mad if you dont they are given all the cs they are given kills even if some one else can get it and if you dont you hear the most about ks like they were the only one to put in anything in that fight they cant be happy with assist gold ever any time they didnt get the kill its a ks when the jungle comes to the lane to gank and they get the kill wtf why did you take the kill. feed me (you know who says feed me toddlers)

adc just sat there and got poked its the supports fault for not healing or no cc or the jungler (<i consider these two positions to be the harderst in the game no i dont jungle its my last choice for a postion i even take adc over it) for not ganking enough there is no consideration on whether the jungler is designed for ganking whether they were behind whether they were winning another lane or wrecking the enemy jungler so he too useless to gank

then late game after you gave all the farm to the adc all the kills to the adc and proteced them through all their fights so they never had a scratch on them they talk about how bad you are cause of how much deaths you have not that protecting the adc is the only reason you died 3/4 times

What i wrote is aplicable to 80% of my games and in about 4% of my game the adc is actually plesant

about what i was saying before adcs are really not fair to much of the other classes most of the adcs have high damage attacks and spells they have the saftey of range they have speed boosts or dashes (or both) and they have cc and they typically build life steal and their hp is in no way bad and back when adcs built 1 defensive items last year it was helped them survive inital burst and just heal the damage they took after re positioning themselves. they share most of this unfairness with assassins. and fighters tanks and mages get left out of a large part of it. they are safe high damage and mobile