The REAL reasons ADC mains cry at every other change in the game!!

Wrathof300·11/9/2016, 2:32:19 AM·1 votes·1,289 views

Hey, So the assassin update is around he corner and people are already, btching. But, why? The assassins are relatively more healthy in my eyes. (wait for Rengar and Talon to be removed from the game for the rest of the patch) The problem are ADC's in the game, cause we all know majority of the complainers are the botlane player base. So how could this be fixed, easy, FIX BOTLANE. Remember back when they btched that marksman (basically the ADC role) and no sub-classes when the subclass categories were released. Well they and a point. Not that Riot was wrong, I think either they honestly they didn't know how to classify the types of ADC's they wanted in the game or they were holding back. NO ONE PLAYS BOTLANE, in comparison to the top and mid player base that is, the real reason queues are so long are simply because SUPPORT IS AN UNINTERESTING ROLE, a topic for another discussion. But thinking about it logically, none wants to play ADC beacuse its the hardest role in the game, you have to cs properly and kite juke and so much more, and the fact that this can be summed up into, they just shoot stuff, is BAD. My opinion is that is the majority of the player base plays top and mid more often, tailor the ADC role to suit these players.

Hence, these should be the sub-classifications:

Assassin ADC: Jhin and Quinn are good examples of how this niche could work out. Jhin is literally an assassin in the lore and his gameplay captures that by him strategically placing traps on the map and literally sniping his foes he is a unique assassin in the world of assassins provided by the game at current, seeing Caitlyn rise to his level of strategy/complexity would be interesting, while remaining incoherent of jhin's play style. Quinn a scout and her map coverage and patrol are rivaled by none, her burst combo can be one-sided at times, but she is a directive on how ADC's can be made into the type of 'burst-assassins' we have in the game, another character I think would work in this niche is Tristana .

Juggernaut/Diver ADC:Graves Although he can't have his cigar, he is a man that loves to be in the heart of all of the sh*t. It is not necessarily the case that he was simply better in the jungle, but rather was forced out of the botlane due to his different play style added to that the mastery changes. Same with morde, the problem weren't necessarily the champions, rather it was the role of ADC, the changes may have been spectacular but why place them in said role when everyone else shares a specific mechanic that is simply better, 'shoot stuff and kite mechanic'. Graves Definitely deserves to be looked at during the divers update and could make for an awesome niche of ADCs, along with his reload mechanic. Urgot is a champion I hope to see 'experimented' in this niche for him rework, possibly granting him high AD output and gated by an attack speed cap, like Jhin , so he literally plays like a tank/ballista, slow but blows stuff away when it does fire.

Skirmisher ADC: These are our attack speed carries, the ones meant to kite shoot stuff and juke, Ashe and Jinx. Unfortunately this is the meta of the role hence when it is actually viable aforementioned champs rise hence the ashe nerfs this season or it is incomparable to a certain Black cleaver Lucian and Black cleaver MissFortune build, thus champs that work with whatever OP build sweeps the rest of the role under the rug. This is bad as we saw this season where champs that are already bad because they are forced into this niche see almost no play simply because a better build for X champs became meta. However, I am not saying this niche should be done away with, after all, for whatever reason, we have ADC mains out there because they like this play style, and honestly nothing is cooler than seeing your ADC juke skillshots and kite damage all while lifestealing and shredding the enemy team 1v5. Hence same as Graves , champs that fit this role should be looked at during a skirmishers update, and those that do not fit this role, assorted into another or classified differently.

This bring diversity to the botlane role of ADC, and would ultimately draw more of the player base toward the role helping even out queue time, and maybe dealing with some of the complaints the ADC player base has such as; they having to put more effort into surviving fight summoner 4 then say a tank or assassin. To be honest another subclass that could be looked are Mage ADC, including people like KogMaw Varus and Corki as well ADC TwistedFate . But this would required much further analysis into how mixed damage outputs would work out healthily for the game as well as on hit damage outputs as that could be a solution to mixed AP and AD dmg.

P.S. Sorry if I seem salty toward ADC mains and Support mains out there, I really respect you as I said you guys have the most difficult role to learn and master. And as a jungle/top main I would to be reassured that there is at least one champ I could easily adapt to if ADC is forced on me.

4 Comments

Kuzja111/9/2016, 3:03:48 AM1 votes

Looks like I'll be getting bogeys on my tail as a Corki main more often than usual. Better play my Stealth Bombing Techniques even more carefully from now on

Jommsims11/9/2016, 9:45:07 AM1 votes

This is actually quite interesting and adds a certain level of much needed diversity to the adc role. And lol at 'they just shoot stuff" :D...although...that's the sad truth.

Meep Man11/9/2016, 1:39:30 PM1 votes

I thought it was Mage mains that cry about everything