New ADC Concept

DeltasCo·1/2/2017, 9:11:29 PM·2 votes·1,325 views

I'd like to see when riot would start implementing and APC to supplement for the adc only role. I would be cool to see an APC with magic damage on their basic attacks and abilities scaling off ap etc. It would be a cool concept and it would really help team comps that are almost fully ad and don't have much room to wiggle (because as of now all adc's are essentially AD lol) 👍🏻✌🏻

5 Comments

Atinizer1/2/2017, 9:22:10 PM1 votes

Well, the big problem with that is most ADC's should buy QSS to counter burst mages and CC, heck, some might even buy Maw if they hate the enemy midlaner that much so you're countered by stuff that an enemy ADC will already buy. This champion would FORCE you to run an AD mid which (in this meta) restricts you to Zed, Talon, Yasuo, and Jayce. Only having 4 options for a midlane on that team would kinda suck if you wanted to play this APC in a random game and your midlaner didn't have those or just didn't want to play them.

Hrbrt1/2/2017, 9:52:26 PM1 votes

Azir

Terakali1/2/2017, 10:04:48 PM1 votes

Azir Kayle Corki Lulu

Bladebrent1/3/2017, 1:18:52 AM1 votes

They did try this when they made the Mordekaiser juggernaut update. They did their best to balance it out but it was always Overpowered or underpowered (judging from the fact I haven't seen a morde bot in some time). It's possible the problem was they were trying to do this with a tanky melee character instead, but I do think this is a cool idea. It is possible to do a bot lane with two AP champs based on whatever wombo-combo things you can think of like but I think this would add alot of variety.

As Atinizer points out, this could force ADC's to get a maw or mercurial first item, but I don't think so. It's not like they build Armour when they're laning against an ADC and an AD Support. ADC's are supposed to be squishy but focus on dealing damage with their support worrying about how to keep them alive. I guess there is Corki and whatever, but more potential AP champs bot would be cool and great for team comps that already have 3 AD champs in jungle, mid, and top.

There's also things like AP Kog'maw or AP Miss Fortune you could mention but neither of them are really "Meta" and you're usually sacrificing the huge amount of single target damage the AD builds give. AP MF has some mean AoE damage but again, a character thats like Sol from SMITE, specifically designed to go botlane with a support would be great.