I need help on how to play ADC

Water Breathing·4/29/2015, 1:49:21 AM·1 votes·1,012 views

I'm Bronze 1 currently and I main support. I do pretty well in the support role and I can play top, mid, and jungle decently but I am much better supporting. The problem is when I play ADC I drop to Bronze 5 for some reason. I always say this in team chat and I usually don't get it to often but when I do have to ADC I feel useless to my entire team. I feel most comfortable with Graves, Varus, and Ashe but I'm not really good with ADCs in general.

In lane I'm alright, I tend to keep up with farm and usually don't die in lane, but I very rarely get tower first or even get a kill (unless jungler ganks). I struggle in team fights because someone instantly jumps on me and I die, ala Rengar or Zed and I can get maybe 1 or 2 attacks before I pop. I also position fairly well, but some teammates say I'm doing this wrong because I am usually hitting their front line and they say I have to focus the back line. Well whenever I do that I must go close to their front line and I explode. Generally what I do is attack in this hierarchy

  1. If there is a person on my face

  2. If there is enemy on someone next to me (like APC)

  3. If nothing else I attack what ever person I can safely that has the most damage.

My runes are +12 MR, +9 AR, +11 AD, and +9% AS, I'm not sure if these are ideal or not.

I also see people talk about attack move and I know about it, but I find doing it very difficult. The default is the A key, but I find that it very awkward to attack move and use abilities or summoner skills, and I find it almost impossible to use item actives because I can't get to the number keys. I hear people change it from the A key to a mouse button but the problem is that I play league on a laptop so I use a trackpad. I do have a USB mouse, but it has no extra buttons I can use. Is there another set up I don't know about?

7 Comments

ZergReap4/29/2015, 1:54:39 AM2 votes

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I hear people change it from the A key to a mouse button but the problem is that I play league on a laptop so I use a trackpad. I do have a USB mouse, but it has no extra buttons I can use. Is there another set up I don't know about?

Did you get to bronze 1 only using a trackpad!? You cannot be serious you are literally playing League of Legends on Insane, Legendary, Veteran, Expert difficulty. I don't understand.

a0IP9RlIBC4/29/2015, 1:47:58 PM1 votes

holy crap get a mouse LOL, no wonder why you're having trouble kiting

The Chin4/29/2015, 5:40:52 PM1 votes

Upgrade your trinket to the pink one for rengar, that can sometimes help. Zed you need QSS and some kind of dash or just flash, and you need to be SUPER conscious of your positioning.

People always say "don't focus the tanks" in low elo, but that applies to basically everyone except the ADC. Since you're the only one that can kill a tank, if they're the closest person to you then you should definitely be attacking the tank.