Hey there guys! So I'm looking to increase my strength for ADC. I'm in lower elo right now so I've plenty of room to learn. I really enjoy playing Ashe, Kog'Maw, and Kalista. I do not like to play Cait. Does anyone have any tips that can help me learn, or a champion that is better to learn or just to learn with?
ADC is all about farming. Consistent CS is more important than getting early kills or even harassing your opponent. Practice last hitting and and always get the cannon minion.
Check scoreboard every so often to keep track of your CS compared to the enemy ADC. If they are CS'ing more than you or pretty close, then turn up the heat on them and ask your support to get more aggressive with zoning, you want to have a significant CS advantage over them.
Don't try to force first blood, if you do there is a 60% chance you will end up giving the ADC a double kill, and by doing that you just made the rest of early game much harder on you. Wait for your enemy to make a stupid dive, let the first blood come to you.
As much as I love kog'maw, he has been nerfed hard and struggles today. Ashe is in a similar predicament, in that her kit is outdated compared to today's high damage ADC's, but her CC can be used to great effect for her team.
are all in a pretty good spot right now.
is rather difficult to play with his axe mechanic, and his normal damage is somewhat mediocre, but if he gets early kills he snowballs like an absolute motherf*cker, god help you if he ever gets fed.
are assassin ADC's that don't play quite like regular ADC's in that you have to use their stealth and burst mechanics to really take advantage of their power.
L2 freeze and zone your opponent off of CS when you have a lead. Very common mistake I see noob adc's make is constantly pushing the wave, you should really only be pushing if you want to take tower, recall, or to rush level power spikes (level 2/6) - other than that generally you want them as close to your tower as you can. They're much easier to kill if you draw them out from under tower.
But even if you learn to do that perfectly and you're a godlike laner, it doesn't mean shit if you don't know how to teamfight! I'm not going to try and explain it to you, but look on youtube for an adc teamfight positioning guide, they'll be able to explain it much better than me. Once you get good at teamfight positioning as ADC you'll instantly get to gold.
Good positioning is OP, basically freelo. I can't tell you how many times I've gone 0/4 in lane and ended up godlike 7/4 just because I'm a decent teamfighter. It's actually farily common.
he is my main and to be honest the only champ im actually good enough to play with in ranked (maybe vlad but anyways) He is super easy to use just get good at last hitting minions with him and use your Q to poke and that will pretty much carry you through laning phase. He does monster damage late game with IE and Runaans plus even if you build AP you still play him as an adc just maxing W first and his ult is SUPER useful in team fights especially if you go AP mid
I'd say stick to Ashe if you like her, avoid Kog and Kalista; they're pretty complicated; better to learn the basics with Ashe than struggle with everything that Kog or Kalista have in their kits (stuff like Kog's W timings, Kalista's positioning, etc.). I agree with what others have said as well.
Play and experiment with all ADCs if you can. It's fine if you don't like Caitlyn. In fact, as an ADC main, I'm absolutely trash with Caitlyn "oh my god how the hell are you an ADC main if you don't main Cait is like asking oh my god you main jungle and you don't play Lee Sin." From what ADC you like, I would recommend . Ashe, Kalista, and especially Kog'Maw are late game hypercarries, who requires good positioning and farm to excel. Unfortunately, all of them takes a tons of time to ramp up their power spike.
Playing these champions, it's really important to learn to orbwalk/kite because they're auto-attack based champions instead of AD Caster-ish.
You can add me in client if you want to know more, I main Graves and Corki by the way. But I'm Bronze so maybe I'm trash. :^)
