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Substituting out ADC's for *certain* mages?

Onwodori·7/20/2015, 4:39:22 PM·1 votes·516 views

Hey there! Master Fledgling here.

I'm not one to be afraid to question the meta, so here's just such a question: What's wrong with subbing out ADC's for mages with built in tower destroy? Those that come to mind in particular are Ziggs and Azir, Zigg's passive and build (Lich Bane quite early) And Azir's ability to summon soldiers right onto towers to chunk them sounding like acceptable answers, especially if there is a Zed mid as an AD threat.

Lemme know if this holds any (bilge)water.

-MF

1 Comments

Frank3277/20/2015, 5:40:15 PM1 votes

The reason adc's are better in botlane than mages is because mages scale really well with levels while ADC's mostly need items for damage. In botlane adc has to share his xp so you're behind in levels. Another is that mages (especially ziggs) does really well in lane with blue buff which is not always near botlane.

The reason you generally want an ADC in your team is because they're both the best source of consistent damage (don't need mana for those autoattacks and they're not on cooldowns) and the best damage in the super late game.

I think it could be really powerful to play a mage in botlane but it needs to be a very specific mage in a specific teamcomp, otherwise it's likely not to work.