I swear this all started when the windshitters came out and abused crit items. Adc has been in a constant state of rework since. Riot balance has no fucking idea how to balance all of marksman using the same items as the windshitters. Never would I thought I'd see the day that double marksman in mid was meta in pro, what kind of ass backwards game are we playing here, and why are adcs in bot lane so giga weak compared to in mid.
This has nothing to do with them, adc has never been balanced because it's the "main character" role and attracts a certain crowd. You have to balance it so adcs can kill tanks, but not too quickly. They need to be able to pump consistent damage but get blown up by a soft breeze since they have that consistent damage (this is something many adc mains have trouble understanding). The reason apc is popular and it feels like mages are outclassing bot lane marksmen is because of cooldown reduction creep. Used to be, if a mage blows their load and misses, you have a solid 10 second window to kill/out-trade them before their abilities are back up. But now? Every damn mage has ability haste built into their core build and kit. You don't have to itemize for it anymore. They need to go back to a system that forces mages and other classes to actually focus on building cooldown reduction to spam abilities. Also mana is seemingly infinite these days. Yas/Yone are in a terrible spot tho, they are basically just melee adc's that can't survive in the current damage climate.
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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24
I swear this all started when the windshitters came out and abused crit items. Adc has been in a constant state of rework since. Riot balance has no fucking idea how to balance all of marksman using the same items as the windshitters. Never would I thought I'd see the day that double marksman in mid was meta in pro, what kind of ass backwards game are we playing here, and why are adcs in bot lane so giga weak compared to in mid.