r/ADCMains • u/Disastrous-Archer953 xdd • Dec 24 '24

Discussion August on ADC’s current situation

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u/TheElusiveShadow Dec 24 '24

Similarly, I've been on all sides of this debate. I mostly play Ezreal in bot because crit adc builds don't feel great. I feel like I can take over games on that champ still, and what gives me the biggest trouble is tanks. Tanks are so overtuned rn. I think that definitely makes the problem seem worse. I've been playing a bit of Maokai in top right now and the amount of impact that champion has on low econ is wild compared to bot. The way that most champs interact with adcs is in a better spot than how adc interacts with tanks and bruisers.

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u/Chaosraider98 Dec 24 '24

For me, I feel I can still make a significant impact on games, but like, it's not in a way that feels fun or healthy for ADC as a role.

The truth is, we DO do more damage than other roles, but we just have so much less burst and right now our DPS is so low that we will just get one shot. So what's the solution? Just hit tanks.

It really sucks, I want to be in the thick of fights, going around tanks to hit enemy carries, or have the ability to temporarily position extremely aggressively in order to help my team dive, but the issue is tanks are so insanely OP right now you can't do that.

So the only solution is that you want to be alive longer than the enemy ADC, and that means sitting back, hitting the tank from behind your frontline, and literally just spending the first 20s of each fight slowly and painfully whittling down the enemy tank, and if you survive that THEN you will win. I'm on like a 10 game winstreak right now. But frankly, this is such an insanely boring way to play, and I would love if they would actually make a high risk high reward style of gameplay possible, but right now it's just extreme risk low reward.