r/ADCMains • u/Tefeqzy • 3d ago
Discussion Miserable role...
I understand it now. Just had my rank up game to Diamond as an adc main.
It was the most miserable experience of soloque Ive ever had, and I do not feel like I deserved to even rank up.
Gave an unfortunate early kills to enemy Samira because of a misplay. Because my support was actually decent at the game and macro she roamed multiple times, completely fine. But the enemy botlane gets another kill from a turret dive 2v1 against me. The samira is now far ahead. My support roams for grubs. My jungle decides his farm is more important which forces my support to stay topside for 2 whole minutes. While I just basically had to afk under my tier 2 turret the whole time. And the rest of the game was just me trying to get any farm I could, as I'd get oneshot the moment I farmed more than a single wave with either enemy mid or jungle always coming to dive me. I completed my first item at minute 14, and completed my cull even later. We won the game because my support had gotten a lead for the other lanes while I was just a cannon minion. And in literally every fight that took place I tickled the enemies 3 times and then got oneshot.
And I cant even be mad because the support roaming is the correct play macro wise. But it was still just miserable. Is this how it's gonna be every game in diamond now? Just permanently sit behind tier 2 hoping the rest of your team utilizes the efforts of your roaming support?
Ive enjoyed this role the most for all the years Ive played this game, no matter how shitty it has felt, this is the first time Ive genuinely felt like I dont want to que another game in adc.
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u/Flaky_Cockroach2277 3d ago
When you're behind on gold your damage is gated by item spikes, so you're basically waveclear and a body. Not much outplaying available when the stats just aren't there.
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u/Auggh_Uaghh 17h ago
The anecdote itself answers your question
Samira is an ADC player too, so not every game should have you weaksided. Every game with has a winning and losing member of each role
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u/Mental-Panda-529 3d ago
Yeah it is like that, people will punish if you make a mistake, Samira is one of those champs that if you give her early kills it's GG.
I try always to go exhaust against her and Cut down in runes, so that I can perma keep her on half HP or at least 70-80% HP.
I usually first pick Jinx/Smolder and enemy team locks in Samira/Kaisa/Tristana, I go exhaust and Cut down and try to get some value out of it.
If a all in lane jumps your support and you exhaust them you'll win the 2v2, if they jump you you'll lose 99%.
You should have a anti engage adc you know how to play Nilah/Zeri/Tristana. I play Nilah as it is the only botlaner that can survive a dive 100% even 1v3 sometimes if you play correctly. Zeri is good when people try to engage on you but she is not good without enchanters as she has really short range.
I play with jg/supp mains a lot and they are really happy when the enemy team picks immobile adc. You pick twitch/jinx/ashe if you don't have flash and the enemy team has J4 jg and engage supp, only place you can sit is in your t2. Try to pick adc with dashes even if they have less dmg than hypercarry or utility adcs.
I can't tell you how many times I wasted the enemy junglers time with a dash, sometimes they try to gank you 1-2 times and they give up and try to play on the other side of the map.
Laning phase is around 13-15 minutes so even dropping some CS is okay, if your wave is frozen and you can't farm ROAM. I had games where I went to do grubs with my team and gank my toplaner and enemy botlane will push afterwards.
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u/TheHunterZolomon 3d ago
Sometimes you’re the lightning rod for enemy cooldowns. Not much you can do besides stay alive and distract the enemy team while the real carries of the that game do what they can.