Due to these short and small adjustments which led to some severe consequences that up until this Patch, Marksman and the whole bot lane, in general, are still being affected.
In the Preseason 2021, one of the hottest topics you can find on every League of Legends’ community is all about the Marksman position. There are 3 reasons why this role becomes a viral topic.
- As Sneaky also said it before and we also covered it. Nowsaday, Marksman’s job are to help their Jungler, not vice-versa.
- All the new Mythic Items for AD carry are pretty weak, even though Riot did make some adjustments to the Crit system and how the whole Marksman’s items work out, they are seriously either deal lesser damage than Assassin item or provide weaker defensive stats when comparing to tanky items. Even Jhin – one of the most pick champions in the bot lane right now doesn’t even use AD Mythic Items, instead, all Jhin’s players now are buying Eclipse (which belongs to Assassin class) in order to deal an insane amount of damage.
- The last but not least, and this can be considered as the most important factor. The low-key problem that not many players notice it but it’s actually a real headache. Due to some adjustments made to the Duo lane in the past, AD Champions receive less experience in the lane when compared to Solo Lane. Riot nerfed the total experience shared with lots of champions in Patch 9.23. Meanwhile, the experience you gain when farming or getting kills in the solo lane is insane.
Patch V9.23
- Minion solo experience increased to 93% from 92%.
- Minion shared experience reduced to 116% from 120%.
Patch V10.8
- At level 1-6, a champion’s solo kills grant 20% more experience and assisted kills grant 20% less experience.
- At level 7-8, these numbers are reduced to 10%.
This leads to the point that if the enemy’s solo laner plays extremely well and be able to create a snow-ball situation, there will be a 3 to 4 level gap between the solo guy and the duo. Marksman’s items are already fairly expensive as you have known. Being behind both items and experience creating one of the most frustrating situations in League.
Reddit user u/Jandromon also noticed this and created a post which attracted up to more than 2500 upvotes in a few hours.
In the article, lots of comments do say that all the updates that are made around Experience have led to mid champions being broken. Mid laner is usually 3 levels higher than the bot lane. As a result, it’s easy for any mid player to roam and dominate the enemy’s bot lane, therefore, creates a tremendous amount of advantages.
This fact is also somehow proven in the meta of Worlds 2020, where most of the top teams’ Support players always tended to roam other lanes. Helping their mid lane (who has the level advantage) would be much better than staying in the bot lane and wait for team fights to come. They also chose ADC that could safely farm under enemy’s pressures, to ensure they would gain a stable amount of experience and gold as a solo laner. Both DAMWON Gaming and Suning Support players usually roam in the early to mid-game.
If this problem keeps happening and doesn’t stop, maybe there will be a completely new meta change in the next Preseason 2021. Will Marksman’s position starts to become obsolete. Will Riot be able to find a way to properly fix this or this is the way it is meant to be?
