Today we'll be talking about the passive aggressive last hit battle that ensues in the bottom lane. You want to 3 Shot supports with 600-700 damage crits? Have the highest cs in the game? Single-handedly put your team on your back and make win? Be a king of bottom lane and you'll be able to accomplish all this and more.
Preface: Bottom Lane in my opinion is the hardest lane to play at the moment. To be a top level AD carry player, you are expected to have fantastic synergy with your support, last hit at 90-95% efficiency, coordinate ganks with your jungle, while creating dominance for easy dragon control. Not to mention once out of the laning phase, you pretty much need to be doing massive amounts of damage while maintaining flawless positioning. Sounds easy right? No problem. Also, this is a pretty lengthy topic so I'll be dividing this into 2 parts and will be bringing you the 2nd half tomorrow. Assuming my internet isn't disconnected.....
Preparation & Starting Buy: In terms of preparation, I'm talking about rune setups, and starting buys. When picking an AD carry, make sure to take into consideration a support hero that will synergize well with you. Also, make sure you're keeping the bigger picture in mind so your hero will fit nicely with the rest of your team.
Marks:
Greater Mark of Desolation / Greater Mark of Strength
1.66 Armor Penetration / 0.95 Physical Damage
If a hero has an ability that gives bonus AD when used in conjunction with their auto-attack, its generally better to use AD runes.
EX: All of Riven's Abilities
EX: Corki's Passive
Heroes that have abilities that scale of AD but don't include an auto-attack are suited best for ArP runes.
EX: Graves's Buckshot (Q)
EX: Caitlyn's Piltover Peacemaker (Q)
Seals:
Greater Seal of Resilience
1.41 Armor
Having these in your rune setup will allow you to have phenomenal durability, great dueling capabilities while taking reduced damage from enemy minions while dueling, and increased chance of survival against ganks from their enemy jungle.
If your hero thrives off spamming abilities, my advice is to take "Meditation" in the utility tree. as opposed to putting 9 points into the defense tree.
Glyphs:
Greater Glyph of Warding
1.49 Magic Resistance
These are great in the early to mid-game phase where you are building your damage and can't afford to be distracted by building magic resistance items. Since AP solos are very strong in the early stages of the game, these will allow for better durability when forced into an early game skirmish. Also, all AD's are coupled with support heroes that scale off ability power. Granted their raw damage output is fairly weak, every little bit counts.
Starting Buys and Whys
In terms of starting buys, 3 viable options come to mind.
- Cloth Armor + 5x Health Pots
- Boots + 3x Health Pots
- Doran's Blade
Cloth Armor + 5x Pots: This buy gives you the greatest lane sustain and durability. The only problem is that it gives you no damage. It will make last hitting more difficult, and early ganks by your jungle will not be as potent due to your lack of damage. This should only be purchased if at the start of the game you recognize that your lane is weaker than your opponents in the early game stages. Missing experience and minion kills in the early levels of the game will cause you to be at a HUGE deficit for the remainder of the laning phase.
Boots + 3x Pots: This is somewhat of a balanced buy that allows you to be mobile and gives you some opportunity to recover from early game harass. It doesn't have any serious weak points as it's lack of damage is made up for in part by your increased mobility. Also it helps you dodge skill shots such as Ezreal's and Caitlyn's Q abilities. This is probably the most generic and safe buy for the conservative player.
Doran's Blade: This is the buy that everyone wishes they can get. It gives you everything you could ever want in the early phases of the game as an AD. However, this buy is only allowed if you have a support that can heal you. AKA: anyone but Janna. If you don't have a good sustaining lane partner, the smallest mistakes could force you out of lane. This is obviously something you don't want happening.
Check in tomorrow for the continuation of this blog! I wish I could've fit it all into this 1 blog post but AD bottom is a very lengthy topic of discussion and I just want to give you guys every bit of detail necessary to make win.
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