Looking for help on characters to play? Look no further than this guide to the best ADC champions currently in League of Legends
ADC champions in League of Legends are meant to be the team’s primary source of sustained damage by design. The team peels and creates space for ADCs in the early game to farm items and come online to close off the match. However, ADCs were in a rough spot as bruisers and assassins hunted and obliterated them throughout the game, making it brutally punishing and unrewarding to play the role.
After the steady stream of patches and buffs, ADCs have climbed to the top of the food chain—so much so, that matches are often decided by which team can enable their carry more. It’s currently the dominant era of the bot lane, and many angry ADC mains are out for revenge. Here’s a short list of the best ADC champions in League of Legends that you can use to truly carry the game.
Jhin
The many great changes to ADCs and the buff to on-hit items like Guinsoo’s Rageblade make rapid right-clickers more powerful. While Jhin doesn’t take advantage of the game breaking items, he’s equipped to kite and delete other AD carries, especially ones with short range. Jhin’s kit allows him to trade and burst with other ADCs, while keeping them at bay with his speed and control.
Jhin is particularly slippery because his core items, Stormrazor and Galeforce, synergize well with his bursty playstyle, while simultaneously adding to his ridiculous movement speed. Jhin is safe and reliable, making him one of the best ADC champions in League of Legends.
Seraphine
APCs (Ability-Power Carry) are also taking space within the bot lane. Mages like Ziggs, Veigar, and Seraphine scale well into the late game, so funneling gold to them by becoming the team’s carry makes more sense. Seraphine is a backlane menace once she gets going, assaulting enemies with empowered nukes, crowd control, while simultaneously empowering her allies. What makes Seraphine one of the best ADC champions in League of Legends is that she can significantly buff up her allies, creating more chaos in the frontline.
Additionally, her ultimate can consistently set-up a one-shot combo against fragile targets. Seraphine players can comfortably fit into the mid lane, APC, or support, and look good while doing so.
Jinx
Jinx simple but effective kit has always made her one of the best ADC champions in League of Legends. Jinx is largely unaffected by the crit item changes that gutted other ADCs. Her new build path opts for on-hit items like Kraken Slayer and Runaan’s Hurricane to proc using her minigun’s superior attack speed. Any ADC who can take advantage of the overturned items while keeping themselves at a safe distance are the kings and queens of this meta, and Jinx’s ability to engage and disengage with her passive and transforming weapon makes her a contested pick.
Karthus
Where other carries need to play it safe, Karthus’ sole game plan is to run in, dish out as much damage as possible, die, and then pop his ultimate. His all-or-nothing mentality is difficult to deal with during a teamfight, as a glass cannon with no sense of self-preservation means that his teammates can focus on the fight rather than peeling for him. While Karthus is certainly a niche pick with his low pick rate and absurdly high win rate, anyone can take advantage of this dominant champion with only a little time practicing his skillshot. Karthus is also a flexible pick because he can go mid, jungle, or as an APC in the bot lane.
Kog’Maw
Kog’Maw is the best ADC champion in League of Legends as the hybrid champion reaps multiple benefits from the broken items in the game. The new and improved Guinsoo’s Rageblade grants attack damage, ability power, attack speed, and on-hit effects that pair heavenly with Kog’Maw’s Bio-Arcane Barrage. Compared to other ADCs, he only needs that item to come online, and he can look to take objectives and pressure the enemy team.
Kog’Maw is the living embodiment of a glass cannon, as he shreds through the cast if his team can keep him protected. The buffed and reworked on-hit items massively benefitted the spitting void-spawn, and it shows in his high pick, ban, and win rate. All these positive changes make Kog’Maw feel like a broken champion.
