Thread:Zilverdael/@comment-25456374-20140923215638/@comment-6281696-20140924074931

ADC's are indeed a frustrating role to play since more often than not they completly lack the ability to keep themselfs alive. And especially now with the rise on popularity for characters such as zed this just becomes worse. Personally I avoid the role like the plaque simply because all those instant deaths just aren't much fun. As for a way around it. I don't think you currently have much options, the meta simply doesn't allow it. Things like blue-ezrael back in the day allowed for some defenses in your core which meant you could at least take some punishment. But in between those builds falling out of favor & the saturation of high damage, high penetration builds pretty much everything you can get out of a decent ADC build, defense wise, is basicly pointless. In priniciple building defense isn't bad, after all doubling your armor sounds brilliant, but doubling your defense is fairly pointless if the opposing zed already kills you three times over with his combo. Which is sadly the case in the current meta. And because of this bruiser builds on ADC's are basicly not used since it just ends up being too little most of the time.

Now this does also depend on which level you play at, and even on which champion a vayne for example can get away with it much more easily than a caitlyn. The lower the level you play at the more likely you are to be able to 1v5 the opposing team due to bad focus and the like. And as long as it works for you you should just continue what you're doing. But most likely once you get past high silver, or well their equivalents in unranked, it will start to drop off thanks to your opponents no longer being fooled as easily. And even then, if it works it ain't stupid so stick with it :P.

On the whole I don't think there's much you can do, other than try to avoid the role, though you will end up having to do it every once in a while anyway. But the current meta and itemisation just doesn't allow for much flexibility in that respect, which is a shame. If you're lucky you might stumble across a good build, but it's probably quite unlikely.