Talk:Miss Fortune/@comment-4636093-20170121004029/@comment-28977071-20170126072005

Yes, I was tempted to mention the possible shift of bot to top, but didn't due to three facts:


 * Firstly, as already mentioned, the shift of support along with ADC into another lane, although preserving the valued ADC-support synergy, would imho weaken the bot lane and making it stronger was the primary goal of the modification. But Double Slap proposed some valid counter-arguments against this point, so maybe nothing here to worry about. However, I'm hesitant about solo beefy top laner being truly better defender than duo ADC+Support (both versions could use a helping hand from the jungler anyway).


 * Secondly, the purpose of duo bot and the presence of support isn't only the synergy with ADC, but also the close proximity to the as an important early objective. I'm not sure if the  can compete with it. Even if killing it discourages solo style, the actual utilization of the buff requires solo (hence entirely not suited for ADC+Support duo).


 * Thirdly, my natural expectations about the equilibrium point is that the both teams would reflect each other, leading to similar team-comps. Hence I don't really expect bot to be something like beefy top vs ADC+Support, but rather either both duos moving to top or both duos on bot being aggressive damage-oriented compositions. In such case, if you've got strong dealers on bot, there seems to be redundant APC on mid, hence the I put ADC into the free slot. Yes, one could also put AD-based melees in there, but then the team might lose the late-game scaling (maybe except for ). And yes, mid sounds far more dangerous for ADC, I believe this was after all one of the reasons why they moved away from there after S1 (that and great synergies with supports). On the other hand, the ADC shift to mid'd imo be possible for caster-based marksman (, etc.) if the armor penetration still existed- they might've simply start as AD casters, later on incorporating AS and Crit into the build as the game moved towards the late-game.

.. or maybe the qurrent state of the game balance is just unsolvable and meta won't shift anywhere without patching the bot issues, hence little to predict :p