User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Do ADC really need that much damage?/@comment-110.55.2.157-20130205181600

ADC as well as an APC needs tons of damage to be effective because their role is to burst down and kill priority target such as the opposing teams ADC/APC. Dealing sustained damage for an ADC could be good if and only if you are able to deal sustained damage for a period of time, meaning if you die somewhere at the beginning of a team fight, you'll be useless in that team fight. Even if you say that it's not your fault you died, you'll still died without being of any use to the team. In this sense, having high amounts of AD for an ADC means that in any given point in time, he could deal tons of damage without worrying for his own health since he doesn't need to constantly deal damage to be effective in a team fight. You would say that this is a poor excuse for ADC but it actually the truth since as a carry, the enemy team would probably focus you even your teams tank/bruiser is in critical health. So in this sense, being an ADC means dealing huge amount of damage in a team fight before being focused down or until team wins team fight.