Talk:Quinn/@comment-1920550-20141226043139/@comment-3308937-20141226192312

You guys probably outplayed them as I'd give the lane advantage to Draven there. His E is just so incredibly strong against Quinn since she's so reliant on vault in small trades but it's so easily telegraphed that Draven has an easy time cancelling it with his own E.

Regardless, Quinn isn't usually played adc because she's unreliable in a role that's big selling point is it's reliable damage. She has a lot of potential damage and burst but it's gated behind harrier procs or tied to her ult which makes her a Yi without the slow immunity, the big defensive steroid or the untargetability that he has. Compare to this to, say, Lucian who has all of his damage on-demand at range and doesn't have to risk going into melee range to to get his dash off. Lucian may have less potential damage than Quinn but everything he does is more reliable.

On top of that she still has some pretty major bugs that also affect her reliability like E sometimes not providing passive marks, passive marks sometimes not detonating on first auto and E sometimes jumping you in completely random directions.

There's also the fact that she plays a lot differently than most adcs with the whole jumping into enemies, playing around passive procs and of course the melee ult that can drive people off... as she's not what people think of when they think of a traditional adc.

In the end, Quinn's definitely a viable champ and quite a few people make her work between top and bot lane but she'll probably never be a mainstream/popular carry for all of her unreliability and quirkiness.