Hello summoners and welcome to this brand new guide! Today I'll covering the best 5 ADC Champions for climbing out of low elo.

This guide is meant to players in Iron, Bronze, Silver and even Gold or players that are approaching to the role for the first time. Everyone knows how hard is to play the marksmen role since you have to worry for yourself and also for your support at the same time, so let's jump directly into the guide. Be aware that the builds and runes I'm providing here are samples and that you are free to change them to suit your playstyle and to adjust them based on the enemy team composition.

Sivir

Sivir is one of the easiest ADCs in the game, her main strengths come from her quick wave clear and her strong engage, and she's really good for learning ADC fundamentals. Although her playstyle is kinda limited, you can still be very flexible with some parts of her build. For runes, you can go Fleet Footwork or Lethal Tempo, with Sorcery as secondary rune branch since the Inspiration runes got nerfed recently. Sivir has both a strong laning phase and late game carry potential. Having this much wave clear gives you permanent lane priority and constantly pushing your minions under the enemy turret teaches you to watch the minimap more often so you can roam to help your jungler or the other lanes. Increasing your map awareness and learning how to use your lane priority is one of the most important aspects to improving and becoming a better player. Sivir is the perfect champion to teach you those fundamentals.

During the early stages of the game try your best to quickly clear the wave and at the same time hitting the enemy champions to poke them. Once you get a lifesteal item you can always stay in lane with no risks since you will have your Spell Shield (E) that will restore your mana. She's not the best Adc when it comes to solo killing the enemy but it's not impossible either. She's really good at rotating using her On The Hunt (R) at the dragon pit or you can also use that to pick an enemy who has a bad positioning, engaging a fight and disengaging too. During teamfights you will deal lots of AOE damage with your Boomerang Blade (Q) and the boomerang bounces from your Ricochet (W).

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Caitlyn

Caitlyn is one of the best ADCs for someone who is new to the role. She has a good laning phase, easy lategame positioning due to her range, and tons of damage. She also scales very well into the lategame; her build is pretty linear but you have a little bit of freedom when choosing you Zeal items and in what order you build them. The Sheriff of Piltover is perfect for a newbie ADC because she has a strong laning phase, stronge siege potential, strong mid game, long range, a strong late game, decent wave clear with Piltover Peacemaker (Q), and you can use Ace in the Hole (R) for easy clean-up kills. The best two runes for her are Fleet Footwork and Lethal Tempo, which help to maximise your kiting potential.

During the laning phase you need to become the Lane Bully applying constant pressure on your counterparts, abusing your long range to punish them when they walk up to get CS. If you manage to get to your mid game spike with lots of CS, you will be pretty unstoppable and you can even solo kill the enemies very easily with your poke and then bursting them down using the combination of your Yordle Snap Trap (W), 90 Caliber Net (E) and Piltover Peacemaker.

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Ashe

There should be no surprise seeing Ashe on this list since she is one of the most basic champions in the game. Not only she is a common favourite among beginners, but she's also really powerful. Just like Caitlyn, she has a great laning phase and is somewhat a lane bully herself. You'll usually spam your Volley (W) whenever you get the chance to poke the enemy bot lane during the laning phase, since it is a hard ability to dodge, coving a wide area in a very brief period of time. In my experience with her, I have used 3 different builds and runes, so I would say she's pretty flexible. You can play Poke Ashe with Arcane Comet or Lethal Tempo Ashe with 3 different build paths, starting with Blade of the Ruined King, Essence Reaver or Infinity Edge respectively. You'll see the 4 different builds and runes down below and play the one that suits with your playstyle best.

The laning phase is pretty much the same as Caitlyn's, so you'll be the bully and you will poke and harass the enemy bot lane with your Volley and your frosted auto attacks. Outside of the laning phase, you need to be really patient and careful when you use your Enchanted Crystal Arrow (R), since it's a powerful teamfight initiator as you can either pick someone out of position or bait your team to suicide into the enemies, so be careful. Watch the map a lot before throwing the arrow and choose the right target.

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Poke Ashe

Lethal Tempo Ashe

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Poke Ashe

Lethal Tempo Ashe

Miss Fortune

Miss Fortune is one of the easiest yet one of the strongest ADCs in the game, especially in low elo. Her main strengths come from her poke while also applying a lot of pressure. At level 6 she can easily kill her counterpart with a devastating Bullet Time (R). With champions like Ashe or Caitlyn, your main focus in the early stages of the game will be the farm but as Miss Fortune, you want to be more aggressive and get some kills. She scales pretty well into the mid game and you have a pretty fine late game too if you know how to position properly during a teamfight. For runes, you will take Press the Attack with Sorcery as the secondary tree and you will build crit items such as Essence Reaver followed by Infinity Edge and a Zeal item.

A good Double Up (Q) can make you win the lane as you will take a good chunk of the enemy ADC's health bar. Always try to last hit the CS with your Q when the enemy carry walks up to last hit and punish them by using your Make it Rain (E) followed with Strut (W), which will increase your attack speed. In the late stages of the game, position yourself a bit from the teamfight and find the good occasion to throw your E immediately followed by your R and you will easily win the fight and carry the game effectively from the backline.

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Jinx

Jinx is most powerful of the 5 ADCs in this list and is also very easy to play, as she does well during all the stages of the game. Jinx is a hypercarry marksmen who excels at cleaning up fights with her combos and long range DPS. She's the most difficult champ on this list but she's also the most rewarding if you learn how to play her properly. She has a good laning phase and she can easily solo kill the enemy ADC, she works well with most of the Supports in the game, and she's perfect for the fights inside the Dragon or Baron pits where she can take advantage of her long range and solo carry a game. Her build and runes are very simple and you don't have to think about them too much, take Lethal Tempo and build full crit.

What you will do during the laning phase will basically be farming while poking the enemy with your W, Zap!, and punishing them when they walk up to farm by using your Switcheroo to swap to Fishbones (the rocket launcher) at the right moment and auto attacking them. You can also look to get some kills with some sick snipes with your ultimate Super Mega Death Rocket. Jinx is the hypercarry, so if you farm well, you will be unstoppable during the late game fights with your range and high damage given by the Crit items you will build and on top of that your passive Get Excited gives you a ton of attack speed and movement speed if you manage to get at least an assist, where it will help you chase down the remaining enemies and kill them while also resetting the passive.

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Conclusion

I hope this guide will help you achieve your goal to get out of Silver and get the Victorious skin at the end of the season while improving at the game and having fun. So, what are you waiting for? Queue up immediately and use the information you got in this article and use them to get some League Points!