Every year on the League of Legends World Championship, the AD carry place at all times involves the forefront of the sport’s meta. It looks like at every season’s World Championship, there’s a minimum of one ADC who emerges right into a standout function for his or her group. From JackeyLove in 2018 to Huanfeng in 2020 and so many numerous others all through League historical past, AD carries have at all times made the World Championship their stomping floor.
This season, one other slew of ADCs march into Worlds—a few of them have been right here earlier than, whereas others are making their respective debuts. Regardless, it is best to anticipate the sport’s most electrical place (and its most outstanding abilities) to take cost on the season’s most prestigious match.
Throughout your entire Summer time Cut up, AD carries have been dominant on the Rift, with champions like Zeri, Kalista, and Lucian being the most well-liked picks on the place. Whereas developments within the Worlds meta have but to emerge, followers ought to anticipate the place to function the crux of groups’ relative success since ADCs can usually make or break a group’s Worlds run.
Listed here are our rankings of the 5 finest AD carries at this yr’s World Championship.
FNC Upset – Honorable point out
After lacking out on final yr’s World Championship, Upset comes into this yr’s match because the strongest mechanical participant at his place from the West. Whereas different Western abilities like Comp, Danny, and Berserker could also be worthy of a point out, Upset’s 2022 numbers are far too good to go away off the listing. His 5.7 KDA is the third-highest amongst all gamers within the LEC and the very best amongst all ADCs. His year-wide 727 DPM additionally ranks first throughout your entire European circuit, in response to League stats web site Games of Legends.
T1 Gumayusi – Honorable point out
When T1 was at its strongest again within the spring, Gumayusi was the group’s focus. Within the first half of the yr, Gumayusi expressed simply how excessive his ceiling as a participant might be, and his excessive degree of play introduced T1 only one recreation away from a global title at MSI. The most important knock on Gumayusi has been his comparatively shallow champion pool. Though he’s tailored to the Zeri meta over the summer time, he hasn’t fairly been the identical since Aphelios and Jinx fell out of favor. At Worlds, although, enjoying to consolation isn’t out of the odd. Count on Gumayusi to revert to what he feels finest at to discover a win simply as he did now and again all through the Summer time Cut up.
5) RNG GALA
RNG have received two worldwide championships within the final two seasons, and on the middle of each of these MSI title runs was GALA. Finally yr’s World Championship, GALA was relegated to Miss Fortune responsibility for RNG in seven of the group’s 12 video games. He’ll seemingly have extra alternatives to specific his mechanics at this yr’s match—a plus for RNG. GALA has posted a KDA of 4.9 at worldwide occasions courting again to 2021 and completed as the general kill leaders at each MSI 2021 and MSI 2022, in response to League stats web site Oracle’s Elixir. If RNG go deep into Worlds this yr, GALA will seemingly be the explanation why.
4) TES JackeyLove
You may by no means depend JackeyLove out on the World Championship. Though he’s taken a backseat to different Chinese language AD carries this season, JackeyLove remains to be the pinpoint-accurate marksman he’s at all times been. The one query that’s on the desk for JackeyLove is whether or not he’s going to lean towards the extra subdued, supportive fashion of play that he did in 2020 or the fiery and relentless fashion he embraced throughout his first Worlds in 2018. Regardless, he’s adequate to compete for the Summoner’s Cup with both strategy
3) JDG Hope
In his first full yr as a starter for JD Gaming, Hope led the group to a Summer time Cut up championship and the area’s first seed at Worlds. Hope is every thing you’d need out of a “textbook” AD carry. With robust mechanics and an ideal grasp on the meta, he’s probably the most constant issue on a JDG group that comes into the match as its odds-on favourite. In a yr the place it looks like each area has a younger AD carry heading to Worlds (Danny, Flakked, and Gumayusi, amongst others), Hope is well probably the most intriguing to look at—largely as a result of he’s the one one amongst his Jap contemporaries making their Worlds debut and has to show whether or not his home prowess can translate to the worldwide stage.
2) Gen.G Ruler
Ruler is having a profession yr, and as Worlds approaches, he’s hitting his stride simply in time. This summer time, Gen.G had a higher winning percentage in particular person video games than another group in LCK historical past. Gen.G have received 28 of their final 31 particular person video games, with Ruler being a serious motive as to why. Within the LCK grand ultimate in opposition to T1 alone, Ruler posted an eye-watering scoreline of 26/2/5. Ruler has performed 12 completely different champions this summer time and holds a optimistic successful share on all of them, with undefeated data on eight of them, in response to Games of Legends.
1) EDG Viper
Viper has been among the many finest ADCs on the planet since he broke out in 2019. And after successful a World Championship final season, he comes into this yr’s match as the most effective participant at his place as soon as once more. Viper thrived even final season when the meta centered primarily on mid-jungle mixtures. If AD carries are even barely extra favorable at this yr’s occasion, Viper might be an incomparable drive. And that’s with out mentioning how clutch Viper is. In recreation fives at Worlds final yr, Viper posted a mixed scoreline of 19/3/25 over three separate do-or-die knockout contests.
