Which Summoner Skills to Use On AD Carries?

The summoner skills that AD carries run has varied over the years, with Flash being the only constant. On the other hand, we've seen a wide variety of secondary summoner skills including but not limited to: Ghost, Exhaust, Ignite, Cleanse, and the latest: Barrier.

Below, I'll go over some of the most popular summoners as of March of Season 3.

Barrier: Currently by far the most popular and likely the best summoner to run on your AD carries at the moment, this spell allows you to survive burst damage from otherwise unwinnable fights against assassins.

In certain situations you may want to run Cleanse, but the fact of the matter is, Cleanse is much more of a "use it at the right time" type of spell, whereas Barrier can be used while you're taking damage to it's full effect regardless of timing (unless you're already dead).

Ignite: Currently the second most popular AD carry skill, it's great against healing supports and also with kill lanes since well...you're trying to use it to kill champions. The passive damage when it's on CD can give you just enough to win a fight as well.

Cleanse: A very reaction time/skill based summoner, it's popular when you're trying to be "good", but it's a little hit or miss with the whole 65% reduction thing. Ideally the entire enemy team would use their CCs on you and miss, but that's not only unlikely, but you'd also die from the spell damage.

I'm not really a fan of Cleanse, but that might be because I never use it at the most effective time...

Exhaust: This was popular back in the day, but since most supports get it now, people generally don't run this on the ADC.

Heal: Used to be popular, but Barrier's really better...some supports may run Heal + Exhaust.

Ghost: Once in a while some pro ADC plays Caitlyn, Varus, or Ashe with Ghost and makes some ridiculous plays like Aphromoo on this video. It puts you at a disadvantage early game 2v2 though.

Which summoners do you prefer? Comment below!