I main adc and have found myself in a position where I am incapable of climbing in silver 5. I believe it is due to a lack of focus on one champion and learning that champion really well. I find myself consistently on losing streaks and I was just wondering if it is better to spam 1 champion 100+ games? or do I pick 2 and rotate.
Thanks for your advice!
Spam that champ
Spam the same over powered champ until high gold.
Queue support and play 300 matches. Once you ca play a champ as support, you can play it anywhere.
To master a champion? Just spend a lot of time on it.
Honestly though, if you're stuck in Silver, I think it's more likely that the fundamental skills you're supposed to be developing at this skill level are lackluster. I can that you're mostly a bot lane main, and that comes with a lot of responsibilities. Do you assist your team in taking towers? You're the one best suited for that sort of job, you better be on that. Are you helping your Jungler control Dragon? The main reason why the Bot Lane duo is Bot instead of top is because Dragon exists, you're wasting a lot of strategic value if you guys don't control it well. Are you building based on the situation to help shred Tanks for the rest of your team? As the ADC, it's your job in a teamfight (most of the time, depends on the ADC sometimes) to be killing the Tank. Or, as a Support, are you properly defending your ADC from the enemy team's greatest threats towards your Marksman?
I figure the proper progression is spam bots until you can reliably beat them (this should be 0-1 games for most) so you can learn the champs moves, then spam normals until you can reliably stomp people there, and then spam ranked until you reach your desired skill level.
Theres a huge skill gap between stomping bots and stomping normals, and another huge skill gap between normals and ranked though, so that's why you should be confident in your ability to totally stomp the thing preceding it before bringing it to the next level.
Spam one or two champions so that you master the mechanics on the champion. When your mechanics are good you can focus more on your macro-play, which is the biggest factor to winning games currently. I climbed out of silver and into plat doing this, my champions were Elise and Nidalee.
bots to master mechanics so you feel fluid with the champion and its easy to get kills and do your job.
then go to normals to learn champion matchups, who are you good against, what gets you killed.
then take the champion into ranked. so we dont end up with "first time malphite/rengar"
If you main ADC, the main skill you need to have is the ability to not miss CS. ADCs need the gold to get the items they need to affect the game.
Create a custom game and just practice CSing. Once you have that down, you do the same thing against bots. Once you master that, you start playing normals. When you get to the point where you consistently only miss one or none per wave, you have that mastered. Then you just learn the matchups. When your main can still win when going against counters, you have truly mastered your champ. Now you just need to learn a second and third ADC in case your main is banned or picked by the other team. Once you have done that, you are ready to dominate Ranked.
I believe it is due to a lack of focus on one champion and learning that champion really well.
On the contrary, a lot of high elo players I've seen say this is a bad idea when you're low elo. Focus on the actual mechanics of the game, not a singular champion.
I think it depends a little bit on what kind of player you are.
I have an easier time playing ranked when I have a couple of reliable fall back champions, but cycle through a secondary pool of champions who I will play for an extended period and then replace with a new champion to learn. It often seems to me that players who only devote their time to learning one champion become inflexible in the way they play, having a poorer understanding of how to adapt their gameplay to different matchups and a more shallow understanding of champion strengths and weaknesses in general. They experience greater frustrations if the meta shifts don't cater to their style.
It's a tradeoff between developing mechanical finesse and broader strategic skills. I have both limited time to play this game on a weekly basis and innately lower amounts of mechanical dexterity and reaction time than others, so I feel I have greater gains with my main champions simply by keeping ahead of the knowledge curve and being prepared to handle more diverse situations.
