How to improve as an ADC

(So... I just wrote this as a reply to a guy who was asking for assistance on how to get out of bronze, and instead of saying ''git gud'' I explained how to ''git gud'' and I thought I might as well share this with the community as well.)

I was an ADC main with the ranks of: Season 1: Gold, Season 2: Plat, Season 3: Diamond. (Stopped playing season 4, and started supporting s5) This is going to be pretty in depth, but I may forget a few things. I'm lazy lol. If you really want to improve, you should read and work on those things though. I'm not saying you're going to get to master/challenger instantly, of course not. But if you work on these really hard, you'll improve. MUCH FASTER THAN MOST PLAYERS WHO PLAY WITHOUT THINKING. You'll easily get out of bronze. I mean, most people even in plat/diam are bad at these.

Advice:

• Work on yourself:

• Don't be toxic.
• Mute toxic people.
• Aknowledge your own mistakes. (Whenever you die / lose an objective ask yourself what you could've done to play better. Even if you do make a good play, ask yourself if you could've done better.)
• Think. Just think before every action you take, every decision you make.
• Watch pro players, the LCS, challenger streamers. Watch how they play, react, position. ( I see you play adc alot, that role requires POSITIONNING, AWARENESS and Mechanics. ) (Also, never EVER risk dying for a minion or two, it's never worth it, people do that waaaay too often)

Positionning: Is pretty self-explanatory. Just stay out of range of the enemies, especially if they can jump on you or have any form of CC (Crowd Control, which means stuns, suppress, slow, etc.) People will focus the adc as he is the biggest damage dealer on the team, you could say he's a glass cannon. (Though in bronze, people will most likely simply focus the guy with the lowest health.) And also never be overextended alone without vision. In teamfights, try to stay next to the people on your team that have peel (Crowd Control) and tell them to peel for you (If someone jumps on you, they cc him, and you just kite your way out)

Awareness: Look at the minimap often, know where the enemies are, where they're going. If you see that the enemy jungler is near mid, you should also ping ''Alert/Careful'' on him, once or twice. It could save a death to your midlaner, which is good for your team. If you're certain that he's ganking, spam pings. In the laning phase, when you see that your catapult/cannon minion is low, be ready to poke the enemy adc when he's trying to get it, because he will. Adcs always go for that minion, because it's worth alot of gold (Of course, don't poke him if it gets you out of position or if you'll take too much minion aggro.) Be aware of enemy cooldowns. (Ok, maybe not timing every single cooldowns, but the big ones, like : Annie no ult, or something) If someone flashes, take a quick look at the timer (Let's say it's 20:18, and Vayne flashes, check the time, then add 5 minutes, her flash will not be up until 25:18 and ) (UNLESS SHE HAS THE MASTERIES THAT REDUCES THE SUMMONER'S SPELL COOLDOWNS, you can see that by looking at the scoreboard, and hovering your mouse over her flash, it'll either say 300 seconds, 270 or 255, which is 5 mins, 4mins30seconds or 4mins15seconds.) (And heal is 4 minutes, btw, also check for the masteries, at the beginning of the game) Writing the timer on their flash in the chat will be really helpful. Junglers tend to gank more if they know their adc has no flash. If you can't remember the timer, just say ''vayne no f'' or some shit like that.

Mechanics: How well you play your champion, know it's limits, combos, range and also your game mechanics, like kiting, csing, etc. For the champion's mechanics itself, you work on these by simply playing the champion you like, alot, really often. Watch the LCS, look how pros play them, if they got anything special, (Ex: With Zed, you can Q-Flash, instead of Flash-Q, the Q will still travel with you as you flash if you do it instantly, and it'll be much faster and harder to dodge, or with lee sin, you can insec (Ward jump behind an enemy and kick him out of position, to your teammates)) Just play the same 2-3 champs as much as you can.
As for kiting, it's just practice, you can always play games like OSU! to practice your speed/accuracy (Pretty fun actually) You can also bind attack move to left click, which makes it much easier for unskilled adcs. (I don't know if the tutorial on how to bind it is outdated or anything, but here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDMmn32HSKw) Still takes practice, but a bit less. The video explains what it is. Csing (CS=Creep Score=Minions slain) You can work on csing by going in a custom game alone, with no bots, and just work on last hitting the minions, do that until you're able to have at least 95-100 by 10 mins. (GOD I find that boring, but it's really rewarding, as most adcs below platinum reach 100 minions at the 15 mins mark, which means you'll have a big gold lead if you're better than them at csing)

Other advice: Learn when to push the lane / Freeze the lane. If you're about to destroy their tower, try to let it kill your minion wave first (if it doesn't put you in danger and have vision) that way you can deny the enemy a bunch of gold and exp. Buy pink wards, vision=win. ALWAYS THINK. Never take useless risks.

That's pretty much all I can think of for now, but you probably didn't even read, so whatever.