The importance of farming. Very Important!

Farming is killing minions and monster camps which grant gold on death (only the last hitting player gets the gold) and thus, allows you to buy items faster than passive gold.

Last hitting minions is an essential skill in league. If the minion or monster is killed by someone/something other than you then, you will not get any gold from it. Last hitting is what ensures that you earn that gold and mastering this skill can benefit you greatly in both the early and mid to late-game.

Cs (creep score) is the number of minions/monsters you've killed throughout the game. The higher your cs, the more gold you get, the more items you have.

These are things almost everyone already knows but most players (which happen to be low elo) don't know how important farming actually is and how that low cs is one of the main reasons they're not doing very well in their games.

Here are some of the importances of farming:

1. Out-farming your enemy laner essentially means you are winning your lane. (considering you're not feeding)
2. The gold you get from good or even high cs allows you to buy more items. If you have more items than your opponent, it means that he/she can never fight you and win.
3. High cs + low kill count = low cs + high kill count
4. Farming a lot early helps you get the items necessary for taking objectives which will definitely turn the game into your favor.
5. If you are falling behind, try to farm safely. This will help you get back into the game.
6. Farming is the life of the adc. High cs as an adc will help you carry the game.
7. Farming makes you control the minion wave whether you want to freeze or push the lane. Don't just focus on attacking champs.

I'm writing this post because in low elo, people just outright ignore farming. They only focus on getting kills which is NOT the only way you get gold. I don't even think players in low elo kill for gold or items, they think that gold just happens and they buy items with whatever gold they have. I'm not saying that this is the only bad thing in low elo but one thing everyone should know is that farming is a BIG part of league of legends. People there can last hit some minions, not perfect but they last hit some. It's ok, maybe they're still learning how to last hit minions so, at least they're trying. The real problem is mid and late-game when people just forget minions even exist! Sometimes it's 40min in and some people aren't even near full build.

I myself am a silver adc main. My farm was generally bad and let's not talk about my positioning then. I actually thought I was good xD. But once I've seen pro-players talk about cs and farming (special thanks to phylol) I decided to try and focus more on my gameplay and especially my farming. The results were INSANE. I almost always have full build before everyone else, I've started taking a lot more objectives, I get more kills/die less, ganking me is harder and I get S ranks nearly half of my games.

At this time of victory I realized something; in ALL my games, I have nearly 80-100 cs more than the enemy adc which is a huge gold difference.

I hope a lot of people read this and make use of it. Please, feel free to share your opinions and advices too :)

Edit: A lot of people misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not saying that league is about cs, I'm saying that I've seen people with GODLY mechanics that can do great plays and outplays and things like that, but end up with shit farm and I mean low af farm that they have less items which causes them to lack the sufficient damage to get a kill. This post is mainly for low elo players that ignore farming.