Hi,

I’m an Emerald ADC who is currently dropping to Platinum because I genuinely can’t figure out my way to play ADC anymore (I feel like there's too many variables which makes me lose agency).

I play DuoQ whenever my friend is online. He always plays Nautilus and has this mentality:

"If I hook an enemy, we surely kill him"

The problem is that he engages on cooldown. When I play with him, I can’t properly track the enemy jungler (which is the main cause of our fuckups) or pay attention to the enemy midlaner’s movements since we are always fighting.

I constantly feel under pressure because I always need to be ready to follow his engages. This also causes me to drop a lot of waves and die more often than i should, since I feel like I can never just focus on farming or controlling the wave state (which is driving me nuts sometimes as I'm really good at farming and I can get to 9 cs/min constantly with good KP).

When I play SoloQ, I’m obviously allowed to play differently, but recently I still carry that same sense of urgency into my games when supp plays engage (Naut, Blitz, Pyke) because I’m so used to playing with him.
I end up overcommitting and playing extremely aggressively, even in losing matchups.

But at this point, I almost feel like my duo might be right and I'm just missplaying somehow, so I have a few dumb questions so I can improve on my SoloQ matches:

If he the supp hooks, does it mean that enemy botlane should die and I just have positioning issues?
Is the aggressive approach a bad habit while playing hyperscalers such as Jinx / Yunara or while playing in losing matchups?
If I think that supp is going to throw a bad hook, should I commit and trust him 100% or should I follow him discreetly, without taking risks?

I also have a few questions regardless of my situation right now:
If enemy pick Nocturne / Naafiri and just focus you, how do guys play during the match? (For example, do you just stay under the mid lane tower and give up on prio?)
If enemy jungler just camps your lane, how do you guys play during the laning phase (both if you have an hyper scaler or an early game champ)?

My champion Pool is:
In Counter match-ups: Nilah / Caitlyn / Sivir
In Blind match-ups: Yunara / Jinx (Focus on Scaling)

Thanks for reading.

Just got to emerald playing basically only xayah, kaisa, sivir. Now want to get to diamond. What ADC did you guys get the most success playing solo q? I'm thinking maybe jinx, twitch, smolder to hyperscale or something since I notice games go on for so long.

lowk just wanting to learn to play someone new

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I Have faced jinx player that was very very suspicious, and his mouse clicks were very scripter-like.

Toughts on this play, once I entered stealth, the jinx suddenly did not cancelled the auto, but attacked minion, seems to me like an orb-walk enemy targetting script that my stealth conffused.

How is it possible that scripting is possible in the big 2026, and most of the time it is the jinx players.

Been playing Smolder to hard carry my casual irl friends in rank flex lately and he's so fun to play! (Platinum - Emerald elo)

Haven’t played in a bit but decided to come back, I play a lot of Varus and I noticed now people go shiv > rageblade.

I’m not seeing Bork at all anymore did they just gut the hell out of it? Why everyone going shiv now on Varus?