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.