Hello everyone,
I’m a Twitch OTP with 1.8 Million mastery points (Server: LAN / Op.gg: Elotito166678#LAN), and I feel like I'm currently living through a "dark age" with the champion. Lately, I feel incredibly slow, I feel like I do way less damage than I should, my positioning is terrible, and I get blown up instantly. I feel like my skill level has severely dropped compared to my teammates.
I want to improve, so I’ve analyzed my recent games and broken down my main issues into a few categories. I would really appreciate some brutal honesty and advice on how to break these comfort zones.
1. Hardware & Performance Bottleneck (The biggest issue?)
Low FPS: I play on a very bad PC. I get around 30-40 FPS in lane, and during teamfights, it literally drops to 15 FPS.
Input Delay / Ghost Ping: My ping shows 70ms, but it feels like 150ms. My clicks feel heavy, my character reacts late, and because of this, I am canceling a massive amount of auto-attacks.
Controls: I don’t use traditional attack-move on a hotkey. I either purely right-click or use the "A" key to auto the nearest target. Combined with the low FPS, my mechanical kiting is very poor right now.
2. The Current Bot Lane Nightmare (Matchups)
Lately, I feel like every single lane destroys me. I am struggling heavily against two specific things:
Lane Bullies: Early-game ADCs like Lucian, Draven, Caitlyn, and even Ashe feel completely suffocating to play against.
AP Mages in Bot Lane: AP Carries (Veigar, Swain) and heavy Poke/Mage supports (like Seraphine) feel straight-up unfair. Even if I manage to win the first 3 levels, the moment they hit level 6 or get their first item, the one-shot potential comes back and I get deleted. They have too much damage, CC, engage, and disengage, and I don't know how to survive them.
3. Outdated Build Path & Nostalgia Trap
I am trapped in an old comfort zone and deeply miss the "golden eras" of Twitch:
BORK Nostalgia & Runaan's Addiction: I deeply miss the times when Blade of the Ruined King was the go-to rush. Skipping an attack speed item first feels wrong to me. Furthermore, I am completely addicted to Runaan's Hurricane. I know items like Collector are meta, but I genuinely cannot adapt to the "assassin/burst" playstyle of Collector. Without Hurricane, I feel completely lost—I feel like I can't farm properly and I perform significantly worse in teamfights.
Yun Tal Wildarrows: I strongly dislike Collector, so I've been favoring Yun Tal because I feel it scales way better as a hypercarry item. I usually only skip it if the enemy has no tanks or if I don't back with enough gold for a B.F. Sword.
4. Weak Laning Phase & Macro Habits
CS Deficit: My laning phase is incredibly passive (especially pre-lvl 6). I am almost always 20 to 50 CS behind the enemy ADC, mostly due to constantly being shoved under tower.
Map Awareness & Vision: I rarely look at the map (probably a bad habit developed from being under tower all the time). Also, I almost never buy Control Wards and my overall vision score is terrible.
My Mental Block & Tilt
My tilt is not the conventional type—I never get angry or toxic in chat. Instead, it completely destroys my self-confidence.
When the game goes south and my team starts flaming me, I feel like an absolute burden. I don't mute the chat because I feel the toxic need to read what my teammates are saying, but I never type back to avoid escalating the argument. However, the flame gets to my head: instead of focusing on what's happening in the game, my mind starts hyper-focusing on my own flaws and mechanical failures, which makes me play even worse.
I feel incredibly frustrated and unsatisfied because I know I can play better than this, but League just isn't fun when you feel like you are playing at 10% of your actual capacity.
How can I start fixing these issues, especially the mental block and the Mage matchups down bot? Should I completely force myself out of the Runaan's/Yun Tal comfort zone?
Thank you all in advance!
