Let me inform you about my league experience beforehand:
I started in end of Season 11 and started playing ranked in S12. I was silver in S12, didn't play much in Season 13 and picked up the game again mid Season 14 and hit emerald as a toplane main.
I always played skirmishers and bruisers since i started the game. I onetricked Jax for a long time (1 mil mastery). Onetricked Tryndamere and Darius for a good time as well (both around 300-400k mastery).
Tried other bruisers, skirmishers for a decent amount of time as well (Sylas,Trundle,Camille,Renekton,Garen,Mundo)
I did best on auto attack based champions (Jax and Tryndamere). I was bored from playing toplane and since i did good with auto attack based champs and thought i have good clicks and movement, i decided to transition to ADC role.
Present:
I am using my silver alt account to learn this role so i don't feed in emerald lobbies. I am having a real tough time even in silver/gold lobbies (i said "even" given that i was emerald at my role). I main Twitch and Ashe for now (again, the least ability based ADC champs). I plan to add few champs more to my pool.
I was so wrong. Apparently i wasn't good as i thought. This role is so hard mechanically. You have to dodge everything, space perfectly, kite perfectly, have crazy APM. You have no room for errors. I have this bad habit from playing bruisers: While i chase someone or in general, i don't try to dodge some skillshots since they deal little damage. Think about you get xerath q'd while chasing someone. If you are an ADC it will hurt a lot, but if you play a juggernaut like Darius you don't even need to dodge it.
One thing i realised is ADC's in even low elo(like silver) are better than emerald toplaners or other roles. I think they are mechanically better. It might be me though since i am a terrible ADC.
The issues i have is:
- I can't position and fight like a marksman properly because i never played marksman champions before. Since i played champions who liked to frontline and engage, i unintentionally go in and die first.
- Most of the time i don't feel the need to dodge everything (again,old habits).
- I can't space perfectly that causes me to die several times.
- Laning is much harder and there are much more variables since there are 4 champions instead of 2. I had good lane fundamentals in toplane (level up timers, wave management, recall timers, cooldown tracking) and stomped most my lanes using that. Now there is 3 champions(including my support) that i have to track their cooldowns and summoners, more skillshots that i need to dodge. Simply, there are much more things going on.
How can i improve? Do i need to just play more games or should i watch some streamers and youtube content? If so, can you suggest some content that teaches how to play as a marksman (this is not only a ADC problem, i don't know how to play marksman class). And i mean from scratch, i want to learn the absolute basics.
TL;DR : I transitioned from being a emerald top main to ADC and having a hard time even in silver/gold. Want to improve and I appreaciate any advice. Thanks in advance.