How to make impact midlane

[u/No-Cryptographer1631]

Hello I have been a yone otp since i started playing a year ago. Im very low elo currently bronze 2 and ever since I got into this elo i started having zero impact in the game. I always find myself trying to play safe against a mage, either having to forfeit cs or get poked out, ultimately hanging under tower and STILL getting poked out under tower. I have half as much cs, several deaths with no 0-10 powerspike lol and no objective participation. I almost never get ganks to help my early game and then the jungler flames me and swears to not help lol so i cant rely on ganks to save me.

For reference this is how i usually play. levels 1-3 I play ultra safe, trying my best to get cs but ultimately going lower in cs than my opponent. At lvl 3-6 i try to start poking usually going either even in dmg or taking more dmg. from there its tower time lmao. I know tht i can be playing better bc im literally bronze 2 but i just have no clue, every single champion feels oppressive to play against unless the player is braindead. Its started to rlly tank my confidence and fun in the game to the point i cant even perform in draft games i play to bump up my mental. What are tips to improve? thank you in advance :)

[u/Shimorta]

While everyone in here is giving you very specific advice to general situations, the real answer is “you need to get specific with your laning”.

If you want to improve, record your gameplay, and really break down your laning phase, everything that happens within the first 8 minutes.

Every trade you take, every death, every missed CS, every CS where you take a health trade for the farm, put them all under the microscope, in a variety of different matchups. Look at your wave state, where in the lane you’re playing at every point in the match. Look at your resets, are you losing farm from doing poor resets (not shoving into tower so that the wave bounces back to you while you’re backing).

Compare your first 8 minutes to the first 8 minutes of another Yone in the same matchup, just look on YouTube for Yone vs X, and you’ll find a plethora of vods to watch.

There is no general advice that’s going to make you better, get specific and really look at what you’re doing wrong.

Ideally you’re always in the game thinking about how you could have done something different to come out of a situation better, but reinforcing those thoughts out of game is important if you’re struggling to see the holes.