How I switched to ADC from Support and outclimbed my peak by 400 LP in only a few months of picking up the role.
Hallo! As the title suggests, I wanted to share my story of how I, a support main of three years who's mained the role for the majority of my time with League, came back from a two year hiatus and decided to change things up. The decision that, alongside other things, helped me grow from a hardstuck silver Support into a plat ADC, still on climbing.
ADC, truth be told, wasn't my first choice. Initially I tried giving Jungle a proper shot, but ended up having issues similar to that of when playing Support. Not gonna lie, I landed on an ADC kind of spontaneously. Maybe, I thought, I'd have fun with the role. Auto-attacking was quite neat and I really enjoyed playing around my team and team-fighting in general. Plus, ADC seemed like a very good role to play by the book, with heavy emphasis on following a plan and little getting in the way.
So I picked up the role. I grinded it quite a bit. Tried out quite a few champions to figure out whether I mesh with them or not. Throughout it all I realized that I'm capable of making a good amount of champs work, despite being heavily macro-oriented, but I never really stuck with most of them. I've had good success with Miss Fortune, having some crazy winrate numbers as she was the ADC I practiced on my second account (Though I was sprinkling other ADCs quite often, without much success).
Then I switched to my main and picked up Varus, not forgetting to try other champs every now and then. I managed to make him work as well, though despite having a healthy positive winrate with the guy, I felt like I was limiting myself quite a bit. After all, Varus is extremely weak in soloq and I also have a very hard time with skillshot-dependent champions.
Thus, the search continued, though not for long, because I randomly decided to try out Yunara (Before she was an S-tier pick). And let me tell you: I fell in love. Completely and utterly. This champion made me realize just how much more enjoyable League can be if you find something that simply clicks. Finally getting a good idea for what kind of ADC I enjoy, after a bit of trial an error I ended up choosing Xayah as my second pick, thus concluding my soloq pool.
Throughout this journey I've learnt just how important it is to stick to a process and play with intention if you want to climb. Being closely in touch with your mental state, taking accountability for your mistakes—I genuinely have never had as much fun with League when I was playing other roles, even Support. Though of course I've gone through a lot of introspection while I was on the hiatus. I also went through a decent amount of duoqueueing to figure out that it wasn't really my kind of thing. I'd always perform worse alongside someone else, not to mention that I'd learn notably less from these games as well.
So here I am, with a strong mental and a clear goal in mind. I cannot really imagine myself picking any other role at this point. ADC is simply the most fun there is. And Yunara, my beloved. Cheers, guys! Stay strong and good luck on your journey!
P.S. I know I may have been a little vague in this post, so if you do happen to have any questions, I'll stay active in the comments!