u/LoudTomatoes

My ranked climb has slowed down dramatically, so I'm trying to expand my champion pool and tighten my fundamentals. But I feel like i don't learn anything in norms. I have an almost 70% winrate in norms, my MMR is clearly extremely low, I can run down my lanes and win almost every time, which I feel isn't building good habits or helping me improve in any meaningful way. I don't feel confident enough to take them into ranked, and when I do, I clearly perform much worse, and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to grow as a player from here.

Do I just run down ranked, accept that I'm going to demote and piss off all my teams in the meantime, but learn much faster? Do I just keep running down norms and hope my MMR eventually catches up? It doesn't feel good to get smashed and flamed over and over again in ranked, but it also gets tedious knowing that all my normal games are going to go the same way and all I need to do is walk into them and start a fight, learning nothing along the way.

Gold support main, btw, with my norms being filled with unranked, bronze and silver.

So mages like Xerath, Brand and Mel have been a serious problem for me. Obviously Sona generally scales harder than them so if you can scrape through the lane you can generally win. But I'm commonly being burst or poked down relentlessly in lane and losing tower or feeding before I have a chance to scale.

Roaming doesn't help because I feel like they oppress my adc just as hard and then they fall behind. So I'm looking for tips to finish laning phase in a more nuetral position, because as it stands right now, if the enemy support is a mage, I more often than not lose the game.

For context I have a 20% winrate against Mel, a 33.3% against Brand, 0% against Xerath, and 50% against Vel'Koz so a coin flip. The only exception is 66.7% against Lux. My Sona winrate in ranked is 55.6% with an average kda of 2.1/5.3/16.8 over 172 games, so i feel like I'm generally holding my own pretty well in other cases.