Regretting OTP Smolder
This season I decided to fully switch to adc from mid because I liked smolder and it’s his best role. I’m definitely still struggling to learn adc but I am significantly better than when I first switched.
Now that smolder is either getting first picked or banned, I’ve now realized that I don’t really know how to play anyone else in bot, so now I am sort of lost and don’t know what to play. I can’t play more traditional aa marksman as I’m used to smolders spell casting play-style.
Even when I was able to consistently play smolder, I realized the skill gap whenever I watch videos of people playing him. I’m typically very behind on stacks and my mechanics were not good in general when comparing my gameplay to the videos.
Now that I have essentially tilt que from Plat 1 - Gold 1 in a somewhat short time frame, I’ve now realized I can’t play smolder because 1. He’s banned or getting first picked and 2. I lowkey am dog at him. If you look at my recent match history most of the time smolder was banned so that’s why I was playing all sorts of champs even reverting back to mid lane for a bit.
I initially played him because I liked the character, and I still do, but it is not fun when I can’t play him. There’s also a noticeable skill drop when I play other adcs which is also not fun because then I know I’m holding back the team.
At this point I don’t know who I should play or what to do. I was extremely close to emerald and now I am so far that it almost feels like it is going to take an actual year of playing just to recover what I lost. At this point I would love to hear any thoughts on what I could do.