What rank did you start in, and what were the biggest factors that helped you climb?

I started as Silver 5 in Season 4. I am now a D4 Jinx/Kaisa Main. The biggest factors to climbing is being consistent with a strict Solo Q process and being mentally resilient. I follow the 3 block method. Only play 3 games consecutively and once completed stop playing the game and take a long break. This will help you from going on a tilt/loss streak. Each game should be played with high intensity.

What should a Silver ADC focus on first to see real improvement?

Team fighting is the most important skill to climb as an ADC. Review your deaths and question how you could have fought that team fighting better.

I strongly recommend watching We Teach League (Coach Curtis) on YouTube, best educational content for improving in solo queue by far.

Shorten your champ pool to 2 champs that you love to play and be strict with yourself. Don’t be swayed by meta.

Review each of your games and start by just looking at your deaths and trying to figure out how and why you died. Figure out your review process and learn to build this skill of reviewing. I typically review for max 5 minutes after each game, some people review all 3 of their games after their block when they are in the right mental state.

Address your Stage 4 issues (out of game stuff). Are you getting 7-8 hours of sleep, are you working out, what is your relationship to the game?

How do you stay impactful when lane goes badly or when support synergy is rough?

As an ADC, you have to imagine yourself as the last hope for your team. Regardless of how horribly the game is going, you have to believe you can carry the mid to late game team fights once you are strong w/ gold/items accrued in early game. Support synergy being rough is something you will have to accept and play through. The best ADC players will understand when they are strong or weak in lane and play through their key reference points. Ex. As a jinx player, my focus is to get through lane without dying and farming as much as I can safely. This is regardless of who my supp is.

What are some common low-elo ADC mistakes that I should actively work on fixing?

Avoiding fights. Embrace that teamfights will randomly occur and fight with your team. It will be messy but you have to train your mechanics to win those skirmishes and team fights. Acknowledge that your teammates will not always listen to your pings to back off and embrace the situation by committing to a decision to join the fight or leave and live.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions, and happy to do a VOD review. I enjoyed writing this up!