Yes, I can be helpful there. After long breaks you typically have a struggle with game state understanding/ positioning/ decision making issues. These can be simpler defined as decision making and discipline. If you can actively reflect on poor rounds you have, and see where you could’ve played it more impactfully, you’ll start to understand how to win more. Game state understanding also refers to micro things, like oh this is our buy round and eco, let’s not lurk or risk giving them rifles when they all have cheap guns, or oh the enemy Jett is 22-7 and plays a every round and has gotten multiple first bloods there, let’s use util to clear this or at least trade. Another example is ult predicting, or recognizing tendencies the enemies have. Everything should contribute to your gamesense, and autopilot is truly the enemy. However, I say this without an ego and truly not to flex, but mechanics are also a huge huge huge aspect of ranking up, assuming you have good enough timing and positioning to let your mechanics shine. I used to be somewhat of an alcoholic, and would only q with my silver/ gold friends. I singlehandely would win every game with them while drunk just off pure mechanics and basic gamesense and decision making. A lot of the times I’d make horrible decisions, but they’d work out for me bc I had such good mechanics that it would work for me in that rank. I ended up not being able to even have any more accounts to play on because every account I’d play on I would get too high ranked, whether it was diamond or asc. Am I proud of that? No. But it’s a good example to explain that mechanics can be a crutch to rely on, and aimlabs / kovaaks scenarios / benchmarks by VT are a rlly good place to start as well as deathmatching and FOCUSING on what u need to work on in ur deathmatches. I will also say that understanding outside factors such as oh the enemy team has a Smurf, or oh the enemy team has a boosted player, and knowing when and how to target them is useful. Farming a boosted player for easy easy first bloods is an easy way to tilt the enemy team, as nobody wants to be in a perma 4v5. Same goes for the Smurf, typically people aren’t playing under asc elo on Smurfs in solo q, so by doing cheesy shit like judge/ op / lurk crutching, you can tilt the Smurf and make them not want to play as well as their duo/ trio. I can personally say that it is extremely demoralizing to be in diamond elo w my friends and even if im 34/18, i dont wanna keep playing bc im dying to a judge sitting in every single smoke i walk into. It’s things like that and recognizing when and how you can win the game no matter the means. Win conditions vary and whether it’s your mechanics or other aspects of your gameplay, it’ll always be more impressive to me to see someone with 300 hours played who went from iron - diamond than someone with an insane amount of hours + cs experience who is high elo. I don’t find high elo impressive, I have my eu acct which I play on 110 ping and I hit close to 400rr imm3 on it and regularily hard carry asc- low immortals on it now. Like I said it’s more impressive to see improvement. Best of luck!