Hi! 6k MMR Sea pos 4/5 player here. Checked your stratz and can see that you're averaging a lot of deaths and negative KDA (usually not a bad thing but getting this kind of kd every game means there's a problem).

Here's some of my tips from a general laning and playing a 4.

* the first few seconds of the game are extremely important. You should always be in lane at this point and already contesting the jungle space. Contest the enemy 5 with rightclicks and abilities if possible.

* buy tons of regen. I usually start with 6 tangoes and 2 mangoes as well as stat items.

* You mentioned you disrespect powerspikes, in laning, this is usually level 2 and 6 (depends as well on picks but these are the general ones). To ensure you get this, your job as the 4 is to secure the ranged creep as this gives the most exp. With the negative minute play, you should have already pushed the enemy 5 back to their tower and ready to secure the ranged with an ability or last hit.

* if you're playing a melee/weak laner, contesting ranged won't always be possible so what you can do is to play the deny game with your core to reduce enemy exp then leaving the 1st wave to play the block game. From here, you can then drag the next wave into the front side of your t1 to ensure a good laning spot for your 3. Try to focus on this if you can't contest the enemy 5 (usually heroes like jakiro). Regen is also extremely important in these games as you're trading your HP to move around the lane while taking harass from enemy 1/5.

* if you're playing a ranged/strong laner, always be in a position that allows you to throw auto attacks. This is a 50 damage source everytime you use it which is equivalent to half a single tango. Always use it to harass the enemy 1 and 5 while being in a position that won't pull the creep aggro to you. This will allow you to control the jungle area and play the block/pull game and it's supp diff at this point.

* Always watch your 3 and enemy 1. No matter how strong or weak you are in the jungle area of the lane, this can quickly change if the enemy 1 helps his support or you get helped out by your 3. The best way to guarantee that this goes to your advantage is to look at the lane state, if it's pushing to the enemy t1, your 3 can jump to help you, if the lane's pushing to yours, the enemy 1 can leave the lane to bring a 2v1 to you so always respect their position as well as the lane state.

* Push the wave at min 2:30, this will put the lane in their tower and make it easy to secure the lotus. The lotus is as good as an 8 charge stick and can allow you to win an all-in.

* Regarding positioning, if you're ranged, you should always be behind or able to go behind your 3 when trades happen. You're extremely squishy as a ranged 4 but you'll be frontloaded with damage so you are the lane's damage source, the longer you live, the more favorable the trade will be.

In your last game, one of the annoying things is, you always get caught easily, no matter if it's from Pudge, Marci, or PA, you just die so easily before the fight; the positioning is the biggest problem here, I would say.

The items' order is super strange too. Ghost Scepter first I'm not fully agree, but okay, then Midas, timing a little bit late, but okay too, then you get dagger, which is totally unnecessary.

You have Sven, SK, and QOP, all like to jump on your foe's face, and if you're planning to use the dagger to escape with ghost scepter combo, it may not be that efficient.

Could be teleported back by Disruptor, stop by Sniper's sharpnel, and pudge's rot, and huge delay your atos time when atos provide you HP, control, and right click damage, only PA gets BKB at 20 mins, you could be so much more impactful.

Most invoker mid issue is invoker can't scale that well in late game, would be like a pos4 invoker.
In your case, you play like an unarmed mid invoker, so poor but still going big items, which didn't help much.

Also, you focus on using sun strike to help other lanes, which makes you so useless on your own lane, and literally no stacks at all.

Leveling Exort first normally is not bad; however, consider the heroes you're against, PA + disruptor, it can't help you to survive in most scenarios.

I'm not a huge fan of Invoker, could be wrong on some details, just a pos 345 player perspective.

Ah yes classic pos4 or 5 player boosted well passed their MMR with no idea how to actually play lmao

laning is kind of all about managing waves, you can't really go aggro on enemies when your lane is pushed into them and vice versa, so you have to keep that in mind at all times. If your offlaner is bad at managing that just keep pulling, securing range creeps and maybe even try to deny if you can. Past that, don't feed in lane. Watch how good players position themselves and copy them. Think about how the enemy duo kills you and how your duo kills them and play accordingly (example, if they can run you down as soon as they get on top of you, don't ever let them get on top of you). Suiciding for a kill is basically never worth it, so don't do it. Value your life, the longer you live the more spells you're able to get out in any engagement, and the more you'll be able to get out of the lane.

The best thing you can do to improve laning is thinking about your own and other people's gameplay. If you die, think about why you died and how you could've avoided it. If you're watching gameplay of someone and they're doing or not doing a certain thing, think about why that is. Over time you'll develop an understanding for it.

Understanding what your champions, and ennemie champion wanna do in lane. Then, play accordingly.

Sounds simple and obvious, 'till you see all the small practical details it implies.

I would say there aren’t any. The average player is able to do the important laning fundamentals. To get better than the average you need matchup knowledge, mechanics and macro/decision making.

If you’re not doing anything onscreen, eyes on the minimap. Sometimes you’ll catch somone for a split second as they move past a ward. Will save you or help make a play

Others have already made some great points, I'll add a few that I didn't see mentioned that much:

Stand on your dying minions if the enemy is trying to lasthit using an autoattack or single target ability

Stand outside of the wave if the enemy is trying to push using AOE abilities

Bait the enemy into taking minion aggro (AA or any single target ability) or hitting the minion wave with an AOE ability if you want a neutral wave to start pushing towards you

Understand range - if your range is higher, try keeping the enemy inside your range while staying outside of theirs; if your range is lower, hover in and out of enemy range to bait out abilities at max range. Once you condition them to always aim skillshots max range, switch up how you move and walk forward or sideways instead

Understand cooldowns and play around them

Understand posturing - walking forward, jittery movement and emoting looks strong, walking backwards, standing still and slow mouse clicks looks weak; try to look weak when you're strong and vice versa

Watching AloisNL

If you want something simple, I’ve made a rule for myself to make sure I’m always at third drake. If I’m fed and think my presence can tilt the outcome, I’ll set myself to make sure I’m at the third drake. It has helped me quite a bit.

Put pressure on other lane like: create big minion waves and push them to the turret then go gank mid or tp bot or go into enemy jungle for vision then back to your lane and repeat

I used to struggle with this as well. Basically when you're fed or have built a lead, you should be using that power to exert pressure on the map where needed. Win conditions in this game are stuff like objectives, so if youre super fed you being present at an objective like dragon can either scare the enemy away from contesting it or make the fight way easier for your team. I hope your games go well!

I need tips for ending game’s not laneing that’s the easy part.

Trade when you have minion advantage. Trade only on 4th shot when not sure. Don’t trade if you don’t need to but focus on farming. Let your support die (losing xp can break your neck). The most useful advice for me (also adc) was to focus the adc if possible, even if he is not in range yet take a step up if it’s possible. That changed the trading patterns for me completely. Take a close look on this when playing.

PS. I think Jhin is one of the best Adcs to punish enemy last hits on minions of you have your 4th shot ready.

This is a decent rule, if a minion is within last hit range, never try to trade, csing first.

John wins short early trades pretty consistently. You most likely just need to play more games and you’ll learn the dynamics of 2v2 matchups. Focus on farming and positioning, only take obvious trades or all ins. Once you get comfortable doing those two things then you can focus on trading damage for enemy CS denial.

IMO the jungle needs to shrink and the lanes need to be much closer together. Maybe the map should have a city block or two around the outside edge with some jungle or teleporters so the outside lanes can be moved in.

If we were able to rotate after getting some kills in lane again I think it would be a lot more dynamic. Less jungle camps would promote rotating to the camp and back to lane instead of afk farming 4 sinners sacrifices while your tower goes down.

I will say, I greatly prefer the change to last hitting mobs. I think that change is the biggest contributing factor to people no longer snowballing lane phase and then dominating mid game. I say that as someone who DOMINATED lane economy every match when it was 4 lanes and was the mid game carry in most my games. I can't do it as well or consistently anymore.

Strong disagree, the lack of ability to impact that score directly flows into the team being ahead, staying ahead. They're in the position to hold lanes and to farm the jungle. They're stronger, they have more vision of the map with objective advantage, and by invading your jungle are proceeding forward ahead.

The difference on old map was at some point, to progress the advantage it required actually clashing with the enemy team where the winning team ultimately has more to lose. That's not the case now, with so little objectives to defend and so much jungle to farm. There is no longer the onus on the winning team to find a pick and do mid, or clash in a team fight to end. There is an incredibly strong onus to just keep farming and just keep getting ahead. The matches aren't ending now because the goal of getting ahead doesn't lead to ending, it leads to more farming. And staying ahead, forever.

Each of the very few come backs now for me have been a fucking scorching, grueling grind of 50+ minutes to overcome endless inertia of an ahead team actually getting surpassed.

The winning team on 4 lane map with objectives to win being mid and enemy-structures/team fight, had inherent risk on every rung of the ladder they climbed to victory. Now the rungs of the ladder are jungle camps. The risk that gives the comeback potential is being side stepped here.

I do agree, laning stage Is a bit boring now, it's pretty much whoever has the lowest ping, can deny or secure every soul, there is no more skill involved in it. Realistically speaking, the team that has a stronger waves just pushes you in the tower, and if it's someone like calico that has a machine shotgun, she can secure every soul unless you punch them

Totally agree. Had a game today where I lost the lane hard, ended up at a 3k deficit. Few roams, hit the jungle, smart pushes and equalised by mid game. Then at parity we took smart team fights and kept the pressure up and won.

Many times I've seen a 5-10k souls deficit leaving at 15mins. But then if you don't despair you can equalize or stall the other team to catch up.

Some may say that it's bad becuase your early advantage goes away but that's not true. If a team know how to convert that it turns into a quick game but at least at my Elo, the early advantage get cocky and just continue farming rather than push for walkers, mid etc letting opponents catch up

Opposite experience for me, seems way harder to get back into things if you lose lane unless you just ignore your team and farmbot for 15 minutes.

Doesn't help that oftentimes a winning duo lane will continue to press lane with soul advantage to walker so you have to babysit lane as a duo since other lanes are still defending theirs as well.

Situational awareness is a good catch-all that has multiple goals for improvement. Just knowing what’s going on around you even if you start off small and gradually increase what you’re tracking will greatly improve your game outcomes. Not taking a fight when you’re down a healer, knowing that the smart play is to backpedal enough to allow your peep to get back from spawn. Identifying when you’ve hit the tipping point in an engagement and need to strategically disengage. Realizing “hey, I can run into help this tank and die with them or just give them 20 seconds before heading back to the battleground together to avoid an elongated stagger. Watching my son play has helped a lot at identifying how often I was too trigger happy and taking stupid fights where I’m at a statistical disadvantage. Just overall focusing on being more aware of what is going on vs tunnel-visioning damage/healing output will change the way you play the game.

TL;DR - keep reminding yourself that you’re playing chess, not checkers

Knowing when to fall back even if for a few seconds. Sometimes I stay too long on point trying to hold it and end up letting my team die when I should just back up so we can go at it again quicker.

Pressing and hitting your buttons

I've played against Emma's who sit on their crystal for the entire game giving me free space

Just press your buttons

6cs/min in emerald? I'm here in silver having games with an overall CS of 7/min in losses.

How to lane better as an ADC 101:

1: Position. Go to the practice tool. Pick your favourite adc, then put a target dummy behind (like, right behind) the enemy minion line. Then, practice moving so that the casters are in aa range, and the target dummy isn't. This is your normal spacing, just out of AA range.

2: Harass. What's the best way to harass? Right click, it's free. Every single time. Every single time they move up into your aa range? Right click them. Bang, 50 hp for free!

3: Trade. If they step up, auto, cast a spell, auto, then step back. They just lost 100-200 hp, and you're back at #1, the right position. Do not ever let them step up for free, if they push in for a fight, your minions will help.

4: Vision and control. Do you have river warded? Do you have Tri warded? If not, why not. You can't be ganked if you don't overextend, and you can't overextend if you know where the jungler is. Where is their support? What's their engage skills, whats the range, can it be minion blocked?

5: Recall timings. Recall at 700g, 700g (again), 700g (a 3rd time) then 1000g. That's 2 longswords, noonquiver, recurve bow, then mythic. Always shove the wave before recalling if you can, but don't hit tower. Tower plates are a waste of time compared to a fast shove recall.

6: Level 2. Is on the 3rd melee minion of wave 2. Have your support save relic procs for this.

7: Presence. This one is hard, but it's a combo of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. But: If you can get an HP lead, an item lead, and can't be ganked, then you win an all in. What you do now, is not fight. An all in is a fucking coin flip, ask my overextending leona who gave first blood and me last night. No. What you do is move up a little bit, and say "come here and get hurt" while freezing the wave. This allows perfectly practice tool easy farming in real play, while also denying them xp and gold.

Sincerely: A very hardstuck jinx otp.

Watch all adc skill capped videos

It's insanely hard to say what you are doing wrong specifically, when we don't have access to replay files or any game footage.

Generally you always want to crash the wave at tower before recalling. You get a kill? Crash wave asap and recall. The enemy recalled? Crash the wave asap and recall.

If the enemy is still in the lane you can try and slowpush to build up a big wave and then fastpush when the next wave arrives and then recall, so it'll take longer for the enemy to push the wave back to your tower. Other than that I can't really think of any general tips and as stated earlier I can't find your mistakes on op.gg when it comes to farming early game.

just be more mindful of everything, assume the worst, take a step back more, less risk involved

creeps feel too tanky?, I'd say monster rounds always fixes the feeling immediately

also as a Lash main, the fact stomp is locked on boons, so just wait for that too, before that Lash ain't got anything going

watching grandmasters a few times will help you synchro mimic interaction as well

For me laning is tough only because its so fucking boring now. Unlike most people it seems, I still love the game even in the current patch, but laning is such a slog.

The old DotA trick is to pop over into Hero Testing or one of the custom last hit trainers to reset to 'base' hero performance before you go next. Doing the same with Hero Testing in Deadlock after taking a post-match break can do wonders.

Honestly, a short 5 to 10 min break between games will help immensly with mental

It takes me about 30 secs to accomodate back to laning phase. Taking a 3-5 mins break between matches is definitely helping.