I’m in gold at the moment, I’ve played lol for a long time and play a variety of roles (mostly mid jungle adc), despite the fact that I’ve been trying to hone in on one for a while.
I’ve recently found a lot of success playing adc, counter to the usually favoured high impact roles jungle / mid.
It dawned on me why, I feel as though in those “high agency” roles, particularly in jungle, I find myself wanting to make the “correct” macro decision and getting frustrated when my team don’t follow.
For example, we win a team fight at 30 minutes after a 10 minute spell of being behind, baron is up, all of our waves are far too pushed in for us to be able to push out and take turret / inhib. The correct play is to take the baron and get back in the game, but players would rather catch a couple waves then base. This is the type of jungle scenario i find myself in often and these feel like game defining moments and lead to incredibly frustrating losses.
When I play adc, it’s like I’ve already made peace with the fact that my teammates will make sub optimal choices constantly, I instead focus on staying alive, getting my farm, scaling and overall playing a far more reactive style, adapting to the skirmishes and team fights that arise. This seems to work far better than trying to call / make the plays myself and hoping others are on the same wavelength, have the same macro sense etc. (It also helps that I bring the dps to take those key objectives, so often times me and the jungle are on the same wavelength).
My question is, is this something that improves at higher ranks or is this just the reality of solo q? Is it a sign that I’m too committed to my own decisions and macro choices on those other roles?
also just curious if anyone else has come to similar conclusions or had a similar experience on their climb.