Lots of important lessons in this one!

"You have to have trust in your team mates, you''re all the same ELO at the end of the day" - It's because we're the same ELO bracket that I know their plays won't work.

Hah you underestimate my power to get solo killed by a rakan

the line between pressuring sidelane correctly and inting by overextending alone is blurry

*Me: I'll farm this free wave, don't fight* *Team: Reported, u've should have been with us fighting*

Im so consistent at ADC it’s unreal. I can predict how many deaths I’ll have at 10 minutes and how much CS I’ll be behind at 12 minutes. It’s usually a good 3-5 deaths at 10 and a 50 CS difference. Then I farm and hate my life for 30 minutes and then get obliterated the first time I try to team fight. Consistency is key lads.

I was playing jinx. Rotated top to catch massive wave of farm. A WILD NASUS appears. Im all Gucci. Playing safe using my rockets to catch the whole wave. Nasus tps drag. I push two towers leaving open inhib. Teams flames me for not rotating to drag with Nasus. Just the adc things

Making the right decision WILL get you flamed in low elo. But it will get you lp unless your team baby rages and afks.

in one of my games my team spam pinged me for farming bot while they overstayed after an objective and died... then they said "its past the farming phase of the game bro" its scary that some players legit think the game is split into laning phase and aram phase

"You should trust your team to do well on their own" well I guess I'm always gonna suck at farming

Easy! I can answer this one: I'm a jungler

jinx has twice the kills that lucian has. "somehow getting six items before lucian" lmfao

Really question the Ashe segment. If Ashe goes bot, she has no mobility and a 1-second ult stun (if she hits it). There are 3 enemies that can run her down and kill her. So you make yourself extremely vulnerable to dying for 1-2 waves and you leave your teammates to die mid. Cait or Senna coming to match you is the best result, but they're already mid and it probably won't be either of them. If Ashe goes mid, and then doesn't step on a trap immediately after hitting the R, she gets to do damage earlier while the team has an advantage. If she holds her W until she can spray anything but a pack of minions (doesn't even kill any), she helps more with the fight. If she uses her heal on an almost dead Yasuo or Malphite instead of an almost 100% Graves, she extends their damage time while the fight is still going. Those little things turn that fight or at least make it a lot more even.

Enemy ADC: Eh it's just a Leona in that area, I'll be fine. Me, a Leona onetrick: ...and I took that personal

Really glad for the ADC guide! All the other lanes get a lot of love, so it's nice to see reviews of adc fundamentals.

The problem is that while other roles can carry in solo queue based on mechanics alone, simply by getting fed, the adc depends on the support to do that. It's the hardest role to carry with in solo queue for that reason, sometimes I wonder why the hell I still main adc

6:45 They randomly get into fights without even knowing who is around them or don't realize they are just walking to thier death.. Then when they die, they see you farming bot and ping you to death. That's the actual reaction of low elo teammates...

"adc obtain gold through minions" *Laugh in draven*

When u quit adc just so that skill capped will make a adc guide

@ 5:10 If yasuo doesnt go bot, Ashe cant go bot, because 0 8 Evelynn (or even Vi, whatever) casually oneshots her. It is very rare that you see the whole enemy team mid for more than 5 seconds. No way you can just go alone as Ashe on 1 item IMO. Edit: Also. You cant fix waves if Tier 1 turrets are down as adc. You have to go way too deep, and you just die, I feel like. (Becouse noone will escort you, of course)

That's right! You need to respect the enemy 0/4 mid laner, and people wonder why there's so many Reddit threats about the ADC role being bad

Every time I make the right decisions, my team ints, goes afk or surrenders. I've had a team surrender 4/1 because they lost a teamfight for the 4th drake despite us being pushed into their base while most of our turrets were still up. It was the enemy's 1st drake. I've had a team flame me to oblivion and instantly surrender because they took and lost a pointless 4v5 fight in the middle of midlane while I was solo pushing into the enemy base and was literally hitting their Nexus... before the fed enemy Zed recalled and one-shot me, sadly one hit away from Victory. Meanwhile, their team had only taken our Tier 1 turrets. You can make the right calls and carry a game to the point that it's literally going to be won in minutes, your low ELO team won't see it and will surrender because the 27/2 and 4 cs Fizz they fed all game stole Wolves.

these guides are great its just crazy how much thier is to keep track of in this game.

Finally been waiting for this kind of video, I actually learned something from this video

“There’s no way you die solo to Rakan as Lucian” Me: *laughs in Iron*

Situation with Lucian: yes if u watch slowly the Replay u can see all enemies, im not sure all, even a challanger, players will see it in a running game. Sitution with Ashe. u can see Renekton at Top Lane when she ults, its a 5v4 fight they take, so why this shouldnt be ok??

Finally a new high quality ADC guide, thanks!

This video is super helpful , my favorite now ultil now. Thanks !

Very informative video, love it!

Another insane guide. Like literally all guides

6:00 After Ashe left Mid, Yasuo's circle starts going up the enemy tower to the fountain.

Next: What to do if your braindead support thinks he needs to steal your CS for gold.

Fixing waves is legitimately the most important concept I've ever learned in this game. Lane pressure wins games.

playing as sup is so much easier than adc, i can roam, i can gank, i can do visions and i can 1 shot enemy adc, etc. Solo q adc is so much of a pain. when top or mid lane is opened, it is simply impossible to carry as adc despite the lead in bot given enemy has similar skill capped as urs. Unless u get crazy reflex, otherwise assassin can literally 1 shot u in a sec .

Not too sure on the Ashe tip: - From the mini map you see 1 top and 3 mid, Ashe uses her E and through river and the enemy jungle and Vi doesn't show up. This suggested a 4v3 situation (4v4 with top TP as the Vi does not appear to be nearby from the mini map.) - As with the above, the Vi's location is unknown, Ashe heading solo bot would risk running into Vi and the lack of mobility in Ashe's kit would not have offered much in the way of survivability. Cait and Senna are mid and so it's unlikely going to be them to meet you in bot lane for the rotation - You can also see the spam "going in" pings in the mid lane, so abandoning what initially appeared to be a 4v3/4v4 scenario for a potential death on the way to minions in the bot lane (while would have been the right choice had there been enough vision to show this option was safe) could have also resulted in a 3v3 instead or 3v4 if the Vi was bot side instead of top and a death of the ADC. - If the fight mid did only have the 3 mid that was seen on the map, and you abandoned your team for the bot lane minions. If the enemy won, that's sacrificing 1, maybe even 2 mid towers for some minions. This was a lose-lose scenario for the Ashe as a result of no vision on the map, but abandoning a potential 4v3 with the risk of dying to the Vi happening to be in bot side jungle and also risking a loss of towers due to the rest of the team losing a 3v3, 3v4 scenario, which is just a plausible due to the lack of vision doesn't seem like the right call in this scenario. The mistake Ashe made was not leaving the fight when the Graves got stunned but instead returning to the fight for a couple more autos.

Look at the map before pushing, and predict their movements by looking at the map, remember who's missing, if their support is missing, it's free to push the lane you're in, but if it's an adc, just clear the the wave and retreat, if you are very far from the fight and everyone is on the map, push the lane you're at, the middle turrent is the most important LANE turrent because it opens up the map a lot

These were obvious mistakes that i was very much aware of doing myself but I still struggle with. I tend to tunnelvision a little to often when Im not jungeling.

When I fix waves as an ADC I often get flamed by my team for split pushing and not grouping

"The only possible enemy here is Rakan". Yone hasn't been on the map for more than 30 seconds. He was last seen mid. He either based or he's coming bot. You can't just "assume" that Yone isn't here because you saw him mid. "You can't get solo killed by Rakan" as Yone is pathing to botlane.

Been flamed a lot for pushing a side lane as add. People are insane. And yes Lucian taking bottom jungle would possibly set off the jungles to rage for the rest of the game

I've been doing this more and more over the course of the past 2 months and I just get raged at every game I'm not gigafed off kills. RNG on mid til mid game hasn't improved any, but I've noticed I have more late games where I'm able to contribute. It definitely helps late game impact, but at the same time it seems to tilt more teammates than letting them say I do no dmg and recommend I build executioner's calling second item every game.

What should i do when there is a huge wave topside but the drake is about to spawn in a few seconds. Should i ignore the wave or go for it?

12:09 Sjozk: Do you think you are the best improvement platform for LoL? Skill Capped: by far

Support main be like: I don't need this guide I'm doing the opposite

Extremly low elos such as -gold are free ones for those who can secure drake area since most of the players are ignoring that point for having fun, once u start lvling up to plat u will notice the farming frequency is strongly dependant on the support's performance no matter how good u are.

Awesome masterclass keep going

*Feel free to use any of my replays as example, I'm from BR server btw, and all my mistakes are Hector's fault*

If you take a close look in the Ashe fight, you can see that she was fighting with all of her teamates while the enemy team had a renekton who was pushing top, so shouldn't this fight be a good decision?

I agree with you @5:16 but the team doesn't stand back and wait if she went or not the team would have fought, lost and blamed her for not "helping", which is why people always make those mistakes :)

If I’m a top/mid laner would it depend on my champion if I group or side lane? Or should I be fixing side waves whenever I can?

good job keep it going

5:18 what do you mean numbers advantage, I can only see a 3v3 illustrated

i love you,im learning a lot

That last clip with lux is the same in every case They always come to share for some reason I should go top but she can too and it is more optimal for adcs to go mid in mid and late game when you are coming from a base and 1&1/2 items

AMAZING vid!

Yeah, I jungle... I prioritize fixing sidewaves over anything else(unless important objectives are up) and skip all fights for it. I often get lvl 18 when everyone else avgs like lvl 13 or something, and tend to be at least 5k up on everyone. But usually my team keeps fighting 4v5 and losing, dunno what to do about that. In almost all games I need to solo hard carry and my winrate's fine but it shouldn't be that difficult right? I mean my opposing team's jg is usually 4-5 levels behind me and still wins 30% of the time. I wish I won 30% of the time when I'm 5 levels behind, right? The other issue I run into is because I constantly ignore pointless coinflip fights and pressure elsewhere instead and never try to go save my teammates from fights that aren't certain wins, I frequently get trolls in my games. I'd say at least 10% of the time someone on my team starts following me around while spamming mastery and taking my farm, or just runs it down mid with mobis and tabis. Or a combo. I mute everyone every game so I'm not sure what they're mad about in specific, but that also makes me lose games I'd otherwise win.

5:38 Renekton was pushin top and was not top.. But still a good advice to all ADC's not start random fights and its always better to play the map and not the kills 🙏💪

I often do this as a support main since my adc wants to go to mid to join fights and arriving when the fight is over, :(

6:06 My mid had been level 1 ganked.. I normally chill behind him at level 1 if I don't have to leash.

I had a really simple easy lane, thought "oh ill get 10cs/min easy here, end of match I was 179 in 24min. so I watched it back to see all the missed potential cs. I counted 34 total when I wasn't fighting, and in range to get the cs. I was 24 missed at the 10min mark and that would have put me right at 100cs in 10 min. which this matchup there is no excuse for missing that much.

im always hard winning top lane but every time laning phase is over my bot lane is always 1/9 or sth like that, is there anything i can do to win? I usually win lane at 3-4/0 but i play almost only tanks like ornn and it just feels unwinnable everytime. the worst thing is i can go for 5 games where my bot lane consistently feeds any advice?

I go catch the huge minion wave while my team proceeds to fight every 4v5 they can get.

do you think this guide works with Nasus too ?

isnt fixing a slow push bad sometimes because when somone rotate to clear it you can hard engage 5vs 4 ?

Good video!

"hopefully her teammates play accordingly" AHYAHAHAH this man doesnt play lol at all 6:20

These videos always make me want to play a game

I'm curious, does any of this change for Flex 5's or for Clash play? Is this advice strictly for SoloQ?

6:17 Ashe: I'm going to split push bot *Main Yasuo M7 in his mind: We should fight now!* *PING OMW* *PING OMW* *PING OMW* *Malp starts with his R* Everyone dies. Blue Team: /ALL Plz report Ashe, he is trolling!

THis is helpful, im new to bot, i play Jhin and samira, every round my team talks about my cs

I like this. Thanks

sometimes you gotta come watch some skill capped for that calming HQ voice of urs

OK, but this (as many other videos of urs) tells u what to do and how to farm when u r ahead. But you cannot afford to stay alone in a sidelane when u r behind. How do you get back in the game in these kinds of situations?

The thing is in plat... when i go sidelanes to farm like i should and scale properly My team opens a 4v5 fight loses and spam pinging me for not being there.. and when i tell them , why you start a fight if im not there in the first place , they type in all chat "Report this guy farming sidelanes and losing our game" and this happens to me EVERY . SINGLE . GAME .... im at a point where i dont think theres any hope with the new LP and no promos rank system....all silvers are forsome reason in plat and 90% of the people are smurfing.... riot gone mad for new and bad players to get hyped for getting gold elo yet it is achieved much easier than it used to with 5 Divisions instead of 4 , and with promos each division instead of just getting to 100LP and suddenly ranking up.... and promos Bo3 instead of Bo5 now.... the game just begin to die and riot makes it worse

i dead ass did this macro guide for cs and instantly saw success in it

Do you have any tips on minions stealing CS and losing last hitting to over 50ms ping?

the point in solo q is that your team will play 4 v5 fights - and thats the great problem of solo q; the enemy adc will group with his teammates and then you lost the teamfights and game. ADC btw the best role

what shoud i do as adc when top lost totally and we on bot still have towers on both sides... should i swap top and let my toplaner die on bot or what?

2:53 ...uh what? Yone literally came from their Krug camp. Lucian would have gotten jumped on there too.

9:00 What if the enemies have a Kassadin/Rengar/KhaZix/Kayn and you can't go to a solo lane? What if the drake is up? What if the top tower is down and you can be chased by their assassin?

Fucking brilliant! This is why sanguin blade MF is the strongest build for her atm.

wouldn't yone just kill him anyways since if he went to the krugs though?

The analytic for Jhin case is correct except for the mid one. Yorick is pushing at T2 bot so it's correct to stay 4 people pushing mid lane.The bad decision is chasing after Katarina and Leesin while the eenemy comp is good at fighting in the jungle (Twitch and Katarina) and they died as 4 because they stacked. The correct decision is after getting that kill, try to get the mid tower, not chasing.

Spending mana for CS took me a long time before i started using skills when i needed to get cs

Why is correct call in the 2nd video to go bot? The argument was basicially: shove bot, pressure tower and then go back mid to fight with numbers advantage. However at the start of the clip we already have numbers advantage, Rene is top. I would have thought that’s a good time to engage, no?

In the past Skill Capped has said that Lux shouldn't push a side lane because she's a pretty vulnerable champion. But at 7:17 they're saying that Lux made a mistake by going mid. Would it have been good for her to push top in this case since she could have stayed fairly close to the tower?

can i get the music tho like i like all skillcapped music bgms and i want em

Ohhhh! You're supposed to farm minions as ADC! Didn't know! :O

I don't particularly agree with the Ashe example when you suggest her going bot lane EVEN if her team engaged uneven fight on mid lane. If all their team mates died on mid due to outnumbered, then they would obviously push mid tower, maybe even two towers while she would just get one tower on bot lane which is really not a good trade. I think in low elo, you must firstly think of your team and the possible mistakes they might do, similar to what we've seen with Ashe example when yasuo forced the fight on mid without any obvious advantage over enemy team while all ended up dead. And prior to allowing them to do the mistake, warn them not to do it, they might not listen but it might help. After all it's a team game, not 5x solo mission in the same team. I understand that sometimes your solo macro skills and decisions matter more, it's not always like so.

The guide its ok but your mistake is taking the team as an intelligent group who knows when to fight, if u go for a free wave they fight and lose, after dragon it becomes aram on mid until someone dies, its rlly hard if u r not mechanically good, at the end u climb but until plat 1/ diamond they just fight for no reason xd.(spanish speaker just in case.)

The problem with being low Elo is some people know what to do but don’t know how or just don’t know

How come sharing tower plates is a bad macro? Sometimes 1 player is not enough to take it down fast enough, and after destroying a turret everyone on team gets lots of extra gold and vision.

As a Karthus adc main, I do not understand what you mean by "the only consistent way ADCs can get gold is through farm".

Do you have videos on how to setup mouse and keyboard? ADC main, but I sometimes have problems kiting or attacking champions instead of minions. I use left click attack move currently. Would be interesting how good players do that.

Minionwaves doesn't matter in low elo. Same as drake and enemy jungle wards

What if you suck at farming on melee champs especially in ranged matchup?

The main problem from my view is that my team wont listen to me when I try to tell them how to deal with special situations...

Look man the most frustrating thing about low elo is that even if u are making the right choice it doesnt matter. I myself am currently S1 even though i was standing comfortably at high gold last seasons and thats entirely cause i learnt the game and started making right choices. Sounds weird doesnt it? If u think about it most times as a scalling adc you cant sidelane alone in the early stages(till u have 2-3 items).Therefore i need to be mid where i feel safer cause support tend to go mid around this time to make plays or set vision. As I am sure most of u know 99% of the time the midlaner wont leave his lane and stay there no matter what. So I write to them but nothing happens and then the low elo paranoia begins with the flame and trying to last hit minions from your teamates. Anyway guys try playing with your friends and make calls, that way your will learn by your mistakes cause u MADE them and didnt just react to what your team was doing

2:41 he could also build a little safety net for himself by investing at least 75g into a control ward, to place it somewhere between red/krugs. As you noticed that's kinda a disrespect towards anyone that could catch him off guard. He could have seen him coming no matter if he does tower OR krugs. Just speaking as a support player, who always wards deep bot when i have to leave my adc alone. (sadly they never pay attention to anything else then farming). I'm also surprised how in 2 clips, the entire map is dark ( exept dragon). Are the 2 supports playing angry birds on there phone? its not just yone in this case, even a tank could surprise him, maybe not killing him, but force him to use a summoner to escape, which he dose not have for a potential real fight. If you play sidelane/split farm, dont assume there is no one, ALWAYS assume there IS someone. Paranoia can be a good thing in this case.

Soooo.. I should try to push the side lanes more?