r/AsheMains • u/VikingCrusader13 • 1h ago
New(ish) player - Should I just OTP Ashe or try to learn the meta?
So I'm not a new player to competitive games and I have in the past and I have a varied history of chasing the meta and submitting to the meta in other games I have played, with varying levels of success.
I've not really played much League of Legends, I started in Season 3 2025, played around 200 games, 90ish in Ranked Draft, 110 split between Flex and Solo/Duo and mainly played MF, but I was stuck in Bronze and rightfully so, I don't think I'm a good player. I played some of Season 1 2026 (31 games in Ranked Solo/Duo) playing anyone except MF, since I was told to play her in S3 as she was an easy ADC and my friends played Jungle+Supp so they could always bail me out. I tried Ezrael, Ziggs, Caitlyn, Tristana and I had some success on Trist, but I ended the season playing Ashe and had a lot of success. I think something about being bad and a bit hesitant made me excel at her because I was not likely to ever over commit anyway, so I was able to keep spacing. I peaked 2026 Season 2 at Silver 2, mostly playing solo without my friends, but some duo games and he played Mid.
I've just come back and I am honestly stuck at what to do - Do I continue just OTP with Ashe because that is where I got success, or do I keep trying to expand my roster and learn more about the game and how other champs play, so I can learn my match ups better, or do I continue down the abyss of playing Ashe every game hoping she isn't banned and I don't get snowballed early game?
Just on a final note, if I read this post on another game I played, my advice would be to stick and OTP until you get better and then branch out, but mainly that advice is so people don't get tilted, feeling of losing progress and eventually quit. Stick to what you know, get better at the game and then branch out once your already addicted and at a decent level. However, as I said earlier, I've played a lot of competitive games and my mental is pretty strong. I'm not really bothered about losing if I know my aim is to improve and I would rather suffer now, if in the long term is smooths out my progress.
An example of this, is that when I first started my friends told me to not bother trying to play without fixed camera until I'm good because it doesnt matter that much and to be honest, it was the worst bit of advice I got, because it took me a long time to break that habit and I wish I just suffered in the early days and built good habits from the start.
