Talk:Twitch/@comment-33172118-20171017185133/@comment-4091261-20171019041926

does require a lot of cooperation to work well early on. His only strength in laning phase is that he is capable of getting in good positions easily before combat begins. Unfortunately, his performance while in a good position relies heavily on mitigating enemy retaliation.

His real laning phase strength can only be seen if his jungler camps the lane. Since that pretty much can never be organized in a solo queue, it's very rare to ever get that level of cooperation. Perhaps even impossible.

Otherwise, he is objectively a weak laner. It's quite difficult for him to take advantage of opportunities the support creates since his power is the ramping kind. In that time he's ramping up those stacks, the enemies can easily just switch focus to him and decimate his ass.

It's passable to play passively early on, but of course that doesn't make him a strong laner at all. In the end, it really comes down to jungler intervention. ability to set himself up for a jungler gank is unparalleled compared to any other ADC in the early game.