And I mean mostly the laning phase and mostly (tho not necessarily) ADC role.

Basically, after being stuck in bronze for 10 years (yea, that's correct) I'm trying to reset and re-learn the game. I've been duoing as an adc with a support who has natural inclinations to play aggressively. However it doesn't seem to be working with me.

I'm more of a passive laner, focused on farm and surviving, rarely going for aggressive plays, trades, calls. All would be great if the enemies played the same way but obviously it very rarely happens. So my playstyle just ends up giving up lane dominance for free.

My support claims that if we wanna climb we should play more of a "testing the limits" way. Being aggressive, playing in a way that coud make the enemies think we're better even if we're really not. Just act confident, take the risk (and suffer the consequences sometimes).

The thing is - a bronzie like me (and way in my 30s) is not and never will be good mechanically. The fear of failing and being so insecure about my ability to survive an aggressive way, just makes me sit ducks, farm and hope that I can scale late game (90% of my games are: Kai'sa, Jinx, Cait, Ashe, occasionally Vayne).

This is my background which made me ask the title question - what are your thoughts and experiences? Is trying to be aggressive really the more appropriate way of learning the game? Of course I don't mean running into enemies like a headless chicken or disrespecting the matchups (like Kog-Soraka will not win a lvl 1-3 trade with Draven-Leona, right?).

And if your answer is YES - how can someone learn being aggressive? What are the points and factors I should consider while changing the playstyle? What to avoid? When not try to be aggressive?

I know that these questions are probably very generic and hard to answer in a short way but even your general impressions will be valuable for me. My support duo is playing the game actively for 6 months and she already seems to surpass me. I've been playing for over 10 years, being bronze most of this time so I definitely doubt my attitude and way of playing is correct.

Thank you for all the input in advance.