Well, from personal experience I can tell that you do lose a lot of skill when you stop playing for a long time, it's not about 1-2 months no worming, it's about not playing for years. I have lost much skill in BnG, like literally all skill in roper (can't drop/shoot for shit) and so on...
The good thing though is, when I focused on the schemes I could gain the knowledge back in a pretty fast way. Like that little notching guide, if I were active I could have made that in like 30 minutes and it would been perfect with no missed shots, and more detailed. But I had to relearn the things I used to do there so it took me like 2 hours with little practicing and still missed some shots. It's not really an issue that you "lose" it. It's more like you simply need to focus and force yourself to remember all the little things you did unconsciously while playing years ago.
Another example, people that really know me from the early years know that I started to twitch with 1 finger and then went to fingerroll. Like out of curiosity I tried to do twitch roping again, I knew how it works and could even do some good things but my hand would get upset and it would take some weeks to get the hang of it. Same with 2hand taps, having the coordination still to do really fast 2hand taps but the movement between arrow keys and space to do shadows/scrolls etc. is really off so I would need to practice that a bit.
So, yeah, Cue is right there. You can perfectly regain your skill if you have the same passion, it's just a matter of if you want to do it again. (and to a lesser aspect also the keyboard when talking about roping)
About Komo and his warming career, back then it was pretty neat to see him roping, he definitely had a unique style of doing kicks into near the ceiling 2hand scrolls and very rapid shadows. It was probably the only reason I learned 2handed taps. So I got inspired by makaveli aka SupremE to learn twitching, got inspired by shady to fingerroll and inspired by komodo to learn 2hand taps, inspired by wargod to modify my spacebar and inspired by marco to stop doing useless taps all over the place and use them wisely to do awesome roping, inspired by jmoberg to learn efficiency.
Oh and ropa needs to be in this list too, I learned from ropa how to alias in perfection.
And if I think about it, all the wormers I met affected me, and I am sure everyone can say the same. Like for example dw33b and al2cane. They got me into BnG so much that it was my favorite scheme together with warming! Or take iP, the clan I had with sharky (nakra) and spalding, it is where I learned to learn all schemes because I had to. It actually feels so bad to only name so few wormers, I would love to make a huge list of all the people I met and what I experienced with them. Something I could gather in my "clan hopping time" is, that there are way too many cool people and way to less IPs to fake so they don't catch your alias, lol.
Learned from the best I'd say.
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