[0:00] tilt is a weird thing after all it's
[0:01] just a game why do you have to be mad
[0:03] but sometimes it feels like everyone is
[0:05] mad all the time almost every client out
[0:08] of the hundreds I've worked with have
[0:09] struggled with tilt in their games and
[0:11] it has stopped them improving as fast as
[0:12] they should be so today I'm going to be
[0:13] breaking down why people tilt how to
[0:15] start improving regardless of what game
[0:17] you play or your goals and if you stick
[0:19] around to the end I'll share with you my
[0:20] own specific routine that I use to stay
[0:22] locked in and focused when I grind we're
[0:24] going to keep this a little more
[0:24] conversational today lecture style-ish
[0:27] so let's talk about tilt before we get
[0:29] started we kind of have to talk about
[0:30] what causes tilt cuz if we don't
[0:32] understand our enemy you know how are we
[0:33] going to defeat it so I like to start by
[0:35] thinking of what causing tilt what
[0:38] causes tilt um in in two different ways
[0:40] way number one is when our actual level
[0:43] of understanding doesn't line up to
[0:45] where it needs to be so when we learn a
[0:47] topic or we hear about a topic like
[0:48] let's say you've been on YouTube or
[0:49] Twitter before unfortunately and you've
[0:51] heard about like freezing waves or
[0:53] you've heard about uh rotating you've
[0:55] heard about you know stutter stepping or
[0:57] shoulder peaking and valerant something
[0:59] like that you might have heard these
[1:00] words or these terms hundreds or
[1:02] thousands of times but what level of
[1:04] understanding are you really at here are
[1:05] you obviously remembering what the words
[1:07] are and maybe even understanding what
[1:09] they are but can you reliably apply
[1:11] these in your games can you analyze each
[1:13] part of this concept so you can improve
[1:15] at it and can you like evaluate was this
[1:18] even a good idea to do in the first
[1:19] place or you just blanketly applying it
[1:21] to every situation and maybe getting
[1:22] middling results this is a big problem
[1:24] I've seen now that the player base and
[1:26] information regarding Improvement has
[1:27] become so readily available every player
[1:30] I know has heard about slow pushing away
[1:31] or freezing where maybe 10 years ago
[1:33] when I started playing the game um no
[1:35] one knew what the heck they were doing
[1:37] so in my opinion this is one of the
[1:38] things that causes tilt is mismatched
[1:41] levels of understanding a lot of people
[1:42] are actually at these first two maybe
[1:45] three levels of understanding like they
[1:46] know it they understand it they can
[1:47] apply it sometimes but they mistakenly
[1:49] think they're somewhere up here at the
[1:50] evaluation or even creating level
[1:52] another part of this is something some
[1:53] of you might have heard before called
[1:54] The Dun and Krueger effect this happens
[1:57] where you learn a new concept or maybe
[1:59] you play something and you see uh an
[2:02] initial peak of success this is like
[2:04] okay I know how to freeze a lane and
[2:05] maybe you'll play a couple games of solo
[2:07] you'll freeze a lane and you'll get some
[2:08] really good immediate results and these
[2:10] results may or may not be correct but
[2:13] maybe these results have other factors
[2:14] like you could have just gotten lucky
[2:16] these are games or scenarios where
[2:17] freezing was the best option but because
[2:19] you're lacking those levels of
[2:20] understanding and evaluating you apply
[2:22] this to a wider sample of games and you
[2:24] realize oh wait there's so much more
[2:26] that I know or that I need to know
[2:28] before I really am actually good at this
[2:30] and the problem is a lot of people get
[2:31] to hear they're like oh I fully mastered
[2:33] this concept I know everything about
[2:34] freezing I know everything about slow
[2:36] pushing I know everything about trading
[2:37] everything about Landing everything
[2:38] about jungling and then they realize or
[2:40] they should realize that oh hey even the
[2:42] best players in the world are somewhere
[2:44] somewhere in here where okay they've
[2:46] acknowledged that they have some level
[2:48] of understanding of the game but their
[2:49] confidence is always like hey I have
[2:51] something more to learn here and I'm
[2:54] sure you'll see this on Reddit if you've
[2:55] ever been on here apparently everyone on
[2:56] Reddit is Challenger and everyone on
[2:58] Reddit is better than even like the
[3:00] world's finalists every single year
[3:01] without fail it's kind of crazy but the
[3:03] confidence Gap so these are two
[3:05] backgrounds or back bones of tilt or the
[3:07] mechanisms behind why tilt happens now
[3:09] let's talk about what that looks like in
[3:11] your games these are screenshots
[3:13] unfortunately I know avert your eyes
[3:14] from two different real people's op.
[3:18] GS um I did the math this is around
[3:21] 1,700 wins and 1,700 losses so this
[3:25] person played 3,000 plus solo Q games
[3:27] with barely over a 50% win right the
[3:30] amount of time it would take to do that
[3:31] is just staggering and because of this
[3:34] they are not climbing an ELO two seasons
[3:37] thousands of games it's borderline on
[3:39] wasted time you can play hundreds or
[3:40] thousands of games per season and not
[3:42] see any meaningful Improvement due to
[3:43] tilt or those mismanaged expectations or
[3:45] the mismatched understanding and it's
[3:47] not because players like this are
[3:48] playing to lose or to waste their time I
[3:51] think a lot of people are just stuck in
[3:52] a cycle and it's hard to get out of that
[3:54] cycle without some uh outward influence
[3:57] and I do want to say I I have this note
[3:59] here but if your goal is to just play
[4:00] the game in your spare time and have fun
[4:02] you know maybe you casually play a
[4:03] couple rank games a week or maybe you're
[4:05] an Aram only or a norm only or a
[4:06] quickplay only player that's totally
[4:08] fine this video is maybe actually for
[4:11] you but not in the sense that it's going
[4:13] to help you climb but it's going to help
[4:14] you have a more enjoyable experience
[4:16] with the game because like I said at the
[4:18] beginning it's a game you're supposed to
[4:19] have fun and even if you're losing or
[4:21] winning or playing to blcs or L sorry
[4:24] LTA Champions now um it's all about
[4:27] having fun that was a little bit long
[4:28] for an intro but I want want everyone
[4:30] here to be able to understand the
[4:31] importance of mindset the methodology
[4:33] behind Improvement help you develop some
[4:36] confidence and be less anxious in your
[4:37] gaml and then minimize tilt to help you
[4:39] avoid lost streaks and find more
[4:41] efficient Improvement because we don't
[4:42] all have a lot of time in our days so
[4:44] about me just real real quick who am I
[4:46] I'm Bach I'm 30 years old I'm 8,000
[4:49] years old I am an anthropologist I was
[4:50] previously with Cloud9 where I helped
[4:52] run their training grounds program I Was
[4:53] A League of Legends coach there as well
[4:55] I coached for Flame Hard a team in EU
[4:57] where I won an erl and then promote them
[5:00] to the next division up and recently
[5:01] with Supernova where that was a North
[5:03] American team that I helped develop some
[5:04] Talent who hopefully is going to go on
[5:06] to big and better things someday but I
[5:09] also have experienced with many games as
[5:10] you can see old valerant stop 100 pubg
[5:13] you know all these fun little things
[5:14] that I do uh coached worldwide traveled
[5:17] worldwide I love helping people from
[5:18] around the world you know part of my
[5:20] background of of anthropology just a
[5:21] little bit about me and my perspective
[5:23] to maybe set the stage a little bit so
[5:25] why should you care or why you should
[5:27] care honestly and this is kind of why I
[5:29] care because I'm 30 I'm ancient now um
[5:32] maybe I'm having my quarter life or
[5:33] third of life crisis here and I'm
[5:35] thinking man this graph on the right is
[5:38] how many weeks you have to live each dot
[5:42] is a week and here I am 30 almost 30 and
[5:44] a half years old and that that chart's
[5:47] looking a little too full for my liking
[5:48] I don't know how many seasons of League
[5:50] of Legends I have to play 3,400 games
[5:52] left in me you know that's a lot of dots
[5:54] filled up I want to make the most of my
[5:56] time and whether you're you know 15 20
[5:58] or 25 or older than me I think it's
[6:00] valuable to get the most out of your
[6:02] time or at least enjoy doing it so
[6:04] that's why I care and I think that's why
[6:05] you should care as well enough preaching
[6:06] let's go on let's talk a little bit more
[6:07] about it section one mentality and goals
[6:10] maybe you've heard this before but or
[6:12] there's like a dichotomy that you have
[6:13] to worry about here one is the growth
[6:14] mindset the other is the fixed mindset
[6:17] and if we talk about what that might be
[6:18] maybe you've heard these words before
[6:20] but let's break them down a little bit
[6:21] so growth mindset is the idea that
[6:23] abilities and skills can be developed
[6:25] through dedication effort and learning
[6:27] and a fixed mindset is just the belief
[6:29] that ability are fixed traits that can't
[6:30] be improved and you might be saying
[6:32] boach like obviously I like I have a
[6:34] growth mindset I know like I I've gotten
[6:36] better I've climbed but sometimes I feel
[6:39] like people get lost in the plot of what
[6:41] that actually means like it's so obvious
[6:43] that if we can get to the point where
[6:45] we're like little fetus babies crawling
[6:47] around on the ground unable to speak to
[6:49] these fully functioning adults we've had
[6:50] to learn all of these things
[6:51] conversational skills handwriting you
[6:53] know um math that's it actually that's
[6:56] all we learn how to breathe you know or
[6:58] how to run how to how to work out how to
[7:01] live our lives if we can learn all these
[7:02] super complicated and intricate tasks of
[7:05] course we can get better at a video game
[7:07] especially with all these resources that
[7:08] are out there all these free cool
[7:09] resources but sometimes people fall into
[7:11] this fixed mindset where they feel like
[7:13] man I've been silver for a couple of
[7:14] years now and I'm just not getting
[7:16] better maybe I'm only meant to be silver
[7:18] the step one the first step you have to
[7:21] understand is growth mindset is going to
[7:23] be your key it's not going to solve all
[7:25] your problems but it needs to be step
[7:27] one where it unlocks the idea in your
[7:28] mind that you can improve CU it's so
[7:30] easy to throw yourself a pity party and
[7:32] whine and cry on Twitter and Reddit and
[7:33] all these websites like well I'm stuck
[7:35] my teammates suck yeah if you want to be
[7:38] a professional victim then great if you
[7:40] need people to validate that yes people
[7:42] in your ELO suck that's fine but don't
[7:43] let it come in the way of you and your
[7:45] improvement so I always do this exercise
[7:47] with uh new students or new teams when
[7:49] we talk about Improvement because
[7:51] Improvement this all ties into tilts and
[7:54] um expectations so just bear with me but
[7:56] I'll sit down with the player and I'll
[7:57] ask them draw me something
[8:00] and that's all I'll tell them and when I
[8:02] tell them draw me something sometimes
[8:04] they'll draw me a little smiley face in
[8:05] the air if we're in person sometimes
[8:07] they'll draw me like a stick figure
[8:10] sometimes they'll not even know what to
[8:11] do and I think that's the point I'm
[8:12] trying to illustrate here when we start
[8:14] with an idea in our mind that is so
[8:16] vague and so nebulous that it has no
[8:18] direction this is the same thing as
[8:19] saying I want to get better at League of
[8:21] Legends you have no direction it's like
[8:23] a feeling it's a there's no substance to
[8:26] it so how do we like how do we do this
[8:27] how do we make it better What if I told
[8:29] you draw me something in Microsoft Paint
[8:32] we've added a medium to it okay so at
[8:33] least maybe everyone will give me
[8:35] something in a mess paint now if I say
[8:36] draw me a flower okay that's even more
[8:38] specific maybe we get some different
[8:39] types of flowers maybe I say draw me a
[8:42] red rose or a red rose with a green stem
[8:44] in Ms paint now all of a sudden if I ask
[8:46] 100 people to do this sure there's going
[8:47] to be a little bit of variation but
[8:50] comparing the results of 100 people from
[8:51] this level to even this level or even
[8:54] this level you're going to see so much
[8:57] less variation and this is also where
[8:59] that tilt and managing expectations
[9:01] comes from so keep this in your mind as
[9:03] we go into the next
[9:04] section the important thing when we're
[9:06] looking at Improvement is be as specific
[9:09] as possible this is a concept called
[9:10] managing expectations if we look at back
[9:13] at this last example I told you holding
[9:14] your mind you didn't have to hold in
[9:15] your mind for very long did you but if I
[9:17] ask a newbie someone who's never drawn
[9:19] before maybe they don't have a tablet
[9:20] maybe they've never even touched a pen
[9:21] or don't even know what Microsoft Paint
[9:24] is to draw a flower I highly doubt
[9:26] they're going to be able to replicate
[9:27] like something on the right here their
[9:28] first try very very very very high
[9:30] chance that that is not the case it
[9:31] would be something like this but maybe
[9:33] you've watched a video on YouTube and
[9:35] you said wow the guy on YouTube coach
[9:37] Rog coach Curtis coach cup KCK Coach B
[9:39] or whatever these thousands of other
[9:41] good coaches out here have made this
[9:43] concept see incredibly easy and then now
[9:45] I try and played in my game for the
[9:46] first time ever and I'm expecting it to
[9:48] turn out like this but it looks kind of
[9:50] like this and now I'm angry now I'm
[9:52] frustrated well why why would you expect
[9:55] someone with the skill of the artist in
[9:56] the first picture to immediately be
[9:58] capable of producing art in the second
[10:00] picture well that's because we need to
[10:02] manage our expectations so it is good
[10:04] that we're getting specific and it is
[10:06] good that we've set like clear goals or
[10:07] we know what we're practicing but with
[10:09] all things there's time there's
[10:10] repetition you got to get the Reps in
[10:12] and there's also maybe underlying things
[10:14] that are kind of clogging up the way
[10:15] that we're going to talk about more here
[10:16] too another experiment I like to do
[10:18] imagine you're at like a hot date it's
[10:20] like a black tii event there's a $200
[10:22] entry fee this is going to be really
[10:24] good food maybe World Star World not
[10:26] World Star Hip-Hop but like world class
[10:28] Michelin star food here you show up at
[10:30] this restaurant you're looking snazzy
[10:32] you're ready to eat some
[10:33] amazing God like damn this is good food
[10:37] and they come out and they bring you
[10:39] McDonald's are you really going to be
[10:40] upset though like McDonald's is pretty
[10:42] good right McDonald's is great but wait
[10:45] hold
[10:46] up both things can be true if you come
[10:49] in to an event expecting one thing and
[10:52] they serve you another thing even if
[10:53] that thing is good you're still going to
[10:55] be upset because you your expectations
[10:57] are not matching reality this can be the
[10:59] same thing um you go into solo queue and
[11:02] you think wow I'm gonna have the best
[11:04] teammates in the world I'm gonna be this
[11:05] session is going to be great because I'm
[11:06] GNA win all my games I'm going to get so
[11:08] much better I'm going to find so much
[11:09] value here and then you get a couple
[11:11] games where you get fed which is still
[11:13] good but then some people on your team
[11:14] are inting is your whole night ruined or
[11:17] do you need to adjust your expectations
[11:19] and say hey I'm here not for the black
[11:22] tii event I'm not here for the hot date
[11:25] I'm here to eat some food and as long as
[11:26] that food is good that's all that I care
[11:28] because that's the only only thing that
[11:29] I came here for I'm not letting my
[11:31] expectations get in the way of me
[11:33] enjoying my evening or my experience
[11:35] with the game once we do that now going
[11:38] from step one to three or step from this
[11:40] first image to the final product looks a
[11:41] lot more manageable we can break up our
[11:44] Improvement into chunks here and say
[11:46] okay maybe step one to three is not
[11:48] realistic but step one to step two this
[11:50] is looking much more manageable or maybe
[11:52] you break it down even more there's
[11:53] something in between one and two in this
[11:54] in this instance and then looking at
[11:56] number two okay man it's still a ways to
[11:58] go to number three but it's looking a
[12:00] lot more manageable now and we're not
[12:03] thinking that we can immediately
[12:04] replicate things that we've seen online
[12:06] or concepts that we kind of understand
[12:09] one to one with professional players
[12:10] immediately so how do we not do this how
[12:12] do we like avoid um like scenarios where
[12:14] this happens or for anybody who's
[12:16] watched some of my other videos you
[12:18] might might have heard me talk about
[12:19] goal setting so we're going to get into
[12:20] that but how do we not do this so step
[12:22] one and I think this is the most common
[12:24] way is by setting a smart goal and a
[12:27] smart goal here is something that is
[12:29] specific measurable achievable relevant
[12:33] and time bound if you need a second to
[12:35] read these like little bullet points
[12:37] here please pause and take your time to
[12:39] do so I don't want to go through it
[12:41] because it's a PowerPoint you can just
[12:42] pause the video true but specific
[12:44] measurable achievable relevant and time
[12:47] bound so how do we set a goal oh that
[12:49] T's out of the box let's pretend that
[12:50] isn't like that okay that'll be our
[12:51] little secret like Bob Ross putting
[12:53] little Happy Trees everywhere right so
[12:55] if I were to set a goal a smart goal in
[12:58] relating to League of Legends the
[12:59] specificity here would be to achieve
[13:01] Emerald 4 before the end of the rank
[13:03] split that's very specific right Emerald
[13:04] 4 very like that's a rank in the game
[13:06] I'm not just saying getting better it's
[13:07] measurable it's quantitative because I
[13:09] can measure the increase in LP
[13:11] day-to-day or week to week and it's
[13:13] achievable um I think plat to Emerald
[13:15] pretty chill not super unreasonable it's
[13:17] an achievable goal relevant the player
[13:20] enjoys playing League of Legends and
[13:21] already plays several ranked games per
[13:23] week and has few other commitments so
[13:25] it's not like they're going to school
[13:26] full-time for their master's program and
[13:29] they're working through a messy divorce
[13:30] or something they have time to play
[13:33] League of Legends and there's no other
[13:34] things that that are in their life that
[13:35] are demanding attention and lastly it's
[13:37] time bound so we talked about before the
[13:39] end of the rank split that's one aspect
[13:41] of being time bound but every week the
[13:43] player will assess their gains or losses
[13:44] to track their progress and that hard
[13:47] cut off means that hey if the end of the
[13:49] season happens I think it's not November
[13:51] this year because they uh made it uh the
[13:52] three splits again I I forgot I need to
[13:54] adjust that pretend that says December
[13:56] well that's like once that happens you
[13:58] either did it or don't right so what's
[14:00] the problem with this what could be
[14:01] improved on for anybody who said ranked
[14:04] based goals are not optimal for growth
[14:06] why I think everybody almost everybody
[14:07] I've talked to or coached has always
[14:09] said man I really want to get to this
[14:11] rank why is that maybe not optimal for
[14:14] growth well it's because your rank is
[14:16] not really something you have direct
[14:17] control over obviously there's a
[14:19] correlation between skill and rank but
[14:21] the rank is not the cause of your skill
[14:23] it is the effect so in my opinion as a
[14:25] coach your goal should then be directly
[14:27] related to things you do control so
[14:29] examples of good goals might be a number
[14:32] of games played per day or per week or
[14:34] per month on a certain Champion or role
[14:36] that you're trying to improve on or rep
[14:38] spent in practice tool for 1 V ones to
[14:40] refine matchups practicing csing uh for
[14:43] certain minutes in practice tool
[14:45] crashing like C like uh certain set
[14:47] plays like crashing at wave three or
[14:48] four and resetting for a cheater every
[14:50] game regardless of it's good or not
[14:51] you're refining that specific skill
[14:53] placing x amount of wards per game
[14:55] obviously this one's a little bit more
[14:56] contentious here but if your goal is to
[14:58] work on improving your vision then
[15:00] actively focusing on placing more vision
[15:02] is going to help a little bit and um
[15:05] this one's probably like the most
[15:06] contentious but I think it can help
[15:07] depending on what your goal is right the
[15:09] or like what's your like what you
[15:11] struggle with if you're a player who
[15:12] always coin flips your early Lane
[15:14] intentionally playing to not die in Lane
[15:16] might mean that you're playing a little
[15:17] bit too passively but that might be
[15:19] exactly what you need as a specific
[15:21] player to find Improvement in your games
[15:24] all of these are things directly within
[15:25] your control like if the jungler solo
[15:28] like Tower Dives you with the mid laner
[15:29] and the top laner at 7 Minutes well
[15:32] that's not really your fault so you're
[15:33] not really or it's not really like as
[15:35] much of your fault here right and
[15:37] crashing and practicing CS or taking 1 V
[15:40] ones with your friends or rep rep spent
[15:42] and practice tool or playing a certain
[15:44] number of games per day or per week or
[15:45] per month all of these things are things
[15:46] that you can directly control and the
[15:48] best part is when you do practice on a
[15:52] certain task what happens is all these
[15:54] like little
[15:56] tasks all come together
[16:01] to reflect your actual skill at the game
[16:04] and okay if you get a little bit better
[16:05] at csing you're not instantly going to
[16:07] go from bronze to Diamond but if you get
[16:09] a little bit of better csing and you
[16:10] stop dying so much and your warding gets
[16:12] a little bit better and now you
[16:14] understand your matchups because you
[16:15] practicing certain matchups in you know
[16:17] customs with your friends well now all
[16:18] of a sudden you are going to get better
[16:20] and when you get better you are
[16:21] naturally going to win more games over a
[16:23] larger sample size but because we're not
[16:25] focusing on winning or losing the game
[16:27] we're not getting discouraged a loss in
[16:28] the game doesn't mean that we failed in
[16:30] any of these goals it's just the outcome
[16:33] and we don't care about the outcome as
[16:34] much because we're focusing on our own
[16:36] goals that we have control over if I
[16:38] were to ask you that same question to
[16:39] draw me a red rose in Ms paint what it
[16:41] would look like broken down is okay well
[16:43] you would draw like the stem and then
[16:45] look what are the aspects of drying a
[16:46] stem you have things like line thickness
[16:48] okay now the petals and you have to work
[16:49] on like a skill like color blending and
[16:51] the leaves maybe you have to work at
[16:52] like the angle of lighting and shading
[16:54] and this would compare to League of
[16:56] Legends where all right I want to reach
[16:57] emerald in League of Legends that can be
[16:58] like the ideal that you're working
[17:00] towards but there's different aspects of
[17:01] the game I mentioned okay well I want to
[17:03] improve on my early game okay I want to
[17:04] work on csing in lane or trading or you
[17:07] know making sure I'm taking the right
[17:08] runes or masteries all right cool I've
[17:10] kind of felt like I've gotten a little
[17:11] bit better on that let's tidy up my mid
[17:13] game through these very specific things
[17:15] fighting when I have a power Spike okay
[17:17] I'm Ezreal I have my Triforce I'm now
[17:19] looking to take active fights where
[17:20] before maybe I wasn't as much csing
[17:23] still like it's a big part of the entire
[17:25] game um but broken up into different s
[17:29] just getting better at one or two of
[17:31] them per stage of the game is going to
[17:33] like return massive dividends in your
[17:34] overall skill and show in your rank
[17:36] climb reducing your tilt that's the key
[17:39] here is these are all ways or aspects of
[17:41] your mental or how you approach
[17:43] Improvement that are going to reduce
[17:44] your tilt so how do we avoid it like
[17:46] what are some more ways to avoid tilt I
[17:48] think it's helpful to kind of think of
[17:50] what type of player you are and
[17:52] obviously these are three very broad
[17:54] buckets I'm not going to sit here and
[17:56] say like oh you are definitely 100% this
[17:58] one one player and you are definitely
[18:00] 150% this one player everybody has a mix
[18:03] of all three in my opinion but which one
[18:06] do you most identify with and if you
[18:08] allow me to be vulnerable for a second
[18:10] um I very much identify with somebody
[18:12] who has ranked anxiety I'm a very
[18:14] anxious person uh my girlfriend likes to
[18:16] refer to me as the most extroverted
[18:18] introvert she's ever met and I struggle
[18:20] a lot with stress so it's really hard
[18:22] for me sometimes to hit the play button
[18:24] and um when I am stressed sometimes I
[18:27] feel like I'm not able able to perform
[18:28] at my best but for every downside there
[18:32] is an upside I also tend to just really
[18:34] hyper analyze all my own mistakes and I
[18:37] go back over my footage I'm like okay I
[18:39] need to play that better I need to do
[18:40] this better because I'm so hypercritical
[18:42] I'm able to get a lot more value out of
[18:43] the games I do play but maybe you're
[18:45] somebody who's tilted you get frustrated
[18:47] at the first mistake Rage Quit FF votes
[18:50] but I mean you have passion for the game
[18:51] you you obviously maybe if you say on
[18:54] Twitter or you complain to your friends
[18:55] League of Legends is a [ __ ] Gabe I hate
[18:57] this gamee but you keep coming back
[19:00] maybe just maybe you are a whiny little
[19:02] baby who really does love the game and
[19:05] that's okay because the game does suck
[19:07] sometimes I love this game I do it for a
[19:09] living but some patches or some M
[19:11] matchups or some Champions or some
[19:13] players are just man they they tilt the
[19:15] [ __ ] out of me so I understand but at
[19:18] the at the core you got that that love
[19:20] in there so don't don't run from the
[19:21] Love One Love or maybe you're a spammer
[19:24] somebody who doesn't really tilt or
[19:25] doesn't really have anxiety but who just
[19:27] mindlessly spams the game maybe you're
[19:29] that 1,700 wins you know SE
[19:32] 1699 losses um Top Lane player from the
[19:36] beginning of the the lecture here where
[19:37] you play 30 plus rank games I would
[19:39] change this to a day you know and you
[19:41] have a high variance in performance some
[19:42] g games you're 010 some games you're 10
[19:44] and zero but you're because you're
[19:46] spamming the game so much you're
[19:47] probably able to pick up Champions and
[19:48] Concepts more fluidly because you know
[19:51] you spend 100 games playing a champion
[19:52] you will inevitably pick up skill at
[19:54] that
[19:55] champion so there's a downside and an
[19:57] upside to either one so understand what
[19:59] makes you up or what yeah what makes you
[20:01] up as a person and make peace with that
[20:04] and say hey these are the cons and these
[20:05] are the pros and what can I do with that
[20:07] and from there we got to take control
[20:09] this is something that I think a lot of
[20:10] people know in their heart of hearts but
[20:12] maybe just don't do but you're a person
[20:14] and you have needs too when I'm like
[20:16] what's that Snickers commercial it's
[20:17] like uh is it Snickers man where they're
[20:18] like are you hungry because you haven't
[20:20] had a Snickers or something they feed
[20:21] them a Snickers and they go from a
[20:22] monster to like a little cutesy little
[20:24] angel or whatever that's unironically
[20:26] you when you're playing a competitive or
[20:28] stressful thing and you are not taking
[20:30] good care of your body I can tell you
[20:31] for a fact that if I haven't eaten or if
[20:34] I'm dehydrated maybe I'm feeling gross
[20:35] cuz I haven't showered yet today I'm too
[20:37] hot or too cold you know I can't feel my
[20:38] hands maybe I'm just super exhausted or
[20:41] I have you know maybe an assignment do
[20:42] at work or back when I was in school I
[20:44] had a you know a quiz du by midnight and
[20:47] here I am queuing up well I'm not really
[20:49] going to be able to play at my best and
[20:50] that stress the the things completely
[20:52] unrelated to the game are going to make
[20:54] it so I'm not able to perform at like my
[20:57] best level of play in the game you don't
[20:59] need to be in perfect condition in order
[21:00] to play ranked you just have to be aware
[21:02] of your current physical and mental
[21:04] status so you can predict how it might
[21:06] affect your performance remember that
[21:07] example of the hot date well if I go in
[21:09] there expecting Michelin star food and I
[21:11] get McDonald's I'm going to be pissed
[21:13] but if I'm like okay I understand I
[21:16] haven't really eaten too much today or
[21:17] maybe I had a bunch of [ __ ] food to eat
[21:19] and I'm a little tired and I've got
[21:21] homework to do as soon as I get done
[21:22] playing so I only have time for two
[21:23] games I go in with McDonald's and I end
[21:26] up with you know Burger King hey that's
[21:30] an upgrade so I'm actually happy even
[21:32] though this is like we can objectively
[21:34] say that Burger King is worse than a
[21:35] Michelin star food but because I'm being
[21:37] realistic about my expectations I'm not
[21:40] disappointed in the slightest so as
[21:42] promised here's my own pre-ranked ritual
[21:44] and I'm not a superstitious person at
[21:46] all but I do believe in the power of
[21:48] habits habits are great because what you
[21:51] really want to do for any sort of
[21:54] improvement or social experiment or even
[21:56] like yeah here I'll relate it to to
[21:57] school cuz everyone love school whenever
[21:59] you do a project in science you don't
[22:02] just all right here's our hypothesis
[22:04] let's just do random [ __ ] and see
[22:05] what happens you have a controlled
[22:07] experiment you have here's a
[22:09] hypothesis all right let's rigorously
[22:11] test it using these like strict
[22:13] guidelines and let's evaluate and then
[22:15] like let's even retest it right so what
[22:17] a ritual does or a pre-ranked ritual
[22:19] here does is if I'm really going to try
[22:21] and improve or play at my top quality
[22:24] performance as often as possible I'm
[22:26] going to recreate the uh circumstances
[22:29] or scenarios as closely as possible
[22:31] every single day this is the same as if
[22:33] you play competitive as well if you
[22:35] practice in scrims well you want that
[22:36] practice in scrims to closely mirror
[22:38] your stage matches right this means like
[22:39] your equipment your mindset you know how
[22:42] seriously you guys are putting intensity
[22:43] into it all of this wants to mirror
[22:45] practice and the actual officials as
[22:47] much as possible to make it more worth
[22:48] your time so what I do for mine is I get
[22:51] a little light exercise in the morning
[22:52] this wakes me up this gets my blood
[22:53] flowing I don't have a super fancy gym
[22:55] membership I go to Planet Fitness and
[22:57] I'm lucky enough that it's a couple
[22:58] minutes drive away but when it's not I
[23:00] don't feel like doing that I'll
[23:01] literally just go walk around my
[23:02] apartment complex a 3 to 5 minute walk
[23:04] so chill and then when I get back from
[23:07] that I'll write a notepad of tasks I
[23:09] need to do for the day and I write
[23:11] everything down even non work school or
[23:13] game related stuff like make my bed or
[23:16] shower or vacuum or eat lunch or you
[23:19] know take the trash out super easy
[23:21] things so I can just start checking
[23:23] things off the list immediately and then
[23:24] feel good about making progress that
[23:26] puts me in a positive and productive
[23:27] mindset for the day
[23:29] then I'll obviously shower I'll clean up
[23:30] and grab a bottle of water that's a for
[23:33] my EU BLS I had to throw that one in
[23:35] there I'll eat A light meal overnight
[23:37] oats or a sandwich usually for for my
[23:39] breakfast SL lunch and then I'll
[23:40] determine how many games I'll play and
[23:42] what my goal is for the day cuz right my
[23:44] My overall ideal is I want to improve
[23:46] and beneath that I'll have okay I'm
[23:49] going to play x amount of like whatever
[23:52] certain tasks per like per week and then
[23:54] how am I going to do that that's the
[23:56] daily goal and each day has its own like
[23:58] little any daily goal that I break it
[23:59] into so I can every day make a little
[24:01] Chip Away progress towards my goal all
[24:03] of this takes maybe an hour tops and
[24:05] I've now made sure that I've taken care
[24:07] of myself for the whole day remember
[24:08] those needs I talked to in the slide
[24:10] previously okay I got a little exercise
[24:12] so I'm feeling positive mentally and
[24:13] physically I've taken care of my needs
[24:16] like water food cleanliness exercise
[24:21] things that are non-related to the game
[24:22] so now when I do play I'm a lot less
[24:24] worried even if I do have assignments or
[24:26] work deadlines that I need to get to I
[24:28] have a structure of okay I have so much
[24:30] time or I have the ability to budget my
[24:33] time so effectively that I'm so much
[24:34] less stressed and I'm allowed to focus
[24:36] more on the game and that naturally
[24:37] leads me to better results so I
[24:39] challenge you right now as the viewer to
[24:41] take two minutes and come up with your
[24:42] own pre-ranked ritual it doesn't need to
[24:44] be as strict as mine but the consistency
[24:46] is what matters because we want
[24:48] consistency things that you can repeat
[24:51] and keep you focused to get your level
[24:53] of gameplay as high as it possibly can
[24:56] reliably and this is the same thing as
[24:58] setting a new year's resolution
[25:00] sometimes people will say all right it's
[25:01] the New Year's I want to go to the gym
[25:03] every single day for the whole year and
[25:05] they get two weeks in and they realize
[25:06] wait this sucks why did I do this why
[25:08] did I say every day why didn't I say two
[25:09] days a week or something more manageable
[25:11] what I highly encourage everyone to do
[25:13] is keep it manageable it's worthless to
[25:17] have a goal that you give up on after a
[25:18] week or two so start small in fact the
[25:20] first thing you thought of cut it back
[25:22] by another 20% so if you said you wanted
[25:24] to play five games a week drop it down
[25:25] to four games a week and then when you
[25:27] stick to that four games a week for
[25:29] several weeks and you feel really good
[25:30] and you're making progress and you say
[25:32] hey this is really manageable then up it
[25:34] but not by a lot up it by one or two
[25:36] right and from there you can keep
[25:38] building and building and building that
[25:39] habit and you will see Improvement we
[25:41] need to talk about stress a little bit
[25:42] because stress also leads into goals or
[25:44] into into tilt and can affect your
[25:46] improvement so we get stressed when
[25:47] we're under pressure obviously right so
[25:49] making split-second decisions and
[25:51] multitasking is very difficult for like
[25:53] almost everybody there's something
[25:54] called mental bandwidth or Ram that you
[25:56] have to think of and this is usually why
[25:59] higher level players or higher ranked
[26:00] players are better than players that are
[26:03] even slightly lower ranked than them I
[26:04] use this comparison a diamond player and
[26:07] an emerald player on paper there's a
[26:09] difference but when you look at their
[26:11] actual in-game skill you might not see
[26:13] that much of a realistic difference in
[26:16] like very specific scenarios maybe
[26:18] you'll see an emerald player has pretty
[26:19] good mechanics compared to a diamond
[26:21] player decent decision making decent
[26:23] csing def decent Champion Mastery but
[26:26] the difference here is the Diamond
[26:28] Player has more knowledge more skills
[26:30] more habits ingrained into their
[26:32] unconscious gameplay than than the
[26:34] emerald player does an emerald player
[26:35] can perform better than a diamond player
[26:38] at sometimes but over a long period of
[26:40] time consistently the diamond player
[26:42] will play better because they are able
[26:43] to use their extra mental bandwidth to
[26:45] focus on other aspects of the game while
[26:47] the emerald player is using all their
[26:49] mental bandwidth just to keep up with
[26:50] the level of the Diamond Player so what
[26:52] I like to do is proactively frontload
[26:54] each game so I know what to expect going
[26:57] in and I can minimize the variables that
[26:58] come into play so I like to run through
[27:01] that pre-ranked checklist or make sure
[27:02] that I did everything I could before I
[27:04] even queue up so I'm I'm in a healthy
[27:05] mindset I like to do stuff like assess
[27:08] team comps like what's my role in the
[27:09] game I like to predict the pathing or
[27:11] predict the enemy's habits you can do
[27:13] this in whatever game you want like in
[27:14] League of Legends it's really I mean if
[27:16] you have a in-depth understanding of the
[27:17] game you'll be able to understand like
[27:19] jungle pathing at least a little bit
[27:20] that's more than fine just to even start
[27:21] thinking about it but in valerant or CS
[27:24] like you'll know if you're playing dust
[27:25] Ste like okay they lost pistol what are
[27:27] they going to do they're going to rush
[27:28] um deciding your preliminary build path
[27:30] or you know like what you're going to
[27:32] what Champions you're going to play uh
[27:33] checking potential win conditions and
[27:35] communic communicating with pings or
[27:36] feeding info to your team even in like
[27:38] Champion Select or before the minions
[27:40] have spawned right all of these things
[27:42] you can do to set yourself up and take a
[27:45] load off of stress and of your mental
[27:47] bandwidth so you can actively think
[27:48] about things that are going to help you
[27:49] improve or win the game do it before the
[27:51] Super difficult team fights happening
[27:53] that are requiring all of your resources
[27:55] Above All Else your rank does not
[27:58] determine your value as a human being I
[28:00] think in the pursuit of growth some
[28:02] people forget this even myself sometimes
[28:04] and I get too hard on myself it is a
[28:06] video game you're supposed to have fun
[28:08] even if you're trying to go pro it's not
[28:10] worth making yourself absolutely
[28:12] miserable so find a way to have fun with
[28:14] it find a way to make peace with it and
[28:16] I hope you enjoy this presentation like
[28:17] comment subscribe bye