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title: 'Why You’re Tilting in League (and How to Stop)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=64vyr4n0aaE'
video_id: '64vyr4n0aaE'
date: 2026-07-28
duration_sec: 1699
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# Why You’re Tilting in League (and How to Stop)

> Source: [Why You’re Tilting in League (and How to Stop)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=64vyr4n0aaE)

## Summary

Tilt in competitive gaming stems from mismatched expectations and understanding. This video explains the psychological causes of tilt and provides actionable strategies to manage it, including goal-setting, self-care, and pre-game rituals, to improve performance and enjoyment.

### Key Points

- **Tilt is a common problem** [00:00] — Almost every client has struggled with tilt, which hinders improvement.
- **Causes of tilt: mismatched understanding** [00:28] — Tilt occurs when actual understanding doesn't match perceived level, leading to frustration.
- **Dunning-Kruger effect** [01:53] — Players often overestimate their skill after initial success, then get frustrated when results don't match expectations.
- **Example of wasted games** [03:09] — A player with 3,400 games and barely 50% win rate shows how tilt leads to stagnation.
- **Growth vs fixed mindset** [06:10] — Growth mindset believes skills can be developed; fixed mindset sees them as static. Growth mindset is key to improvement.
- **Specific goal setting** [07:47] — Vague goals like 'get better' lead to no direction. Specific goals (e.g., 'draw a red rose in MS Paint') reduce variation and frustration.
- **Managing expectations** [09:04] — Expecting immediate mastery after learning a concept causes tilt. Break improvement into manageable steps.
- **Expectation vs reality analogy** [10:18] — Expecting Michelin-star food but getting McDonald's causes disappointment, even if McDonald's is good. Adjust expectations to reality.
- **SMART goals** [12:22] — Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound goals help focus improvement.
- **Process goals over outcome goals** [14:14] — Rank is an outcome; focus on controllable actions like CS practice, warding, or games played per week.
- **Player types** [17:46] — Three broad types: anxious, tilted, and spammer. Each has strengths and weaknesses; understand yours.
- **Self-care reduces tilt** [20:09] — Physical needs (food, water, sleep, exercise) directly affect performance. Be aware of your state.
- **Pre-ranked ritual** [21:42] — A consistent pre-game routine (exercise, planning, hydration) sets a positive mindset and reduces stress.
- **Start small and build habits** [24:39] — Set manageable goals (e.g., 4 games/week) and gradually increase to build lasting habits.
- **Mental bandwidth** [25:41] — Higher-ranked players automate skills, freeing mental RAM for complex decisions. Frontload decisions to reduce stress.

### Conclusion

Tilt is manageable by aligning expectations with reality, focusing on process goals, and taking care of your physical and mental state. Your rank does not define your worth; enjoy the game.

## Transcript

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