How to avoid TILT in Marvel Rivals - Tips from Sports Psychology

[00:00] remember when gaming was simple why did

[00:03] that ever have to change gaming used to

[00:06] mean abandoning your personal hygiene

[00:08] for 12-hour marathons guzzling

[00:11] fluorescent colored soda and ignoring

[00:14] any suggestions to go outside back then

[00:17] escaping really did mean just diving

[00:20] head first into pixelated Bliss no

[00:23] stress no pressure just a sweet sweet

[00:26] hum of your PC's fan on a warm summer

[00:29] day now fast forward to your grown-up

[00:33] self complete with a day job mounting

[00:36] bills and a tick tock Society where to

[00:38] feel like you're worth anything you need

[00:41] to have gone to the gym started three

[00:43] passive income businesses invested in

[00:45] the latest meme coin and had an ice

[00:47] water plunge all by 10:00 a.m. in the

[00:49] morning clearly the stress builds up now

[00:53] when you try to play some more of

[00:54] arrivals and go up the ladder when

[00:56] things don't go your way this game which

[00:59] is supposed to be your way to wind down

[01:02] has become just another source of stress

[01:04] as if we need any more and being hard

[01:07] stuck in a rank or two is incredibly

[01:10] frustrating here's the kicker though

[01:12] it's not just your mechanics your

[01:15] precious reflexes or the matchmaking or

[01:18] your mouse pad that's this big that are

[01:20] the cause of your slow rank climb and

[01:22] your eroding mental health it's also

[01:26] that jumbled mess of mental habits

[01:28] pulling the strings behind the scenes

[01:30] quietly Whispering hey man today was

[01:33] garbage but why not keep the momentum

[01:36] going by tilting your way through a few

[01:38] more humiliating losses and dropping

[01:40] even further huh sure the internet is

[01:43] practically drowning in tutorials and

[01:46] character guides on how to take space as

[01:49] a tank and uh use off angles as a DPS

[01:53] and animation cancel like a pro these

[01:56] things are really important but none of

[01:59] that mechanical Wizardry matters the

[02:02] moment your psyche decides to light

[02:04] itself on fire if tilt and burnout join

[02:08] as the seventh player on your team your

[02:10] aim your reaction time decision making

[02:14] everything even any trace of fun go

[02:16] straight out the window so let's

[02:18] confront this mess head on together in

[02:21] the first part of the video I'm going to

[02:22] identify the mental blockers that cause

[02:25] this because we have to start somewhere

[02:27] then I'm going to use some sports

[02:28] psychology and research and you know I

[02:31] like research in order to relate all of

[02:33] it to Competitive Gaming and

[02:35] specifically to Marvel rivals in order

[02:37] to understand what good mental actually

[02:40] looks like and then we're going to tap

[02:41] her off with some actionable tips and

[02:43] things you can actually do in order to

[02:46] see Improvement so we can all try to

[02:48] unfuck ourselves from whichever rank

[02:50] we're at let's start identifying the

[02:53] main mental blockers that are typically

[02:55] holding you back I know climbing the

[02:57] competitive ladder in Marvel rivals can

[03:00] feel a lot like trying to eat soup with

[03:02] a fork one minute you're riding a hot

[03:04] streak thinking you finally got a handle

[03:06] on your character and then the next

[03:08] you're getting clapped so hard you start

[03:11] questioning if you were ever actually

[03:13] good or if the matchmaking gods were

[03:15] just feeding you scrubs to keep you

[03:17] hooked and when that happens it's really

[03:20] easy to just start spiraling you start

[03:23] thinking maybe the system is just rigged

[03:26] maybe your teammates are all garbage

[03:28] maybe the game itself has some personal

[03:31] Vendetta against you is the system

[03:33] rigged some say yes some say no and

[03:36] we're just coping some say kind of but

[03:39] it's just unfair regardless either way

[03:43] are your teammates all trash sometimes

[03:46] yeah absolutely but sometimes you're the

[03:50] problem and does the game hate you with

[03:53] an attitude like that man yeah here's

[03:55] the thing and I really want you to

[03:57] internalize this whether or not all of

[04:00] these things are true doesn't matter

[04:03] sitting in these mental traps is not

[04:05] going to help you climb instead they'll

[04:07] tilt you into the ground they'll burn

[04:09] you out and they're going to suck out

[04:11] every ounce of fun out of the game which

[04:14] is going to make you play worse so let's

[04:16] talk about what's holding you back the

[04:18] first one is the blame game one of the

[04:21] biggest mistakes you can make in a game

[04:23] like this one is blaming your teammates

[04:25] for every loss and yeah I get it

[04:29] sometimes they are the problem of course

[04:31] but making that your default mindset is

[04:34] a one-way ticket to being hardstuck

[04:37] forever even if you're right let's give

[04:39] you that pointing fingers doesn't help

[04:42] it just makes you bitter it blinds you

[04:45] to your own mistakes and ironically it

[04:47] makes you an even worse teammate to play

[04:50] with and guess what if you're miserable

[04:52] to play with you're less likely to win

[04:55] if we all agree that tilt makes you a

[04:58] shell of who you are as a player then

[05:00] tilting other players does the exact

[05:02] same thing if you have this stupid

[05:04] Spider-Man who keeps dying all the time

[05:07] do you think it's helpful to tilt that

[05:09] so you're going to take that horrible

[05:11] skill set you're going to make them

[05:12] angry so then they can play even worse

[05:15] yet you want to win the match that

[05:17] doesn't work players who consistently

[05:20] and constantly blame others tend to have

[05:22] a fixed mindset we'll talk about that in

[05:24] a minute they assume that the issue is

[05:27] everyone else instead of ever looking

[05:30] inward but if you want to improve you

[05:32] need to ask yourself and be realistic

[05:35] what could I have done better even in

[05:37] the games that are just a dumpster fire

[05:39] where your team was awful there's always

[05:42] something that you could have done

[05:43] differently would it have changed the

[05:45] outcome probably not would it have made

[05:47] you into a better more self-aware player

[05:50] absolutely and would that get you to a

[05:53] rankup Down the Line in a faster way

[05:56] yeah buddy the next belief we want to

[05:58] talk about is related to ELO hell and

[06:01] this illusion of no control and you know

[06:03] ELO hell the idea that the matchmaking

[06:07] system is screwing you over keeping you

[06:09] trapped in a rank that you don't belong

[06:12] in you know what sometimes it does feel

[06:14] like that here's the truth man yes some

[06:17] matches are

[06:19] unwinable it sucks but over the long run

[06:23] your rank is mostly determined by your

[06:25] own performance not those individual

[06:27] sucky matches psychologists call this

[06:30] the Locust of control high performing

[06:32] players believe that their actions shape

[06:34] their results struggling players on the

[06:36] other hand externalize blame they assume

[06:39] the universe just hates them and here's

[06:41] the kicker both are self-fulfilling

[06:43] prophecies if you believe for example

[06:46] that the system is rigged and my

[06:48] teammates suck then what do you think's

[06:50] going to happen you're going to play

[06:51] like someone who has no control over

[06:53] their climb but if you believe I control

[06:56] my rank I am here I have the power even

[06:59] in the chaotic situations then you're

[07:01] going to be focusing on what actually

[07:03] matters and what's that your decision-

[07:05] making your positioning your awareness a

[07:08] billion other things and even if you're

[07:10] wrong and ELO hell exists and your

[07:12] teammates suck the mindset is what's

[07:15] actually going to help you improve the

[07:17] belief has to be healthy so yeah whether

[07:20] ELO hell is real or not who gives a [ __ ]

[07:22] it doesn't matter it's what you believe

[07:24] that makes the difference the final one

[07:26] I'll give you before we move on to the

[07:28] next chapter is fear and rank anxiety or

[07:31] basically fear of losing we've all been

[07:33] there dude you finally hit a new Rank

[07:36] and suddenly every game feels high

[07:38] Stakes or maybe not a new rank maybe

[07:40] you're one game away from getting a new

[07:42] rank stress you start playing too

[07:45] cautiously you start to second guess

[07:47] yourself and before you know it you're

[07:49] making worse decisions not better

[07:51] decisions this is classic performance

[07:55] anxiety and according to a lot of sports

[07:57] psychology out there too much anxiety

[07:59] tanks your ability to play well the best

[08:01] players in the world focus on the

[08:03] process not just the result if you only

[08:05] care about your rank every loss just

[08:07] feels catastrophic you start dodging

[08:10] matches you don't play as much you are

[08:12] afraid to risk a demotion you just stop

[08:15] learning you stop improving and

[08:17] eventually you're going to stop having

[08:18] fun too at the end of the day if you

[08:20] want to climb in a more stressfree way

[08:23] and have a bit more fun as you're

[08:25] climbing you need to let go of the

[08:27] excuses dude you need to stop being Afra

[08:29] afid to lose and you need to focus on

[08:31] what you can control because the truth

[08:34] is nobody's going to carry you up the

[08:36] ladder we're solo cuing here you either

[08:38] get better or you get stuck and it's

[08:41] 100% your own choice now let's analyze

[08:44] you know the psychology of a champion so

[08:46] to speak and think about why mindset

[08:48] matters more than you think I've looked

[08:50] into some psychology research out there

[08:52] specifically sports psychology and I

[08:54] think a lot of that relates to gaming

[08:56] many will argue that something like

[08:58] Marvel rivals or any other hero shooter

[09:00] is a sport and that's why Esports exist

[09:03] there's a lot of hand eye coordination

[09:04] you need to have and a lot of kind of

[09:06] almost physical attributes in order to

[09:08] be able to play so let's just assume

[09:09] that something like MMA is the same as

[09:13] gaming if ranking up in Marvel Rivals

[09:15] was just about clicking heads faster

[09:18] you'd see a lot more people at the top

[09:20] wouldn't you but you don't because the

[09:21] real difference between players who keep

[09:23] improving and climbing and those who

[09:25] stay stuck isn't just mechanics that's

[09:28] super important but it's also their

[09:30] mindset I know it sounds like the kind

[09:32] of thing some self-help Guru would yell

[09:35] at you about on YouTube but it's true

[09:37] it's not just fluff it's decades and

[09:40] Decades of research in sports psychology

[09:42] all of them point to the same conclusion

[09:45] your mental game matters big time let's

[09:47] break down what actually separates the

[09:49] climbers from the complainers the first

[09:52] one is really thinking about the process

[09:55] more than you think about the results

[09:57] and I said it before just a second ago

[09:59] but I'm doubling down on it man if you

[10:01] want to climb you have to stop obsessing

[10:04] over your rank it's a little

[10:06] counterintuitive it's kind of backwards

[10:08] you know isn't the whole point to win

[10:10] and yeah totally but the second you

[10:13] fixate on wins and losses and you become

[10:15] obsessed you're setting yourself up to

[10:17] tilt the more you chase a thing whether

[10:20] it's in gaming or in life the more it

[10:22] tends to run right look at a pro athlete

[10:24] a sprinter doesn't just run a race

[10:26] thinking like oh my God I got to get the

[10:28] gold at all cost no they're locked in on

[10:31] their stride on their breathing their

[10:33] execution their technique the gold medal

[10:36] is just a you know a byproduct of

[10:39] getting those things right but the

[10:40] process is more important the same thing

[10:43] applies in marel Rivals the best players

[10:45] out there aren't just freaking out about

[10:47] every rank deviation they're analyzing

[10:50] things all the time they're thinking

[10:51] about their map awareness their decision

[10:54] making their positioning and that's what

[10:56] actually leads to more wins over time

[10:59] and that's what actually leads to

[11:00] ranking up there's a concept that's

[11:02] really interesting called probability

[11:04] based thinking and it's a real game

[11:07] changer think about it even a god tier

[11:09] player with like 60 70% win rate at

[11:13] Celestial is still going to lose you

[11:15] know 30 40% of the time that's a lot of

[11:18] losing so if you lose your mind every

[11:21] time a game doesn't go your way exactly

[11:24] you're basically fighting against

[11:26] reality it's not healthy instead analyze

[11:29] the loss think about things like did you

[11:32] make the right plays based on the

[11:33] information that you had did you have

[11:36] perfect positioning was your accuracy

[11:38] High were you making the right picks

[11:41] were you fighting the right opponents a

[11:43] lot of other things and if yes to all of

[11:45] those questions then just move on the

[11:47] loss is just variance it doesn't matter

[11:49] in the long run if no and you can

[11:51] recognize that you messed some things up

[11:53] then congratulations you just found a

[11:55] lesson that's sick so apply it and

[11:58] you're already better than before for

[11:59] kind of that simple the next concept is

[12:02] one of my favorites and it is growth

[12:04] mindset it's literally the reason why

[12:06] some players get better and others just

[12:08] complain in anything in life but

[12:10] especially in Marvel Rivals there are

[12:12] typically two types of players there are

[12:14] the fixed mindset players the ones that

[12:16] think that skill is something you're

[12:18] born with or it's innate or you don't

[12:20] have a ton of control over or they just

[12:22] come up with excuses if they lose it's

[12:25] because of their teammates or it's the

[12:27] game or it's the matchmaking or

[12:28] something things rigged you know those

[12:30] kinds of people and then there are the

[12:32] growth mindset players they believe that

[12:34] skill is developed if they lose they ask

[12:37] what could I have done better even if

[12:39] some of the other things are true again

[12:41] trash teammates strange matchmaking the

[12:44] billion other things that can happen in

[12:46] this game regardless they drown that

[12:48] noise out and they think about what

[12:50] could I have done better guess which

[12:53] group actually gets good it's rhetorical

[12:55] see psychologist Carol dwi's research on

[12:58] mindset is is legendary in sports

[13:00] psychology and the same principles apply

[13:03] in Marvel Rivals see studies on League

[13:05] of Legends found that fixed mindset

[13:07] players stay stuck because they blame

[13:09] external factors meanwhile growth

[13:11] mindset players improve adapt and

[13:13] eventually surpass them the final bit

[13:15] I'll give you here before we pass on to

[13:17] the next piece is really about selft

[13:20] talk you know that voice in your head

[13:21] which really can just make you or break

[13:24] you let me ask you directly after a loss

[13:26] happens what do you tell yourself do you

[13:28] say say things like man I always choke I

[13:31] I [ __ ] suck at this game why am I

[13:33] even playing or things like that was

[13:36] rough I learned some things but hey man

[13:38] off to the next one because you know

[13:40] what whichever one you pick you're right

[13:43] Sports psychologists have found that

[13:45] selft talk has a huge impact on

[13:47] performance in Esports we tend to ignore

[13:50] this but the top players don't they know

[13:53] that confidence isn't just some you know

[13:55] magic thing that you either have or

[13:58] don't have it's it's something you build

[14:00] and a really big part of it is the way

[14:02] you talk to yourself so the next time

[14:04] you mess up try not to spiral into I

[14:07] suck I'll never climb instead just treat

[14:09] yourself like you would a teammate that

[14:11] you like if you have a teammate and they

[14:13] messed up and had a bad performance

[14:15] you're never going to be nasty to them I

[14:17] hope you're going to tell them things

[14:18] like all right dude shake it off all

[14:20] good we got it next round here's like

[14:22] three things that you did really well um

[14:24] let's let's focus on that dude let's go

[14:26] this one tiny shift can make a massive

[14:29] difference in how things play out it's

[14:31] less tilt it means more focus and that

[14:33] means better plays now let's turn to

[14:36] page and really go into some more

[14:38] actionable things you know mindset

[14:40] shifts you can practice in order to

[14:42] power your climb and go from frustrated

[14:44] to focused you know if you're tired of

[14:47] feeling like you're just banging your

[14:49] head against the ranked wall in Mar ofel

[14:51] rals dude welcome to the club I'm in the

[14:54] same place here are some things you can

[14:56] do the first one is control what you can

[14:58] and just let go of the rest this game is

[15:02] a monster every match is chaos hundreds

[15:06] and hundreds of things are happening all

[15:08] at once and most of them are completely

[15:11] outside of your control there are things

[15:13] you can control your decision making

[15:15] your mechanics your communication your

[15:18] attitude your positioning things like

[15:21] that what you can't control are things

[15:23] like the bad Dives your teammates are

[15:25] making which hero your teammates pick

[15:28] whether they have a brain stem so the

[15:30] sooner you internalize this the less

[15:32] energy you're going to be wasting on

[15:34] useless frustration we solo qu dude we

[15:36] can't control those guys we have to

[15:38] focus on our own stuff the next one I'll

[15:40] give you is to focus on Improvement and

[15:42] not just rank or in other words really

[15:45] zero in on the process [ __ ] the outcome

[15:48] yeah you want to rank up I know dude

[15:50] obviously I do too but ironically if you

[15:53] focus too much on the rank while playing

[15:56] or you focus too much on whether you're

[15:58] going to win or lose or where the game

[16:00] is going you're making it harder to get

[16:02] the outcome that you want instead before

[16:04] every session you want to set some

[16:06] tangible smart goals things that are

[16:09] achievable first of all things that are

[16:10] in your control and things that will

[16:12] give you the sense of improvement

[16:14] because over time they stack up and if

[16:15] you're successful in improving the

[16:17] things you can control everything else

[16:18] is going to fall into place for example

[16:20] you can sit down for a play session and

[16:22] only focus on three things the first one

[16:24] may be something like I normally have a

[16:27] accuracy of 35% % I want to maintain an

[16:30] accuracy of at least 38% during today's

[16:33] game session and I'm going to do my best

[16:34] to do that the second one is I'm going

[16:36] to work on better positioning so I'm

[16:38] going to make a rule of thumb where I'm

[16:39] super conscious about where my player

[16:42] you know my hero is and I'm going to

[16:43] make sure that I'm always like half a

[16:45] second or maybe a second away from

[16:47] natural cover I'm going to be using

[16:48] Corners I'm going to be using slopes and

[16:50] then the last one is hey because I'm a

[16:52] conscientious growth mindset player I

[16:55] watched some highlevel ranked play of

[16:57] other people playing my character and I

[16:59] saw a really cool flanking route that

[17:01] this one guy took so I'm going to try

[17:03] that one and at the same time mix it in

[17:05] with my other goals that's it that's all

[17:06] I'm going to be doing tonight why do you

[17:08] do this because goals like these

[17:11] actually keep you engaged in the game

[17:13] itself they give you agency there are

[17:15] things you can control if you [ __ ] it up

[17:17] it's your fault and your fault entirely

[17:19] and if you succeed it's also your credit

[17:22] the last one I'll leave you with is

[17:23] treat losses as lessons not punishment a

[17:27] loss is not some personal attack on your

[17:29] ego it's it's just data that's all it is

[17:33] the angry tilted players treat losses

[17:36] like a moral failure it's stupid smart

[17:39] players treat them like a learning

[17:41] opportunity so after a bad game instead

[17:43] of Rage queuing into another disaster

[17:46] watch the VOD and think about what was

[17:48] the Turning Point here what exactly

[17:50] happened in this match the second one is

[17:52] were there small mistakes being done by

[17:54] me or someone else that just snowballed

[17:57] into a bigger issue and what could I

[17:59] have done to communicate or prevent them

[18:01] through some of my skill set another one

[18:03] is what killed me and specifically was

[18:05] it always positioning was it bad pick

[18:07] selection things like that are super

[18:10] super useful and imagine a world where

[18:12] you combine the tangible goals that you

[18:14] set prior to the game with analysis of

[18:16] your vods afterwards and asking the

[18:18] right questions dude you're going to be

[18:20] amazing another thing you can do with

[18:22] this to make it even more efficient is

[18:24] just write it down jot down some key

[18:26] lessons from the game and then move on

[18:28] and if it's sounds excessive well it is

[18:30] in some ways but guess what Pro players

[18:32] do this people that take this seriously

[18:34] do this and a lot of them rewatch their

[18:36] own replays take a lot of notes they

[18:38] study other high rank streams to find

[18:41] patterns and mistakes they would watch

[18:42] the VOD from the enemy perspective just

[18:45] to see how they appear on their screen

[18:47] and that reveals a whole lot there's a

[18:49] lot of cool stuff that they do that is

[18:51] all in the spirit of improvement because

[18:54] Improvement isn't just about playing

[18:56] more and playing with more intent it's

[18:59] literally about learning more with this

[19:01] kind of mindset even a losing streak of

[19:04] like 24 losses something crazy starts to

[19:07] become valuable think about how much

[19:09] data there is in a losing streak so

[19:11] remember you either win or you learn

[19:14] both move you forward if you handle them

[19:16] right that's about it I'm an emotional

[19:19] person like everybody these games

[19:21] frustrate me and to go back all the way

[19:23] to the beginning of the video it's not

[19:25] supposed to do that it's a game I play

[19:27] this when I want to wind down have fun

[19:29] with other people play Marvel stuff and

[19:32] Marvel stuff I'm a big Marvel fan

[19:34] [ __ ] obviously I nerd out about stuff

[19:36] like that that's why I play this game

[19:38] and when it tilts me and gets me angry

[19:40] and gives me anxiety it's really

[19:41] disappointing because that's not what

[19:43] gaming ever was for me and these games

[19:45] can really get me in a bad mental place

[19:48] so what I've developed since I began

[19:49] playing the game were these things I'm

[19:51] not pulling them out of my ass these are

[19:53] things that I'm actively doing and if

[19:55] this video built any perspective if it

[19:57] was useful do let me know is well I feel

[19:59] strongly about the topic I think I'm a

[20:01] big proponent of mental health

[20:03] especially in gaming and I really

[20:04] enjoyed making it so I just wanted to

[20:06] put something out there that hopefully

[20:07] helps a couple of people enjoy the game

[20:09] more and enjoy gaming more as well so

[20:12] thank you so much for watching and I

[20:13] will see you at the top