Why You’re Tilting in League (and How to Stop)

[00:00] tilt is a weird thing after all it's

[00:01] just a game why do you have to be mad

[00:03] but sometimes it feels like everyone is

[00:05] mad all the time almost every client out

[00:08] of the hundreds I've worked with have

[00:09] struggled with tilt in their games and

[00:11] it has stopped them improving as fast as

[00:12] they should be so today I'm going to be

[00:13] breaking down why people tilt how to

[00:15] start improving regardless of what game

[00:17] you play or your goals and if you stick

[00:19] around to the end I'll share with you my

[00:20] own specific routine that I use to stay

[00:22] locked in and focused when I grind we're

[00:24] going to keep this a little more

[00:24] conversational today lecture style-ish

[00:27] so let's talk about tilt before we get

[00:29] started we kind of have to talk about

[00:30] what causes tilt cuz if we don't

[00:32] understand our enemy you know how are we

[00:33] going to defeat it so I like to start by

[00:35] thinking of what causing tilt what

[00:38] causes tilt um in in two different ways

[00:40] way number one is when our actual level

[00:43] of understanding doesn't line up to

[00:45] where it needs to be so when we learn a

[00:47] topic or we hear about a topic like

[00:48] let's say you've been on YouTube or

[00:49] Twitter before unfortunately and you've

[00:51] heard about like freezing waves or

[00:53] you've heard about uh rotating you've

[00:55] heard about you know stutter stepping or

[00:57] shoulder peaking and valerant something

[00:59] like that you might have heard these

[01:00] words or these terms hundreds or

[01:02] thousands of times but what level of

[01:04] understanding are you really at here are

[01:05] you obviously remembering what the words

[01:07] are and maybe even understanding what

[01:09] they are but can you reliably apply

[01:11] these in your games can you analyze each

[01:13] part of this concept so you can improve

[01:15] at it and can you like evaluate was this

[01:18] even a good idea to do in the first

[01:19] place or you just blanketly applying it

[01:21] to every situation and maybe getting

[01:22] middling results this is a big problem

[01:24] I've seen now that the player base and

[01:26] information regarding Improvement has

[01:27] become so readily available every player

[01:30] I know has heard about slow pushing away

[01:31] or freezing where maybe 10 years ago

[01:33] when I started playing the game um no

[01:35] one knew what the heck they were doing

[01:37] so in my opinion this is one of the

[01:38] things that causes tilt is mismatched

[01:41] levels of understanding a lot of people

[01:42] are actually at these first two maybe

[01:45] three levels of understanding like they

[01:46] know it they understand it they can

[01:47] apply it sometimes but they mistakenly

[01:49] think they're somewhere up here at the

[01:50] evaluation or even creating level

[01:52] another part of this is something some

[01:53] of you might have heard before called

[01:54] The Dun and Krueger effect this happens

[01:57] where you learn a new concept or maybe

[01:59] you play something and you see uh an

[02:02] initial peak of success this is like

[02:04] okay I know how to freeze a lane and

[02:05] maybe you'll play a couple games of solo

[02:07] you'll freeze a lane and you'll get some

[02:08] really good immediate results and these

[02:10] results may or may not be correct but

[02:13] maybe these results have other factors

[02:14] like you could have just gotten lucky

[02:16] these are games or scenarios where

[02:17] freezing was the best option but because

[02:19] you're lacking those levels of

[02:20] understanding and evaluating you apply

[02:22] this to a wider sample of games and you

[02:24] realize oh wait there's so much more

[02:26] that I know or that I need to know

[02:28] before I really am actually good at this

[02:30] and the problem is a lot of people get

[02:31] to hear they're like oh I fully mastered

[02:33] this concept I know everything about

[02:34] freezing I know everything about slow

[02:36] pushing I know everything about trading

[02:37] everything about Landing everything

[02:38] about jungling and then they realize or

[02:40] they should realize that oh hey even the

[02:42] best players in the world are somewhere

[02:44] somewhere in here where okay they've

[02:46] acknowledged that they have some level

[02:48] of understanding of the game but their

[02:49] confidence is always like hey I have

[02:51] something more to learn here and I'm

[02:54] sure you'll see this on Reddit if you've

[02:55] ever been on here apparently everyone on

[02:56] Reddit is Challenger and everyone on

[02:58] Reddit is better than even like the

[03:00] world's finalists every single year

[03:01] without fail it's kind of crazy but the

[03:03] confidence Gap so these are two

[03:05] backgrounds or back bones of tilt or the

[03:07] mechanisms behind why tilt happens now

[03:09] let's talk about what that looks like in

[03:11] your games these are screenshots

[03:13] unfortunately I know avert your eyes

[03:14] from two different real people's op.

[03:18] GS um I did the math this is around

[03:21] 1,700 wins and 1,700 losses so this

[03:25] person played 3,000 plus solo Q games

[03:27] with barely over a 50% win right the

[03:30] amount of time it would take to do that

[03:31] is just staggering and because of this

[03:34] they are not climbing an ELO two seasons

[03:37] thousands of games it's borderline on

[03:39] wasted time you can play hundreds or

[03:40] thousands of games per season and not

[03:42] see any meaningful Improvement due to

[03:43] tilt or those mismanaged expectations or

[03:45] the mismatched understanding and it's

[03:47] not because players like this are

[03:48] playing to lose or to waste their time I

[03:51] think a lot of people are just stuck in

[03:52] a cycle and it's hard to get out of that

[03:54] cycle without some uh outward influence

[03:57] and I do want to say I I have this note

[03:59] here but if your goal is to just play

[04:00] the game in your spare time and have fun

[04:02] you know maybe you casually play a

[04:03] couple rank games a week or maybe you're

[04:05] an Aram only or a norm only or a

[04:06] quickplay only player that's totally

[04:08] fine this video is maybe actually for

[04:11] you but not in the sense that it's going

[04:13] to help you climb but it's going to help

[04:14] you have a more enjoyable experience

[04:16] with the game because like I said at the

[04:18] beginning it's a game you're supposed to

[04:19] have fun and even if you're losing or

[04:21] winning or playing to blcs or L sorry

[04:24] LTA Champions now um it's all about

[04:27] having fun that was a little bit long

[04:28] for an intro but I want want everyone

[04:30] here to be able to understand the

[04:31] importance of mindset the methodology

[04:33] behind Improvement help you develop some

[04:36] confidence and be less anxious in your

[04:37] gaml and then minimize tilt to help you

[04:39] avoid lost streaks and find more

[04:41] efficient Improvement because we don't

[04:42] all have a lot of time in our days so

[04:44] about me just real real quick who am I

[04:46] I'm Bach I'm 30 years old I'm 8,000

[04:49] years old I am an anthropologist I was

[04:50] previously with Cloud9 where I helped

[04:52] run their training grounds program I Was

[04:53] A League of Legends coach there as well

[04:55] I coached for Flame Hard a team in EU

[04:57] where I won an erl and then promote them

[05:00] to the next division up and recently

[05:01] with Supernova where that was a North

[05:03] American team that I helped develop some

[05:04] Talent who hopefully is going to go on

[05:06] to big and better things someday but I

[05:09] also have experienced with many games as

[05:10] you can see old valerant stop 100 pubg

[05:13] you know all these fun little things

[05:14] that I do uh coached worldwide traveled

[05:17] worldwide I love helping people from

[05:18] around the world you know part of my

[05:20] background of of anthropology just a

[05:21] little bit about me and my perspective

[05:23] to maybe set the stage a little bit so

[05:25] why should you care or why you should

[05:27] care honestly and this is kind of why I

[05:29] care because I'm 30 I'm ancient now um

[05:32] maybe I'm having my quarter life or

[05:33] third of life crisis here and I'm

[05:35] thinking man this graph on the right is

[05:38] how many weeks you have to live each dot

[05:42] is a week and here I am 30 almost 30 and

[05:44] a half years old and that that chart's

[05:47] looking a little too full for my liking

[05:48] I don't know how many seasons of League

[05:50] of Legends I have to play 3,400 games

[05:52] left in me you know that's a lot of dots

[05:54] filled up I want to make the most of my

[05:56] time and whether you're you know 15 20

[05:58] or 25 or older than me I think it's

[06:00] valuable to get the most out of your

[06:02] time or at least enjoy doing it so

[06:04] that's why I care and I think that's why

[06:05] you should care as well enough preaching

[06:06] let's go on let's talk a little bit more

[06:07] about it section one mentality and goals

[06:10] maybe you've heard this before but or

[06:12] there's like a dichotomy that you have

[06:13] to worry about here one is the growth

[06:14] mindset the other is the fixed mindset

[06:17] and if we talk about what that might be

[06:18] maybe you've heard these words before

[06:20] but let's break them down a little bit

[06:21] so growth mindset is the idea that

[06:23] abilities and skills can be developed

[06:25] through dedication effort and learning

[06:27] and a fixed mindset is just the belief

[06:29] that ability are fixed traits that can't

[06:30] be improved and you might be saying

[06:32] boach like obviously I like I have a

[06:34] growth mindset I know like I I've gotten

[06:36] better I've climbed but sometimes I feel

[06:39] like people get lost in the plot of what

[06:41] that actually means like it's so obvious

[06:43] that if we can get to the point where

[06:45] we're like little fetus babies crawling

[06:47] around on the ground unable to speak to

[06:49] these fully functioning adults we've had

[06:50] to learn all of these things

[06:51] conversational skills handwriting you

[06:53] know um math that's it actually that's

[06:56] all we learn how to breathe you know or

[06:58] how to run how to how to work out how to

[07:01] live our lives if we can learn all these

[07:02] super complicated and intricate tasks of

[07:05] course we can get better at a video game

[07:07] especially with all these resources that

[07:08] are out there all these free cool

[07:09] resources but sometimes people fall into

[07:11] this fixed mindset where they feel like

[07:13] man I've been silver for a couple of

[07:14] years now and I'm just not getting

[07:16] better maybe I'm only meant to be silver

[07:18] the step one the first step you have to

[07:21] understand is growth mindset is going to

[07:23] be your key it's not going to solve all

[07:25] your problems but it needs to be step

[07:27] one where it unlocks the idea in your

[07:28] mind that you can improve CU it's so

[07:30] easy to throw yourself a pity party and

[07:32] whine and cry on Twitter and Reddit and

[07:33] all these websites like well I'm stuck

[07:35] my teammates suck yeah if you want to be

[07:38] a professional victim then great if you

[07:40] need people to validate that yes people

[07:42] in your ELO suck that's fine but don't

[07:43] let it come in the way of you and your

[07:45] improvement so I always do this exercise

[07:47] with uh new students or new teams when

[07:49] we talk about Improvement because

[07:51] Improvement this all ties into tilts and

[07:54] um expectations so just bear with me but

[07:56] I'll sit down with the player and I'll

[07:57] ask them draw me something

[08:00] and that's all I'll tell them and when I

[08:02] tell them draw me something sometimes

[08:04] they'll draw me a little smiley face in

[08:05] the air if we're in person sometimes

[08:07] they'll draw me like a stick figure

[08:10] sometimes they'll not even know what to

[08:11] do and I think that's the point I'm

[08:12] trying to illustrate here when we start

[08:14] with an idea in our mind that is so

[08:16] vague and so nebulous that it has no

[08:18] direction this is the same thing as

[08:19] saying I want to get better at League of

[08:21] Legends you have no direction it's like

[08:23] a feeling it's a there's no substance to

[08:26] it so how do we like how do we do this

[08:27] how do we make it better What if I told

[08:29] you draw me something in Microsoft Paint

[08:32] we've added a medium to it okay so at

[08:33] least maybe everyone will give me

[08:35] something in a mess paint now if I say

[08:36] draw me a flower okay that's even more

[08:38] specific maybe we get some different

[08:39] types of flowers maybe I say draw me a

[08:42] red rose or a red rose with a green stem

[08:44] in Ms paint now all of a sudden if I ask

[08:46] 100 people to do this sure there's going

[08:47] to be a little bit of variation but

[08:50] comparing the results of 100 people from

[08:51] this level to even this level or even

[08:54] this level you're going to see so much

[08:57] less variation and this is also where

[08:59] that tilt and managing expectations

[09:01] comes from so keep this in your mind as

[09:03] we go into the next

[09:04] section the important thing when we're

[09:06] looking at Improvement is be as specific

[09:09] as possible this is a concept called

[09:10] managing expectations if we look at back

[09:13] at this last example I told you holding

[09:14] your mind you didn't have to hold in

[09:15] your mind for very long did you but if I

[09:17] ask a newbie someone who's never drawn

[09:19] before maybe they don't have a tablet

[09:20] maybe they've never even touched a pen

[09:21] or don't even know what Microsoft Paint

[09:24] is to draw a flower I highly doubt

[09:26] they're going to be able to replicate

[09:27] like something on the right here their

[09:28] first try very very very very high

[09:30] chance that that is not the case it

[09:31] would be something like this but maybe

[09:33] you've watched a video on YouTube and

[09:35] you said wow the guy on YouTube coach

[09:37] Rog coach Curtis coach cup KCK Coach B

[09:39] or whatever these thousands of other

[09:41] good coaches out here have made this

[09:43] concept see incredibly easy and then now

[09:45] I try and played in my game for the

[09:46] first time ever and I'm expecting it to

[09:48] turn out like this but it looks kind of

[09:50] like this and now I'm angry now I'm

[09:52] frustrated well why why would you expect

[09:55] someone with the skill of the artist in

[09:56] the first picture to immediately be

[09:58] 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

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