A trick to actively improve your play

Hibeki·Aug 24, 2016·6 votes·641 views

A lot of times people zone out and just let the muscle memory kick in when laning or jungling.

Next game, try talking aloud your thoughts, all of them. "After this creep im going to go for an auto, I'm backing away from the creeps, the lanes pushing, I have an opportunity to ward while the wave progresses"

Doing this prevents you from going to muscle memory and you actively play better in lane or jungling by thinking aloud, as one thought leads to another.

Most of your lane play is really muscle memory, so if you actively are aware of everything your play dramatically improves in your decision making and you can avoid ganks and all by noticing the differences in aggressiveness by your laners, etc.

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Handy Sandy Aug 24, 20161 votes

HibekiAug 24, 20161 votes

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Hope it helped

Mylon RequiemAug 24, 20161 votes

Unless talking aloud actively distracts you from what you are doing (like it does me).

In which case, it's better to just, I don't know... pay attention.

Bandle CityAug 24, 20161 votes

Another thing is to record your gameplay and play them back. A lot of people find this boring though so... how do you make it interesting? Start a YouTube channel, edit all of your gameplays to make watching them back a productive experience. By editing the videos you recorded of your gameplay you are forced to watch your mistakes and learn from them and by uploading them to YouTube you open yourself up to "potential" sources of constructive criticism that didn't exist while you were playing. I occasionally record and edit my games and it's helped me to learn a lot about my mistakes and how to stop making them so far.

HibekiAug 24, 20161 votes

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Another thing is to record your gameplay and play them back. A lot of people find this boring though so... how do you make it interesting? Start a YouTube channel, edit all of your gameplays to make watching them back a productive experience. By editing the videos you recorded of your gameplay you are forced to watch your mistakes and learn from them and by uploading them to YouTube you open yourself up to "potential" sources of constructive criticism that didn't exist while you were playing. I occasionally record and edit my games and it's helped me to learn a lot about my mistakes and how to stop making them so far.

I personally dont do that. Hindsight is 20/20, so you wont be able to just 'fix' the things you point out

Bandle CityAug 24, 20161 votes

You're right about hindsight however recording and watching the game back has the added bonus of showing you mistakes you didn't even know you were making not just how you could have fixed them. It also drills in the things that you did right, increasing your chances of doing them right more often. It leaves you more aware of your playing habits than just simply thinking out loud would in most cases.

The other side of it in terms of mistakes you are aware of, like in my case kiting instead of just standing still, is how HUGE your mistake was or what you could have achieved had you not made that mistake. For my personality anyways it starts to cement things in my head. While in my next game I'll start thinking things like "last time I forgot to kite I died and missed out on an easy triple kill; this time I WILL remember to kite and I WILL get that triple kill. I can't make that costly mistake again!"

I suppose maybe it won't work for everyone but it's done wonders for me so far.