Ever suck so bad that it's a special kind of depressing?

Sleepyhead33·Oct 25, 2016·3 votes·365 views

I honestly wish I understood what is going through the mind of professional players. Am I just incompatible with competitive video games because of a combination of a lack of multitasking ability and an extreme tendency to tilt? How does a tactile learner learn how to play a game from watching professionals? Do I just not have what it takes to be good at multiplayer in general?

All questions I ask, and will never get answers for. But I can ask this:

How did you guys break through the barrier that I seem to struggle with?

4 Comments

Surr20plzOct 25, 20167 votes

This game is weird because you will occasionally have an epiphany and get better, then you'll plateau. Then you'll rage and get worse. Then you'll learn not to rage and get better. Then Riot will change the meta and you'll get better or worse depending on your play style and how fast you can adapt. Then one day you'll sit down and learn mechanics and get gud or you'll go to college and have lots of sex and get a high paying job that let's you do lots of cocaine and trips to ibiza and lots more sex and then you'll realize your whole life is just about money and sex and you're getting older and you never settled down and now you're thinking it's too late to do that so you sit back down and learn mechanics and get good. Devote all your time to getting better at this game. But you're older now and your apms are down so you invest in crisper technology and they rejuvenate your brain but the side effects cause you to have cerebral palsy and they have to put your brain into an android body so you can continue to get good at League and then the LCS has to decide if they're going to allow androids to play professionally. The ruling goes in your favor because several medical journals concluded that your organic brain doesn't give you an advantage over 100% biological players. They put Faker's brain in an android too and in the year 2033 you're against him mid lane. He first bloods you and you rage and get worse, but occasionally you will have an epiphany and get better, then you'll plateau...

feryvunnyOct 25, 20161 votes

This read was quite the journey....what a roller coaster ride. +1

Miku AppendOct 25, 20161 votes

I feel this on a spiritual level. It's like, I try to figure out what I'm doing wrong in my games and I do everything I can for my team as a support.

feryvunnyOct 25, 20161 votes

Honestly, challenger streamers will even say it all the time, it all comes down to mentality and game knowledge.

If you're talking professional players, they don't just sit there and practice solo que everyday and have some god-given talent. They know the ins and outs of everything. How much damage they can do at any moment because they've memorized the scalings/ratios/base damages/cds, and know how and when to wave control or rotate to gain small advantages. Their micro-mechanics are so accurate to the point where you'd have to slow the video down to see exactly what they did. Of course, for all of this you need to think fast and click fast. But above those is to have the game knowledge to begin with.

Then its the mentality. Don't get tilted by everything. Trolls are unavoidable. Inters are unavoidable. Afkers are unavoidable. Just laugh about it and que up again. In-game you need to know that just because all lanes are pushed to your inhibs it doesn't mean all hope is lost. Scrap together what you can get and build up your comeback. etc. etc. etc. I'm sure you've heard it all before.

I guess if I were to actually give you some proactive advice, if you really want to get better, record your games. Watch streamers/pros whatever and then after you play some games watch your own recordings. Observe and critique your own mistakes and see what kind of mindset made you make those decisions in that moment

Good luck!