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Ranked anxiety

Bronze 5 Teeto·11/16/2017, 7:47:58 AM·2 votes·634 views

I never felt so much tension and anxiety than i have since i got plat on my main. I played over 2 k games last season on that account and finally got it end of the season and now since teemo got strong with this patch i actually win lane every single game pretty hard, but despite that I have started to feel so much stress to never die and to play the game perfectly. I am literally red in the face heart pounding after every game whether it was a hard game or not....

I never felt this way when i was just gold or silver. I guess I feel like plat is where people are actually really good at the game and i can't believe im beating them or something... like why are they so easy to beat all the sudden? they actually do really dumb and bad mistakes and its so obvious all the sudden. like im in disbelief that I can beat these players and it doesn't feel right that i am since I've been hard stuck gold for so long.

I did actually take an anxiety medication for like the past 2 years and i just stopped taking it like 2 months ago. That medicine made my reactions slower and my cognition worse also. I guess maybe this could be the reason everything changed now? Anyone else feel this kind of way once they made it to a certain rank?

3 Comments

MysterQ11/16/2017, 8:02:06 AM1 votes

I think certain people just feel ranked anxiety. I wouldn't take medication for it, but for other anxiety sure. I don't have a solution for it, but if it isn't holding you back just keep playing.

I know I try to tell bronze players on here all the time, just play for fun. Screw win/loss. Because I don't want them to fight ranked anxiety (especially in bronze where it doesn't matter). But even in Plat, does it really matter? You are plat, better than most players. But you aren't going to be a Challenger anytime soon. So don't stress. Play the game for fun, you are teemo, ruin people's lives. And if you keep climbing :) great.

But it is always much easier said than done. I get the anxiety too, and I am only a lowly silver. That said, when you use your anxiety to push yourself, it is pretty sweet. I had a game with two rioters once. I was something like 8/3/12 and carried through jungle. The extra anxiety changed my gameplay. But for sure I can't do that only a normal game, even when I tried to replicate it.

Baron Barian11/16/2017, 9:03:33 AM1 votes

A fellow filthy casual. I started playing this game in January, and didn't even finish my placement games until like September. I like playing games for fun, but it sucks when you feel you need to let winning your games be a top priority.

And even more stressful when you're playing as support and are paired with an ADC that's more suicidal then a retarded lemming and are then left in a situation where you have no power to win the game since your carry is carrying the enemy team and--

Had to stop typing there. But ultimately, you got to remember that it is still a game. If you're in bronze or silver or maybe even gold, it's still okay to keep playing even a ranked game for fun. All you can do is what you do in random que anyway, which is to do your best and see what happens. And win or lose, you can just play another game. Even if lose, you can still take from the experience and be better prepared for your next game.

The worst thing that can happen is that your team loses. That is ALL that really happens at the end of the game. Best case scenario is that you win. You just got to remember the stakes are lower then you really think and you can still enjoy even a competitive game.