I remember an old post about ranked anxiety

SGT Dingle Berry·Nov 3, 2016·2 votes·348 views

My kid has role anxiety right now and it reminded me of a post about people who got anxious when thinking about playing ranked. It surprised me just how many people it happened too and it made me wonder if anyone gets role anxiety and how they overcome it?

To me it seems cheeky, why give a damn about some nerds who may or may not rage at you for losing a normal game but for whatever reason he just can't seem to click jungle when queuing up.

Thoughts/ideas?

3 Comments

LostFr0stNov 3, 20161 votes

Is it anxiety from the laners or from the first jungle clear and getting invaded while low, giving first blood etc.?

You need to figure out which of those it is first.

The first one usually is due to the fear of three losing lanes in the same game and not knowing how/what to do (you'd then make a breakdown chart for decision-making that he could pick up and look at so he won't forget what to do in the heat of the moment, after a while he'll auto-remember it).

The second one can be fixed through building confidence in customs and AI games as jungle, physically clearing the camps.

EschetonNov 3, 20161 votes

It comes from a lack of confidence in the role and dealing with aggro people. And the guilt from doing poorly and somehow costing other people lp.

Flaming people react to your pings, positioning, and prettymuch anything you do differently. Without either experience dealing with that (and you won't without playing ranked), or enough experience and confidence with your champ, role and match-up you are going to do worse than in normals. Thats just how it is.

Play Ranked now. Like, start today.
Take a moment to check your rank at how much games they played. Probably a lot. It's the end of the year. If that is low elo, guess what? They deserve to be there. One loss isn't gonna change that. No matter what they think or how much they rage. You on the other hand, might be way below where you belong. So just play the games, get used to how toxic people play. Work around that, and climb.

Simple enough right?

DolasaurNov 3, 20161 votes

why give a damn about some nerds who may or may not rage at you for losing a normal game

Because they're people. And through incompetence, ignorance, etc., you may hurt or disappoint them. It doesn't matter whether they rage or not, or even if they talk at all. I know that I'm the one who failed to secure baron, or who smited red buff at the start rather than the end and got counterjungled because of it. I know I misread the enemy laner's actions and that he clearly had a ward where I was waiting. I'm the one who chose to focus on getting our midlaner fed when he ended up just being good at laning and terrible at team fighting. I know I failed these people. Sure, they make mistakes too, but that's beside the point. I messed up. I let my team down. (And it sucks that the only way to really get better is to keep playing even knowing you're going to make mistakes.)

Why is it important your son play jungle? Is it that he says he wants to jungle, but has trouble going through with it? If it's just that you (or his friends or whoever) want a jungler to queue with, it seems like simply letting him play his comfortable lane would be easiest. (It's easier to drive around a mountain than over it.)

LostFrost's point about doing custom games for jungle clears helps me a lot. (For me it's more PvP anxiety than ranked/role, but still fairly applicable.) Knowing that I'm able to do a full clear on my selected champion, by a certain time, with a certain amount of health left, and checking on my lanes (moving camera, not just minimap) every 5-10 seconds helps me.