Personality Types and Playstyle
Have you ever picked up a new champion and things just ‘clicked’? Chances are, you found success on the champion because your playstyle matches that of the champion. A Marksman main would probably have a hard time playing Sejuani for the first time, but would have a much easier time with a new champion like Jhin. An aggressive player who enjoys Darius would have a harder time playing a champion like Nasus, comparative to another aggro champion like Zed. Your playstyle affects the types of champions that you like, but what affects your playstyle? If you ask me, it’s your personality.
My playstyle is usually the “careful, calculated engage to win the teamfight”, where most of my early game is setting up vision and preparing for the big decisive teamfight to win the game. And according to the Myers-Briggs personality test, I have an INTJ (Introverted-Intuitive-Thinking-Judging ) personality. Essentially, I’m an introverted thinker that likes to take time to make decisions and ensure that they’re the right ones. This perfectly describes my preferred playstyle, waiting for the right moment to strike the winning blow. The quote below expands on this idea:
INTJs are natural leaders, although they usually choose to remain in the background until they see a real need to take over the lead. They are the supreme strategists - always scanning available ideas and concepts and weighing them against their current strategy, to plan for every conceivable contingency.
I’m not the first to have this idea. Sir ArmaMalum made a great Reddit post connecting Myers-Briggs personality types to favorite champions. While Thresh certainly took a lot of the spotlight, you can notice some big differences between the different personalities.
Even though we’re covering a more broad subject of general playstyle with this thread, I want to see what everyone else thinks! I took my test at this website, feel free to use this test to get your Myers-Briggs personality type and then describe your playstyle or favorite champion/role in the comments below!
. I control the fight from the back line, stunning/ slowing enemies and saving carries. Personality type and play style can probably be correlated, but I doubt they can be be all that reliable. For instance in the comment section I see that other INTJs play support like me. This could probably be because INTJs don't care nearly as much about being the center of attention (cough adc mains cough), or need to make the flashiest plays, so are able to adapt to the role other types can have trouble with. So I think that the types can be loosely correlated to play style.
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. I think it works out, I basically like looking for attacks of opportunity wherever I see them by looking at the game closely and figuring out how best I can do my job while sustaining minimum damage to the team and myself.
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