5 year Vet seeking guidance in transition from solo Q nobody into professional coach/analyst,
Hello fellow Leaguers, I come to you today hoping that maybe the right person might stumble across this post. Long story short; I'm a 5 year veteran of the game. I began playing maybe a month after full release, and I've been following the competitive scene long before "Phreak puns" ever existed. League of Legends flows through my veins. I eat, sleep, dream, excrete LoL. MOBAs have been a very familiar part of my upbringing. I learned how to play chess at a young age(around my 5th birthday) and that to me has always been the ORIGINAL MOBA. Then came the custom days of WC3:FT DOTA, the 20th century take on Chess.... I like to consider myself a very tactful and logical thinker. Always priding myself on being able to be one or 2 steps ahead of my opponent. So naturally, the competitive aspect of LoL grabbed my attention almost immediately, and I haven't been able to think about anything else since.. But alas, having the "know how" to win a game can only take you so far these days, as the game becomes more and more complicated on a micro AND macro level. And with the only source of someones "worth" being solo que, I feel like there's very little, if any, room for someone like me to ever turn his dream into a reality. I've logged THOUSANDS of ranked games over the years, practicing and practicing, wondering why I could outplay 90% of these people in a 1v1 scenerio.. yet I can't manage a mere 50% win ratio? Is there really THAT much luck involved in climbing? Why can't I carry these teams like my peers around me can? And after 5 years I'm coming to the realization that I might be too competitive. I can't climb out of plat, because I can't put myself in a plat mindset and play the game like my plat peers. I've seen so many professional tourneys, streams, live events, scrims, the whole nine yards, that I go into every game EXPECTING my peers to have the same understanding, the same knowledge, and the same drive to win. But more often than not it backfires. I don't know how to think from a solo Q mentality, I can only process it in a constructed, strategical manner. One day while talking to someone close about my internal struggle(this person has ZERO idea what League is, only that it's something I've talked to them passionately about for years) and they said maybe I'm trying to fill the wrong shoes. And at first I couldn't quite grasp the nature this statement. But lately I've been noticing a surge in coaching/analyst needs in the professional industry. Teams looking for outside mindsets/ideas/knowledge. I know too much about this game, and am too passionate about it, to not pursue a career in it.