Ranked Anxiety (revisited)
I wanted to talk today a bit more about ranked anxiety and how you can defeat this phenomenon. I touched on this matter about 5 months ago, and I feel like that was very well received, so I wanted to take this opportunity to reiterate what I said, and perhaps add a little more for clarity.
Basically my opinion is as follows: If you are playing ranked, you should be playing to get better. Surely you want a better rating, and there's a lot of talk of getting "better teammates." Now let me tell you why that's a fundamentally flawed way of thinking and is in fact hurting your chances at becoming a better player and moving up in the ranks. Your attitude is everything when you play League of Legends. Noone wants to play with someone that thinks they are better than everyone else, noone wants to be your friend, noone wants to hear about how you dominate your team, but you are still silver rated.
Now, you may be thinking: "Cloud, you're such an idiot, if I didn't have such feeder teamm…
Basically my opinion is as follows: If you are playing ranked, you should be playing to get better. Surely you want a better rating, and there's a lot of talk of getting "better teammates." Now let me tell you why that's a fundamentally flawed way of thinking and is in fact hurting your chances at becoming a better player and moving up in the ranks. Your attitude is everything when you play League of Legends. Noone wants to play with someone that thinks they are better than everyone else, noone wants to be your friend, noone wants to hear about how you dominate your team, but you are still silver rated.
Now, you may be thinking: "Cloud, you're such an idiot, if I didn't have such feeder teamm…


