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-What is the situation on the map?
-Based on that assessment what do I want to do?
-What do I need to make it happen?
-Alternatives?
-Do it
-Loop
You need to be able to answer these questions even when you are chasing that fing
Ezreal/ Kayn/ Fiora with 28 hit points left after a won team fight, because if you don't you are going to miss out on actually important things like getting Baron or taking a Dragon or getting your lanes right for the next thing you want to be doing on the map.
If not you are tunneled and tunneling is going to lead to more problems/more missed opportunities than making a calculated assessment for everything you are doing.
Tunneling leads to "See champion, kill champion."
Rather than kill champions to get objectives.
Sometimes the former will work out for you, but it will work less and less the higher you climb.
If you find yourself in a place where you can't reliably ***es what is going on around the map and planning accordingly that is when you know you need to take a break.
I notice it most when I can't really tell you what happened in a game. Got some kills here, died a couple of times, but not quite sure why. Ended up losing.
Life is better when I'm thinking.
Top camps are up, but Red has respawned, and my Bot lane is looking like they are getting setup for a dive. Grab Red and get to Bot pronto. Turn the dive around. Take Infernal Drake. Then go back to base and spend our gold.
Okay, now I can clear my Top camps and look to make things happen on the Top or Mid of the map. Rift Herald? Top tower? Alternatives?
-Based on that assessment what do I want to do?
-What do I need to make it happen?
-Alternatives?
-Do it
-Loop
You need to be able to answer these questions even when you are chasing that fing
Ezreal/ Kayn/ Fiora with 28 hit points left after a won team fight, because if you don't you are going to miss out on actually important things like getting Baron or taking a Dragon or getting your lanes right for the next thing you want to be doing on the map.If not you are tunneled and tunneling is going to lead to more problems/more missed opportunities than making a calculated assessment for everything you are doing.
Tunneling leads to "See champion, kill champion."
Rather than kill champions to get objectives.
Sometimes the former will work out for you, but it will work less and less the higher you climb.
If you find yourself in a place where you can't reliably ***es what is going on around the map and planning accordingly that is when you know you need to take a break.
I notice it most when I can't really tell you what happened in a game. Got some kills here, died a couple of times, but not quite sure why. Ended up losing.
Life is better when I'm thinking.
Top camps are up, but Red has respawned, and my Bot lane is looking like they are getting setup for a dive. Grab Red and get to Bot pronto. Turn the dive around. Take Infernal Drake. Then go back to base and spend our gold.
Okay, now I can clear my Top camps and look to make things happen on the Top or Mid of the map. Rift Herald? Top tower? Alternatives?
Sounds like you already have the right idea by trying to avoid falling into the easy temptation to autopilot. Keep it up! :)
Sounds like you already have the right idea by trying to avoid falling into the easy temptation to autopilot. Keep it up! :)
Thanks PsiGuard. I am trying. I realized I was just trying to get through my placement matches and wasn't really actively thinking about each different game. I would definitely still have lost several, but there were a couple I could have made a bigger impact on with more deliberate choices. It can take me a bit to get in the right mode and sometimes I have to notice I am not in it. That is where a checklist comes in handy. Not so much the list itself, because that changes every game, but more of "you need to think this way if you want to maximize your contribution to the game".