Your team is feeding all the time? Good. Perfect situation to practice this skill to keep cool.
You are getting focused? Good, keep your cool. It will help you analyze the situation better and focus on adapting.
You are getting flamed? Awesome. Skills like this help especially for these situations. Don’t let anyone live rent free in your head even for a second.
Someone is troll picking in draft? Great. Keep your cool and work with what you’ve got.
You see, the magic of this skill is that after you’ve mastered it you suddenly start to see room for improvement on yourself and ignore the outside factors. That also makes the game very enjoyable. And more importantly this skill gives you advantage over 95% of the population.
Immediate benefits guaranteed. Enjoy ranking up champ
Keeping cool is good, but that doesn’t necessarily lead to seeing room for improvement. Quite the opposite for some people. They’re so cool, they actually don’t care about self reflection.
As a person who actively does all that, i can add to this a little.
No-matter how much you believe you’re managing this or THINK you manage it.
If you constantly get pressured to get frustrated it will still affect your gameplay. Your slight frustration might leak just a tiny bit enough for you to make a mistake. Sometimes that leaked frustration can even cause a mistake that becomes a reason for a loss.
So when you’re starting to feel frustrated… try to notice when you have too much of it and stop playing.
Taking a break for a few hours helps.
I often blame my allies, rightfully so… but because of the frustration I can feel I can also admit to causing or contributing to losses unintentionally because of it. So I’m speaking from experience.
This. I never had a temper problem within the game, but I was ‘too’ chill while playing at low ranks leading to a low win rate and also bad experience for teammates who had to play with me (nobody flamed, but I did not play optimally now that I self-reflect).
As I like to play Ranked games (which go past casual entertainment since you have to tryhard to get to better ranks), I do want to be harsh on myself. And that was necessary to progress from lower ranks.
I was too chill and lenient towards myself, thinking games will just sort themselves out. They wont. The only constant in every match is me. I am the culprit and reason for my win rate given enough time and thousands of games. It is ok to be critical towards yourself if that rank is not rising to a level you wish to be at.
Ask any elite competitor in anything (sports, etc.): they definitely experience negativity – anger, disappointment; hell, they’re human! – but they strive to save it until after the match.
You do neither yourself nor your team mates any favors by tilting in-game. By staying calm, you are more likely to continue to be able to play optimally and capitalize on mistakes, and less likely to go off on your team-mates and cause them to tilt. This makes comebacks possible. If you lose anyway, you are in a better mental state to review what happened, and to queue into the next game.
There is literally no good argument against remaining calm, cool and collected.
Edit: I should add that this goes for feelings of elation and positivity, too – this can also result in mistakes and sub-optimal play.
That’s why I love this game. I do feel that it improves my character not only in game but also in IRL. You get things happening to you all the time and you feel powerless because it seems that its not within your power to change them, and then you blame him or that. That’s why everybody in low ranks usually blame others. Bad drafts happen. But then you realize that you can do better each time. You have to carry your self and everybody else around you just like your family and friends do.
“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!” ~ Rocky Balboa
Not true. I do agree with you it’s too hard, bu it’s not impossible. You do need to be several leagues above the enemy in skill to do it. That takes a lot of time and practice.
Are you trying to be sarcastic or something? Everyone with a hint of intelligence knows that HOTS is an incredibly easy game to carry, even a casual player can have 65-80% consistent winrate up to Diamond.
One time I went through the entire silver bracket without losing a single game and I am a pure amateur playing only solo for fun.
Captain obvious: “Adaptability is one of the most, if not the most important skill for a player. If you cant adjust and utilise the many, many low elo hard carry heroes then it is your lack of skill that prevents you from climbing, not the game desigh” - duh
Still too hard to carry and I don’t blame others for thinking the same. Crazy how I can hold my own in any elo but struggle to rank up or even maintain positive winrate at the same time in any elo. Oh well. I give it a few months before I give up on ranked again probably for the last time as the playerbase drops
