Hello my fellow readers!
In this post I'll encourage you (and me!) to ladder more and skip the common ladder anxiety.
First of all let's face the reasonings of the fear to press the button that says "
Find Match".
It's really easy! The most obvious reason is the fear to
expose your skill to the whole world and make you vulnerable to flames and people that accuse you for beeing a bad player. That's the more easy fear to overcome since you can simply
ignore people that are flaming you and keep in mind: "
One does not simply get Pro at Starcraft II!" (
just to keep the styles of meme). People that are better than you are either Smurfs or people who spend at least as much time as you spend into the game.
Let's face it:
If you want to become anywhere near good (
I wouldn't consider me to be good by any means)
you have to spend alot of time into Starcraft II. The game is based on
making decisions and showing tactical refinement but beeing able to make the perfect decisions and in the same time not having the capability of following it up with the proper mechanics won't win you the game! (
even if you have an IQ of over 9000 if you can't keep up with injects - or other mechanical tools - you wont be able to win).
Let's do an example:
Your immense IQ allows you to have the perfect thought out composition (let's just say mass mutalisk 'cause it requires a huge amount of cleverness to figure out mutalisk are good!) but you are only able to build 4 of them 'cause your injects were slipping he'll still lose!
You might think to yourself: "Well sir, that actually makes sense..." but at the same time the next big reason appears! "...but what do I do if I lose?"
Yep, that's my
Matchhistory from
2 Days ago and yeah it hurts and noone can help me (
you) with the problem of losing games. It's the
most horrible feeling in Starcraft II especially if you are in
Mastersleague and you failure is shown to the whole wide world (
exposed win loss).
Some of my friends tend to say "
Wow that race is so OP and it just makes no sense to play this game anymore!" (
well that actually perfectly reflects my feelings after losing to another stupid Protoss allin) but in order of
beeig able to become better at the game you have to lose. By losing I don't mean if you quit all games you'll instantly climb up the ladder, no you have to lose and you have to
find a reasoning for your loss and totally
F*CK THAT MOTHERF*CKING PROTOSS UP next time you see him doing that dumb allin again (
pretty much every Protoss on the ladder). A loss is more telling than a win. If you loss (
for example I just lost to a horrible allin) you can figure out why you lost. For example
you overdroned (
I didn't) or
you did not build overlords -
you were supplystucked - (
Yep I was still Protoss is op) or
you simply engaged in a bad angle (
I did too but that's just because forcefields are too damn strong) or you
simply didn't see it coming (
how am I not supposed to see an allin coming every scrub Protoss on the god damn ladder allins the f*ck out of zerg since they think their race is weaker than the other two... WHICH IS BULLSH*T).
You always have to find those mistakes and admit them... atleast to yourself.
Another really important saying to gather from this post "
I don't always admit mistakes... but when I do I only admit them to myself and say Protoss is op to everyone around me"(
wow I just made it up myself! and it's still like a memetext).
There is
no easier way to improve than for looking for mistakes. (
Oftentimes it's really easy to send the replay to a friend and he tells you the mistakes more objectively.)
And hey... lucky us we have blizzard providing the perfect laddersystem so we are able to get a
50% winrate
ALWAYS! So after a huge streak of losing you'll probably be able to win a bunch of games in a row 'cause that's just how the laddersystem works.
Dealing with rage!
Well what am I supposed to say. If you have problems in terms of rage I am probably not the right person to question here... And I am going to apologize to everyone I lost to (99% Protoss) and wrote things such as "I hope you die a painfull bloody death so I can eat you worthless protoss body..."[exaggeration] or something along those lines to. Still if you played a stupid allin you probably deserved it!
Back to the topic.. dealing
with rage is really hard. It's not only the
provoking enemy that tries to lure you out of your chilled pose it's pretty much always a
scumbag Protoss how makes me rage and oftentimes it's not even their fault (
read prior paragraph) it's just that I hate myself so much at that moment that I just have to...
pretty much insult you, your mom etc. and destroy something in my room.. for example I threw a bottle against the wall.. the outcome of it was a really bad hole right beneth my bad..
I am not proud of my rage and it is probably the biggest flaw I have in terms of Starcraft II atm...
As far as that goes thank you for reading once again I hope you enjoyed this rather long post...!
