@@soulance8342 That's called "Knowledge transferability", a characteristic present in all geniuses in humanity; nowadays mostly attributed to Elon Musk, as he was one of the few to openly talk about the concept.
@@umcaraqualquer3640 wait doesn't most above average people do this? No way I'm "genius level" of anything but I pretty much constantly make use of "Knowledge Transferability". Thanks for that term by the way, I need to go look into it more to see if there are underlying factors that might cause own to use it more often.
I'm an ADC main but this guide was still applicable. I reached plat last season but am having trouble getting back. Curtis I'd also like to suggest that if the League ever becomes less popular or if League coaching doesn't hit the spot anymore, I really think coaching in another subject would be a good spot for you too. Some people have a gift or talent for certain things, and you are a natural coach. I grew up playing a lot of sports and I would have killed to have a coach or instructor teach things the way you do. I've even applied some of your tactics to my kickboxing and school lives. Thanks for the the free, thought provoking content.
I really appreciate this. I'll be honest, League has been the only thing I've coached within, but I guess who knows what will happen in the future. My pleasure mate
@@CoachCurtis Speaking on this comment being an ADC main, do you personally have any resources you recommend for ADC? Like the comment above says, this video was great for general game play but a more dedicated guide for ADC would obviously help my situation better. Let me know if you recommend anyone or a series or something!
Thanks a lot for that. It seems small, but it's the best advice you could ever give to someone: - Be not scared of failing - Have intentions, plans and hypothesis on everything you do to always improve. Thanks a lot for that coach!
Something I find found of kind of interesting, is that I hit gold off of playing reactively and abusing enemy mistakes, but I also hit a brick wall once I reach gold, because I don't really do anything unless I see a mistake, which basically generates me playing super passive, and not trying generate a lead based off of my own play.
This is the content I crave. I don't play Mid but this kind of mental self improvement message needs to be spread. People may not want to hear it but this content has real value
I would love to see a Dr. K and Coach Curtis session i believe it would be interesting to see. I Don't think he needs help with anything just wondering how interesting a conversation between these two would be like.
Man I love how perfectly you blend logistical thinking within the realm of league but also the psychological factors that come into play as well. I came for tips on league but I’m leaving with an eye opening lesson on life. I appreciate all the hard work and effort you put into these videos, you’re truly one of a kind. Thank you so much man, cheers!
Curtis coming at us with the real life advice. The feels. The man is a genius, and explains his theories in such a digestible way. Love it. Keep it up sir!
Started watching your videos at the beginning of season 11, after i got back to league from a 4 year break. I peaked gold 3 and was silver 2 when i started watching. I just ranked platinum and have 60,5% winrate with tf on 195 games. The fact you put out these vids for free is insane. All hail coach curtis
Through silver, I kind of just ran without thinking or playing without intention, but that's one of the reasons I like your coaching; it makes you think. I know when I played soccer that once I got to a certain skill level I began to anticipate players' moves and make moves to bring about a certain result. I need to find my intention!
This was a good refresher and reminder because what you said about not having ‘ intention ‘ I see this happen very often when I reflect about it. Alot of times I’m just mindlessly farming , freezing or shuving without a real plan. Thank you so much
I used a similar system when I was trying to become a better student at university. Every study session I would try to make more productive. I would write down what distracted me and would try something new to see how it impacted my focus. It was definitely a lot of work to do but it got me good grades. I never thought to do the same for League. Excited to try this!
Man Coach Curtis, you're so underrated. I feel this video reflects this classic quote really well: "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." instead of going into every coaching session about how to play a lane or matchup, thanks for giving us the tools and things to look for when improving our own - actually the goat
Dude even for me as GM player your content actually give a lot of ideas and hypothetical aspect to maintain so development for my games even tho it is naturally for me but having access to the hypothesis in game would lead to a much better discussion making in real life. In addition i like these kind of videos around 30 min filled with info and knowledge keep going
I think this is an incredibly thought-provoking video that you've published. I'm obviously late to the video (I just found your channel a week ago!), but it's pretty incredible the insights you have and how accurate they feel. I used to coach silver/gold players as a high diamond / masters player in season 8, and I honestly wish I knew so much of what you're saying here. That improvement mindset is a very peculiar thing, because for me personally, I lost it. In season 8 I had found it after 200 games in diamond 3, but I took a long break from the game and this season, I've been mostly stuck in plat. It hasn't been until very recently that I finally feel like I found that magic sauce, that improvement mechanism that allows me to more critically think in my games, review my faults, and improve the next game. I also love the 'hypothesis' idea because it's exactly on the head. Every thoughtful player has these little hypotheses of everything in the game, and a lot of the process of improvement comes down to improving both your hypotheses through practice and learning as well as improving the mechanism via which you develop your hypotheses through more general experience and a greater understanding of the game. Now I'm always considering what my predictions are for the matchup, the jungle pathing, etc. Whereas only a few weeks ago it felt like I played sort of mindlessly. I've always played top carries, and since coming back, I just always took fights whether or not they made sense based on my knowledge of the game. It truly feels like a cheat code to critically think about decision making, about predicted outcomes, and it makes me feel like losing a lane or dying solo lvl 3 is hugely impactful to my ability to learn now, whereas before if I died I never really considered the implications of that death, I wouldn't learn anything. It makes my losses feel like the most important games I play, which is truly awesome. Anyways, I really appreciate your content from the coaching perspective. If I ever get back into coaching, I feel like your insights and ideas will make me better at it :)
This exact mindset switch was the exact thing that got the ball rolling for me. I improved a ton during the past 2 weeks and it really starts to show in my WR as well
hi curtis. I wanted to thank you and endorse your vids. Last year I set a goal to reach diamond and I reached it. I still remember you made a video like this and you spoke about "false narratives we tell ourselves" that prevent us from climbing. I commented on that video, I had this false narrative that as an ADC main where mechanics are important I couldn't be consistent enough to play properly to climb. That video helped me realize yes that is a false narrative, and I eventually became consistent enough through focused intentional improvement. Your videos I think are often less pragmatic but a lot more cerebral and help visualize the game from a "birds-eye" view. Thank you for the help! This video seemed pretty spot on too, even for bronze-silver players if they can apply this process they can improve as well.
Your videos really changed my perspective of living. Concepts of intention, micro decisions affecting macro, and overcoming mental blocks are just a few that helped provide direction and change in a point of life I felt I was "stuck" in. Keep it up, you're really doing something valuable here.
I dont really comment on videos often (and i doubt ur gonna see this since its old) but this is a great video. I also coach my friends and its scary to see them do things and not being able to explain why. I honestly thing autopiloting has a direct correlation to how concious you are as a person, meaning how often u sit down and choose to commit things to memory. Most people who tilt and who get hardstuck dont actively participate in the game, not just in theory crafting, but in general. People can play 10 games and if i asked them what the matchup was in their 3rd game, they wont even be able to tell me without looking online, hell sometimes they cant even remember the last game. I think the advice in the video is great, its very well put in how to learn to stop autopiloting, but i think the first natural step is to learn how to almost exist in the moment so you can remember what u hypothesized in the first place. Great video :)
4:30 It's awkward when someone reviews my VOD and I try to explain my thought process but it looks like I'm contesting everything they say, at least I'm glad I can explain such thing
Try saying your thought process loudly while playing, would help you see what you were thinking when reviewing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
@@H.N7 I know what I was thinking. It's just when the guy who reviews my Vod tells me which decision was wrong, I tend to explain why I did it and it feels like I'm contesting everything he says
@@abdusselamzahma7474 Looks like a layering issue. He should ask you neutrally what you were thinking first, then add his evaluation on top. And then if you find yourself disagreeing with his evaluation then he can't coach you anyway
@@H.N7 wait this is sick. I play so much better with teammates I can voice comm with. Even though there's inherent advantages to playing with voice comms vs soloq, there's like a noticeable difference, and this might be a reason why. I'll def try this in my VOD reviews.
Was just random searching for guides and tips to get out of plat and end up learning how to improve my life. Great video bro, i'm actually hyped rn hahaha
Honestly, this is really incredible advice. This is something that I've struggled with not just in league, but in life generally, too. Setting intentions is so important with so many things, and it's incredible how easy it is to go on autopilot with... anything, really. This is something that I have been actively working on, and having you put it into words so clearly and concisely is very helpful. I've only been watching your videos for a short time but already I feel like I have improved. Your content is invaluable and it's incredible that it's available for free. Thank you for devoting so much time to this for us!
if you're hardstuck bronze then you just suck at fighting. I been hardstuck Bronze 5 for several months before when I started back around season 5 and thought I would never get out of "elo hell". What I realized is that bronze players just suck at fighting. Start watching high elo teamfighting and then watch some of your vod reviews of teamfights in your bronze games. You''ll notice a huge difference in how bad the focus is in bronze, how much tunnel vision is happening, and how there is practically no peel for your carries, just straight diving back line. Literally all I needed to do to escape bronze was to get better at fighting. You don't have to be some map awareness god until higher elo. All you need to do in bronze is chain kill the enemies a few times and their mental state goes boom and they start flaming each other. So basically you just need to start learning how to win fights. Again, some good practice is watching the different elos have team fights and observing what's going on and ask yourself "Am I doing this in my fights, or would I have had the reactionary skills to do this in my own game"? Also ARAM is great for learning how to teamfight well. I practiced ARAM a lot and still do till this day every now and then. Not only does it prep you for teamfights but it also forces you to learn all the various champions and their abilities and how to fight against them. Good luck to you in your climb!
@@Tunde1306 thank you so much for this. I’ve been literally trying hard to get out of it and all I get is the other teammates feeding their correspondent opposite leaner and lose the match because of it. I started playing around 5 months ago and so far it’s been quite an experience.
@@mothman2506 if you are in bronze you are doing a lot of things wrong. You could also get out by having 8-10cs per minute consistently and you would simply be so far ahead that you would get out. But it’s true Bronze is basically just a mechanical problem. Watch high elo and onetrick in raked. This video is more about Elos where you need a game plan to win.
Hi Curtis! You have been recommended to me by an enemy in ranked. I already like your coaching, I have been watching Neace for 2 moths, and I have improved from gold 4 to p4. I will definitely recommend you to my friends, and teammates/enemies.
This is fantastic content, I am definitely 'too comfortable' when im in lane and just try to play reactively. Going to try this out and hopefully finally get out of silver!
Amazing. This is must be applied to every aspect of life. However, I feel like there are some basic skills that must be autopiloted before making theories while you are in a game. Farming - minimap checking - dodging abilities. Personally, I feel like it won't be easy to make theories while you are still thinking about how to farm under turrets or when you are lacking information that's available in your minimap, or when you still can't be precise with your movement. I like to compare the brain to a RAM that stores information that's being processed. And if your RAM is already full with "how do I farm in this situation" or "Ah I should check the minimap more often" there won't be much space left for you to be actively thinking about making game plans which decides the course of action that must be taken. What I'm trying to say is: have your basic skills autopiloted (which needs a lot of training obviously)so you won't need to waste time on them. This will result in having more brain pawa focused on making game plans and theories and reviewing them while in-game. All I've said is just a theory and now it's time for execution . I will make sure to share my thoughts if this works out or it dosent.
one of the biggest lessons ive learned so far (not even a mid main) is that in lol being "proactive" is really just being reactive but reacting to all the information you have to make sound predictions for plays
man this is super great. ive been hardstuck diamond since s7 and i did alot of this hypothesis. At some point though i capped myself blaming others for my mistakes. thanks so much for the video! this is SUPER helpful!
Big thanks for making this video man. Funny how much League has in common with life :-) I stumbled across a guy called David Goggins who made me realize life is a constant battle versus yourself. His logic applies to League as well (and everything else you can improve at for that matter.)
I always thought people did this testing thing. But your right now that I think about it I see many people never learn by doing theory's I do love how you put it into terms! That helps fill in some wholes for me.
I’ve found that when I die or am walking back to lane, it helps me when I just say out loud what I did or could of done and it honestly makes the difference of improvement, just avoiding points where I’ll forget what I did in a certain point in the game or miss mistakes I made
So many coaches, but only Coach Curtis addresses this topic. It was really eye opening and inspiring. I also love the tips on how its ok to start with baby step hypothesis'. Its something I can do immediately in my next game. Thanks!
You hit the nail on the head Coach. I gotta admit. I have different phases during a game. Sometimes i theorize about almost every play and decision but there a some games where i just dont. Its difficult to keep this mindset up every game
This is the content we love to see Curtis, I feel like I learned a lot about how I should be viewing the game. I realized during this that a lot of the time I view the game as a "gamer" instead of as a "player". I know league can feel like chess, but I didn't consider how I should be making incremental learning hypothesis like this. I love this video and how you went about explaining your take. Thanks!
Thanks coach, got diamond last season and was stuck in plat 1 and couldnt pin in my head what was wrong until you explained hyopthesis. I relied too much on my muscle memory and mechanics to carry games and end up missing crucial information to keep in mind.
I was a natural at counterstrike from the age of 10, and when it burnt out for me at 15-16 i switched to league and got stuck in gold up until this season and i never knew why because i picked up counterstrike so easily, not only the aiming but the gamesense too. I realize now that i was just autopiloting on League the entire time because i had understood most of the basics for hitting gold and getting down mechanics on champs i enjoy, so i guess i just assumed it would come easy too and eventually id pick it up and that im just not putting in enough hours. But, this year i guess something awoke in me and I finally started thinking about the decisions i made and as soon as i did i shot to platinum 3-2 within a week and im still hovering around there and looking to improve more, you have helped immensely, thank you curtis
i agree. playing passive vs playing proactively. playing the game just to have something to do vs actively/consciously completing tasks and making plays
I'm soo hardstuck gold 3/4 this season & I was hoping for plat so I'm binge watching your videos to find out what I'm doing so wrong but also what to do in future, thank u so much:D
True Story, realized how long i was trapped there a long time myself and how much it took to get outta there, or at least set me on the path. First was the awareness, realize whats going on on the map, then gathering the knowledge what it means, other roles for example, (specially jungler, dont like jungle, dont play it, but watching jungle vidios and to understand what they are trying and whats important to them and why they are doing what they are doing is so improtant) through a lot of videos and other players, then put strategies together what happens, what could one try, what could work, and last to get out of the comfort zone and actually try it out at the risk of failing...following by learning to understand why things worked or not. Sometimes i look back and its fascinating how many new things i learned, looking back a few month and remembering how ignorant i was at the time, and then the same a bit later, realizing at one point that there is so much more i dont know then i know, plus the ability to put that knowledge to use so i have to learn again to do one step after another and focusing to the problem at hand while reacting to a dynamic game and mental fragile teammates and ignoring aspects of them at the same time. Done the right way its a tough training for mind and character. :D
amazing to see that one of the frontiers of self improvement and learning how to learn is actually channeled through video games. The concepts described in this video *easily* apply to so many aspects of life. I really want to see Curtis discuss some of these things with some psychologist (i saw someone suggest dr. K) to see what their take is on optimal learning methods
I've been so sad lately because of league. Thank you so much for giving me confidence with your videos. Every time I watch one of them I feel like i can accomplish anything. I love your content ❤
just wanna say thanks for all the content you put out there, especially your champion guides. the most in depth and informative videos out there, and they're a reference i use whenever i wanna learn a new champion. i'd love to see a discord (different than the mid lane academy one) where like minded people who watch your vids and chill and chat just like how the server used to be a year ago but i completely understand that you need that you can sustain this forever just by youtube as you honestly never get enough views for the quality of content you produce. Cheers
really interesting idea. I completely agree that making constant hypotheses is the best way to learn any game. The more experienced you, get the more variables you consider, without having to think about them consciously. So you can add new variables of which you do think consciously about. You obviously dont have the mental capacity to think about everything right when you are starting out. It's a slow build up. Every time you dont have to think about one variable anymore, you can add anotherone
The unpacking of "intentionality" in decision making and making ongoing hypothesis throughout the game is helpful. Thinking strategically, like writing or vod creation, is a muscle that needs exercise to get stronger. This is getting me thinking about my decision making playing Miss Fortune and Jinx. Sometimes I've a goal and a plan such as pushing or positioning. However I'm not using your Chess analogy far enough. Chess is about thinking "multiple" moves ahead, such as projecting 3-5 (or more) moves ahead. In League, I'm usually only thinking about 1-2 moves. I'm looking forward to reviewing my vods with this refreshed idea as I felt stuck in my progress. Thanks for this amazing video for "thinking". Side note: Competitive running is not mindless. As a former coach and runner, I can tell you that it requires proactive thinking to improve individually personal bests and versus other runners. Maybe there is a better analogy to use ;)
Halfway through the video man and I just have to say this is amazing. All other league coaches do not even come close to you Curtis. I watched this video of a league coach live coaching a gold player and just yelling at him to do specific things instead of teaching him anything that resembles a concept or is easily replicated. It was tragic. After seeing your content I’m convinced you are the best coach. Appreciate you a lot!!
As someone who's been in high gold for 2 seasons and only hit low plat this season, I feel like this definitely applies to me. I've been having issues bc I want to improve but I don't know how. For one, I watch my VOD reviews but I don't even know what to look for/Idk HOW to improve. The only things I know what to improve on are the very obvious ones like checking for SS cds, or mechanical failures which come with experience on a specific champ. Decision making wise, I am utter garbage it's a miracle I even made it to plat. Classic case of win lane lose game, although I've been getting better with my GM friend coaching me a bit. I've always watched your videos for mid lane bc they've helped me, but this one by far helped me a lot, cuz my decision making = utter G A R B A G E lol. And my GM friend told me the same thing, just make a decision, my mechanics with champions I main are fine, but I am very indecisive (mindset of trying not to hold the team back rather than bulldozing even if it's the wrong decision). As stupid as it sounds, I tried to "make a decision" but I keep instinctively reacting to what is happening around me (autopilot reacting to a fight, etc.) bc I didn't exactly know how to apply intention (this is where it sounds stupid). The video made what I needed a bit clearer! Cheers
hahaha, I remember when I reached Diamond 5 in my first season and just couldnt break through even after years, after i took a break for a year I decided I want to improve so I started taking league seriously ( no autopiloting, watching reviews, thinking about my actions) and jumped right to master tier, I wish you were there 3 seasons ago to tell me that ^^
Relatively new player here who’s been using your guide almost religiously for s11. Single handedly fixed my WR with this mentality and your guides, climbing consistently now!
Coach Curtis I have to apologize as an angry hard stuck. I finally understood what you meant by playing off of mistakes and made it back to gold after a 2 season drought. Now I will try to hear you out for this. The highest I peaked at was gold 1 98 lp and couldnt understand what I was doing wrong to continue climbing. I make a lot of decisions the issue seems to be my adaptability to situations. I will try to actively review my games and decisions as I play.
I teach running technique and also help people with running related injuries, so I'm obliged to say that your characterisation of running in this lecture is dangerously simplistic haha. I see a lot of people who just run for ages without thinking about it and then they have all sorts of pains from that. Anyway, this concept of "learning to learn" is something that's taught in higher education. It helps if you're doing a degree that has at least a smidgen of relation to pedagogy.
I hope a slot become available in Mid Academy soon. I really do want to become a great mid laner & based off of the concepts that you've introduced in your channel I know with absolute confidence that you are the man that can help me help myself get there.
I love the part about hypothesis creation and playing with 'intensity'. The thing I notice about very high elo players when they are playing mid is at that every decision they make has become instinctive and decisive. I love watching Showmaker streams from his perspective since he is the definition of 'proactively reactive', decisive and intense at all times, especially when he plays control mages. Dopa and Faker are similar
I think.. this was pretty spot on. I've been gold the past couple seasons, and I know I totally could be Platinum. I even got Plat on a smurf, on the smurf I just played, and sort of faked confidence to myself and 'TRIED' stuff. Like, on my main I'd usually be too reserved or safe to go for something that I wasn't 100% sure about, so I end up giving away a lot of leverage I could've had in winning the game. On my smurf, I didn't care. I just went for it, and I think because I was able to just try and go for things I was subconsciously testing 'hypothesis'. Small hypothesis of course, like "if I all in x champ with my current resources, I can snag a solo kill and get a lead in laning phase". Small things like that not too complicated, but I was theorizing in game and trying to get better. I climbed to plat really easily. Skipping ranks in gold, and I just said it was because of my smurf's better MMR. Like, I got plat sub-100 games, when in the same amount of games I was stuck in gold. (Oh yeah, I also just don't play ranked much despite my desire to climb and improve because I'm afraid or anxious of making mistakes like Coach Curtis has said). So long story short, I resonate a lot with this video. I think it makes a lot of sense, and I hope to start putting it into practice. Thanks a lot Coach! It's a great wake up call in my opinion.
It's crazy how much mental takes part in climbing in league. This isn't just about league but also about self improvement. If you don't actively take the time to reflect on your choices then you won't ever improve.
Great video, wonderful message and the way you explain it is really beautiful. Thank you for this awesome piece of advice, both for league and life in general!
bro thnx for this i was definatly in the group of thinking theres all this stuff i need to do with wave managment and trading and watching the map ect... so i just would play passive and learn or adapt based on what was already happening in the game. But thank you this is already helping me have intention on something and make a hypothesis.
There is something quite weird i noticed recently, in that soloq teaches me way more than playing with friends does. its almost as im playing the game differently. When i go soloq, i dont need to talk to anyone but myself, i dont need to argue with someone about x call or decision while in reality we re both right and wrong, sometimes calls even bait you in doing things that you would normaly not do because you decide its a bad idea but since a buddy called it you re like ''ah i guess i need to help then'' or you ll get so distracted because someones constantly telling you what they are doing, that you cant focus on what you re doing. DuoQ is more distracting to me than helpful, going back into solo q and i m all of a sudden 10 times more focused, not caring about what someone else is doing, just playing for yourself, to get plays to achieve something that benefits yourself, and thinking about what you can do to win the game. DuoQ and all that gets thrown out of the window because someone constantly gives you input on what they want you to do or what their gameplan is or whatever it might be. Sometimes i could completly int in duo because lack of focus be like ''why am i doing that... i play completely different when i m alone''
I've learned a lot the first time I saw this video but now I was watching it since I'm stuck on plat and I realized I still have the same problem I'm always doubting my theory and mostly can't get a conclusion. It always ends with depends...
So I’m a guitar teacher and there is a pedagogical textbook with the title “excellence trough differentiated handeling of mistakes”. It’s a German title so I don’t know, if I translated the title properly. But I feel like that’s kinda the essence from this video. Thanks for the video btw!
I was hard stuck bronze V/iron IV for 4-5 years - I noticed that my FPS dropped significantly when I went in for teamfights, so season 10 I tried offmeta champs that can fight from the edges of the fight, so my winrate improved and I got into bronze IV haha mostly one-tricking MF mid (AP/AD depending on team comp). Can't go much higher though... since I still can't truly teamfight 100%. So it's truly looking at your limitations (hardware or mechanics or macro) and trying to change something to improve that facet.
By watching this video I noticed I actually make proactive decisions, I actually decide when I want to freeze and when I want to push the wave, when I want to go for a trade, a dive or a roaming, but then I realised my problem is that I stick to my decision anyway and follow it to the end even when I realise it has now become a 50/50 play or even an unfavorable play For instance: I play top lane or jungle, I decide I want to contest an objective and I check the map for clues weather that might be a good choice or not, and if I feel it is, I follow through, but then if I'm on the way to making the play and something indicates it now has become a bad decision, I still go on with it and often I lose and then I blame teammates for not following up but not having my teammates following was one of the indicators that the play would go wrong in the first place... Well, I'll try my hypothesis in my next games.
One of the things I constantly repeat to myself every time I’m playing (and I’ve used this trick to climb in a lot of different games) is i’lll keep asking myself. “What are you doing? Why? What’s your plan? End goal? What’s the win con?” Every few minute or so
Mind and Muscle is so important. A person talking about Running, who does not know anything about it))) Same for Muscle Grow. You need to have the mind and muscle focus during your sets. Same also know why you want it, and whats the reason behind it.
Really informative video. I struggle really hard with trying to implement this stuff into my games though unfortunately. I watch plenty of these videos, watch the vods note the mistake at the time I get in game and it all goes out the window. I don't know I just start auto-piloting and then yeah it's really bad. I really want to improve and hit Platinum but I literally cant. I seem to tunnel vision a lot and I know this I just can't help it.
What i found to be a major problem for myself in doing this, is consistency. Some games i can play fully conciously awake, making good profound descisions and carrying hard, the next game i get frustrated somehow and boom... my prefrontal cortex goes down, and i play like a complete autopilot moron, running it down x) It´s kind of a vicious circle, that gets started with just one little thing that -> gives an emotion of pain -> stress -> working memory gets shut down, justifying, blaming,... -> fully autopilot mode -> more "poor descisions" -> more emotions -> ... The ability to cope with that whole topic is called emotional intelligence, wich in addition to IQ itself is much more important, to succeed in League as in real life. And like the IQ, not everyone has the same precondition when born. But luckily, that´s not finite, and it still can be trained like a skill. Like for me, who got ADD and is hyper-sensitive for emotions, this is far more limiting then the knowledge about what to do in game/life. I really LOVE your content, as always a pleasure to watch. Keep it up
I've also realized that in the last months little by little. Like I started thinking and having intentions in my games, and I've been improving so drastically it's kind of insane. And not only in LoL but also irl I started doing it and am improving in many aspects of my life.
I was stuck in platinum for like six seasons. And I attribute this to sheer lack of willpower. I knew I should be reviewing my games, and that I needed to study and practice specific concepts, but I just never did it ever. The impulse to just re-queue and avoid doing the actual work of self-analysis was just too strong. I think in my case coaching would have helped me greatly, but I was also stingy and never committed to that either. I've since quit playing ranked, but I'm recognizing now that my stagnation in league was completely avoidable, and in order to prevent stagnation in other areas of my life I need to consciously force myself off of autopilot.
I would like to give out my thoughts of what could be one of the reasons players are stuck in Gold Elo for many years and I think it would have to do with motivation and the people they are exposed to. I have often been with people who are just satisfied with only achieving Gold and have no motivations to climb higher and I believe because of that it has stunted my growth as a player. I have been in Gold for several years often I would think about why that was. I believe it's mostly due to discipline. I never worked hard for my division. I would always be satisfied with a win and I would never think about why I had won and what I could improve. Of course, there are real-life problems like a bad computer and slow connection to the internet and mentality, but I really believe the reason for my growth is because I am not willing to put in the time to learn and do something about this stagnation. Lately, I have made sure to play every day as much as I could with the time limit I had and focused more on the things players better than I did and imitate it in my games, but I feel like I am not learning, but imitating what this person had done without knowing the exact reason they had done it. Yes, I do see some success in my gameplay, I win games, but I have not seen any form of improvement to me as a person. In theory, I could play hundreds of games over and over again and I would only see myself at the elo given to me after these games. I believe knowledge about the game is one of the most important factors of improving along with experience and a desire to get better at it. And getting in-depth lessons from you as a player is a very important thing for those who truly love this game. Thank you.
I've came from DotA 1 to LoL in the end of 2012, my first rank was gold 5, at that time, the average elo for most players was silver 4~5. Then, in season 9 I've got platinum and I was very happy, but now, I'm hard stuck in gold 3~4 again, and this make me so, so, so sad. I will watch this video, trying to understand where I'm failing.
There is a lot of reasons people become hardstuck in league. Just a few from my own experience. -Prioritizing fun over winning or learning. (Champion X would be good here but.. I really want to play Champ Y) -Lack of time to consistently play and improve. (forget previously learned lessons) -Playing when mentally exhausted (capacity to learn things starts to drop) -Under the influence of drugs/alcohol -Account MMR is stagnant (make a new account and sometimes you'll surprise yourself) -Not analyzing reflecting reoccurring mistakes. (Ex. Dying consistently alone when trying to check baron; can I wait for team? is going there worth it?) -Not wanting to look at games you played 'bad' in. (The disaster games you fed so hard and were the main reason the team lost) I *mostly* stopped doing all those things which has nothing really to do with the in-game match and went up a whole division
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Not only did Curtis teach us how to improve at the game, but he is also guiding us to improve at life itself xD
Irl guides are op
@@CoachCurtis Life Coach Curtis > Coach Curtis
Wisdom is being able to apply knowledge gained to other things.
@@soulance8342 That's called "Knowledge transferability", a characteristic present in all geniuses in humanity; nowadays mostly attributed to Elon Musk, as he was one of the few to openly talk about the concept.
@@umcaraqualquer3640 wait doesn't most above average people do this? No way I'm "genius level" of anything but I pretty much constantly make use of "Knowledge Transferability".
Thanks for that term by the way, I need to go look into it more to see if there are underlying factors that might cause own to use it more often.
I'm an ADC main but this guide was still applicable. I reached plat last season but am having trouble getting back.
Curtis I'd also like to suggest that if the League ever becomes less popular or if League coaching doesn't hit the spot anymore, I really think coaching in another subject would be a good spot for you too. Some people have a gift or talent for certain things, and you are a natural coach. I grew up playing a lot of sports and I would have killed to have a coach or instructor teach things the way you do. I've even applied some of your tactics to my kickboxing and school lives. Thanks for the the free, thought provoking content.
I really appreciate this. I'll be honest, League has been the only thing I've coached within, but I guess who knows what will happen in the future. My pleasure mate
@@CoachCurtis Speaking on this comment being an ADC main, do you personally have any resources you recommend for ADC? Like the comment above says, this video was great for general game play but a more dedicated guide for ADC would obviously help my situation better. Let me know if you recommend anyone or a series or something!
@@davidmotorca9312 I'll answer this. Try arrowlol, cookielol, LS, simba ADC, xfsn Saber, sneaky
I completely agree.
ah yes. finally. army of fellow hardstucks, ARISE! our time has come.
Yes, here I am brother
I am here, stuck in silver 1
Only up from here friends
Soldiers on wards!
@@CoachCurtis after watching this video, i can proudly say i am no longer hardstuck silver 1, im in silver 2 now!
Him: I got a solution! Use your brains!!
We: sir, we have a problem
Hahaha, bloody hell
@@CoachCurtis teach us how to connect neurons :P
So relatable.
Thanks a lot for that.
It seems small, but it's the best advice you could ever give to someone:
- Be not scared of failing
- Have intentions, plans and hypothesis on everything you do to always improve.
Thanks a lot for that coach!
Something I find found of kind of interesting, is that I hit gold off of playing reactively and abusing enemy mistakes, but I also hit a brick wall once I reach gold, because I don't really do anything unless I see a mistake, which basically generates me playing super passive, and not trying generate a lead based off of my own play.
This is the content I crave. I don't play Mid but this kind of mental self improvement message needs to be spread.
People may not want to hear it but this content has real value
people REALLY don't wanna hear this stuff it's very sad
I know this content isn't the most popular, but for the people who do watch it, I do believe it can have massive effects
@@CoachCurtis It does! Never doubt that, it does!
I would love to see a Dr. K and Coach Curtis session i believe it would be interesting to see.
I Don't think he needs help with anything just wondering how interesting a conversation between these two would be like.
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Get Dr K on the BBC Podcast
I applied to come onto his stream, fingers crossed!
Man I love how perfectly you blend logistical thinking within the realm of league but also the psychological factors that come into play as well. I came for tips on league but I’m leaving with an eye opening lesson on life. I appreciate all the hard work and effort you put into these videos, you’re truly one of a kind.
Thank you so much man, cheers!
Curtis coming at us with the real life advice. The feels. The man is a genius, and explains his theories in such a digestible way. Love it. Keep it up sir!
Started watching your videos at the beginning of season 11, after i got back to league from a 4 year break. I peaked gold 3 and was silver 2 when i started watching. I just ranked platinum and have 60,5% winrate with tf on 195 games. The fact you put out these vids for free is insane. All hail coach curtis
Love the reference to Dweck and the “Fixed Mindset.” Great read for anyone who has struggled to improve in something they care about.
Through silver, I kind of just ran without thinking or playing without intention, but that's one of the reasons I like your coaching; it makes you think. I know when I played soccer that once I got to a certain skill level I began to anticipate players' moves and make moves to bring about a certain result. I need to find my intention!
Hopefully this puts you on the right path mate
Similar ideology to pitching and hitting in baseball!
This was a good refresher and reminder because what you said about not having ‘ intention ‘ I see this happen very often when I reflect about it. Alot of times I’m just mindlessly farming , freezing or shuving without a real plan. Thank you so much
I used a similar system when I was trying to become a better student at university. Every study session I would try to make more productive. I would write down what distracted me and would try something new to see how it impacted my focus. It was definitely a lot of work to do but it got me good grades. I never thought to do the same for League. Excited to try this!
Man Coach Curtis, you're so underrated. I feel this video reflects this classic quote really well: "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." instead of going into every coaching session about how to play a lane or matchup, thanks for giving us the tools and things to look for when improving our own - actually the goat
This quote speaks volumes and so does the video!
I like how this turned into a life lesson.
Dude even for me as GM player your content actually give a lot of ideas and hypothetical aspect to maintain so development for my games even tho it is naturally for me but having access to the hypothesis in game would lead to a much better discussion making in real life. In addition i like these kind of videos around 30 min filled with info and knowledge keep going
I think this is an incredibly thought-provoking video that you've published. I'm obviously late to the video (I just found your channel a week ago!), but it's pretty incredible the insights you have and how accurate they feel.
I used to coach silver/gold players as a high diamond / masters player in season 8, and I honestly wish I knew so much of what you're saying here. That improvement mindset is a very peculiar thing, because for me personally, I lost it. In season 8 I had found it after 200 games in diamond 3, but I took a long break from the game and this season, I've been mostly stuck in plat. It hasn't been until very recently that I finally feel like I found that magic sauce, that improvement mechanism that allows me to more critically think in my games, review my faults, and improve the next game.
I also love the 'hypothesis' idea because it's exactly on the head. Every thoughtful player has these little hypotheses of everything in the game, and a lot of the process of improvement comes down to improving both your hypotheses through practice and learning as well as improving the mechanism via which you develop your hypotheses through more general experience and a greater understanding of the game.
Now I'm always considering what my predictions are for the matchup, the jungle pathing, etc. Whereas only a few weeks ago it felt like I played sort of mindlessly. I've always played top carries, and since coming back, I just always took fights whether or not they made sense based on my knowledge of the game. It truly feels like a cheat code to critically think about decision making, about predicted outcomes, and it makes me feel like losing a lane or dying solo lvl 3 is hugely impactful to my ability to learn now, whereas before if I died I never really considered the implications of that death, I wouldn't learn anything. It makes my losses feel like the most important games I play, which is truly awesome.
Anyways, I really appreciate your content from the coaching perspective. If I ever get back into coaching, I feel like your insights and ideas will make me better at it :)
This exact mindset switch was the exact thing that got the ball rolling for me. I improved a ton during the past 2 weeks and it really starts to show in my WR as well
Went from loving the hypothesis aspect to rethinking aspects of life, 10/10 would recommend
hi curtis. I wanted to thank you and endorse your vids. Last year I set a goal to reach diamond and I reached it. I still remember you made a video like this and you spoke about "false narratives we tell ourselves" that prevent us from climbing. I commented on that video, I had this false narrative that as an ADC main where mechanics are important I couldn't be consistent enough to play properly to climb. That video helped me realize yes that is a false narrative, and I eventually became consistent enough through focused intentional improvement. Your videos I think are often less pragmatic but a lot more cerebral and help visualize the game from a "birds-eye" view. Thank you for the help! This video seemed pretty spot on too, even for bronze-silver players if they can apply this process they can improve as well.
Your videos really changed my perspective of living. Concepts of intention, micro decisions affecting macro, and overcoming mental blocks are just a few that helped provide direction and change in a point of life I felt I was "stuck" in. Keep it up, you're really doing something valuable here.
Really appreciate you sharing this with me, glad I've been able to help you out!
brother, you are so relaxing to listen to. keep doing what you do. keep improving and making people improve. because you are really good at it.
I dont really comment on videos often (and i doubt ur gonna see this since its old) but this is a great video. I also coach my friends and its scary to see them do things and not being able to explain why.
I honestly thing autopiloting has a direct correlation to how concious you are as a person, meaning how often u sit down and choose to commit things to memory. Most people who tilt and who get hardstuck dont actively participate in the game, not just in theory crafting, but in general. People can play 10 games and if i asked them what the matchup was in their 3rd game, they wont even be able to tell me without looking online, hell sometimes they cant even remember the last game.
I think the advice in the video is great, its very well put in how to learn to stop autopiloting, but i think the first natural step is to learn how to almost exist in the moment so you can remember what u hypothesized in the first place.
Great video :)
4:30 It's awkward when someone reviews my VOD and I try to explain my thought process but it looks like I'm contesting everything they say, at least I'm glad I can explain such thing
Try saying your thought process loudly while playing, would help you see what you were thinking when reviewing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
@@H.N7 I know what I was thinking. It's just when the guy who reviews my Vod tells me which decision was wrong, I tend to explain why I did it and it feels like I'm contesting everything he says
@@abdusselamzahma7474 Looks like a layering issue. He should ask you neutrally what you were thinking first, then add his evaluation on top. And then if you find yourself disagreeing with his evaluation then he can't coach you anyway
@@thefierce Yeah it's not a big deal anyway. I still took lessons from the coaching
@@H.N7 wait this is sick. I play so much better with teammates I can voice comm with. Even though there's inherent advantages to playing with voice comms vs soloq, there's like a noticeable difference, and this might be a reason why. I'll def try this in my VOD reviews.
Was just random searching for guides and tips to get out of plat and end up learning how to improve my life. Great video bro, i'm actually hyped rn hahaha
Wow perfect timing; your videos seem to come out exactly when I have these problems or when I want to learn a new champion. Phenomenal content
Appreciate that mate
Honestly, this is really incredible advice. This is something that I've struggled with not just in league, but in life generally, too. Setting intentions is so important with so many things, and it's incredible how easy it is to go on autopilot with... anything, really. This is something that I have been actively working on, and having you put it into words so clearly and concisely is very helpful. I've only been watching your videos for a short time but already I feel like I have improved. Your content is invaluable and it's incredible that it's available for free. Thank you for devoting so much time to this for us!
Really awesome to hear I've been able to help you out brother. My pleasure Michael
Me a hardstuck Bronze watching this:
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if you're hardstuck bronze then you just suck at fighting. I been hardstuck Bronze 5 for several months before when I started back around season 5 and thought I would never get out of "elo hell". What I realized is that bronze players just suck at fighting. Start watching high elo teamfighting and then watch some of your vod reviews of teamfights in your bronze games. You''ll notice a huge difference in how bad the focus is in bronze, how much tunnel vision is happening, and how there is practically no peel for your carries, just straight diving back line. Literally all I needed to do to escape bronze was to get better at fighting. You don't have to be some map awareness god until higher elo. All you need to do in bronze is chain kill the enemies a few times and their mental state goes boom and they start flaming each other. So basically you just need to start learning how to win fights. Again, some good practice is watching the different elos have team fights and observing what's going on and ask yourself "Am I doing this in my fights, or would I have had the reactionary skills to do this in my own game"? Also ARAM is great for learning how to teamfight well. I practiced ARAM a lot and still do till this day every now and then. Not only does it prep you for teamfights but it also forces you to learn all the various champions and their abilities and how to fight against them. Good luck to you in your climb!
@@Tunde1306 thank you so much for this. I’ve been literally trying hard to get out of it and all I get is the other teammates feeding their correspondent opposite leaner and lose the match because of it. I started playing around 5 months ago and so far it’s been quite an experience.
I got out of bronze one tricking a champion to gold
@@mothman2506 if you are in bronze you are doing a lot of things wrong. You could also get out by having 8-10cs per minute consistently and you would simply be so far ahead that you would get out. But it’s true Bronze is basically just a mechanical problem. Watch high elo and onetrick in raked. This video is more about Elos where you need a game plan to win.
I've climbed from silver to masters just using your videos in a little more than a year thank you so much
That's amazing man, keep up the great work
Is that true ?, thats hugeeee improvement
Hi Curtis! You have been recommended to me by an enemy in ranked. I already like your coaching, I have been watching Neace for 2 moths, and I have improved from gold 4 to p4. I will definitely recommend you to my friends, and teammates/enemies.
This is fantastic content, I am definitely 'too comfortable' when im in lane and just try to play reactively. Going to try this out and hopefully finally get out of silver!
Amazing. This is must be applied to every aspect of life. However, I feel like there are some basic skills that must be autopiloted before making theories while you are in a game. Farming - minimap checking - dodging abilities. Personally, I feel like it won't be easy to make theories while you are still thinking about how to farm under turrets or when you are lacking information that's available in your minimap, or when you still can't be precise with your movement. I like to compare the brain to a RAM that stores information that's being processed. And if your RAM is already full with "how do I farm in this situation" or "Ah I should check the minimap more often" there won't be much space left for you to be actively thinking about making game plans which decides the course of action that must be taken.
What I'm trying to say is: have your basic skills autopiloted (which needs a lot of training obviously)so you won't need to waste time on them. This will result in having more brain pawa focused on making game plans and theories and reviewing them while in-game. All I've said is just a theory and now it's time for execution . I will make sure to share my thoughts if this works out or it dosent.
This video is literally the thing i've been thinking about all week. Really appreciate you Curtis
one of the biggest lessons ive learned so far (not even a mid main) is that in lol being "proactive" is really just being reactive but reacting to all the information you have to make sound predictions for plays
man this is super great. ive been hardstuck diamond since s7 and i did alot of this hypothesis. At some point though i capped myself blaming others for my mistakes. thanks so much for the video! this is SUPER helpful!
Super applicable advice. I've been using this for both med school studying and my league hobby to great success! Autopilot is the death of potential!
Big thanks for making this video man.
Funny how much League has in common with life :-)
I stumbled across a guy called David Goggins who made me realize life is a constant battle versus yourself. His logic applies to League as well (and everything else you can improve at for that matter.)
I always thought people did this testing thing. But your right now that I think about it I see many people never learn by doing theory's I do love how you put it into terms! That helps fill in some wholes for me.
I’ve found that when I die or am walking back to lane, it helps me when I just say out loud what I did or could of done and it honestly makes the difference of improvement, just avoiding points where I’ll forget what I did in a certain point in the game or miss mistakes I made
Things to make a point of having a hypothesis on, 18:30
1. Ability usage
2. Wave state
3. Resets
4. Role in the comp.
5. How enemy has to play.
So many coaches, but only Coach Curtis addresses this topic. It was really eye opening and inspiring. I also love the tips on how its ok to start with baby step hypothesis'. Its something I can do immediately in my next game. Thanks!
Goodluck brother
You hit the nail on the head Coach. I gotta admit. I have different phases during a game. Sometimes i theorize about almost every play and decision but there a some games where i just dont. Its difficult to keep this mindset up every game
Take it one step at a time mate
@@CoachCurtis I will dont worry. Im taking it totally relaxed. I like the process and I have been having decent success the last couple of weeks
This is the content we love to see Curtis, I feel like I learned a lot about how I should be viewing the game. I realized during this that a lot of the time I view the game as a "gamer" instead of as a "player". I know league can feel like chess, but I didn't consider how I should be making incremental learning hypothesis like this. I love this video and how you went about explaining your take. Thanks!
Thanks coach, got diamond last season and was stuck in plat 1 and couldnt pin in my head what was wrong until you explained hyopthesis. I relied too much on my muscle memory and mechanics to carry games and end up missing crucial information to keep in mind.
i wish there is someone like him for the support role
You can apply this to every role. You could even make up a new role and apply this knowledge.
Check out bizzleberry, I really enjoy his videos as well
I expected some generic guides teaching me stuff i already know and I'm surprised of how in-depth it is. Earned a sub!
I was a natural at counterstrike from the age of 10, and when it burnt out for me at 15-16 i switched to league and got stuck in gold up until this season and i never knew why because i picked up counterstrike so easily, not only the aiming but the gamesense too. I realize now that i was just autopiloting on League the entire time because i had understood most of the basics for hitting gold and getting down mechanics on champs i enjoy, so i guess i just assumed it would come easy too and eventually id pick it up and that im just not putting in enough hours. But, this year i guess something awoke in me and I finally started thinking about the decisions i made and as soon as i did i shot to platinum 3-2 within a week and im still hovering around there and looking to improve more, you have helped immensely, thank you curtis
When League Tips turn into Life Advices.
Awsome!
i agree. playing passive vs playing proactively. playing the game just to have something to do vs actively/consciously completing tasks and making plays
I'm soo hardstuck gold 3/4 this season & I was hoping for plat so I'm binge watching your videos to find out what I'm doing so wrong but also what to do in future, thank u so much:D
True Story, realized how long i was trapped there a long time myself and how much it took to get outta there, or at least set me on the path.
First was the awareness, realize whats going on on the map, then gathering the knowledge what it means, other roles for example, (specially jungler, dont like jungle, dont play it, but watching jungle vidios and to understand what they are trying and whats important to them and why they are doing what they are doing is so improtant) through a lot of videos and other players, then put strategies together what happens, what could one try, what could work, and last to get out of the comfort zone and actually try it out at the risk of failing...following by learning to understand why things worked or not.
Sometimes i look back and its fascinating how many new things i learned, looking back a few month and remembering how ignorant i was at the time, and then the same a bit later, realizing at one point that there is so much more i dont know then i know, plus the ability to put that knowledge to use so i have to learn again to do one step after another and focusing to the problem at hand while reacting to a dynamic game and mental fragile teammates and ignoring aspects of them at the same time.
Done the right way its a tough training for mind and character. :D
amazing to see that one of the frontiers of self improvement and learning how to learn is actually channeled through video games. The concepts described in this video *easily* apply to so many aspects of life. I really want to see Curtis discuss some of these things with some psychologist (i saw someone suggest dr. K) to see what their take is on optimal learning methods
Definitely would be interesting to speak with Dr.K
I've been so sad lately because of league. Thank you so much for giving me confidence with your videos. Every time I watch one of them I feel like i can accomplish anything. I love your content ❤
just wanna say thanks for all the content you put out there, especially your champion guides. the most in depth and informative videos out there, and they're a reference i use whenever i wanna learn a new champion.
i'd love to see a discord (different than the mid lane academy one) where like minded people who watch your vids and chill and chat just like how the server used to be a year ago but i completely understand that you need that you can sustain this forever just by youtube as you honestly never get enough views for the quality of content you produce. Cheers
really interesting idea. I completely agree that making constant hypotheses is the best way to learn any game. The more experienced you, get the more variables you consider, without having to think about them consciously. So you can add new variables of which you do think consciously about.
You obviously dont have the mental capacity to think about everything right when you are starting out. It's a slow build up. Every time you dont have to think about one variable anymore, you can add anotherone
The unpacking of "intentionality" in decision making and making ongoing hypothesis throughout the game is helpful. Thinking strategically, like writing or vod creation, is a muscle that needs exercise to get stronger. This is getting me thinking about my decision making playing Miss Fortune and Jinx. Sometimes I've a goal and a plan such as pushing or positioning. However I'm not using your Chess analogy far enough. Chess is about thinking "multiple" moves ahead, such as projecting 3-5 (or more) moves ahead. In League, I'm usually only thinking about 1-2 moves. I'm looking forward to reviewing my vods with this refreshed idea as I felt stuck in my progress. Thanks for this amazing video for "thinking".
Side note: Competitive running is not mindless. As a former coach and runner, I can tell you that it requires proactive thinking to improve individually personal bests and versus other runners. Maybe there is a better analogy to use ;)
very nice coaching, not the same type that im used to but just as efffective. Thanks for the free content!
Halfway through the video man and I just have to say this is amazing. All other league coaches do not even come close to you Curtis. I watched this video of a league coach live coaching a gold player and just yelling at him to do specific things instead of teaching him anything that resembles a concept or is easily replicated. It was tragic. After seeing your content I’m convinced you are the best coach. Appreciate you a lot!!
As someone who's been in high gold for 2 seasons and only hit low plat this season, I feel like this definitely applies to me. I've been having issues bc I want to improve but I don't know how. For one, I watch my VOD reviews but I don't even know what to look for/Idk HOW to improve. The only things I know what to improve on are the very obvious ones like checking for SS cds, or mechanical failures which come with experience on a specific champ. Decision making wise, I am utter garbage it's a miracle I even made it to plat. Classic case of win lane lose game, although I've been getting better with my GM friend coaching me a bit. I've always watched your videos for mid lane bc they've helped me, but this one by far helped me a lot, cuz my decision making = utter G A R B A G E lol.
And my GM friend told me the same thing, just make a decision, my mechanics with champions I main are fine, but I am very indecisive (mindset of trying not to hold the team back rather than bulldozing even if it's the wrong decision).
As stupid as it sounds, I tried to "make a decision" but I keep instinctively reacting to what is happening around me (autopilot reacting to a fight, etc.) bc I didn't exactly know how to apply intention (this is where it sounds stupid).
The video made what I needed a bit clearer! Cheers
hahaha, I remember when I reached Diamond 5 in my first season and just couldnt break through even after years, after i took a break for a year I decided I want to improve so I started taking league seriously ( no autopiloting, watching reviews, thinking about my actions) and jumped right to master tier, I wish you were there 3 seasons ago to tell me that ^^
Thanks for the Video. Youre content got. me from G4 to Plat 2 in only a few weeks. Keep making that kind of content!👍🏻
Relatively new player here who’s been using your guide almost religiously for s11. Single handedly fixed my WR with this mentality and your guides, climbing consistently now!
Love it man! Keep it up Liam :)
@@CoachCurtis will do coach. G3 s9, p4 s10, aiming for diamond s11 !
Coach Curtis I have to apologize as an angry hard stuck. I finally understood what you meant by playing off of mistakes and made it back to gold after a 2 season drought. Now I will try to hear you out for this. The highest I peaked at was gold 1 98 lp and couldnt understand what I was doing wrong to continue climbing. I make a lot of decisions the issue seems to be my adaptability to situations. I will try to actively review my games and decisions as I play.
I teach running technique and also help people with running related injuries, so I'm obliged to say that your characterisation of running in this lecture is dangerously simplistic haha. I see a lot of people who just run for ages without thinking about it and then they have all sorts of pains from that.
Anyway, this concept of "learning to learn" is something that's taught in higher education. It helps if you're doing a degree that has at least a smidgen of relation to pedagogy.
im so fucking grateful that you are here curtis, your videos are the most amazing content i have ever seen on youtube i swear
I hope a slot become available in Mid Academy soon. I really do want to become a great mid laner & based off of the concepts that you've introduced in your channel I know with absolute confidence that you are the man that can help me help myself get there.
I love the part about hypothesis creation and playing with 'intensity'. The thing I notice about very high elo players when they are playing mid is at that every decision they make has become instinctive and decisive. I love watching Showmaker streams from his perspective since he is the definition of 'proactively reactive', decisive and intense at all times, especially when he plays control mages. Dopa and Faker are similar
I think.. this was pretty spot on.
I've been gold the past couple seasons, and I know I totally could be Platinum.
I even got Plat on a smurf, on the smurf I just played, and sort of faked confidence to myself and 'TRIED' stuff.
Like, on my main I'd usually be too reserved or safe to go for something that I wasn't 100% sure about, so I end up giving away a lot of leverage I could've had in winning the game.
On my smurf, I didn't care. I just went for it, and I think because I was able to just try and go for things I was subconsciously testing 'hypothesis'. Small hypothesis of course, like "if I all in x champ with my current resources, I can snag a solo kill and get a lead in laning phase". Small things like that not too complicated, but I was theorizing in game and trying to get better. I climbed to plat really easily. Skipping ranks in gold, and I just said it was because of my smurf's better MMR. Like, I got plat sub-100 games, when in the same amount of games I was stuck in gold. (Oh yeah, I also just don't play ranked much despite my desire to climb and improve because I'm afraid or anxious of making mistakes like Coach Curtis has said).
So long story short, I resonate a lot with this video. I think it makes a lot of sense, and I hope to start putting it into practice. Thanks a lot Coach!
It's a great wake up call in my opinion.
Yes yes I've Benn stuck in Plat 4 for like a month and can't cross the 40 LP mark. This is definitely for me.
It's crazy how much mental takes part in climbing in league. This isn't just about league but also about self improvement. If you don't actively take the time to reflect on your choices then you won't ever improve.
Spot on mate
@@CoachCurtis Yet I struggle with it so much lmfao
I'm in silver/low gold from season 3, because I liked to chill after my main work and played another games. Now I try to improve a little bit.
Great video, wonderful message and the way you explain it is really beautiful. Thank you for this awesome piece of advice, both for league and life in general!
bro thnx for this i was definatly in the group of thinking theres all this stuff i need to do with wave managment and trading and watching the map ect... so i just would play passive and learn or adapt based on what was already happening in the game. But thank you this is already helping me have intention on something and make a hypothesis.
There is something quite weird i noticed recently, in that soloq teaches me way more than playing with friends does. its almost as im playing the game differently. When i go soloq, i dont need to talk to anyone but myself, i dont need to argue with someone about x call or decision while in reality we re both right and wrong, sometimes calls even bait you in doing things that you would normaly not do because you decide its a bad idea but since a buddy called it you re like ''ah i guess i need to help then'' or you ll get so distracted because someones constantly telling you what they are doing, that you cant focus on what you re doing.
DuoQ is more distracting to me than helpful, going back into solo q and i m all of a sudden 10 times more focused, not caring about what someone else is doing, just playing for yourself, to get plays to achieve something that benefits yourself, and thinking about what you can do to win the game. DuoQ and all that gets thrown out of the window because someone constantly gives you input on what they want you to do or what their gameplan is or whatever it might be.
Sometimes i could completly int in duo because lack of focus be like ''why am i doing that... i play completely different when i m alone''
This is exactly what I needed to hear right now. Thank you for making this.
I've learned a lot the first time I saw this video but now I was watching it since I'm stuck on plat and I realized I still have the same problem I'm always doubting my theory and mostly can't get a conclusion. It always ends with depends...
So I’m a guitar teacher and there is a pedagogical textbook with the title “excellence trough differentiated handeling of mistakes”. It’s a German title so I don’t know, if I translated the title properly. But I feel like that’s kinda the essence from this video.
Thanks for the video btw!
I was hard stuck bronze V/iron IV for 4-5 years - I noticed that my FPS dropped significantly when I went in for teamfights, so season 10 I tried offmeta champs that can fight from the edges of the fight, so my winrate improved and I got into bronze IV haha mostly one-tricking MF mid (AP/AD depending on team comp). Can't go much higher though... since I still can't truly teamfight 100%. So it's truly looking at your limitations (hardware or mechanics or macro) and trying to change something to improve that facet.
lol, the cursed cassio curtis at the end
This video gave me the motivation for my goals irl, thank you!
By watching this video I noticed I actually make proactive decisions, I actually decide when I want to freeze and when I want to push the wave, when I want to go for a trade, a dive or a roaming, but then I realised my problem is that I stick to my decision anyway and follow it to the end even when I realise it has now become a 50/50 play or even an unfavorable play
For instance: I play top lane or jungle, I decide I want to contest an objective and I check the map for clues weather that might be a good choice or not, and if I feel it is, I follow through, but then if I'm on the way to making the play and something indicates it now has become a bad decision, I still go on with it and often I lose and then I blame teammates for not following up but not having my teammates following was one of the indicators that the play would go wrong in the first place...
Well, I'll try my hypothesis in my next games.
One of the things I constantly repeat to myself every time I’m playing (and I’ve used this trick to climb in a lot of different games) is i’lll keep asking myself.
“What are you doing? Why? What’s your plan? End goal? What’s the win con?” Every few minute or so
Mind and Muscle is so important. A person talking about Running, who does not know anything about it))) Same for Muscle Grow. You need to have the mind and muscle focus during your sets. Same also know why you want it, and whats the reason behind it.
Im in college right now and this is iltteraly what im reading about right now. Proess improvement!
Really informative video. I struggle really hard with trying to implement this stuff into my games though unfortunately. I watch plenty of these videos, watch the vods note the mistake at the time I get in game and it all goes out the window. I don't know I just start auto-piloting and then yeah it's really bad. I really want to improve and hit Platinum but I literally cant. I seem to tunnel vision a lot and I know this I just can't help it.
What i found to be a major problem for myself in doing this, is consistency.
Some games i can play fully conciously awake, making good profound descisions and carrying hard, the next game i get frustrated somehow and boom... my prefrontal cortex goes down, and i play like a complete autopilot moron, running it down x)
It´s kind of a vicious circle, that gets started with just one little thing that -> gives an emotion of pain -> stress -> working memory gets shut down, justifying, blaming,... -> fully autopilot mode -> more "poor descisions" -> more emotions -> ...
The ability to cope with that whole topic is called emotional intelligence, wich in addition to IQ itself is much more important, to succeed in League as in real life.
And like the IQ, not everyone has the same precondition when born. But luckily, that´s not finite, and it still can be trained like a skill.
Like for me, who got ADD and is hyper-sensitive for emotions, this is far more limiting then the knowledge about what to do in game/life.
I really LOVE your content, as always a pleasure to watch. Keep it up
I've also realized that in the last months little by little. Like I started thinking and having intentions in my games, and I've been improving so drastically it's kind of insane. And not only in LoL but also irl I started doing it and am improving in many aspects of my life.
I was stuck in platinum for like six seasons. And I attribute this to sheer lack of willpower. I knew I should be reviewing my games, and that I needed to study and practice specific concepts, but I just never did it ever. The impulse to just re-queue and avoid doing the actual work of self-analysis was just too strong. I think in my case coaching would have helped me greatly, but I was also stingy and never committed to that either. I've since quit playing ranked, but I'm recognizing now that my stagnation in league was completely avoidable, and in order to prevent stagnation in other areas of my life I need to consciously force myself off of autopilot.
I would like to give out my thoughts of what could be one of the reasons players are stuck in Gold Elo for many years and I think it would have to do with motivation and the people they are exposed to. I have often been with people who are just satisfied with only achieving Gold and have no motivations to climb higher and I believe because of that it has stunted my growth as a player.
I have been in Gold for several years often I would think about why that was. I believe it's mostly due to discipline. I never worked hard for my division. I would always be satisfied with a win and I would never think about why I had won and what I could improve. Of course, there are real-life problems like a bad computer and slow connection to the internet and mentality, but I really believe the reason for my growth is because I am not willing to put in the time to learn and do something about this stagnation.
Lately, I have made sure to play every day as much as I could with the time limit I had and focused more on the things players better than I did and imitate it in my games, but I feel like I am not learning, but imitating what this person had done without knowing the exact reason they had done it.
Yes, I do see some success in my gameplay, I win games, but I have not seen any form of improvement to me as a person. In theory, I could play hundreds of games over and over again and I would only see myself at the elo given to me after these games.
I believe knowledge about the game is one of the most important factors of improving along with experience and a desire to get better at it. And getting in-depth lessons from you as a player is a very important thing for those who truly love this game.
Thank you.
and he leaves the 1 ad in this whole 30 minute video at the end what an absolute gem this content creator is in the league community
When you get money from coaching, and not from youtube, you can allow yourself to do it.
I've came from DotA 1 to LoL in the end of 2012, my first rank was gold 5, at that time, the average elo for most players was silver 4~5. Then, in season 9 I've got platinum and I was very happy, but now, I'm hard stuck in gold 3~4 again, and this make me so, so, so sad. I will watch this video, trying to understand where I'm failing.
There is a lot of reasons people become hardstuck in league. Just a few from my own experience.
-Prioritizing fun over winning or learning. (Champion X would be good here but.. I really want to play Champ Y)
-Lack of time to consistently play and improve. (forget previously learned lessons)
-Playing when mentally exhausted (capacity to learn things starts to drop)
-Under the influence of drugs/alcohol
-Account MMR is stagnant (make a new account and sometimes you'll surprise yourself)
-Not analyzing reflecting reoccurring mistakes. (Ex. Dying consistently alone when trying to check baron; can I wait for team? is going there worth it?)
-Not wanting to look at games you played 'bad' in. (The disaster games you fed so hard and were the main reason the team lost)
I *mostly* stopped doing all those things which has nothing really to do with the in-game match and went up a whole division
all this time i was a autopilot now i know why thanks to you
Amazing content. Just absolutely amazing. Thank you for all that you do
Sad that i have a "fixed mindset" problem, its really hard to break out of such a mindset and believe in that you can change and be better
What a great guide, and also a really important life lesson
i tried this out, and i actually learned a lot thanks!
big thanks for this video, might actually improve now