[In Depth] Coping With Ranked Anxiety

A detailed discussion about the science of anxiety and how it affects your games. Thanks to Kashade for providing his expertise!

[GamingCurios]

Now THIS is a one hell of a god damn League of Legends guide. Props to you my foxy man!

[FreaperFTW]

Nevermind ranked anxiety, I get the shivers just solo queueing in normals.

Thanks for the video, foxdrop, this also helps for all sorts of other anxieties.

[JustAnotherDiamondTrashKKR]

I had this Problem for 2 years, too Long tbh....

But I found my solution.

I join EVERY game, attempting to troll... Its crazy but it works for me.
Whenever i join a game, NOT trying to win, im calm as fck...
I dont even want to win anymore, i dont want to get ranks... I just want to make crazy Plays and laugh at stupid situations....

And with that mindset, i got to diamond5.

I was in silver for 2 years beacuse i was so scared of rankeds....
All my friends were in high elo and I was giving them But silver lol...

Now im Diamond, i Play 6-7 rankeds each day.... Np at all...

Sometimes the first game of the day is a Little bit weird, but then ist easy.

[ake]

I had this big depression a while back, my girlfriend moved and i lost alot in ranked, i just didnt wanna play it at all. I just didnt wanna lose my silver 1 rank as the best in my class, then people started catching up and i decided i would try again. And just going in saying "fck it elo is only a stupid number". It worked for me, i imagined elo as nothing but a number and in losses i didnt care and in wins i joked around. I started winning more as i didnt rage or get pissed at my teammates. Just remember elo is nothing you are supposed to have fun so play for fun and learn fun champs to play and set up goals in game, like i will have 100 cs at 10 min, or i will gank mid 3 times in 5 min or whatever. This lets your mind focus on the smaller objectives instead of the big one like losing so if you lose you go "atleast i had 100 cs at 10" and bring that on to the next game and increase it to 110 at 11 min or something. Helped me a bunch!

[sadesemolu]

Really like the effort you put into this video, it helped a lot

[VasoooooPT]

8:35 "You're god damn right" LOL

[foxdropLoL]

Thanks to Kashade for lending me his insight on the topc!

[WFFLDealer]

Audio : "Yes, exactly."
Captions : "You're god damn right!"

I need these captions in real life.

[blackfox]

Foxdrop thank you from the bottom of my heart. You helped A LOT. There isn't such a video on you tube and really I believe all the LoL community should thank you for this contribution. You are not only a great player but a great human too thanks!

[Ludovit]

Brilliant. I read a bit about anxiety and self-attacking thoughts so most of the knowledge was familiar to me, but the comment about needing the sufficiently demanding cognitive task to distract yourself to regain control makes a real sense to me and it's according to what I already heard from people as well.

Well done.

[SasukeUchiha-tqiz]

both of these anxiety videos helped me alot foxdrop, thanku for ur amazing effort d:

[Nyord]

I kinda came here for the advice and I kinda got distracted with the back ground game...

[meris]

Thanks man really appreciate this, I've been been dealing with anxiety for a long time both ingame and real life. I found this extremely helpful in dealing with it, you're the best

[lolchaser]

Thank you so much foxdrop, I have been avoiding ranked even though I want to get to hold this season. I'll take this advice and try to use it the best I can to improve my anxiety when it comes to league.

[jonathanavila]

Not only helped me with Ranked Anxiety but also helped me better understand my own Social Anxiety as well. Thanks Foxdrop!

[vittucore]

Wow foxy, truly amazed by the effort you put in this, as someone who suffers from some serious anxiety issues, this truly motivated me as to work around those issues to improve my gameplay, really, really thankful for this submission!

[Psychograce]

Among the best videos, also pretty funny!

Good job you Fox you!

[Aerbore]

Things like this are why you're my favorite league related youtuber. Cause you do things that try and actually help people.

[Danny-nojp]

Thanks foxdrop! This information did not completely cure ke of my anxiety because in my case it is tied to stuff going on IRL, but it definitely helped me understand it more, and I hope I will find the courage now to finally finish my placement matches.
Sorry for my English, I don't have time to spend editing every youtube comment. Eh... Yeah.

[perrucis]

Please do more videos like this, it's awesome, i had always being feeling like that every time, i stoped playing ranked then league just because of that feeling, didn´t knew it was anxiety, thank you so much!!!