How I 'Solved' my Ranked Anxiety

lets talk ranked anxiety (again)

How I "Solved" my Ranked Anxiety

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[HushMySweet]

A former Starcraft 2 pro, beastyQT, tackled this as well. A lot of his viewers watched more than played, and several of them had a hard time queuing up ranked matches because of nerves. He suggested to them to create a new account with a lame tag they weren't attached to, get into 50 ranked games, and immediately quit out of each one of them. Then, with a mediocre no-name tag and an atrocious win rate, they could go back into ranked and start to play the game without all the extra baggage. So you sort of arrived at a similar solution for Street Fighter. Good luck in your quest to level up, just don't start getting attached to that tag!

[MCMuraFGC]

Very relatable, IDK why SFV in particular does this to me. I used to play SF4 ranked all the time and never felt this.

[zpacezekonia]

I've been using the same account for 2 years just playing casual but anxiety prevented me from playing ranked for so long. Those things that prevented you from playing the game were exactly why i stopped for a long time. I fell into that spiral and it feels terrible because then i end up just watching people get better at the game while I'm stuck at the same skill level i was 2 years ago. This was the first fighting game i wanted to improve at and i feel that despite my efforts I feel that me not grinding the game a ton, has halted my progress for improvement in the game. I still remember when i got to silver for the first time and got de ranked to bronze, it hurt a ton. I think there are different ways of fixing that problem. You made your decision to find an alternative which was another account where you don't care, i would say it's a good place to relax and then when you really feel like playing rank, then you can log on to your other account and play. I hope to achieve that peace and i hope we all overcome this anxiety. I think it's one thing that's not discussed at all when it comes to this genre of games. Thanks for covering this topic again.

[DeBoogiee]

Good for you brother, emotional intelligence was a hard lesson that I learned this year and it definitely relates to fighting games and ranked. I'll try and apply this as you have.

[hoon-kay]

My ranked anxiety deals with the other people that I'm playing with, games like valorant and rocket league are full of toxicity so I'm scared of pissing off my teammates than I am doing badly.

[BrettGroh-ez]

Hey I just wanted to say that I really appreciated this video as I have a rather crippling anxiety whenever I play ranked. I thought your solution was a fine suggestion but more than that, just being vulnerable enough to tackle the topic is helpful to those of us with similar issues and I don’t see that as cowardice, it’s the opposite actually. Idk what the ever mysterious YouTube algorithm wants but I can tell you that honesty and trying out new ideas we haven’t seen before makes me want to watch more.

[jovan]

Relatable. A lot of big ones in this vid. The things I lose to but know how to beat. The people I watched from bronze playing them in Diamond and seeing their (not always positive) opinions. It’s a lot to take in. I myself can really only play a couple of sets before salt and tilt start to set in. I’ve chosen to hop on Sfv any time I’ve got a cool head and the moment I start feeling the tilt come in, I get off, knowing I can forget the matches and hop on later. Cause losing 2 sets and getting off is a lot easier to forget than losing more in a single sitting

[TxxicBrxther]

im not going to lie i saw this and the moment you spoke everything clicked everything you said made sense and its glad to know someone feels the same way

[dewormerreal]

i feel all of this so hard man but being able to recognize all of this in the first place is a huge thing that you should be proud of!!! theres a quote from michelangelo that goes "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." you laid it out yourself, your marble is all the mental blocks and stuff you talked about that cause you to stress out and second guess yourself. so just keep carving away at your marble dude and youll be the street fighter player and person that you want to be <3 sorry if thats kinda odd LOL that analogy has been helping me out in the way i see things lately

[GuilleBSO]

I play chess and I made an alt account to escape this problem and it turned out that I didn't feel the excitement of playing with my main account and I didn't feel that I was improving too much because my concentration was going down. I still feel that anxiety though.

Neuro has a video called mindset 101: Ladder anxiety and it's helping me a lot to overcome it. The thing is that apart from the fact that nobody cares about your elo and also by pressing the ranked button you exercise your brain to face not only the game but life in general. That may have sounded pretentious but you may lose points but you gain experience and willpower and that is more valuable than all the points you can lose.

[GalacticFGC]

this definitely mad relatable tbh content like this and Romolla’s really help with trying to supplement the thoughts from playing top players and ranked with more healthy ones shit is still mad hard tho I 100% be in the abyss about improving and stuff

[MJRLHobbyStuff]

Yea man. It’s like people that use “pen names” the most famous pen name of all time is Stan Lee. He didn’t want to use his real name attached to comic books in fear that no one would take him seriously as a novelist. Yet Stan became the MAN under a different name

[xeruen]

I feel nothing when i lose a game and RR I have detached from being concerned about ranked since playing CSGO from 2018, i feel something when i get toxic, defeatist mindset teammates who spread their worry, panic and insecurities throughout the team which eventually gets into my head unless I mute them but despite their behavior I still need the comms that are vital.

[Yxazel]

People NEED to have a place of peace, they need to be able to just be themselves and to let all frustation bleed out. What you did, isn't being a coward or running away of your problems; it is to be human, and to catch a break

[DestroyForX]

Just stop caring about EVERYTHING. I don't give a fuck about anything. Got perfected? Emotional EX DP? Tea bagging me? Can someone say I looked bad on stream? I just don't give a single fuck. The only question in my mind is: Did I have fun? If the answer is no, THEN I do something about it. I love your content man and guess what, if you feel you need a break from anything; nobody can't tell you otherwise AND no one will care. Hard truth but I prefer to be honest than to sugar coat it. You do what you want to do and if you want to play anything else you have my support too.

[BrotherBro]

One of the best content creators in the fgc.

[Dude_Seriously]

Truth… my mood is constantly affected by my street fighter performance 😅

[cpnCarnage]

I have it bad. And I should try to move up because clearly I've leveled up from the silver bracket I stopped at, but going up against diamonds and golds and all the rest with my rank on the line makes me play differently. I start playhing more conservatively, take less risks. Which in some situations could be good but I would argue not for every and all situations. That or I get frustrated, and now my mental is bad.

The funny thing is with nothing on the line I relish the opportunity to play higher level opponents. Every time I encounter a smurf I get so excited and afterwards I never fail to invite them to he battle lounge for more lessons.

But god forbid I go ranked.... anyways, I'm working on it.

[proudpatriot]

I started doing this with Starcraft 2. I have this main account and I think I should be at a certain level. Mostly because I was Diamond when the game first came out but now I'm much older and haven't played in years so I made a side account I've been laddering on. Helps big time but I still get performance anxiety before I hit find match.

[realest_JoJo]

This all resonates with me heavily. And the thing is I only get this way with fighting games. I’ve played fps and other pc titles competitively my whole life. This is my first fighting game. And the ranked anxiety is crippling for me 😢 I think it’s cause in fighting games you can’t really cope and blame others for your loss. It’s all on you. No way around it. That’s my own suspicion of my own issue but I get feeling ashamed of feeling this way I’m in my 30s, a game shouldn’t stress me like this 😂