> goes into video expecting climbing tips > recieves life altering perspective change > gets out of bed, cleans house, applies for jobs, and starts planning my future with newfound determination > still hardstuck silver edit: i got a job
Wtf i instead read the comments (or at leat the top comment, and yours brother is the one❤) before watching the video, and I thought "what does he mean by that?" Now at 8:00 im not even sure i wanna try to be challenger anymore, just get better in things in life
Honestly, it's finally nice to see a video that is genuine and not another clickbait. I am truly happy for you and thankful that you were willing to share your journey to challenger with us. We need more positive high elo players like yourself. I'm aiming to get Masters this season and after that who knows, but having confidence to make mistakes (and recover from them) is something that will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you again.
dude im literally silver and don’t even play league anymore but still decided to watch the video, and hearing about how you translated the mindset from improving your overall life into league to hit challenger was surreal. im on that journey right now too and recognizing and resonating with the clips and Marcus Aurelius quote really hit me. this video definitely has helped to reinforce a lot of the concepts I’ve been trying to work on in my own life; self honesty, self actualization, and the whole confidence thing too. i struggled my entire life with massive insecurity and only through letting go of external expectations and learning to embrace rejection and failure have i finally overcome it. as you said, the feeling is truly liberating. amazing 10/10 video, im subbing. best of luck to you on your journey, and thank you for the important reminder to be mindful of my machine
Hidden Coach Curtis ad confirmed?!! Okay but for real, this is an insanely good video. Your story also feels a bit personal because I can relate to a lot of what you said. League Rank aside, this is such a profound message. Keep up the work.
First of all, congratulations! Secondly, I recently discovered your channel and to be honest I feel like you are what this community truly needs. Rather than telling you that hecarim has 175%wr and that you should spam it or spam pinging, sending death threats, insulting other players while bragging how good you are and complaining the lack of skill of your teammates, you simply try to help the community on a deeper level, way beyond the summoner's rift. Overall you spread positivity in a community so focused on bringing harm to others and that's something I admire. Thirdly, this video instantly sparked my interest when I saw the title, to be precise the "9 years" part. I have been playing this game since season 5, when I was a little 9-year-old kid and it has been quite a journey. League has accompanied me throughout all of my highschool years and now I'm starting college. I don't want to know how many hours I've spent on this game. I would be terrified. League has brought me the most toxic friendships I've ever had, and I had no one else besides them. I had a mountain of problems and I tried to "solve" them doing the same thing every single time: running away and never confronting my problems. This is overall the thing that resonated with me the most within this video. The other thing that resonated with me and what I think brings me back to this game over and over again is what you described as the renaissance, every time I watch an educational video about this game and see myself slowly but surely improving. But since league took such an important role in my life and the fact that the joy I had came down to my performance, I quickly became severely depressed. And anxiety kept getting worse and worse, to the point that I could no longer (and this is still true to this day) play this game without my newfound group of friends (who aren't toxic). Ironically this became my saving grace. I took an important decision in my life, I didn't go to college, instead I took a break and during the latter half of 2022 and until september of 2023. My friends were so busy at the time that they didn't play the game, so I couldn't queue up and quit the game up until June of last year. When I came back, my mental health improved significantly and I don't know why, even though I didn't play the game for 9 months I severely improved, somewhat proving the point of this video. There is still a long way to go, I still have to overcome this "ranked anxiety" and not being able to queue up in soloq. I hope that one day, I'll be able to overcome my problems by facing them and simply queue up to greater heights. I don't know why I vented and told my journey of this game. But the emotional response I got with this video probably deserved it (I think that only time will tell). But sincerely, thank you for making this video. I hope you manage to reach your goals in life
That's incredible man, I'm glad that you were able to resonate so deeply with the video. It really seems that you are going through a lot of the same stuff that I did. You have to face your problems and not run away like I did for so long. Confront them, be confident, and I promise that it will be worth it in the end. I know you are on the right path ❤️
I started playing this game in 2011 and peaked in S3 as D1 99LP (there was no master's/grandmaster's). I cannot fully remember why I stopped playing, but I think mainly due to frustration that I couldn't achieve the challenger and I just hopped onto other games. I was relatively good at that game and I always wanted to start streaming but I had bad internet and computer. I later realised I could have tried going into competitive scene, but back in the day I just played for fun and I had no idea about esports. One of my biggest regrets is stopping playing at that moment. I sometimes get back into League. Around S7 I got back and played Taliyah all the time, hitting diamond with around 70%wr. I stopped again. In S11 I got back to hit diamond. In S12 I didn't play much and got platinum. In S13 I started liking League again and hit Master's for first time and stopped again to play other game. The skill gap has increased so much, back in the day the games were much, much easier. Also lack of knowledge of champions doesn't help. But I sometimes wonder if I kept pushing around that S3, would I ever try the taste of e-sports? I am 27 now and I still love competitive aspect of games, but I regret that in golden years I didn't keep trying no matter what.
Not sure if you will read this message, I am 37 and love league but people keep saying I am " Dinosaur, ancient, relic, and just too old". I love watching the pro scene and have teams I truly admire and root for as a fan. However, for the last few years I've been stuck in bronze and finally got silver... what I am getting at i is my goal has always been challenger and people keep telling me it's just not achieveable at my age ( life, family,work,... etc) but I really believe I can do it. Your video has given me the motivation to achieve it ... I know folks in the comments will clown at me " Bro get a life , why are you playing a video game at that age?... blah blah" ...etc I trully love the lore and game of league of legends. I just want to say thanks for putting together this video and inspiring to achieve a goal - I truly want - god bless.
My guy ,one of the most important things to climb from what i heard from multiple challengers, is macro but micro looks cool so people often focus on it ... But macro is where big brain and lp is at , so focus on that and don't beat yourself up ,and fuck anyome saying you are too old for anything .. you are still alive ,and that's what's important ❤
11:23 is the best part of the video. Confidence to fail is something i haven't heard before, but it's what i needed to hear right now. "It's when you make no choice and become stagnant, that you become ruled by fear"
That's insane quality man i really enjoyed it! Also i'm an ex midlane academy member aswell so im glad u also mentioned it! Really insightful video overall man keep them going
I'm commenting this separately because it deserves its own space. I wanted to thank you for having the courage to be vulnerable with us. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself with us and for allowing us that glimpse of humanness. And thank you for allowing yourself this growth. It's infectious and truly inspiring.
The true gold in this video is "The Revolution". I've seen so many "how to climb" videos and NONE of them talk deeper than "you gotta change your mindset, maaaan". You took a deep dive and....you described me. To my horror and to my relief. Horror, because it was only very recently that I started to put names on the things you talk aobut. I am mortally terrified of making mistakes and I know it for some time actually, yet I haven't been able to overcome it (yet). Seeing you being succesful gives me hope. Relief. And I thank you for that. Truly and deeply. It's a journey for sure. And just in case someone older is watching: I'm a 35 year old father of two and I'm just starting the revolution. It's never too late.
Man... this is one of the best league videos I've seen. And I've seen A LOT! Congratulations! Very well done, great attitude, nice video editting and formatting. I hope I'll be able to put into action what you have inspired us to do here. Thank you, have a great year!!!
Seems very consistent with what Coach Curtis and Nathan talk about on BBC. Congrats on climbing but more importantly on getting your life into a better state - people forget how important that is. League might have been the motivation, and that’s exactly why trying hard and having passion for something is important for your growth as an individual overall.
Bro bro bro, I'm LITTERALY like you, face the same problems you faced, same mindset as yours and I'm living now for at least reaching my peak or being the best ! I was here for taking some advices from your videos and when I listened your story, it reminded me mine ! Hope you get better and better and you reach the stars as we all should be ! Have a good day !
Im coming back 2 weeks after watching this and i just broke into challenger, refreshing tips not about meta as such but how to build stronger mental in game, thank you!
As a Radiant ranked player in VALORANT, first acknowledging your weaknesses and learning HOW to learn from others that are better than you is one of the most important lessons a competitive video game teaches you. This is extremely well put together, loved it man. As someone who has max 1 hour in LOL, I didn’t realize just how hard it was to climb, but this definitely goes to show how much harder it is compared to an FPS game like VALORANT.
The lack of self-esteem, the absolute 0 self-confidence, the insecurities, the lack of hope, the lack of desire, the frustrations, the sacrifices, the suffering at what cost? Little by little the anger and fury from performing not well, not an acceptable level and the absolute incapability and simply suck, being terrible and play a role other than support resulting in being lost in rage; i feel hopeless, powerless yet i know that bliss of transcendence so why is it that i still feel so hopelessly lost, why am i so weak?
All I got to say is thank you, I'm freaking blessed for having found your channel. I was stuck ina rut and hadn't managed to win 3 games in a row even on my training account (much lower elo than my main) in god knows how many weeks. Today I broke that cycle, everything changed yesterday after watching this video the moment it came out. Tali is also extremely fun I'm glad I picked her up, your VODs helped em figure out a ton about her kit and possibilities!
I initially stuck to flex play with friends, avoiding Soloq since my last Gold rank. This season, stepping into Soloq for the first time, I find myself in the Stone Age, yet surprisingly reaching Masters in under 100 games, then I stopped right after. I’m a one-trick pony and I found success with a mix of luck (very high MMR), good teammates, and knowing the basics. Now eyeing GM, I acknowledge the need to move beyond banging rocks together, facing more experienced players, and delving into the game's intricacies. Unsure about making the push, I don't know if I should make a massive commitment to the challenges of climbing and understanding the actual pain of making it to the top of the ladder. I have only been considering this due to my account having GM mmr and that it would be a waste to not at least try in the next season, but change is difficult as you mentioned, and I don't know where to start improving because I'm still in my Stone Age era.
Yes man, it definitely is a decision you will have to commit to if you want to push higher. It will not be easy I'm sure, but it will be rewarding if you choose to take on the challenge and conquer it
Thank you, Sentrial, for this video. I have now played non stop every day and have gone from silver 1 to bronze 2. I hope to take your words to heart and hopefully make it to Gold IV one of these days. You are a true inspiration.
as a League of Legends coach, this was an amazing watch, kudos for being so sincere with yourself and so brave to openly share your experience with all of us, League is just a vessel for manifesting self improvement, i'm so very proud of you and i dont even know you, great video
I came to this video while i was driving to see if it matched up with my experiences as i started this game in Season 2 and only after playing the game for more than 10+ years did i finally reach challenger. This video ultimately made me look further than that as climbing solo queue is fundamentally similar to climbing the social ladder in real life. This is probably one of the best videos on climbing as you really do need to be able to stay positive and maintain a constructive critical attitude toward yourself to succeed in ranked and probably in life as well. 10/10 video. I will subscribe 🙏.
I'm very fond of the way you chose to approach this topic. A huge chunk of the instructional content of League of Legends pays attention only to surface level concepts, trying to sell what's optimal and efficient as the best-and perhaps even only-way to climb. The truth is that, just like in every other competitive game, LoL has a non-significant human component to it; true improvement cannot occur until you acknowledge both yourself and your opponents as people, instead of obstacles to overcome. You've managed to tap into a dimension that's rarely acknowledged in mainstream discussions of this game. Trivial concepts, often taught to beginners in other games (i.e. Keep your ego in check, get in the head of your opponent, approach your games with intent) are hard to come by in this environment. In a game that's known for rampant toxicity, even amongst the best of the best, we were long overdue for content that looks to explain the game with a more critical eye towards its players. One last thing: While I understand its purpose in this video's framing, I'm not the biggest proponent of self-help content; much of it can shroud concrete human experiences in mystique, romanticize hardship and reduce introspection into a tool for achieving material success. It's a tremendously pedantic critique, as I don't think this deters from the message you're trying to communicate, but I still wanted to put it out there. This the kind of content we need if we aspire to improve our community. Keep up the good job!
Thank you for your kind words ❤️ It's interesting that you bring the point up about self help content and how it can romanticize hardship. It is true that introspection is necessary for growth, and it is something that has to be done as a personal journey and can not be replaced by someone else's story Thank you for giving me your perspective I haven't thought about it like that before
@@Sentrial I'd like to reiterate that I do appreciate everything you put forward in this video. There's as many systems of belief as people in the world, and the difference in how we see things is what makes these conversations valuable. Thank you for taking time to reply! I'm confident you can get pretty far here.
Wonderfully put together video, as someone who is a very big fan of the things that Coach Curtis preaches I feel like you really let that soak in and put it to the next level, respect!
inspiring video bro, ill make sure i come back a few times during the year when i feel myself plateau. hoping to hit diamond this year and complete a year at university studying fulltime without withdrawing from any units when it gets hard. im going to hold myself accountable with the my gym and training, and im going to learn from my mistakes and try my absolute hardest every game. And thats all thanks to this reminder from yourself to stay on track. Goodluck with your future endeavours!
Idk what to say, I came just imagining that would be a normal video, but I when I talked about confident, and are the exact same feelings that I have, idk, I think this video is really precious, everyone who wants to improve, should watch this
This video is teaching me more than making it to challenger on league. I really appreciate it man you don't understand. Kinda makes me a little emotional.😂 "The most constraining feeling in the world is living in what if's" Man, I FELT that. I do it so much in life outside of league.
Came to learn about league of legends, learned about life, decisions and ended the video with the desire to change. Thank you. Just liked and subscribed. Big hugs from Brazil
Man, what an awesome video. I wish you luck brother. Keep it up, and keep applying yourself - it doesn't stop at challenger, it doesn't stop at great relationships, it only stops when you let it 💪
As a fellow BBC’er, I can only applaud your performance. But damn man, this is a flawless montage, perfectly articulated. I hope to see more content from you and I know you can succeed in anything now, congratulations for unlocking your true self along the way. Loved the dedication, thank you 🙏🏻
I appreciate the tips that we can apply to League and our lives (I normally play WR considering I don't have a pc but I'm definitely applying these now considering I'm stressed at school)
3:40 I think this is one of the more important things to learn. Being able to recognize what needs to be done, when it needs to be done is important but hard to do if you aren't consciously reviewing your own actions throughout a game.
Very well said and thank you for your sincerity and honesty ❤️ Best part about Catching Dreams is who you have to "become" to catch each and every one of them. Evolve consistently Brothers & Sisters.
First 3 acts remind me so much of myself, I just realized all the things in my brain keeping me stuck so I'm yet to finish my journey, tho it's just the start ^^ Thanks for the video!
ty, now I have the confidence to quit ranked and just play 10 games per season to get my rank rewards, previously I always climbed to diamond, but nowadays, I dont have the time cuz of work and motiviation to climb to dia, especially if riot is forcing me to play actively through out the year with the season split system, lots of my friends quit the game for this reason as well, so yeah, its my time now
This is incredible! Never have I seen a league video, which would teach so much about life outside league and personal inner world. My eyes were opened wide once and agains as you showed qll of these inspirational, knowledgeable people. I felt deeply the revolution part. I felt the discomfort realizing, that I myself am taking the long way round. Stagnating, making easier choices, building reaentment. I will definitely come back to process it properly. Thank you for your work. I am sure this video will genuenly help many people, regardless of the number of views you'll get
I litteraly NEVER comment anything. This time, i had too. Congratulation for the writing, the editing, going to challenger and the advancement in your path of finding who you are and loving you for exactly that and nothing else. As Master oogway taught us : Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift and that is why we call it the present. Again : Congrats x1500. Strengh and honor my friend.
Not sure why did yt recommend me this video, and tbh most of the things you say aren't even things that I needed to listen or can help me (some yes tho), but watching this video made me be really emotional and motivated me really hard.
amazing video, I am an 18 year old Spanish boy, at the beginning of 2023 I was platinum and now I have 2 accounts in low master in EUW, I will try to reach the rank of grandmaster this year, I am trying to enter the competitive world and maybe take a vacation year of studying to achieve my dreams and this video helped me a lot to see many new things.
Thats so inspiring! My Stone age was platinum for 5 Years, i one tricked Urgot to master over 2 Years and now im low master players for 3 Years now. low master. im stuck low master cause i have no motivation to pput in the effort to get better cause GM seems to be so far away. But now i saw your Video and you are not someone who climbed to master in 3 months. i try to get better next season and will climb! Thank you for your Video!
As someone who is currently playing collegiate league, this video was exactly what I needed to start focusing harder on my gameplay and make bigger changes. Great video
having this type of take on "smaller things in life" such as videogames is a huge advantage for us people. because once we already have this mindset within us, we'll surely apply it to other things that we do, it becomes a lifestyle -- a mantra that we constantly chant whatever life keeps throwing at us.
This is literally me... dreaming of hitting Challenger but limited entirely by the destruction of my own life. This is an amazing video, I'm going to commit this time.
this is kinda exactly what I needed bc I relate with your whole story, it feels like this video was designed for me lol. Incredible video, very well edited and narrated
I mean, if this helps someone get motivated, then that's great. Personally, I really tried to take this video seriously but just couldn't. These are the same motivational speeches I've heard a million times before. Still, there's people out there that this video will help, so overall, great video man. Not for me, but great video.
*Ex-Challenger over heya* and the only one thing that I can tell is that mental is the key, always no matter what you will think of, the attitude and mental is what drives us ahead. I always been incredibly mechanical in any games especially in lol I had really deep knowledge, but my attitude with mental was blocking me. After forcing me to change my mental and attitude the rank grow was so quick that I couldn't believe how mental can affect our games since then I'm the most positive person ever cuz I understood how huge wall it can be and theres no reason to act or think in certain way. Its kinda funny how lego legend taught me something that affects my live after many years. I actually coming back to league and I know I'm much ahead of others and that it's all about the practice in my case, but for others it can be about the way of thinking, acting, reacting, feeling, the whole mental.
I cam back to league after tryharding in valorant, i found that playing with my best friend and really tryharding with everything we know. WE started using both our brains and playing actively to realize what was important to gain in the game, we also started having carries in every game, probably because of our mmr. Yes we lost sometimes but now we play tft with same commander communication and stuff and we really help each other with having the right focuses, and we most of all just enjoy the game, and so we get luckier and our influence is better because we start focusing on the correct things and we win more. We now have a winstreak of 4 in TFT and its fcking fun to play now. Mostly because we try, and we enjoy playing together and enjoy the different aspects of the game :)
Thank you, I'm at a point where I'm trying to change things in my life including a struggle with self confidence and fear of failure, and this is a huge help and inspiration. You're helping a lot of people change their lives for the better and I think it's great of you to share your perspective like this. Thank you again for making this video, I really think that it is amazing.
I feel this so hard right now ! I'm streamin for 5 years now tryin to progress hit masters last split but feel stuck and not makin any steps. lost myself but thanks for this video. I wanted to quit this week but u gave me to push further and be better not bitter. time to get back to work !
Damn I started to try to stream as much as possible and put all my energy into RU-vid and Twitch. I lost my confidence in myself for a while I felt like, and for weeks I was trying to figure out how to get my confidence back. The thing you mentioned that we still got our confidence we just missinterpited it wrong. I was so fixated on beeing good at what I did that every mistake I made tilted me through the roof, because I stopped work and used my savings for beeing able to take this path. So I had to make things right I thought, but the confidence sentence hit different on me. Edit: This might be the most important video for me this year.
This is a real content. Dreaming of a world with less click bait, less mediocrity, I imagine it with fewer videos, less "bombing", and content like this. I'm not going to add anything else that hasn't already been said in the other comments but I'll ask a question: and now? :)
I've been playing since Season 3 and initially placed in Silver, with my peak reaching Platinum. After taking a break, I now find myself struggling to advance beyond Bronze. Mentally, I'm also not at my best; I've felt stagnant throughout my life. To gain some control, I recently left my stable job and decided to return to my interests, such as League, while focusing on my final year of university. I watched this video to think about my ranking, but it ended up prompting some self-reflection. I know why I want the rank so bad, I want validation that I did not waste all my time that I am good at this game, but it doesn't even matter anymore. You made me realize that. Unsure about what brings me peace. At this point, I'm not even seeking happiness, just peace. Advice to anyone young, always strive to improve - in your personal growth, in your relationships, and in your endeavors. I did not, and now it feels like I'm just picking up the pieces that keep falling off. These pieces represent lost opportunities, neglected personal growth, and overlooked relationships. This video made me self reflect a lot, I genuinely don't know who I am anymore.
I’ve been playing league 6 years now and hardstuck silver. I took last season off. I started going to therapy, not long but since then have unpacked so much. So mentally I’m in a way better place than I was even a year ago. Fast forward to picking league back up 4 days ago, in just these 4 days since starting up again, I’ve made my own breakthroughs. I am currently sitting at gold 4 never having reached it and couldn’t for years, and without even playing the game for almost a year. I don’t know what it is it can’t be cuz my champ is busted as the champ I play is gangplank arguably one of the worst champs for a new player to climb with, but for some reason I’m playing and winning more than I have in the past. So maybe there is some merit to what you explained in the video!
It's funny seeing you apply the post-college male philosophical growth, and imo the true step into manhood and how you applied it so quickly into league of legends. I also played collegiately and went thru a similar awakening post college living on my own for the first time. I could never fully commit to league but this last 6 months I made the decision to finally meet the goals I set for myself so long ago after taking a 2.5 year break from the game. My growth as a person and as a player has been insane and it's awesome to see someone who's had a similar journey. Congrats and great message.
Being in a progress state of mind while grinding league because of free time. Seeing the same concepts applied by you being convertable to my own life. Thanks for the thoughts behind your video. Love the way you brought that to a wide range of different people. Your a real human in an unreal world adressing problems many feel in their every day life and in certain aspect of their life. Keep it up, we grow together and get further as we shall do. Much love
God bless you bro, life is about the journey and you leading yourself there is glorious, hallelujah! I'm glad you got to climb to new heights in your games, in your psyche, in your life, now that you're there bro, hold it, know there is no cap and the ceiling has no limit, the point you are at now, make it seem like this is the beginning, where you are is the beginning, doesn't matter how much progress you've made, you're just a beginner and your base level of what you know is still nothing compared to what you can know, and keep growing bro, you got this!
I came to see if there was some useful info for climbing, and here I am in tears at 15 minutes mark because this all resonates just all too well with my current state of mind, state of life and the relationship I am in right now. You surprised me, shocked me even, and I am deeply thankful that you made this video.
Subscription earned. That was the most philosophical video that transcends video games and hit at the heart of life and becoming what you want to be and what something like that takes. Thank you for making this ❤.
