Honestly what helped me was getting absolutely dogged in rank constantly. No joke, last season I had a three week losing streak where even in quick match, rank, anything, ANYTIME i played hunter I lost. I wasn’t just casually playing every now and then either, I was playing at least 20 matches per day at that time because I was grinding for badges and had a lot of vacation days. 😭 Was top 50 Mary during that time too 😭 The embarrassment I would feel, getting 5 cipher kited, having survivors constantly getting four man wins against me and they could see that I was top 50… very humbling. But once you get through the worst you realize that nothing happens if you lose. Yeah you lose rank points but so what? You get them back, get better. No one gets to their dream rank without losing. Now I’m way better than I was back then and even rematched against some of the same teams and won with ease. In the end it’s just a game.✌🏼
First /j Jokes apart, to me hunter anxiety stems from how toxic survs are in general no matter if you win or lose, and the current balancing state of the game disencourages me to play in general so I have been doing only surv for years.
There’s many things that can contribute to it imo, I think the main thing is just dealing with natural discouragement and fear that comes with losing matches.
Honestly not really. I'm a Smiley Face main, and even when I butchered my first chase, I've had more than enough matches against actually decent and even good survivors to still be a tie. Simply because, I didn't went in with the mentality "Welp that's over" as soon as my first chase, or even after changing targets, took so long they managed to finish 3 ciphers and most definitely start at the last two already. Hell, even had matches where both sides were so stubborn we spent almost 30min in a match, just to get "only" a tie. One of the biggest issues I see hunter players have, is that they give up way too quickly, followed by wanting to be rewarded for playing simply put, absolutely horrible.
@@triotriggerhardt4035 idk. when you get to higher ranks if you dont get 1st survivor down before a cipher pops its usually a tie or loss. always a loss if the survs play good enough, and theres nearly nothing you can do to make them mess up bad enough. unless they're just not good survs. or i guess also hunter dependent, like mad eyes doesnt have this issue.
Sometimes it depends on which hunter you play and the survivors I play dw alot and it sometimes takes some time to down but im able to turn a game around with map pressure.and also the classic survivors get greedy moments. A game can turn around which is why you never stop trying to get a win or tie until the survivors are out to the gate
People put too much stock in losing or what survivors say in this game, when most of them are just young teenagers. Turn post match off, get comfy surrendering if a game is a loss, and don't engage with toxic survs in any way. Your social status and clout in a game truly don't matter. For example, if survs are gate waiting and pinging you, just stay where you are, don't worry about them, let them leave. Sometimes they even get cocky and come back out, only to give you a win. Also I give this advice a lot, but seriously, record and review all your matches. Once you learn to review and understand why you actually lost (a bad chase, a bad matchup, etc) you'll understand you lose because of specific decisions and conditions, some of which are changeable, some of which are out of your control, not just a general "I'm bad" type of deal. Get comfortable recognizing when a match is a tie and learning how to secure a tie; knowing you are confident in at least getting a tie and not a loss can ease a lot of anxiety. Understand that improvement comes from deliberate, INTENTIONAL practice, not from mindlessly schooling worker bee survs all day. An artist isn't going to improve by scribbling all day, they need to actually identify what they're bad at and focus on deliberately improving it. If you are bad at hitting through pallets, you need to actually practice that to get better at it. What I also mean by this is that if you haven't put genuine concentrated work into learning a certain hunter/hunter in general, you cannot expect to be good at it yet! You need to be kind to yourself and not set expectations too high before you're ready, but also understand you aren't going to be a master hunter when you don't really try in any serious capacity. And lastly, anxiety won't go away unless you make an effort to push yourself. It sucks, but it's how it is. Get out there and rank. You aren't entitled to results unless you actually put the work in.
i always get the worst pit in my stomach whenever i play hunter 😯 i’m so nervous and i’m only a cobra, but i want to try and get to a high rank as hunter
I started hunter ranking cause the pressure of having to cooperate with other players and the fact that they can be mean on the after match was putting me off. Playing hunter was better cause it's you and only you, that's until i started going against better players who kited me for 5 ciphers or harassers freeing others from the baloon and stunning me at every chance possible. I'm still a very low rank but yet the anxiety of "I NEED to win this" is already here. Thank you for this video really, it was what i needed to hear!
hunter anxiety is so real cuz.. I wanted to main hunter recently but it'd genuinely give me sm stress and I literally played 2 matches LOL hunter mains r the strongest i have sm respect for you all
I consider myself a hunter main but i always get anxiety when i play hunter. Thanks(months later I can say I play hunter without worry or anxiety if I lose I learn what I did or didn't do and move on)
Honestly, I have gaming anxiety with team comps in general and hunter, it’s been embarrasing for me to admit. I’ve played this game since mid 2019, used to not care at all but then anxiety decides to pop up in my life and now it affects my gameplay socially too. I used to avoid hunter at all costs, it was dreadful to me, especially counting in the toxic people you can meet. It’s so bad I’d get mad over a survivor emoting, because it gave the illusion of them mocking me for not being able to catch them. You know what’s funny though, now everytime I play hunter I always win, full on win streak, no lie. So, I always wonder why the hell I’m so scared of playing hunter. I guess it’s just not wanting to go through the anger and stress I used to felt over a game. It affects survivor too, for long periods of time I did not want to play at all even though I desperately wanted to. I always play solo, and sometimes I wished I had a group of friends so it didn’t feel as intimidating despite it being quick match. (I quit ranking after reaching Griffin/Croc) I forced myself to always play Doctor/Enchantress/Priestess. Why? I was used to them. They were for me, the easiest to kite with. I was so afraid of letting down my teammates and embarrasing myself with another character that I stuck myself to ones I had no freaking interest or fun in at all. It was horribly repetitive for a year. Truly, I wanted to be support/resc: Batter, Cowboy, Mercenary, First Officer etc. I actually found it fun to play these characters but I couldn’t bear failing and being the bad random, so I never played them when given the chance. Btw in rank literally I played Enchantress EVERY MATCH because she was the easiest for me to kite with. I had no reason to main her, I didn’t want a badge, I just wanted to rank up without disappointing people with my lack of self confidence in kiting. Now, I’ve kinda realised that it’s not that deep. Everyone gets bad matches or encounters bad teammates, and that’s just how games work. I like how in the video you phrased it as false validation whatever, it really like just made sense yk. Thanks for making this video, it really resonated with me.
ngl I feel my hunter anxiety would instantly go away if idv allowed you to hide your wr% on your profile. I can deal w/ my own losses but I can't deal w/ everyone else seeing my losses too. Ik most people will be like "wr doesn't matter" or smth but it's one thing to know that I'm bad but it's another to know that *everyone else* also knows I'm bad. but then again I'm also one of those "I must be pro right from the start" kinda people.....
When I first started getting into hunters I swear that everytime I clicked match as hunter I would regret it the moment after and feel way too stressed about it but then I started watching Kuroshiro's and your content and it made me realise that even if I would lose and mess up it's normal and I should just stay calm!
tysm for this! Simply pressing the matching button for hunter scares me tbh and I end up staring at the screen for who knows how long before finally getting into it. At the end of the day, I guess it's rllly important to remember that losing helps you think critically about your strategies. Never gonna improve if you keep staying in your comfort zone~ All the best to everyone dealing with hunter anxiety, give yourselves a pat on the back for still playing hunter, at least you're trying right:] hugs to you guys
im glad you mentioned the winrates. i get really conscious of mine and always find myself sitting at the low 60s. i start getting scared to rank once im one lose away from it going down to 59 and then just cant bring myself to do it anymore
interesting video! a lot of my friends who play hunter always mention that they panic too much and it’s hard to offer advice when you’re already experienced and dont have the same worries. this should be touched on more
when i go to play in hunt match, i tell myself 2 things fear has big eyes the brain panics, the hands do but everythin is still ok. idc about toxic survivors, everythin will be fine. there are losses, but as for toxic players, you can just do a report for `em!!!
The main reason why I have severe hunter anxiety is because of THOSE survivors. I’m someone who dwells on things even when I say “I don’t care” and it’s exhausting. They make me feel like I’m not confident enough on my hunter skills and I haven’t actually played hunter in a long time because of that. You make one mistake as a hunter and it’s like everything and everyone is against you and if a survivor makes multiple they still have a chance. I really wanna play hunter again but my anxiety is so bad when I even think about playing hunter so I’m forced to play against bots in custom. I really hope I can get over it someday
This quite literally described the beginning of my hunter journey. My first hunter main was Robbie and when I hit high manticore I started losing left and right. I was 13th Robbie before I took a long break after the pressure from survivors was just too much. I was getting called names every other day and it was seriously affecting my mental health. All the losses made me feel like I wasn’t good enough to ever even hit dragon. So I dropped Robbie and learned to step back and learn new hunters. It was humbling for me but also fun. It payed off because I recently hit peak tier last season and you’ve been an inspiration of mine your videos are always so helpful when I’m trying to pick up a new hunter. Watching this video also made me wanna pick up Robbie again. Amazing video👍❤
Playing at a high tier as hunter and trying to win, will usually always give you some sort of anxiety. It’s the same for any game, you eventually get used to that anxiety, stay calm and manage to push through it. Or you even use it as fuel to help you win. The important thing is to not beat yourself up if you lose.
lmfaooooo i swear youtube is reading my mind!! i've always avoided playing hunter. the thought of playing them especially in rank just makes me anxious and feel so lonely 😭 thank you for this video 🤧
I feel like it’s more difficult with hunter as the whole outcome of your match can be altered with just one mistake you make that the survivors can capitalise on. Whereas with survivor, making mistakes puts less pressure on you since there are 4 survivors each match and your mistake can be made up for quite often. Also, every second of each match counts on you as the hunter since you must be focused throughout the match and constantly must perform well while when you play as survivor, you can sometimes just win or draw and only have decoded most the match because not every match will be focused on you if you aren’t first kite. Even if you are first kite, you still may not have as much pressure because you can receive assist from supports at points which make it easier
It goes both ways, that’s why it’s important to get frustrated by one little mistake, it’s not something worth dwelling on or constantly overthinking about.
for the time being, I faced anxiety before and during the game for the hunter. I was very worried that I would play badly and the survivors would make fun of me for it. it doesn't matter if it's in the post-match or between them by communication. it made me feel better when I found out that my friend is also afraid to play for hunters, because her hands are starting to sweat a lot and her heart is beating faster.
i think this is a video everyone should watch. i'm not a hunter main, never have been, i've been a survivor main since season 12. only recently did i actually start playing rank seriously, and i managed to grind all the way up to alicorn. let me tell you, griffin and alicorn randoms are the WORST. it honestly feels very hopeless in survivor knowing that i can consistently get 100+ second kites, do amazing, but because my randoms mess up, or a rescue gets stuffed, the wrong choice is made from my teammates, etc. etc., that i'll lose. i have genuinely cried countless times this season because it can sometimes feel so hopeless knowing that no matter what i do, it doesn't matter a whole lot if my team doesn't have the same amount of game sense as i do. it has honestly taken so much training to just say "i don't care, i'll get there eventually". even now, the only reason i've really come to that realization is because i've been on a really bad loss streak recently. like, i was alicorn 4, demoted to alicorn 5, and lost 3 stars bad loss streak. this video has really helped, because you're right about everything said here. it doesn't matter, i'll make it up eventually. it's not worth crying over, or getting upset over, because it's just a game. fictional points in a fictional game. it doesn't matter if i get a badge psychologist, it doesn't matter if i lose my barmaid badge, because i'll get there eventually. it sucks losing, but the most i can do is look over my own gameplay, see what i did wrong, and improve from there, and if i did nothing wrong it shouldn't bother me because i did everything i could, and that's what really matters. my skill speaks for itself, not some silly tier on my profile. all of that to say, thank you for this video slade. even from a survivor perspective, this is such good advice, and really important to keep in mind when playing.
I recently got the courage to play some ranked, and when i actually got there it felt great! I'm a spider still and i'm working slowly on getting over my weird anxiety over the hunter faction, but got some pretty fun games so far. One thing i like about this game it's that requires consistency, hard work and facing some bad things like anxiety, learning how to deal with toxic people and so on. It's a personal thing but it honestly helps me to improve as a person on my day to day life, to face failure, bad situations, bad people and see it's not the end of the world. This have helped my anxiety to lower down a lot, i still get anxious but i have an easier time to go over it~! Thanks for the video and for the tips Slade, you helped me a lot with your hunter guides and this was the cherry on top of the cake~!
Playing hunter is so stressful for me 😭 besides the bad ping I always get toxic survivors, or when practicing a hunter goes bad it makes me stressed. I try to play for fun but this game just gave me anger issues lmao 😭 but I do need to practice more... So this video was very helpful.
Tysm for this, I quit hunter around 2 years ago because anxiety and just the thought of pressing the button makes me sick, my friend would help me by doing duo hunters but the survs would target me and stun me all the time and then, they'd make fun of me in post match and that was my last straw and never tried anymore. I used to use qm to practice but i cant really do it if survs makes fun of you in pm, its discouraging imo
duos is the WORSE place to play hunter!! qm is much more chill and honestly i recommend playing qm while rank is up, by then the annoying players are already in rank and ull mostly get normal people
Holy shit I didn’t realise this was something a lot of other people experienced, I get so nervous having to do even hunter quick matches bc of the expectation that you have to at least get a tie or you suck lol. Not to mention survs can be reeeeal mean, I’m probably gonna turn post match off and just really grind
for me i’m trying to switch to be a hunter main (got bored of playing survivor) but everytime i start to SENSE i’m losing or getting cipher rushed i start to panic and stress hard and end up losing because of it, now i started playing feaster jack smiley all the fun hunters (for me) and i honestly feel better, yes i still feel stressed but the ties and wins are so worth the time i put for those hunters
I started using Robbie two days ago, after 4/5 years avoiding playing hunter.. It was as intimidating as I remember, I got draws and losses in rank. But you're right, at the end of the day it's just a game and I can always get back up! I found your channel thru your Robbie guides and it helps a lot, which is why I'm playing hunter again!!
This is what I and everyone else really needed to hear. People never talk about the anxiety that can come along with playing hunter and it can make you feel alone. Ive been playing idv for 4 years and I have never once stuck to hunter for more than 1/2 months. Whenever I do force myself to play hunter I quickly begin to lose because of course I am. Although I am not a new player I am new to hunter. I love the idea of playing hunter/becoming a strong hunter but I cant stand to lose so much that I stress myself out to the point where I shake profusely during matches (even qm). I would get so upset/embarrassed over losing that I never give myself time to learn and grow into the hunter I want. I am still getting over this feeling and I hope to begin playing hunter once the new season begins❤️
I was trying to get an A badge for Fools Gold, I got to a B but I kept losing and that brought my mood down horribly that I would cry and stopped playing hunter for a while. Now somehow after not playing for a month, I still have a C badge! Thanks for this video! ♥️
I quit playing hunter after my sister got a sabertoothed tiger during my vacation last summer, and it became too difficult for me after returning to IDV. After endless loose streak I didn't play until the COA this January, and now (III-V) I started to understand, that it wasn't worth it - I was so afraid even to go quick matches for soooo long time, but I felt so sad without my fav characters! And now it's my first motivation for playing hunters, because it's really fun, and I want to improve my feeling of their gameplay. Not in ranked matches for now, but... It's also a step forward. I have not as much time for games, as it seems I need for real progress, but at least. Don't look at the wr, and at postmatch too - just do what you like. It's important for our nervous system
im so glad a video like this was made, I can only usually handle doing a few rank matches before saying yeah I'm done for today. And this is only for hunter, I've ranked up to griffin with survivor with zero fears/anxiety, probably because in survivor you're teamed up. And like you said, it really is lack of knowledge for me, usually when I play hunter I feel as if I win mostly from survivor mistakes, there are times were I'm like yeah, I won that because I swapped to abnormal or something, that was me, but that's a very small amount of the time. I'm glad this video was made to share your experience and tips, helps me understand that I'm not the only one who feels this
i reached cyclops and immediately stopped hunter ranking. i had rlly bad anxiety playing hunter but watching pro cn players on happybud made me more confident and i learned how to play my fav characters better. the main reason y i stopped ranking was bc of how efficient the survivors played. the ciphers felt rlly fast and for the most part it felt rewarding clutching the 3k end game but the pressure was too much when it was happening every single game i felt like i couldnt keep up. i rarely lost but i just dont feel like playing when it makes me so anxious , i also just need to stop caring abt losing…
I developed hunter anxiety after a really bad match where I (on Geisha) got bullied by who I suspect was a duo smurf team of Novelist (pre-rework) and Little Girl. Like even when I did finally recognize I was getting kited and bullied and left them, they literally chased me across the map. It's to the point where even now, almost a year later, I still have yet to touch Hunter rank again and even considering queueing for hunter in Duos (primarily when alone) or Quick Match gives me a near panic attack. (I do also suffer from diagnosed anxiety though so I know this intense of a reaction isn't typical.) When I do finally get myself to play, if I see a comp or character that might bully me, I'm able to help myself not panic more by telling myself "you're going to get bullied and you have to prepare for it". About 80% of the time, because I'm so prepared I wind up NOT getting bullied as a result, but that doesn't make the fear queueing go away, necessarily. :(
I definitely agree with you. I also have hunter anxiety. I’ve been fairly good at being a survivor and I wouldn’t take the losses to heart. It’s a team game after all and everyone plays a part. But as a hunter even in the normal matches I get hunter anxiety. I’m not good as a hunter and survivors capitalize on it. They start spamming emotes and it gets pretty toxic. I’m a spider tier hunter, meanwhile they’re mammoth tier survivors😂 The matching system isn’t good and it discourages hunters from even playing. Especially if you’ve lvled up in the survivor tier but not in the hunter tier. It’d make more sense to make the hunter a higher tier than the survivors. There’s only one hunter vs four survivors like come on! What’s kept me going is the fact this is just a game and no one cares. Sure players can be toxic but they don’t even know who you are, it’s not personal they’re just being mean to be mean you know? Learn to laugh at your mistakes, learn from your mistakes and just have fun. If you’re stressing on a game you’re doing it wrong. Remember it’s about having fun everyone usually spams glhf in chat and they’re right. This also applies to hunters too! Good luck and have fun guys and gals!
I'm very glad that I stopped playing this game a couple of years ago! Being a hunter main was just so exhausting and stressful. whenever I went to play, my hands would start to shake, I sweated and I had tachycardia. I didn't feel any of this playing as a survivor (even when losing) and I've never felt anything even close to that playing other games
This is so true, i had 1.3k points on robbie already since like after 3 seasons i started since i was dedicated, and it was all fine i was happy with my 87 winrate on rank but then when i reached like sabertooth i suddenly rained down into a pile of defeats and losses and basically toxic survs i come across very often. I get so nervous whenever i do go huntering so bad that my hands start to either sweat or shake, and my heart rate goes up and above like 120 below, like sheesh. Thank you for this though, ill try getting out there and trying again. I never really played anymore, since im a hunter main -- thank you for this video slade 🐱🐱
i just started playing idv a week ago but i get sm anxiety as soon as i get a match, tysm for the vid im glad ppl r experiencing similar things and im not alone❤!!
thank you so much! your video appeared in my recommendations just in time. the thoughts are very wise! when I only started playing idv I always got very upset with all my silly mistakes that happened from time to time, but now I think it’s also a good possibility to learn something
Thank you for the video, it helps hunter anxiety is real. For me it's because i've to face players WAY above my league. Background: I was a pro survivor in release seasons and had very high win streaks and very high tiers at that time. I never touched hunter back in the day to the point the game automatically made my hunter patrona 120 because I didn't do that myself lol. I took long periods of the game sometimes and am now back and want to be a hunter main this time, but idk if it's because i've a release pro account or because my game got bugged over the years but I am in the second lowest hunter tier (snake?) and i've to battle against champions / peak tier players, so i'm basically playing the game on nightmare mode since i've to get used to both hunter in general and the character while battling coordinated teams. And yeah it's nice I won against a top 20 player while only playing bq for third time in rank, but I've like a 10% winrate and I dropped so many rank points it won't even let me get lower which is so demotivating. Quick match for me is fine and I have winstreaks so it's too easy there so i'm soft locked in the game, don't want to restart because all skins + achievables are on this profile. Idk if you've any tips for this I get the anxiety when seeing champions or a/s badge players. I do learn quickly since they play at their best so I guess that's an advantage and winning feels really rewarding but most matches I get destroyed which yeah sucks. Sorry to hear you had depression, I know what that's like and personally I had it too at a young age but gladly overcame it after almost losing myself, nowadays i've a really chill life with a lot going on and achieved lots of stuff so always stay strong because things will always get better. I usually never comment on videos and only discovered your channel recently but keep it up man you're doing well and I wish you the best
Thank you for making this video. It genuinely does help. I still remember playing hunter on qm and getting a win bit since I prefer playing surv more I change my faction and got a previous surv as a teammate. The thing is whenever I got down I always say sorry, like genuinely. But this surv kept spamming sorry at me afterwards without helping me whatsoever and that really stress me out since I know that he's using it sarcastically. I blocked that player afterwards but it made me scared to play both surv and hunter faction even more 😅
Thank you for this video, I tend to get anxiety whenever I decide to play hunter and have to contemplate if I should just go friendly or wing it. I always think to go friendly in hopes it'll just drive away my anxiety that I'll suck at the match. Thank you for this again, it really helped! 😭🙏✨
I appreciate the video, thank you! ❤ I’ve always been a little too competitive for my own good, and hearing this out alongside all the other comments of similar experiences has been relieving.
Dude thank you so much. The video that i know i needed, and it is so helpful to see the things in a different way like "it's just a game, don't get mad" and all that stuff... Thank u so much, i really like ur videos
Hi, I’m an Ann and I’m training w sangria in customs. I stopped playing rank because I have a potato phone (Samsung a 12) and I’m waiting for my parent to buy me a new phone this summer I also stopped playing rank due to how much stress it puts on me, istg the moment I see the word rank in idv my heart starts beating. I don’t like playing rank and the toxic survs are just too much lmao. Your vids always help, take care and take it slowly slade! :)
Thanks for opening up and turning your experiences into encouragement. In terms of learning new characters, how would you recommend learning playstyles for more technical hunters like Mad Eyes, Photo, Dream Witch, etc who rely a lot on mind-gaming and somewhat indirect chase? HappyBud and tournament streams showcase high-level tactics that are often wasted at lower tiers, and bots don't react to those hunters or their abilities.
With those types of characters you will have to just put in a lot more time and commitment into them. Those types of characters can only be self taught imo, so if you want to play them you will need to commit.
This is very needed.I used to play hunter a lot but I got so scared and so anxious I even stopped playing in general and now it's even worse as even in qm I lose so badly even tho I thought I was decent 😭
I appreciate this video… I just came back playing this game (I stopped during entomologist release to focus on my college and I got my degree yay) and I wanted to play as a hunter too! Night Watch tickled my fancy and I sucked. After watching this vid, I figured out that I need to have fast fingers and adjust my keyboard settings, also turning off aim assist because of body blocks. Thank you for the tips! Rank scared me the most even before when I was playing Doctor (old main) and sticked to quick match. Would it be a compliment if I told you I ended up binging on your night watch tutorials even when I’m working? Haha!
I relate to some stuff you said, so thanks for the video. I also used to grind the game pretty "unhealthily" and started taking the game as a chore. I used to be an S badge Bonbon and that brought me so much stress, it was all about at least playing 3 a day, owning the survivors or I suck and all that. This season, however, I lost so many games that I've become Buddha (lol). I realized that I don't really need to win a lot and it's better to just look at my cute duckie and feel happy that I'm playing well or not. I also decided to play on the other faction for a bit and I am almost on alicorn, which I'm really proud. I am playing Lucky Guy and ik he is easy to get a badge, but I also got an S badge on him, which makes me feel really good. I'm still on a good rank with Bonbon (I think 28), but I feel way better now being able to do exactly what you described "play hunter -> if I feel like I am not my best and will get stressed -> change to the other faction -> and the cycle goes on". This way I've been recovering my bad winrate that I got at the start of the season and am almost going back to the 50% LMAO. I want to see if at the end of the season I can make it to the 60%, but if I can't, I still am proud of myself. Although my wr is not as good as in last season and my rank is not too high like I usually aim (am at cyclops), I'm satisfied. Last season I went to cyclops with 100% of wr stressing myself, ranking up and going "insane" to the upper ranks, but now I am here at 48% in Cyclops having fun (way better).
thanks for this video.... as much as I like this game sometimes I'll wanna play and then look at the button to start matching as hunter and go "eughhh...."
Not going to lie, I got over it because I started blaming external circumstances. I play clerk and dream witch, and I either blame that survivors are too strong, I had a bad game, or the game sucks 😂. I don’t get upset at comments, I find them empowering. I’ve been told to go unalive myself in many different ways and languages, but they just mad cuz skill issues and I’m just better (especially if I pop last cipher as Clerk and their draw becomes a lose). If I lose, I just exit the chat.
Thankyou so much for making this video slade! I keep coming back to this video before hunter ranking and it helps me so much with my matches! I really love listening to your guides!!❤
for me, i mostly get anxious when i think about ranking (kinda like the build up to a test or job interview) but when i'm actively playing, i'm like "hey, this is fine." the only time i get frustrated is when my ping decides to spike to 300ms for no reason
i'm croc and my heartrate spikes when i lock in for a hunter queue, even on qm or duos been bullied too often and had too many matches where i tried to mind game pallets but ate every pallet i walked through. hunter anxiety is the reason im sure netease will never add a fun chill mode for hunters only, because then survivor queues would be even longer
You got to cyclops on your first season??????! Damn!! It took me weeks to even learn how to kite! Robbie was my first main before his rework, I miss his soul bounce
THANK YOU SM FOR THIS!! When i first started playing this game i was really scared of playing survivor because of accidentally letting my teammates down and end up being called out for it, so i started playing hunter first and Grace was my first main, i made it to crocodile before feeling really stressed out with her and losing a lot of games, all survivors were just better than me and i ended up taking a break from the game for a few months before coming back to try out Evil Reptilian and it was a way better experience for me, I've been getting higher and higher in tiers and i managed to keep an A badge for Luchino. + Your videos on him were such a big improvement for me, I ended up learning a lot of strategies and lost the fear i had before, Thanks
i haven't played hunter or hunter rank in ages, i main toni so if i don't do well in the beginning i usually don't win the game because of how slow his movement speed is, it gets frustrating to the point i'm in tears after a couple matches and survs in post chat are super mean saying things like "best ____ main" and being sarcastic and saying how badly i did. it's really discouraging! i'm not even in a high tier so overall it really sucks and makes me not want to play, i'll try again soon because i have had a b and c badge with toni, thanks for the video!
I used to main hunter back in season 1 where there was basically no crazy survivors just bare bones. And i really enjoyed playing soul weaver and geisha but as time went by i started to lose and lose and of course for me its a game everyone loses games but i started developing hunter anxiety because i was afraid of losing especially if i do a bad first chase its pretty much gg even if i tried hard i only get a tie or if survivors royally fucked up a win. And i stop playing hunter for many seasons because of the constaly bullying and harrasments that i would only play survivor i still play hunter from here and there and im slowly going back to hunter and to hopefully one day overcome hunter anxiety
Thanks so much for this I appreciate this. The first hunter that I used was dream witch and now shes the only hunter that I can play and I have a B badge for her but sometimes I get stressed for rank, losing sucks man.
I started playing in 2020 and my hunter anxiety got so bad towards 2023 that as id queue up for matches my heart would pound so hard and id legit get nauseous. I was always afraid of the survivors who would come and harass in large groups for no reason other than to be annoying and the ones who would emote and stand at the gate. There was a period of time for a couple months where id ONLY play custom matches with bots, because i did love playing hunter but the toxic emoting survivors were just genuinely too much for me 🥲 anyways i still very much do have hunter anxiety, but its not as bad as before and im actually able to play real matches again. I do think the biggest advice is to just stop playing for a while because i took about a year long break
On top of everything Slade has already said, another tip I have is to play a different gamemode if you enjoy any of them!! I think BJ is great for practicing kiting/chase, Duo Hunters is great for practicing new survivors without as much risk, etc. Another thing I like doing is playing with teleport and changing targets freely. I.e. no intention of taking the match seriously. Just teleporting around and getting chase practice. Obviously you will not win like that unless survivors mess up bad. I think it's a nice change of pace, personally :) I also 100% agree about trying to play characters that are hard to learn or relatively easy to counter. Because as a Naiad player I can confirm that I have NO IDEA how to counter people who know how to counter me HSDJA- 16:50 this segment rings very close to home for me rn, as I have recently realized that the way I handle my shortcomings generally (i.e. not well hsdjsd-) is very easy to observe in my reactions to IDV. On that note, it sounds like you've improved a lot irt your mindset, Slade! I hope things are going well / looking up otherwise as well!! Sending digital regards your way. I also think it's very useful for people to pay attention to what mannerisms they have when gaming because, as you said, it usually is something that affects people in other aspects of their life too and sometimes it's not obvious to connect the root of these overlaps. It's good to pay a bit attention to stuff like that. _____ (personal stuff/lots of rambles from here on out haha-) My own hunter anxiety feels a bit weird, because I don't care about tiers/points/winrate at all and only care about badges minimally. And I've also actually been super lucky with the playerbase tbh? I perceive this game's playerbase as very chill and not that toxic overall with rare exceptions. In my soon 3 years of playing this game I only have had a handful of times I've been insulted (with the most recent time alr being 1-2 months back and being like, a very uncreative sexist remark so- yknow). And the teams that wipe the floor with me the most are sometimes the most encouraging and nicest people in post-chat. Maybe I'm just in a very lucky Lvl/tier + timezone combination haha- And I also don't feel it for survivor at all. If I mess up as survivor, sure it's frustrating/I feel guilty and I might apologize in post-chat, but I'm still fine playing more survivor. So, I can only assume it's either the experience/reaction of the other side when losing or just the exhausting factor? Like, maybe I would dread survivor more if I actually got toxic teammates or "thank you"/"you're on your own" spammers (and I've personally NEVER met a toxic hunter, at most maybe a "troubled" emote when I fuck up in a funny way). While as hunter I've def had my fair share of taunting, gate-waiting, emoting and getting piled on when I was already losing. I've gotten a lot better at taking it "calmly" / not letting it get to me too much even when it annoys me, but something within me still gets personally offended at not being taken seriously / being perceived as incompetent, esp by anyone who wasn't my target. A really random and pathetic aspect to this "self-consciousness" I have is actually skins. I got DW Envoy out of pure luck, and so I was training my DW afterwards - and uh, I only used Envoy like once or twice. I was too scared to use it and fail horribly, and be insulted of "being all looks", basically?? Maybe this plays into the stereo-typically female fear to be "reduced" to looks, but it's such a STUPID hangup to have :") Skins are there to be nice to look at, and yet here I am not using them HSDJ- It's also partially being upset at the game sometimes and feeling a bit more deserving of good results than the survivors who didn't see me all game, y'know? Because most of my losses historically come down to a good kite or good rebound, and then I get annoyed that nobody but 1st kite really had to do anything for their win, while I had to be on full concentration the entire time and still only got a 1k. Ik that's partially the nature of any asymmetric game and also a skill-issue for not getting a down faster, but I do really wish that playing hunter at anything less than 120% wasn't so absolutely depressing for me shajasd- Ik the game won't change in any drastic way, so I won't go onto a whole tangent about the changes I'd like, and in the end I just have to accept I don't really want to switch to other games either so- i'm stuck here. (That being said I rly want a hunter that hard-counters how fast endgame is. Think something like the pig's reverse bear traps from DBD, maybe in exchange for a unique detention implementation (like Percy having unique variations of some personas). I'd love that. But I also enjoy Percy. Just anything that changes up the monotony of matches haha) ANYWAY. there goes my absolute monster of a textwall again orz If anyone actually read all that, I'm sending digital cookies your way. I will now go and actually do my job asdhjd-
I saw this video in my recommended once when I was like in croc. I honestly never thought it would happen to me ,but it eventually happened since I main feaster and no one knows how to rescue and I get triple down once I get 1 chair. When I reached manticore, I started stuggling and the thought of ranking and maintaining my badge made me stressed out ,so I feel like I really needed to hear this... thank you for making this.
How did you know? I wanted to start maining Joseph but the anxiety always gets to me and I always end up going back to survivor. I’ve been doing that like every season
The first season i started hunter ranking i made it into mid sabertooth and a badge nightmare. I couldn't continue playing after that cause I kept getting legendary matches with griffins and that always made me so nervous because i still didn't know much about the game and the badge kept putting so much pressure on me. Right now I'm just ranking from time to time to maintain my b badge with which I'm comfortable with.
Honestly it's still less stressful for me than playing with survivors, I'm on griffin and I still see A badges kiting for 20s and then getting basement
I remembered I played against a team of ex peak survivors , they all had 200 lvl+ and really impressive winrate in 5v5 as a mary and I almost cried because of bad ping but got a tie. It was so fucking scary, I didn't wanna to disappoint my team :(
Tbh 5v5 is such a joke mode I’m 100% positive nobody is going to get mad at you if you mess up. But if it stresses you out to the point where you can’t enjoy it you can always play the other faction for a bit :)
Últimamente me esta llendo muy mal en las match, teniendo muy malos early games, los survis emoteando y el rusheo intenso que hacen, soy ogro 5 y fui top A con naiad hace unas dos semanas, pero con estas ultimas match solo eh ido bajando mucho:( realmente la ansiedad que siento al jugar a sido mucho últimamente y este video me viene como anillo al dedo, tratare de tomar los consejos✨💗
Oof, ME. Thank you for this. For me, the only thing that's helped is pure exposure therapy. The more I do it, the easier it becomes. Turning off graffitis helped a TON as well.
3:58 THIS IS SO REAL!! I got an A badge on Evil reptilian very soon and I was very confident bc my hunter win rate was good, but at some point survivors were just better, and that difference on survs was just huge. I started to lose all my rank matches and since then i get nervous just to think on hunter rank BAHAHAA my hands always end up shaking the few times I play as hunter even in qm, no matter if I lose or win :C
I were 13 Antonio like.. a month ago or something? My peak were 11 but I lost a couple on Sunday ranked so I fell to 13. And after that, I just keep losing more and more. I’m somewhat 65-70(didn’t check) now and, although I don’t really care for losing (I used to tho, few years ago I would literally cry over lose streak) I still get a little frustrated about it, because I really didn’t knew what I was doing wrong. I still don’t know, to be honest. I check pro violinist matches, I read stuff, I rewatch some of Antonio guides and stuff but I still don’t understand what I do wrong. I know it’s my problem totally and not some ping/freeze thing (tho funny but i got more freezes and bigger ping in this month. Maybe that also affected my games?) but this confusion is hitting harder than any anxiety or anger and stuff.
This is a nice video by the way tho it did not really helped me😭 I just agreed with Im probably is stuck in one strategy that doesn’t work every time now (esp when I’m a cyclops). But this video is still very great. It’s nice to know that I’m not alone in this and even pro players had stuff like that. I also used to get incredibly frustrated to the point I wanted to rip my hair off (I had a huge depression and suicidal tendencies back then), so I can relate. Thanks for sharing your experience, this means a lot💚. Take care of yourself, please.
Actually after hunter idv matches i started taking sedatives, i'm still taking them while playing, but because of your video i hope i will finally stop... It damaged my health very bad..
As a hunter main since 3 years, i stopped putting too much effort in getting my badges. I don’t even want to upgrade my rank, i has been stuck in manti for 3years and ?
I keep seeing comments of how people get bullied in post chat. I started playing for the first time recently and have never encountered this despite getting smurfs sometimes and straight up losing badly in rank. Everyone just doesn't talk or if they do it's pre-match and they send stickers or something. Am I just fortunate or should I just wait for my turn?😅
No typically it just happens to people who stay in the post chat too long or if they initiate the conversation. It’s really easy to not talk to anyone in the game lol
I came back to this game after some months and honestly I got mentally tired on my first match as hunter 🥲 I feel lucky that RU-vid recommended this video to me...I think I get nervous very quickly, especially when I get kited for more than 120 seconds and I know the match is f*cked up for me
I started this season being a low croc (almost cobra) and im currently manticore… it’s been so hard to me to deal with griffins, since i got to this tier i get some wins and ties but im mostly on a lose streak and it makes me upset... And i get really stressed because of that. I ranked up so fast and i think i’m not good enough yet for being a manticore, but i really like playing hunter and i might try other hunters besides my main (hermit) after seeing this, thank you for the video ❤️🩹
I always get so nervous before playing hunter but after playing a few matches, it tends to go away but then I grow exhausted of playing hunter and switch factions I’m a croc but I wanna try getting to dragon one day, I feel like the only thing that’s holding me back from being high tier is the fear of tanking my win rate again I used to have a really bad win rate a few seasons ago which was 28 percent, I ended up taking a break and came back the next few seasons with a much better win rate and game sense I took a break off of the game and rank in general a few seasons ago and I came back to rank last season, but it didn’t go the best, I took another break from rank and then I eventually came back to rank this season and have been doing wayyy better with a 100 wr (but I’m low tier and I I’ve only play like 3 hunters, technically 2) I’m thinking about learning another new hunter from scratch to help me expand my general hunter knowledge and maybe help me get over hunter anxiety a bit
