Why I Never Tilt 

How DARE you come at a video game community with a reasoned approach and your "facts" and a healthy attitude for gaming. :P

Petition to forcing every new player to watch this video before entering their first ranked game

That stick figure's head looks a little off-centered. In other words, _tilted._

As a recent open queue player, I feel like I need this

The thing that makes me angry is when other people get angry. I can't stand it when people start accusing others especially

First words of this video were "people often ask me" I was disappointed you didn't explain escape velocity to me.

Any Karen would HATE to be losing an argument against this guy.

I find I get most tilted when I feel that I'm not performing to my potential; I feel like i could be doing so much better but for whatever reason I can't. That's what tilts me over the moon. I couldn't care less about rank.

This video is so necessary for the community. I keep saying all these things and players still are not conviced. Great job.

You can never depend on one sole aspect defining your worth, especially if it's superficial. Because the moment that lone pillar shakes, your entire self shakes with it.

This is grate advice I am quite a stable player like 80% of the time and I'm sure this will help me iron out the rest of my troubles

My biggest problem currently is that I don't have enough energy. Playing my best is really really draining and after a few hours I just play bad. And that tilts me, my own inability to play good for longer, bc I know I need to invest alot of time if I wanna climb/get better, and I just don't have enough. :S

I am usually calm but when people start blaming me even though I am not the one at fault at all just drives me mad and I lose my sht and start being salty

You legit explained it perfectly.. Love this, this needs to be added in the blizzard launcher lol

4:02 - 4:20 favorite quote here. "why would you focus on the things out of your control, when there's something in your control that you can fix, that could change the outcome of your game" ML7 is a terrific mentor for the community with this mindset. also, suggestion: consider changing title to include "overwatch" to help the community find it!

I feel scared to play ranked because I worry about disappointing my teammates by my skill. If I play healer, I’m afraid of not saving the people I could’ve. If I play rank, I feel at fault when I am in the back line and not protecting. When I play damage, I feel responsible when my healers die and I don’t take the other teams healers out. I care about my rank but not as much as disappointing other people.

After 400 hours of comp, I'm relaxed as fuck. One of the main skills I learnt over the years is casually playing down a most-likely-lost game and then queueing again as if nothing happened.

Excellent video. Emotional intelligence is sorely undervalued nowadays

I do this without even thinking, I wonder why I don't get mad.

Here’s the thing though. I’m a generally calm and understanding person, but I like to get a good tilt on when it comes to Overwatch. It’s kinda nice to just rage into the void.

Your game tips and teaching are so helpful, but THIS is invaluable! Thank you. 🧡

I only tilt when others start raging at someone on my team. Or when I play with my irl friends who are bronze and randomly play DPS so we have to wait for ages

I’m stuck in silver, but as soon as I watched this (coincidence or not) I immediately found results after changing my mindset. My SR used to be 1780. Guess what it is now? 2400-ish. So close to plat. Thank you! 🙏

I don't tilt cause I only play when I'm having fun playing ow. As long as I'm playing for fun I play my best and I can realize reality such as bad teammates or me misplaying, I just try to have fun while correcting what I can correct.

Just wanted to say a big thank you for this video, it’s helped me so much more than just in game but also in life. I’ve been fighting depression for the last year and a half and it’s really been horrible, so having the perspective of just being better than I was yesterday really means so much to me. It was just my birthday over the last weekend, and I’m not one to make birthday or new year resolutions, but I told myself that I wanna live this next year of my life with that mentality. I’m gonna go through everyday just trying to be a better person and a healthier me than I was the day before. Thank you SVB, you’ve made a difference in my life more than you know.

I definitely feel the number chasing sometimes. I'm at a career high and I can feel myself being precious about it so I have to actively stop myself going down that road and just get back to playing the game I enjoy.

Thank you, this gave me a new perspective on how I’m playing games. I am now way happier gaining and winning more often! You have my full respect and you have earned a sub!

I noticed this phenomenon in myself a few years ago. When I'm new to a game I actually have fun and enjoy it, but once I think I am decent at the game, that is when I start getting upset. I then realized I am entangling my ego with my performance, I was doing it without realizing it. I now try to focus on myself and take responsibility for my losses instead of getting defensive and blaming other things and people. I tried explaining this to my friend who tilts in the same way but since this video does a better job at explaining it, I am going to link it to him.

I'm just sad that people don't use their mics if they have one. A simple "help" or "behind" can change a fight.

My problem is not actually losing. I can deal with the fact the other team is better. What I can't stand is being the only one in Voice chat, or waste 1 min of the game to regroup because temmates keep dying 1 by 1, teammates going 1vs6 and wasting their ults, going phara when the enemy team has 2 hitscans. High gold/ low plat is hell, that's why it tilts me losing SR because I'm further away from getting a decent team. PS: 3 matches in a row with a leaver in a comp game. Lost liike 70 SR, yeah, please tell me more about not getting tilted.

Great video! One thing I would like to add is that "becoming a better player" is a great mindset, but can be quite a daunting or faceless task to think about. What I have heard from others is that the best way to go about achieving it is to set small, measurable goals. For instance, in a fighting game, you could really focus on hitting that one combo, performing a specific read, or learning the doge window for that one attack that always catches you. For a game like Overwatch, maybe it could be to hit a certain kill combo that gives you trouble, or maybe if you duo queue it could be to pull off that one team play that was always just out of reach, or maybe it could just be to hit a skill shot a certain percentage of the time. Whatever it is, make sure you can condense it into trackable progress, otherwise, it can feel meaningless and unrewarding to improve if your sr doesn't reflect it.

When I first started overwatch I was a bronze and silver baby. Ever since I started thinking like this about 2 years ago I started making improvements and now I’m mid plat. We’ll get to the rank we want eventually. It just takes time, practice and most importantly, patience. This is such a great vid.

Found you through your "The Story of Overwatch explained (2022)" video as I was interested in the lore and catching up to the events of OW2, and happily stumbled over this pinned video of yours. What a refreshing sight to see someone post actual good life advice rather than just clickbait titles. Thank you for not only being a great content creator and video editor (the OW lore video was fantastic), but also for providing that much needed touch of sound guidance

Honestly well said, it’s always hard to feel happy about a game these days and I’m glad someone made a video about this kind of topic

I know all of this and try to live by it as much as I can. I like taking my time to reflect afterwards and thinking about my own mistakes, but I still tilt in the moment regardless.

This video needs more attention because of how true it all is. Been playing basically since the game launched. Sure I may be a hardstuck Plat player, but honestly, I stopped caring about all that recently; about my rank, about my level, etc. I'm only happy to see any improvements in my performance as a player. I've actually been popping off on heroes I had rarely done so before thanks to me being more relaxed during my comp games. I don't let my ego bother me due to my rank, or 1v1 situations in games, trash talking, and so on. I'm just happy to play my best when I can.

I never tilt, I've just always been calm by nature, however, when people start tilting and yelling at me, I completely lose focus and start panicking and shaking and just feeling really really horrible about myself, and since I can't focus I end up playing really badly.. Luckily this doesn't happen often but when it does, I hate how easily it affects me, like someone will type one tiny thing in chat at me and I'll start feeling really scared, I stay out of ranked games because it ends up being really crippling for me. I wonder where that comes from and if others feel like this too? Also wonder what I could do to stop pissing my pants whenever someone tilts at me in games.. If I make a genuine mistake and someone is like ''wtf'', I say it was a mistake or I didn't mean it, if I'm getting yelled at for no reason other than being a scapegoat or the punching bag of the team, I will say that I am or I'll be trying my best but somehow that makes people double down and become straight up toxic towards me, it usually is accompanied by insulting my gender and then I end up feeling bad about the gender that I am. Idk, I'm too fucking sensitive I think, I really want to not care because I love playing video games so much, I try my best to think those people are just taking their deeper frustrations out on me and it's nothing personal, but it still hurts.

This was surprisingly really deep and helpful for gaming and also real life. Great video dude. Really liked what you said!

Thank you for making this video. Its hard to escape the tilt trap. Always good to remind myself about the ideal way to be competitive with my games.

This video helps me calm down and reaffirm the level of skill and calm I aim to achieve. I'll be watching this frequently, thank you.

I watched this video right after the most frustrating Valorant match I’ve had yet. I’m not gonna go into the details, but it felt like I was doing exceptionally well in a match for the first time, while all my teammates were friends who were new and had laggy computers. This video helped me calm down a lot, thank you so much.

I will see u guys in top 500 after winning every game after this video

Playing Overwatch competitive is only infuriating when you have teammates making very stupid mistakes. I don't mind losing but what makes me pull my hair out is when the games been out for over 4 years and people still don't get simple things like; stop going by the bridge on Lijang Tower Gardens. There's always gonna be a Pharah/Lucio/Ball that's gonna boop you. But people don't learn.

Really good advice. I 100% agree and will apply this to my mentality _Shitty Overwatch servers go down for a second making me disconnect and not letting me rejoin, therefore losing 50sr and getting leaver penalty_ *. . . peace was never an option*

Sombra is literally the most tilting hero to play against

Great content, SVB! Players should watch this video in-game at the start of every comp season.

Great video, full of wisdom. It makes me think about the idea that video games can't teach you anything... but this video kind of proofs that games can teach you valuable lessons. I hope that I will remember this, in my ranked games.

Thanks to this video, I feel like I'll be a better player, my vision has been clouded for so long and my ego has taken over me, thanks for this wake-up call, im gonna try to improve, even more, I really wanna say thank you for this vid, I really needed this

Something I've always used is "did i perform as well as someone in my desired rank or skill level?"

I can’t believe I’ve watched this like 50 times already and I still get triggered lol. But not as much as usual. This video was super helpful changing my mindset as I’m playing. Thank you 💙💙

Here I was expecting a “git gud” answer, yet I was hit with heartfelt promoting of mental happiness thru changing your perspective and self-reflection of the soul and mind. Wp gg

Love your content like this man. I quit overwatch like seven months ago, and I’ve missed watching your videos so I’m glad you’re doing stuff that’s more general across gaming!

If there were ever an Overwatch related audiobook to be released...... the narrator HAS to be SVB!! This is pure gold! So simple yet so difficult to follow!! Thanks SVB for this zen!!

You are a breath of fresh air. I agree. It's always been my philosophy that if my team and I play a great game but lose, I'd still be satisfied with the game. I just want to play a great game. Those are beautiful moments. The problem is, I feel like those moments are so rare. I always thought gaining ranks would help me get more of those moments...but I think I'm realizing, many of the ranks actually suffer from lack of team work, and I should just appreciate a good game when I get one...and try to see where I can improve if nothing else...

Overwatch is one of those games that will tilt every player It makes me want to commit macaroni every day

Thanks for putting this video out it really helped Ever since i came back to the game in june I've been getting extra tilted because im still in plat on my main account. What this video taught me was to stop paying attention to singular games and more to my games as a whole, which lead to me realizing im not as trash as i think and my team aren't, I've been having more fun in the game thanks to adopting this mindset and I've also been able to take the sr number less seriously Thank you ❤️

Just play torb all the time like me and you’ll never tilt.

Hi SVB, not sure if you'll see this comment but I just wanted to say thank you. I had a bad weekend for overwatch, dropped from 3050 to 2800 and I was taking the whole thing too seriously. I watched this video and decided to just have fun and try to improve my own performance- and literally today had the best time and won 9/10 games :) thanks for your positivity and incredibly practical advice - your videos help a lot of people so much ^^

I'm the inconsistent player 100%. Half the time I play out of my mind, literally can carry a team on my own. The other half I play terribly. My rating fluctuates wildly - one day I'll win every game in a row, the next I'll lose them all, so I always end with my SR as exactly average. I wish I knew how to capture those days when I play well and make that into my new average, I know I'm capable. This happens to me in every competitive game I play from Overwatch to Smash Bros - very frustrating!

This is such a great video! Everything was well said, and it was way deeper and more detailed than the usual "just don't care" videos! Thanks so much!

I absolutly agree on that mindset, my personel issue is that I tilt I feel that I'm not playing well.

damn i needed this video. i didn’t know how bad my relationship was with gaming until now cuz i would get so mad at myself and i absolutely hated swearing and yelling, and my mental state and overall health started to diminish. what i got from this video was that in the time that i am heated or tilted. I need to remind and ground myself Im in control of what I get out of a video game. Dying was out of my control. Losing was out of my control. The reactions i get from other people are out of my control. The one thing i can control is how I can perceive the outcome of those things. Losing and dying, it happened i can’t change it, but i can change the way i take it. Instead of being mad, i need to calm tf down, like fr, and start saying to myself to just improve and be patient. Choosing to make yourself a better player sounds like an awesome idea cuz that makes me a better person in virtue and in behavior. k thx bye

Not even joking, I watched this and lately I’ve been doing WAY better than before. I’m not sure if maybe it’s a coincidence or if maybe this video sat in my brain better than these videos usually do. Either way I’ll be giving this video praise for it.

i love how he considers everything and knows so much, great video :]

Thank you. You helped me with tilt in valorant. I will probably even replay this video in the future.

Changing my goal from climbing to just being better at my heroes today than I was yesterday removed 99% of my tilt in comp. Considering I've always struggled with my temper, it's amazing the difference it makes.

fantastic video, thanks for opening perspectives and helping make the community less toxic. im sure you're busy but itd be awesome to see you expand upon this topic and apply it to more multiplayer games/ games in general, im sure this type of video could help many gamers across all platform/genere stay awesome!

i feel like i dont care about my rank anymore after this video, im just playing to get better and have fun and now ive ranked more these days then ever in overwatch i play hanzo in overwatch and now im way more comf in every shot i shoot. Thx a lot man, this will help me a looot.

To be fully honest, i do not tilt over WINNING or LOSING, i do it over my own performance. Even if i did something which might be perfect to everyone else it isn't considered perfect to me, I always see room for improvement and that in reality is what triggers me or throws me over the edge.

Holy shit this video took a way deeper turn then I thought. Thanks

WOW. So well said. It’s an unexpected mindset to adopt but it’s a great tool, not just for games but for life too. 👏👏👏

The only reason I tilt is because I get 14 kills in warzone while my friends are all dead with 1 kill each and I have to buy them back and they never do anything.

I LOVE what you said about the ranking system doesn’t define your skill lvl!! I started playing overwatch last year, and for the first many months I only did quick play and arcade. But, eventually my skill lvl grew and I decided to try competitive. Of course like everyone I started in bronze. And let me tell you, whether you win or lose a match in bronze and silver is entirely dependent on the team you get. Even if you try to carry you can’t control every game and every situation. It’s simply impossible. And that’s why it took me forever to climb out of bronze. Not as long to climb out of silver. I’m not playing quite as much at the moment so I’m still in gold but slowly climbing. But gold is only a little better than silver. I still get poor teammates all the time. Usually dps since, ya know. They’re the largest demographic. I usually play support, and naturally, I play it well. But I mostly play support because I can’t stand it when I play some other role and I have bad supports. It’s like a 2 in 5 chance I’ll get a good support. So I have become the good support. Lately I’ve mostly been playing lucio because he’s just fun to play and has a good skill set. I get on overwatch every day and say “I feel like being an annoying lucio” and I go annoy the enemy lol

When I was plat in rocket league I had this same mentality but have since changed that mentality but I still struggle with tilt. Not at my tm8s, not at the fact that I want a higher rank but I’m always getting tilted at myself for playing like ass. Than when I tilt I play even worse and tilt more. Something I can definitely take from this video is not focusing on my lows/inconsistent days but focus on my average skill and keep improving my average skill. Cuz if I have a bad day what ends up happening is I start thinking that my skill is decreasing and that’s what pisses me off. But if I just focus on the average I’ll realize that overall I’m actually improving.

“Chase being a better player” .... fuck that one hit home. Great video SVB!

Remembering that you're always learning is a great approach. When we first pick up a game, we're usually very happy even with deaths because we dont expect much of ourselves because we're "just learning." But once we become "Competent" we expect victory of ourselves and thats when tilt sets in. But, We never stop learning how to play. To maintain small goals, instead of the goal being a victory, you will more often enjoy yourself by completing the goal. So maintaining a mentality that you're attempting to improve, not win, will let you not be annoyed by losing, and the more you focus on the small goal of improving, the more you WILL improve, and then that'll actually cause a win to occur because you're playing better. Winning more often as a side effect, by improving yourself. A healthier memtality while playing, and a tangible improvment that allows victory

Wow... well.. thank you, I really suffered by this especially in Overwatch, good job!

This only addresses one very specific cause of tilt. A lot of people get tilted either by their teammates insulting them, the gameplay itself being (in their opinion) poorly designed, getting unlucky (from their perspective), or even their own lack of performance/improvement.

damn, thanks dude! i actually kinda became happier irl after watching this

I used to get really tilted when I started playing because I didn't understand the game but still wanted to win. After learning more about the game, I was able to temper my tilt and went from 700sr to 2300sr now and still climbing. I don't play comp a lot but by giving myself the resources I need to play better by watching videos, I have a 66% average wr. My goal currently is plat, not because it'll make me feel better about myself but because I want to see myself improve and push myself farther than I thought I could. A year ago silver seemed like an impossible challenge and look at me now

Nice video man! I was about to do smth similar about the shit that you always play for the rank and not for the improvement.

This. This is possibly one of your greatest and most important videos to date. Keep it up SVB. The world needs more of your content 😊

I play Overwatch a lot and I’ve learned that wherever I plateau, whether it’s in gold or silver or whatever, that’s where I have the most thrilling, exciting, rewarding matches of all. Because that’s where I’m meeting the best challengers at my current skill level. Learning to fight and improve at your current plateau is the key to climbing, not obsessing over being higher and getting salty because you believe you “deserve” it.

I don't necessarily get mad or tilt because people play badly - I get mad because they blame me for the consequences of their bad play, which feels very unfair and unjustified. This video reminded me that I need to breathe deeply, stay calm, and possibly just mute people like that, so they won't distract me from doing my best.

I will definitely recommend this video to all angry players I meet in ranked, very nice video !

Great video! Thank you sir! One type of game difficult to remember are the ones where you win, but didn't really play that well.

Perfect timing!!! I played a horrible scrim yesterday in which I was lagging so badly, I couldn't even control my character. I got tilted in the first freaking map about it, and I think I dragged my team into a downward spiral after that with my mentality since I often am the one shot calling. I reflected on that and realized that I need to learn to get hold of myself in those situations, and this was a perfect video to tell me what to do - it was out of my control, and therefore I shouldn't really feel bad about getting completely destroyed by the enemy team, since that was an outlier moment in my team's performance, it's probably not going to repeat itself, so I shouldn't focus on that one time that the internet wasn't working properly. Ps, sorry for the rant, had to get it out of my system)))

Whoa... Someone actually said that others can only control things within their control, themselves. With self realization it brings awareness that it's not about Win/Lose ratios, what everyone else is doing, and / or a demand of others as if oneself is the deciding factor in a complex competitive environment. To accept what matters to one's, adjust self values accordingly, and come to terms with what is, as well as is not, in one's immediate control. Thank you for this well spoken video

this video was sp helpful, thank you so much! (also your voice is so peaceful, it really made me relax)

Im so happy i found this, i struggle with being a better player and this really helped boost my gaming mood, i actually gained a ton of experience and happiness from this. Really appreciate it 🙏

I love this video. I feel like some days i wake up and i feel like i'm doing so much better than my team and i get upset by it, and other days i feel like my team and i put in the same effort win or lose. You are correct in this video. The best way to play games is not to chase a higher rank or a higher level, but rather to be better than you were the day before.

Before i graduated from uni, I've never tilt in game. Things changed recently as I graduated and got my first job... I'm not sure why but my ow experience hasn't been the best for the past few weeks.

Nicely Done. Thank you for addressing this topic.

I’ve noticed that when you are on a team where everyone can find the humor in everything and have good comms, you may not always win, but it’s fun and most of the time while you are having fun you end up winning and playing the way you want. I just played a game where our Dva was being harassed by a Zarya and a Genji, so our mercy went to go pocket Dva and as Ana I was right behind them. The Zarya and Genji popped out from around a corner so I used Nano on Dva and we start spam healing her. As soon as the Dva seen them, she hit the rocket boosters and got the fuck out of there. We all start laughing our asses off and the rest of the team came to back up Dva and we ended up winning. I’m telling you that we laughed the whole game at that, but we were having such a good time and I can only imagine how toxic it could have been otherwise and we could have ended up losing.

This is really helpful and calming. Thank you

Since everyone in this comment section is being nice and wholesome and so are you! My turn. For my tilt I feel like I’m doing a lot for my team but I’m not giving them enough slack for some reason I feel like everyone is against me but after watching this I realized that I’m just getting ahead of my self and taking things fastly(4 year ow player too so this has been happening for a long time)

great upload, and it's really got a lot of people talking about their own experiences. Even better, it looks like people in the comments are standing up with each each and it proves to the community that there are plenty of people that care about making it a positive space

I dont really care 'bout my sr or rank. I got placed plat on support and open queue and am perfectly fine with that. My problem is that I get mad at my teammates for making really stupid mistakes, ecspecially when they repeat the same one over and over. In other games I often times watch my teammates die to the same camper at the very same location in the span of a minute. Im playing OW on switch where there are so little players that the Top 500 leaderboard consists of 13 people of which I played with most. Maybe if the matches would be a lot more balanced, maybe I would tilt less, idk. But I guess I'll try to focus solely on my performance from now on and less on my teammates. I mean, the hell do I even care 'bout losing and winning, when my goal is to become a better player anyways? Anyways, great video. Keep it up, they have taught me a lot already.

I only ever get upset when my teammates are toxic. Blaming others, demanding which characters everyone plays, or being overly salty in general. There's so much of that in Overwatch that it's kept me out of comp for a long time, even though I want to play it.

Thanks dude it actually worked i got better at my games and i stopped being so stressed all the time.