How do you overcome rank anxiety in competitive online games?

How do you overcome rank anxiety in competitive online games?

Beer.

Alcohol.

Change the focus from winning to making the other team have as little fun as possible

Play enough until you don't give a hoot. Or find another game where you simply don't care. For me it was Dota 2 but I don't play it anymore.

Weed

>Change the focus from winning to making the other team have as little fun as possible

This is what competitive games eventually become. The object is to take the fun out of it for the other team.

Carrying about rank and don't enjoying the game

>Beta cuck carrying about others and not killing them without mercy that's why you are a loser in real life and on the game you useless cunt

just stop doing competitive games for a while and play and chill game
also never do competitive ow, the game was never intended to be serious or balanced for competitive players but because of all the stupid feedback they decided to make a competitive scene that is still unbalanced and not fun at all
ow was a fine game when it first released with everything being kind of overpowered but after all the patches, nerfs, and buffs, it went from decent to a totally shit game

I suck ass and never touch ranked in team games because I know I'll hold people back

Realize they have no meaning and no affect on anything ESPECIALLY for playing team games as a solo.

The only way to get better is to try. If some loser wants to get personally offended by your poor performance then fuck em

DUDE!!!

>overwatch
>competitive
Also check the articles on ladder anxiety, that's how the issue is called in sc2

I gave up. I'm bad, so I just press "competitive match" button to play with other baddies.

>anxiety in video games

BEHOLD: the modern male.

Be nice, soy increases estrogen production

Absolutely false. You alt-right trumpkins literally do not understand science.

what even is competitve overwatch?
I played a couple of the placement matches and it was literally just 2/3 quickplay matches with a tighter method of determining who won.

In all seriousness it comes down to changing your mindset. Anxiety comes from the fear of losing, once you stop thinking about winning or losing and shifting your mindset to just playing to get better for example, its should eventually go away.

I imagine that I'm playing against a bunch of little kids and my skill level goes way up.

It's easy not to get anxious when you believe you're just pubstomping some 9 year old squeaker.

This. How the fuck are you people going to act when you move out of your parent's house and have to live in the real world? Jesus christ, you're going to get ripped to shreds.

stop playing ranked? other game modes exist.

Competition is competition, anxiety is not unheard of in real sports either. I anything the soyboy is the one who only plays single player games with no competition

Is soyboy the new cuck?

I play good games that don't invoke such retarded feelings.

t. soyboi who couldn't deal with pressure

Everything is the new cuck. We've evolved beyond the need for meaningful words

>having anxiety on an online multiplayer

dafuq is wrong with people

I don't get rank anxiety because I'm not bad.

post your rank

Realize it's just a number and that it doesnt matter. Also that you can lower it and anyone you dont like's number as you please

I don't play overwatch

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This guy knows whats up

who said anything about overwatch? post your rank in the game you play

My bad I though you were going off of OPs image.
I'm Gold Nova 2 in CS:GO. Not great, but not bad either. Haven't played in a while though so who knows if I could keep that up.

By not being a fucking retard.

I get it in fighting games for some reason. I have no fucking clue why, and it's not as though I have terrible anxiety in real life. I have a wife, a competitive job with 70k salary, a newborn, and was approved for 300k mortgage, yet my heart is still racing whenever I'm dueling anyone in just about any game possible. Team games less so but 1v1 is nerve racking.

Are you 12? Anxiety over a game with imaginary points? Never cross a street in your life, there is actually something on the line you faggot

The Chad competitor

KYS

>competitive overwatch

For getting anxiety in video games while still maintaining normie status?

what, are you scared of horror stories as well? Because it is made up. Unless you are not top 500 gtfo and stop bitching about anxiety.

Incorrect, but heading in the right direction. Anxiety comes from perceived consequences. You don't fear losing once you've learned to deal with those consequences.

Telling people to "change their mindset" or "stop thinking" isn't useful without explaining the work they have to do, going through thought processes or giving them a techinique (like mindfulness meditation) to stop those processes.

You need to deal with the issue head on - consider the real consequences behind experiencing your worst case scenario, and justify whether or not it's worth the risk. If being a shit rank genuinely upsets and ruins your enjoyment of the game, it might be worth trying something else. Games are meant to be fun, after all. If you're truly in it for the competitive thrill, you probably wouldn't get anxiety about it.

No those are entirely different things. Where was I bitching, spergo? I simply was saying I get anxiety from certain games and that hasn't prevented me from living a normal adult life.

Play a game without a shitty ranking system.

You just need the right mindset. Do you want to play ranked because you want to play with similarly skilled players or do you want to play it because you can show off with your numbers? I personally don't give a shit about my rankings, I just play like I normally would.

No, but this crap, just like "toxic communities" are a result of shit games.
Nobody who's ever had the time of their life playing a game became a toxic asshole. It's only natural, if you play a shit game, you're not having fun. And if you're not having fun, you get irritated. And irritated people become assholes.

I have more anxiety in lower ranked games.
You'll never know who you're going to be stuck with playing 2k Dota 2, someone who actually knows what they're doing, a complete retard, or a whiny baby that goes AFK in base when they start losing, and then abandons because they don't know how to keep it from happening.
People say 4K is bad. I would take that any day of the week.

Realize that it's a stupid skinner box designed to keep you playing (and hopefully purchasing lootboxes). Rank is completely meaningless.

It's not literal anxiety, just a reluctance to play a ranked game because of the perceived consequences of doing so. Though I don't understand why anyone would get it with Overwatch, it makes no fucking difference if you win or lose.

>Where was I bitching, spergo?
Here, spergo:
>and it's not as though I have terrible anxiety in real life


the only spergo here are you, being afraid of literally NOTHING LUL

You still haven't pointed out where I'm bitching, idiot. I recognize that it's stupid and unreasonable but anxiety is your body and mind reacting irrationally to something without your control. People get anxiety over tons of stupid things (crowds, speaking in public, clowns, kids etc.) that can't and won't hurt you but it still happens.

Either way I can give a presentation in front of 200 of my colleagues and not break a sweat, but put me in a duel with someone a couple notches above my rank when I'm on a hot streak and I can feel my heart beating. The difference is having zero anxiety in front of a crowd has far more use in life than having zero anxiety in a video game that yield no consequences and no rewards. If I had the choice between switching the two scenarios I would keep what I have and you can be proud of yourself for being diamond. kys neet

Dude, you're fucking terrible.

t. another GN2 shitter

I realized the only reason I was doing ranked was I wanted the validation of someone else. Now I just play casual matches and fuck around.

is kot okay

Please coach me lord soy, I don't care about rank but I get really nervous about losing so I just don't play. Have owned it for a year and never done a comp match

Focus on getting better rather than winning and play a game that isn't shit.