The year is 2030.
Vitality have bought out Alfajer and Milan from Fnatic the previous years. They have spent millions of dollars into various medical breakthroughs, including the cure for long covid, as they successfully sign superpowered Leo in their team. Moreover, they sink an even larger sum into cutting edge AI technology, creating the world's first VCT AI trained on Fnatic's 2023 season, Mini-GPT. The legal consequences of this are still being fought in court. Despite this, they refuse to buy out Boaster, whose buyout (and reportedly net worth) is a staggering £10. Fnatic meet vitality in the lower bracket. And despite everything vitality has done, boaster shows up on stage doing the gangnam style with crashies, as the rest of their team (rookies from tier 2) filter in. The vitality roster is stiff and focused, not a laugh in sight. The rest of fnatic are trying to find a way to back out (from the embarrassing dance, not from vitality). The match is hard fought. But in the end, the dust settles, and fnatic eliminate vitality once again, boaster twerking as he fistbumps his former teammates.
My therapist once said:
The reason you're staying in bed for hours without sleeping, wearing the same clothes for days, and craving isolation even when you feel lonely is because your body is coping with overwhelming stress so it's shutting down to save energy and create a sense of safety.
If you needed to hear that, maybe this account can help.
Somewhere in the world right now a kid is sitting in an internet cafe on his 9th ranked game today
cracked monitor. one missing key. paying by the hour.
hasn't eaten since morning because the food money went to game time.
and he will hit your peak rank in half the games it took you
you're sitting at home with a $2000 setup. dual monitors. mechanical keyboard.
gaming chair that costs more than his family's rent. 144hz. fiber internet. every advantage imaginable.
and you're hardstuck gold watching a youtube guide on "how to freeze a wave"
meanwhile this kid doesn't know what a freeze is. he knows what killing is. he loads in and fights.
every game. every lane. every second. no guides. no tier lists.
no reddit threads about optimal rune pages.
just VIOLENCE.
he's not thinking about the meta. he's not checking ugg before champ select.
he's not asking his duo "should i go lethal tempo or pta"
he already locked in and he's already looking for the first blood
you have every resource in the world and you're using it to overthink yourself into a 49% winrate
he has a cracked screen and a dream and he's climbing faster than you because he doesn't have the luxury of playing scared
time is literally money for him. every game costs something. so every game MEANS something.
every game has urgency. every game is played like it's his last.
you get unlimited games for free and you treat every single one of them like it doesn't matter
that's why you're hardstuck
it was never about the setup. never about the guides. never about the champion tier list.
it's about how badly you actually want it
and right now that kid in the internet cafe wants it more than you
Study the Saskio way
Elevators used to be manually operated and were especially risky if the operator was tired or inebriated.
Now, you just get in, press a button and a modern elevator, if inspected regularly, is extremely safe.
You need to believe in your ability to climb in League of Legends
if you knew 1000% you were going to hit Masters this season
you wouldn't tilt after one loss. you wouldn't switch champions after a bad game. you wouldn't give up when things get hard.
you'd play every game like it's just another step on a path you've already walked
the player who KNOWS he's going to climb doesn't panic when he drops a division. doesn't question his champion. doesn't care what his team does
because in his mind it's already done. the rank is inevitable. every game is just collecting what's already his
the player who HOPES he's going to climb tilts at everything. every loss is a crisis.
every bad teammate is proof the universe is against him. every demotion is a reason to quit
same game. same server. same LP. completely different experience
self belief in League isn't "i'm going to carry every game"
it's "no matter what happens in this game i'm going to be fine"
that quiet confidence changes EVERYTHING about how you play. your trades get cleaner because you're not scared.
your decisions get faster because you're not second guessing. your mental stays unbreakable because one game doesn't define you
fear makes you play small. belief makes you play like a killer
stop hoping you'll climb. start knowing
Study the Saskio way