Weekly help a noob thread January 19th 2016

Hi there

I'm new to the game myself, but I've been working on overcoming ladder anxiety during the last month with great success, so I'll try to answer your first question.

My suggestion would be to write down these things on a piece of paper. * Reasons you want to play ladder * Reasons you think playing ladder is superior to playing against the AI * Reasons you don't have to be afraid of playing ladder If nothing comes to mind, I suggest you just search for "starcraft ladder anxiety" on google and r/starcraft and write down anything you find helpful on this piece of paper. I'll share what I wrote down here, maybe you'll find this helpful. * It's not real anxiety, it's just adrenaline * Wins are just satisfying short term, improvement is satisfying long term * Playing against real players helps me improve faster * Playing many games shows my coach I'm commited * Don't look at your division, points, bonus pool or winrate after every game * Ranked ladder helps you collect statistics (winrate on different maps and in different matchups) Now every time you sit down to play and feel that ladder anxiety coming up, read through what you wrote down on your piece of paper.

If this does not work, I can give you a few more suggestions. Read this: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/starcraft-2/297029-psych-approach-to-ladder-anxiety You may want to get a coach or someone who will look at a few of your replays every week. This way you will feel obliged to play more and by playing more your adrenaline levels will decrease. If you think you would feel better playing with the same person from time to time, take a look at r/sc2partners or the sc2improve ingame chat channel. Lastly I just wanted to say that you don't have to feel bad for having ladder anxiety. Lots of people do, and I think it's great that you're working on overcoming it, because many players don't do this. Just look at nios.kr. About 295k people completed their placement games and the game has sold more than 1 million times during the first day of it being on sale, so this means that most people don't even play 1v1 ranked.

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