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ehho t1_j8hz7h9 wrote

Reply to comment by soiramio3000 in [Image] Potential without work, action is useless by crm_expert

Thats not true. You can improve at anything.

You need to put more time and attention to what you are doing according to your limitations. Thats where good teachers and coaches come into play.

Its rarely a race. Often its a marathon.

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soiramio3000 t1_j8ixjet wrote

I am playing competitve pokemon in pokemonshowdown for over a year and I suck and I cannot improve because there are not any STRAIGHTFORWARD videos or articles on the internet on how to built a team.

(except from EXACTLY ONE video that was only about building a sticky web team.).

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catfink1664 t1_j8jms2n wrote

Have you tried asking in r/pokemonshowdown ?

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soiramio3000 t1_j8jozxg wrote

Ask what exactly?

If you are talking about the "rate my team"posts they are useless, they are mostly ignored and when people respond to them they give advice that benefits the team very little.

If I ask for team building tips in general then they will jist tell me to watch a video or read an article.

Someone just yesterday told me in the smogon forums that "Teambuilding is a skill you build upon through experience and metagame knowledge. Its simply practice on what you want to build around, your offensive/defensive cores, pivots, hazards, etc."

This info is not helpful at all.

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catfink1664 t1_j8jpkun wrote

I agree, it isn’t. Ask them if they know of good videos and articles for improving your game

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soiramio3000 t1_j8jr8q1 wrote

There aren't any videos or articles that help you. I looked it up.

They are all giving you surface level information like what a wallbreak and a revenge killer is and what then they expect you to figure out everything on your own.

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ehho t1_j8jtldc wrote

I don't know anything about that game in particular so what i say may or may not apply.

They say that you need 10.000 hours of practice to master something. Anything. 10.000 hours is roughly 10 years.

I played league of legends and chess for that amount of time and still sucked. The reason i didn't improve is because when they say practice, they mean hard work, which is different than just playing around.

When i wanted to improve i spent more time analying my games, finding mistakes teying to figure out to fix them for the next time. Only when i had no solution i googled wuat othera did in that specific example. Another thing i did was look for chess and LoL guides, video explanations, spent 30-60minus practicing specific skills i lacked. I more about games itself, read ever patch of LoL, general important things about stages of the game, general strategies,... Lastly, i found a communities, played with them, exchanged advice and references, asked for tips,...

I did slowly but consistently get better, however, peronally, it took out all the fun out of the game and i don't have ambitions of becoming a pro player. So i stopped practicing and just continued playing for fun.amd with that, my progress also stopped.

I believe that all pros spent a lot of time practicing hard, and if you want to stay competitive you need to not only beat them in practice, but also find an edge anywhere you can.

I don't know if this reply is useful to you but i wish you find a way to break the plateau and continue growing as a player.

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RoosterBrewster t1_j8leioh wrote

Yep, it's all about deliberate practice. I hear some people at the gym say they'll never be able to look like some top bodybuilders. So they just half-ass their workout and never improve. They may not have won the genetic lottery plus steroids, but they discount the tremendous effort put in to get there.

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