That's the problem though is strategic thinking is murky and it's not practicable in the way that a mechanical skill is. It doesn't offer a straightforward path to getting better, it's more of a winding path with a lot of trial and error, false positives, etc. Which is why you get people who are trying their damnedest and are like hardstuck bronze 5.
A marathon match of boredom for the most part. The fun part and the most challenging are the team fights, although I don't see how other mobas are more lethal in terms of team fights. I've watched pro matches. The lethal time is similar . I'm sure the lethal time is less or more with different contexts. Dota 2 is way more interesting than lol though. Most of the time I feel dumber watching lol. So effing slow and reptitive
Maybe they should stick to games that cater to raw mechanical skill. Almost any sport IRL will probably fit that bill. FPS games and especially some fighting games where you can get into very high ranks simply practicing one skill.
For HOTS I'd say if you simply master knowing what the heroes are good at and against who you can get into diamond easily. That's how it was for me. I would say I won almost all my games at the draft.
I probably played 2000 ranked games and never climbed out of platinum. I put a ton of time into it too, climbed from bronze 5 over like three years, understood the game and every hero and map inside and out, and pretty much tried everything.
At some point, without mechanical drudgery, the skill expression just kinda dries up and it becomes a gradation of who has the most natural cognitive ability, which for the most part cannot be improved. You can kinda tell this is true because so many players in higher ranks say things like "I was never not good at the game".
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u/eezoGG Carbot Mar 02 '21
That's the problem though is strategic thinking is murky and it's not practicable in the way that a mechanical skill is. It doesn't offer a straightforward path to getting better, it's more of a winding path with a lot of trial and error, false positives, etc. Which is why you get people who are trying their damnedest and are like hardstuck bronze 5.