I wouldn't say its just pattern recognition though, another extremely important skill is objectivity, which is how you analyse a position without bias. During a game your emotions and past experiences will cloud your view of the position and flat out misjudgment will cause you to lose. Even if you were a computer and you could predict everything 30+ moves ahead you still need to judge the position objectively otherwise you'll just pick the wrong move/plan.
Top players talk about objectivity all the time, it is one of the most important skills and IMO it is definitely something that can be trained but also correlates with intelligence.
Me too, and especially the social aspect of that. If I objectively know the correct decision is to fall back, but I know that teammates are committing anyway, when is it right to go in with them and limit the damage? 5 players fully committing to a mediocre plan is sometimes better than 3 players half-committing to a good plan.
And also just, like, peer pressure. I've made decisions I knew were dumb because the alternative was getting flamed by a teammate
I only play Pokemon Unite anymore and I never would have agreed before trying it that having to opt into chat with other players is a blessing, some people manage to be passive aggressive with the preset alert messages but it's relatively rare.
I wouldn't say its just pattern recognition though, another extremely important skill is objectivity, which is how you analyse a position without bias. During a game your emotions and past experiences will cloud your view of the position and flat out misjudgment will cause you to lose. Even if you were a computer and you could predict everything 30+ moves ahead you still need to judge the position objectively otherwise you'll just pick the wrong move/plan.
Top players talk about objectivity all the time, it is one of the most important skills and IMO it is definitely something that can be trained but also correlates with intelligence.
One of my biggest hangups in mobas is having a tendency to over extend even when I know it's a bad idea.
Me too, and especially the social aspect of that. If I objectively know the correct decision is to fall back, but I know that teammates are committing anyway, when is it right to go in with them and limit the damage? 5 players fully committing to a mediocre plan is sometimes better than 3 players half-committing to a good plan.
And also just, like, peer pressure. I've made decisions I knew were dumb because the alternative was getting flamed by a teammate
I only play Pokemon Unite anymore and I never would have agreed before trying it that having to opt into chat with other players is a blessing, some people manage to be passive aggressive with the preset alert messages but it's relatively rare.
I enjoyed Unite for a bit, but I find that, coming from League, I just don't find it as satisfying.
Even with all the flaming in League that actively pushed me out of playing the game, I still prefer it somehow lmao