Become a jungle beast - Ep. 2

Jungle beast | Episode 2

Advanced timing

Welcome to the second part of the "Jungle beast" series. In this article I'll be explaining how to take advantage of not only your timers, but also the enemy timers, which can be predicted and used to read the enemy jungler pathing, making the laning phase safer for your teammates.

So, nowadays, predicting the enemy jungle path and clear speed depends a lot about the enemy skill, champion, runes, etc, however, you'll mostly be able to read the enemy jungler and "be everywhere" just by positioning correctly.

Become a jungle beast - Ep. 1

Jungle beast | Episode 1

Clear efficiently, gank consistently

In this series I'll be explaining how you should approach jungle clear and ganking to maximize your gold and experience income, therefore the best possible result.

Jungle is a lot about improvising; League of Legends is a game where the information you have is constantly changing, so you have to adapt to every situation to make the best move, however we can fix a few variables that we can use as guidelines to follow in case that the ammount of information we've got is insufficient or not precise enough to make a decission.

Improve playing performance #3

Meditation

The ultimate mind tool

Back in the day the term "meditation" was closely related to a specific person profile. When we heard someone talking about meditation we instantly thought that this person is mentally challenged in one way or another, or that he/she is a hippy or something like that.

Today everything has already changed, the concept of meditation has been widely accepted by people and scientifically tested as a medical treatment for psychological and mental illnesses.

What everyone calls mindfulness (mindfulness meditation) is a new concept (yet it already existed more than 2000 years ago) that teaches us exercises that improve well being, physical health and mental health.

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Improve playing performance #2

Focus

How to train your focus ability

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When someone tells you to focus they often expect you to magically become able to intensely concetrate in a task or objective regardless of the situation, but in fact, concentration is something you can and have to train in order to do it better, faster, and deeper. Your physical muscles and your attention "muscles" have something in common, both have a limited ammount of strenght and their stamina can be trained in order to make them stronger.

Improve playing performance #1

Breathing

How to breath and why it's relevant for players

As we've mentioned in the "Enter the zone" article, knowing how to breath can change the outcome of your performance heavily.

We're not nearly aware of how much our physical interactions influence or brain performance and thinking process.

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Breathing well has many physical benefits such as lowering blood pressure and heart rate and helps you deal with stress and anxiety, but also sparks brain growth. Just breathing has a direct positive effect on the brain Informative research.

Enter the zone - eSports theory approach

Introduction

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What is the "flow" state or "the zone"?, often when I ask this question people tells me things such as "It's when your brain functions to its maximum potential" or "It's a state that makes your brain perform to a 120% or more"... well people is not 120% wrong, it has to do with performance, yet not with overperforming, but with underperforming.