Comment by zjx39062 on SBF x LoL · 2022-11-16T07:48:06.835Z · LW · GW

The claim about LoL has some merit. At my peak I was top 1% on the ranked ladder, and the best advice I would give to new players is: play 3 games with every champion so you know what they do. The most important skill in LoL is being able to simulate a few seconds forward in time so you're not surprised by anything. As you play longer, you will naturally get better as you encounter more situations.

If you haven't played much, you might not understand that Bronze is an extremely low rank for people that play seriously. When I started playing, I was sorted into mid-Silver after my first 10 matches. I've had numerous friends, including one who rarely plays games, who have quickly gone from no experience and low Bronze to Silver and sometimes Gold. I don't know a single person who's remained in Bronze and plays ranked games with any regularity. SBF's performance is unusually, though believably, bad -- and not entirely due to poor sleep and drug use; he played thousands of games at MIT and wasn't much better then.