The best way to improve

[deleted_user]

Which way is helping to improve more? and why? discuss below

[Riotcoke]

Nerdrouga is playing vs Maurice of Nassau, get it right Breeze.

[Challenger_Marco]

Turk has answered to this ,there should be a option called "by bashing Kaiskerklein".

[Derrien]

I found myself getting the biggest jump in improvement by preparing a general game plan (stealing one from youtube) then utilizing it in the ranked ladder -> fail and watch my own recorded game.
Hate myself, because my mistakes are retarded -> Que another match with previous mistakes in mind -> success (at least 54% of the time).

Apart from that I occasionally watch streams and youtube vids for the small total edgecase tips that I hopefully (I won't) remember while I am in a game running under full pressure.

[Snuden]

I think learning BO's and execute them well.

[Astaroth]

Watch recs, learn 1-2 decent BOs, play them a lot (bot), generally play a lot, always focus on 1-2 things at once, don't try to "win at all costs", but to e.g. "kite well this game", play more, analyse your recs and mistakes, ask others to analyse your recs, play more. Focus on 1 civ, and 1-2 BOs, play a lot.

[thomasgreen6]

Religiously following this guide:

[RefluxSemantic]

I think that to improve you need to abort the idea of playing the game normally and start playing just to improve. Eg find a practice partner and just try to figure out a mu without actually playing to win. Have discussions, simply figure out certain timings and deliberately test bo's against eachother.

But thats kinda boring. Tbh you should just try to have fun. Getting better sucks, getting better means more salty opponents, balance issues get more problemaric, there is less room for creative builds or fun strats, mapscrews get even worse and its harder to find games. Maybe you can use it to boost your self esteem or self worth but I'd argue you should be happy with who you are and love yourself regardless of your video game performance.