Why Following Coaching Advice Can Make You Worse

There's a lot of people spending a lot of time learning video game, whether that's watching educational content on YouTube or reviewing their own game play, some even getting coaching or literally going to gaming academies in Korea. But especially among these type of students, there are people who think learning these game knowledge is the

superior answer to getting better and they almost take it to an extreme. They almost forget that they're playing video game and they start memorizing these rules and game knowledges and really force that concept even in situations that's not very applicable. It almost seems like they want to be a coaches pet. They stop thinking on their own and

they really try to blindly follow the novel concept that they learned from a coach or a YouTube guide. I see this so commonly not just in OverWatch but in other games that I coached as well. For example, one of my League of Legends student, he learned that as Rumble, you have a really strong power spike at

level three. So you want to trade a lot when you're level three. But then he completely ignores all the other information such as how little HP he had because he messed up his trade when he was level one and two and not to mention that the opponent had minion advantage. So the minions were fighting with the

opponent against my student and he couldn't even hit his skill shot because the minion was blocking his skill shot. So he was ignoring all that evidences. So this coaching session that I did with my student exactly explains this concept. So if you're someone who is spending decent amount of time and effort into getting better at any video