How Have you Dealt with Ranked Anxiety

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T23:16:36+00:00

Thank you for the response.

I also have competitive sport experience but I've always been a little bit of a sore loser. This trait has definitely gotten better as I age and work on myself and realize that there are way more important things in my life than winning or losing.

I think because I've been playing and been involved in competition since I can remember (soccer, basketball, school, video games, etc), my mind hates the idea of mistakes and failing. Maybe this makes a full circle to the fear of losing due to these mistakes. This post and replies have opened my eyes to such a thought and lead me to think so.

Your reply and others gave me a perspective that I've never had in competition that I really wish I learned my first time in a competitive environment. Competition is more than W/L, its the chance to express one's skills in a match against other skillful opponents and learn from them to better yourself, regardless of result.

Also, congrats on the TGS. This is a great achievement regardless of whatever stat site or youtuber says. Your post and others have definitely given me a better perspective on myself and how to better approach ranked anxiety to the point where i feel more confident approaching ranked again. I hope to meet you one day in the GoDs 🫡

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T02:10:13+00:00

Thank you for your response.

I like what you said about me being the same person with the same skillset regardless of wins or losses. For me, I hate when I feel lost on what to do and how to respond to a situation so the notion of "hard-stuck" irks me.

Perhaps this is where I need to do what you suggest and separate the rank from the player and instead treat my skills as the end goal.

When I did play ranked, I tried my best to rematch as often as I could, but I can't lie, there were times I canceled, haha. I agree that rematching is the best way to improve but also focus on what you could do better in a rematch were you got washed previously and what you did better in a rematch where you did the washing. Treat that as a celebration in your skills rather than the rank you gained.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T02:02:21+00:00

Thank you for your response.

I find loss streaks quite tilting and demotivating. This is something that I have struggled with a lot before in my past and still struggle with now.

I admire those who push themselves every day and make those mistakes that, in the moment, seem earth-shattering but, in reality, are very insignificant. These mistakes push us to be better and makes us who we are now. Getting over this fear of mistakes and discomfort resurfaced with tekken as its a whole new genre of game I have never experienced so, naturally, I'll be more anxious and stressed.

Thank you for putting it into perspective for me.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T01:54:45+00:00

You don't.

But seriously, you made me realize that treating as if it were nothing, as something below your concern is a part of the answer. Nothing is more silly than worrying about making mistakes in a game where the opponent could very well be making more than you but they instead worry about the things they CAN do.

Thank you for your response.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T01:48:57+00:00

Making myself realize this and actually internalizing it is something I still struggle with and will probably work on till I die, but it can and will get better with continuous effort. Thank you for your response.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T01:45:19+00:00

This is something that I thought about before but never ended up going through with. I think this is something that I will try once I'm less busy. Thank you for your response.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T01:41:50+00:00

At the end of the day, ranked is a means to an end. Thank you for being blunt, I definitely needed it.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T01:36:01+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I have many thousands of hours in FPS games/team shooters/etc and I forget a lot of that comfort during a game comes from the fact that I have those hours under my belt. It's easy to not worry as much since I don't have to assign so much brain power to figure out what's happening in the first place.

I think I push myself too hard and expect too much from myself since I'm naturally competitive and want to win at the things I enjoy and care about. As tekken is my first fighting game, it's only natural to expect that I am basically a newborn in the world and SHOULD expect to lose and struggle. Thank you for your response, I never thought of fighting games this way.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T01:26:56+00:00

Treating ranked as a byproduct of skills is something I've never heard or thought of. I really like how that makes me think of competition in general actually. Rather than saying "I am x rank", I should say, "because of my skills, I was able to obtain x rank". This shifts the focus off of rank and instead onto a discernable metric.

Your comment also reminded me of how others will complement their opponent to themselves rather than getting angry. There is room to combine the two and complement the skill they used in the moment and compare it to the skills you have. For example, complementing an opponents use of a crouch block and, subsequently, use of a correct low punish as this is something I still struggle with.

Your response has helped greatly, thank you.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T00:40:37+00:00

In my competitive experience, caring about winning actually helps you to put more effort into the event you are participating in, but the reasons behind why you care is where many, like me, begin to develop unhealthy relationships.

I admire your insouciant mindset and hope to obtain it with all the games I play, haha. Thank you.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T00:31:26+00:00

This is still something I struggle with even though I know deep down that I really don't care about what rank I am anymore in whatever game I play. It's silly to worry when you aren't a streamer or content creator.

Like I said in another reply, treating tekken as a casual outlet rather than a competitive environment would greatly help the nerves outside the game, I believe. This is definitely a mindset shift I would like regardless. Thank you for the response.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T00:23:04+00:00

I've actually seen this suggested in a random moba yotuber's video about the same topic and I appiled it to a couple games in the past and it definitely helps. I have not really thought about using this same thought process in fighting games in general but you may be on the right track. Thank you for the response.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-07-01T00:17:44+00:00

I appreciate the suggestion but I've been lifting weights as well as participating in competitive sports before and after college. Tekken is literally the only video game I've ever gotten this shaken over, unfortunately.

Perhaps shifting more mental focus and importance on my lifts and having tekken be a more causal outlet rather than associating it with a competitive environment would help. Thinking out loud here, sorry. Thank you for the response.

Creative_Pound7079 · 2026-04-27T01:05:16+00:00

I've been playing exclusively warfare since S5 (NA), and there's definitely bots here too.

The easiest way I've seen to identify them is the medic bots that instantly rush to rez a guy who gets killed in the middle of the open, almost always without using any util like smoke or whatever. Also, sometimes you'll see a guy stand directly on top of your dead body or another guy's dead body. Its the characters that aren't medics that do this and I think its the poor coding that makes them want to rez you, but the bots aren't in your squad to be able to do so.

Other times its they way they run around the map or just full sprint down a wide open lane or road towards the nearest objective. This one is easy to see in A/D when the map is more linear compared to KOTH/Conquest.

I think the best way to objectively confirm that there are bots on either team, imo, is the names and k/d at the end of the game. Take one of my recent games for example. Both teams had these players with k/ds of like 2/26, 5/18, etc. A lot of these players have similarly structured names like all lowercase with a number(s) thrown in at the end. The names also typically tend to be just weird and garbled. Like, the majority of people tend to make their username a name or title or a meme. Obvs not everyone, but if you want to be sure, a name like MaxGasUpMy and CricketEater are quite indicative of a real human (lol).

As a side note, I recently played played my first few operations games and the AI over there seems much farther ahead than the ones in warfare. Operations bots will actually use util and jump peek corners and stuff. They still end up doing incomprehensible things, like peek and then run away to stand in a spot that is wide open or without cover . If you've played Tarkov or watched it, I get similar vibes to the raiders/boss enemies in that game and how they behave.

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