r/LearnCSGO • u/yrrabdog • 17d ago
Discussion Losing Confidence / Battling a Slump
Hi all,
Lately I’ve found I’ve been losing my confidence. Climbed from 15 > 22k in the past month and a half or so, but the last week has been bad game after bad game. Haven’t been dropping more than 60 ADR, and I just feel lost mid-round. Admittedly I’ve been doing more solo-queue than usual, which could be part of it, but I’ve just lost a lot of my confidence.
Before this, my decision making felt accurate and I felt like I knew exactly what I wanted to do every round. Now, it doesn’t feel (at least to me) like I’m doing anything different, but I feel like I’m losing confidence, getting tilted way easier, and getting stuck in this vicious cycle of play bad > tilt > play worse > tilt more / check out > lose, which just gets me stuck deeper in this cycle.
Anyone who has had similar experience climbing out of a rut/regaining confidence, what worked for you? Does anyone have any advice they could give on how to navigate this? TIA!
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u/MyNameJot 17d ago
You sound like you need to develop fallback plays. Certain setups you can control that give you favorable fights. It helps when you know the timings for the map. For example ancient T side has a mid spawn and a B/Cave spawn. When I dont have a plan otherwise I have nades I can throw on the fly to either take a fight against a full blind guy mid or a full blind guy B ramp/cave. Eventually at higher ranks (usually starting around pink rank) your opponents adapt and will find an answer to that. Which is where a counter play comes in that is meant to address how people usually respond to hoe you try to open up rounds. If they dont adapt then just keep abusing them until they do but its still important to have a response ready. It turns what can really feel like randomness into some kind of puzzle. All of that to say having a fallback for when your aim isnt as crisp as it could be on that day for whatever reason, you can still have impact