Science behind getting better in League of Legends

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Introduction​

The question how many hours do you need to spend on a task to be a true master of it surely crawled into your mind at some point in your life. It’s an important thing to consider when you try to manage your time and plan your life accordingly. Ten thousand hours rule, that says that you need to spend at least 10,000 hours on something to be a true master is fixed in mind of numerous people especially professional athletes, musicians, and scientists. The term was coined by Anders Ericsson in 1993 based on his paper “The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”. What a lot of people miss in his work is that during this 10,000 hours you need to perform deliberate practice which means that you need to consciously and intentionally practice your weakest aspect of the thing you want to get good in. Before we dig into what deliberate practice means and how we can apply it to League of Legends to get better at the game lets see how practice whether deliberate or not affects your brain.

How practice affects your brain​

Whenever you issue a command to your body it begins in a grey matter where information is processed and electrical signal starts, for it to be effective it needs to travel all the way to your muscles through your spinal cord and axons (Axons are nothing else but nerve fibers). To preserve the quality of the information contained in electrical signals from your brain axons are covered with myelin that acts in a similar fashion to the isolation of electrical cables.

Whenever you practice myelin layer thickens and isolates better.

This process creates so-called muscle memory and increases your reaction time substantially.

How to practice effectively in League of Legends
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Effective practice is consistent and targets your weakest aspects that are at the edge of your current abilities. While you practice you should aim to focus entirely on the task at hand, this means that you should turn off all possible distractions like Facebook, cellphone and anything else that might be disturbing.

Start slowly​

Before you go right into a ranked game you should warm up your brain and muscles. Follow this routine for maximal performance in LoL:

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