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It's been almost a year since my last YouTube video.
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For pretty much all of 2025, I've been buried finishing a book about one big question.
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How do you actually get better at ANY video game?
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The book is actually coming out soon, but before I publish it,
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I had one nagging thought: Okay, I know these ideas work for my students, but do they still work on me?
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A washed coach who barely plays anymore.
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I've seen these concepts work for a lot of players already, just this year alone, my students went from Silver to Grandmaster and Masters to Champion.
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So, I decided to turn it into a simple experiment.
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Boot up Overwatch again after a long break, queue Tank, and play while only focusing on one concept, the Chill Pill.
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And here's the result.
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I got placed in Diamond and went from Diamond to Grandmaster in just eight days.
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So in this video, I'm going to break down what Chill Pill actually is and how you can use it to climb.
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But first, let me be really honest here.
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When I first started playing again, I was in full blame mode.
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I was in Diamond lobbies watching my teammates play super passive even when we have advantage.
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Waste ultimate for no reason when we're already up three.
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And I was getting really tilted.
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In my head, it sounded like, why are they so scared?
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And passive, why are they wasting ults here?
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If my team played just properly, these games will be so free.
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And most importantly, how the fuck am I the same rank as these guys?
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Because in my head, I was the guy who was top 500 multiple seasons.
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And even peaked around top 30 back in the day.
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I was sitting in that familiar swamp of blaming my team.
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Looking back, obviously a big part of it was just my ego.
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Maybe I didn't want to admit to myself that I've gotten this bad.
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So, in frustration, I called some pro players I know and asked them to watch me live.
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And all three of them said the same thing.
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Whiz, your resource management is awful.
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Your HP, your cooldown, your distancing, your cover, you're just dumping everything for no reason.
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And the funny part is, these are the exact basics I've been teaching my students for years.
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And yet, when I looked at my own gameplay, I realized I wasn't doing any of it.
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So from that moment on, I made a decision: Okay, for this experiment, I'm going to only focus on one concept only.
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Managing and stacking resources before the fight so I can finally use it when the opportunity arrives.
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Uh, the one idea I call taking the Chill Pill.
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So what exactly is Chill Pill?
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Look at this clip from two weeks ago before I took the Chill Pill.
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As you can see, as soon as the game starts, I'm using my bubble, using all my resources.
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And yet, I'm not keeping more distance, I'm not getting into the safety.
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And I use another bubble on the Soldier who actually didn't even need the bubble.
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And I take the one-v-one against the Baptiste, and Baptiste had a better resources with the Immortality Field.
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So I was absolutely bankrupt on my resources and I lose the fight.
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I had this ego in my head thinking, I used to be top 50, I can beam them down with high energy.
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And I can just carry them.
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But the reality, I was just feeding.
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And I was just donating my resources.
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I essentially became an ELO Philanthropist.
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So basically, most gamers are busy shooting themselves in the foot, just like myself in this footage.
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It's not the enemy, it's not your teammate, it's us.
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And here are three major problems if you keep playing like this.
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Problem number one, you die because you are bankrupt on resources.
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It's obvious, if you play like this, you die.
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I'm wasting my resources when I just need to chill out.
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If you are the guy who's just always dying first or always getting cut out.
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You aren't getting outplayed by the opponent, you are probably just sabotaging yourself.
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You need the Chill Pill to just survive and start actually playing the game.
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Problem number two, you can't afford the kill.
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Remember, every kill carries a price tag.
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If that Baptiste didn't have Immortality Field or if he was maybe lower than 50 HP, he wouldn't have been able to kill me there.
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Because he wouldn't have enough resources to kill me.
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So if you save enough money, in this case, your resources, you can use it to buy kills.
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Or you can use it to help the mid-fight, which I call the spike.
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So if you actually want to kill someone, you need to have enough resources to punish them.
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The thing is, enemy team is making so many mistakes.
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In my experience playing in Diamond to Grandmaster, everyone is making so many mistakes.
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I was missing out so many free kills that was literally handed to me.
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The kills were literally delivered straight to my door wrapped in like the gift packs.
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So, even if you play safe and don't die, you still have a problem.
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If you waste your cooldown early, for example, if you're playing Ana versus Roadhog, and finally when the Roadhog makes a mistake.
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If you don't have your Nade or Sleep Darts ready, he might just get away with it.
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Problem number three, mental capacity.
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This is the essence of this concept.
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When you are spamming buttons, your brain is at 100% usage at all time.
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Just trying to aim and just trying to play the game.
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But when you take the Chill Pill, you get more mental capacity.
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Kind of like having a more brain bandwidth.
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You stop taking random fights, shooting quivers in front of you.
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And suddenly, you can see the game.
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Oh, my Ana is very far back.
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Actually, this fight, we have a severe ultimate disadvantage.
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Well, I don't have any bubble.
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I should probably back away.
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Chill Pill isn't just about saving skills.
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It is buying yourself the time to gather information and process the information.
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So you can make the right decision.
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Instead of just making a random play again and again.
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So, the downtime, or the chill time, is not necessarily a bad thing.
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In fact, it's a crucial part of playing the game.
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Some of my newer students who come to me say they heard from other coaches that uptime is important.
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They tell you to always do damage, always be shooting, always be active.
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So you go into your rank game and try to force those high uptime plays.
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And that's exactly what I was doing here.
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I felt like I had to do something.
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I had to be the guy pumping out big damage and carrying my entire team.
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So I traded my precious cooldown for trash damage and stood in horrible positions just to feel active.
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But the truth is, real high uptime is one of the last puzzle pieces.
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Not the first one.
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When you first learn martial arts, you don't start with 560 spin kicks.
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You start with boring and mundane stuff, stands, foot, like wax on, wax off basics.
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Uptime exists on top of high-level fundamentals.
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You need to be able to stay active without feeding.
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Exactly knowing where the enemy team is and what cooldowns they have and knowing where supports are, managing your distance, using cover, spam angles and dodging mechanics.
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Timing your trade precisely using the tank's aggro, and yes, even tracking ultimates.
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Without these, uptime is just a fancy word for dying faster.
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Let me give you a real story about this.
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I had a Tracer student who was hard stuck in GM5 for years.
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He also thought he needed to fix his uptime when he was bleeding his resources every fight trying to be active.
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But once we fixed this issue with the Chill Pill concept, teaching him how to stack his resources, respecting the distance more and actually start gathering information.
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He went all the way to rank 10, top 10 on NA server as DPS.
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And he told me later, I realized uptime isn't the starting point.
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Uptime is the reward for good basics.
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It's the last card you play, not the first one.
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So this is a common uptime myth that my students have.
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Don't get me wrong, uptime is really important.
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Especially in the pro level.
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But uptime and pushing your limits are concepts that I teach to students around Grandmaster and above.
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But if you're below that level and you try to force the plays with bad awareness and your shaky mechanic, it's a recipe for disaster.
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So, unless you're pro level or around Champion tier, I would highly advise you to just gather more information.
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And make the right decision rather than seeing no information and making random decisions.
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Now, let's take a look at how pro players are using Chill Pill.
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This is Proper's Tracer.
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And as you can see, going into the fight, he almost always has three blinks and recall available.
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He's stacking resources before the fight.
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And look at this moment against Ramattra.
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On average, Masters or even most Grandmasters players would blink immediately to the cover.
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But Proper just goes back to the cover, knowing he has a Lucio heal behind him.
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He uses natural cover and stacks his blinks.
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And now, as soon as he sees the tiny moment that Ramattra is not looking at him, he just walks to the next cover.
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When again, most GM players would just use their blink to just get there.
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Now, he took the space and he's already in a perfect position.
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And he has three blinks stacked up.
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This man is a con artist.
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Here, instead of going all the way into Kiriko, he just goes for a quick jab.
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Then he waits for the perfect moment, gathering information, waiting for his team to actually walk in.
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And finally, when his tank is engaging towards the point, he sees that enemy Lucio's movement is very predictable in the Ramattra tornado.
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So he goes for a disgusting clean kill.
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It's crazy how he's maintaining almost full resources, three blinks and full HP and a recall in the middle of the fight.
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I guarantee most GM players would just go all in on Kiriko much earlier, blowing all their resources.
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Quickly getting cleared out while doing two-v-one against Lucio Kiriko.
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Okay, back to my example.
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The reform Wizard Hyeong.
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As you can see, I'm maintaining high HP and generally above 60% of Matrix.
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And I'm also looking back at my team to update the information.
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I'm not literally AFK doing nothing.
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I'm constantly making few enemies look at me using Matrix and cover.
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Even when I engage, I don't go all the way in.
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Because I don't see a big green light yet.
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Going in and out very quick.
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And as you can see, the enemy Juno is critical.
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And I finally have my resources to punish her.
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And of course, I was still making tons of mistakes because I'm still going through the gaming rehab phase.
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But I was able to capitalize much more on the enemy mistakes.
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And more importantly, I had more clarity on why I'm going in or why I'm taking the fight.
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Instead of just auto-piloting.
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So in summary, manage and stack your resources.
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Wait for your opportunity.
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There's many resource donators in rank game.
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Just like myself two weeks ago.
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And finally, use the downtime to think and gather information.
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If you thought, wow, Wizard Hyeong looks really bad in these clips.
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Well, yes, that is very true.
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So, you can probably do it.
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Thank you, and see you next time.
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