Play Hard

Notes on playing better, not just more

Short write-ups on drafting, practice and replay review. No tier lists.

Warm-up routines that actually carry over

Ten minutes of last-hit drills does more for a session than an hour of unfocused queueing. The point is not mechanics in isolation — it is arriving at the first wave already calibrated.

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Reading a draft before it finishes

Most losing lanes are decided two picks early. A short checklist beats intuition here, and it survives patches better than any tier list.

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On reviewing your own replays

Watch the two minutes before a death, never the death itself. The mistake is almost always upstream of the moment it gets punished.

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