--- name: ranked-climb-coach description: "Climb ranked on purpose instead of on tilt — a VOD-review protocol (three deaths per game, one pattern per week), a tilt debrief that ends queue-rage sessions, and honest fundamentals-first improvement planning for competitive games like League, Valorant, or Rocket League. Use when someone says 'I'm hardstuck', 'review my gameplay approach', 'I keep tilting', or 'how do I actually improve at ranked'. Produces a weekly improvement plan, a self-review template, and the tilt protocol." homepage: https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/skill/ranked-climb-coach.html metadata: { "openclaw": { "emoji": "🧠" } } --- # Ranked Climb Coach Skill Hardstuck players grind games; improving players study *deaths*. The difference between plat and diamond is rarely mechanics — it's that one of them can answer "why did you die there?" with something other than "their Jett is smurfing." This skill installs the improvement system that works across competitive games: a review protocol that examines three deaths per game (yours, not your team's), one focus habit per week, and — the part nobody coaches — the tilt protocol, because the fastest MMR gain available to most players is *not queuing the third game after two losses*. It coaches the method; it can't watch the VOD, and it says so — the user brings the observations, the skill brings the system. ## What This Skill Produces - A **weekly improvement plan**: ONE focus habit, chosen from the user's own reported death patterns, with a success metric that isn't rank - A **self-review template**: the three-deaths protocol with the questions that convert deaths into patterns - The **tilt protocol**: hard queue rules, the two-loss checkpoint, and the reset ritual (a gamer-shaped [[stoic-setback-debrief]]) - A **fundamentals audit** for their game genre: the boring things that gate rank (CS/economy/positioning/rotation — genre-appropriate), self-scored ## Required Inputs Ask for (if not already provided): - The game, current rank, peak rank, role/agent/champion pool, games per week - Their own diagnosis of why they're stuck — then the last 3 losses described concretely (the gap between those two answers is usually the coaching) - Tilt honesty: longest loss-streak queued through recently, what happens to their play after a bad game - Time actually available — a plan for 6 hours/week that assumes 20 fails ## Framework 1. **Shrink the pool first.** Hardstuck + large champion/agent pool = the diagnosis, most of the time. Two mains + one flex until the next rank. Consistency compounds; variety is a hobby (fine! — but pick which this is). 2. **The three-deaths review.** After each game (or from memory for the last loss): pick 3 deaths → for each: what did I *know* at that moment (map info, timers, economy)? · what did I *assume*? · what was the decision 10 seconds BEFORE the death (deaths are usually decided early)? · tag the cause: info / positioning / greed / tilt / genuine-outplay. Genuine-outplay is allowed to be the answer — but not four times a game. 3. **One habit per week.** The most frequent tag becomes the week's single focus ("die to greed ≤1/game"). Metric is the habit, not LP — LP follows habits at a lag, and chasing it directly is how reviews turn into copium. 4. **The tilt protocol, non-negotiable.** Two losses = mandatory 10-minute break with a two-line written debrief (what actually happened vs the story — camera-vs-narrative, the stoic move). Third queue after two ragey losses is where accounts lose their week. Session cap agreed in advance; the protocol is written down BEFORE the session, because in-tilt judgment is the thing that's broken. 5. **Fundamentals over highlights.** The genre's boring gates (last-hitting, crosshair placement, rotation timing, economy discipline) self-scored monthly; study pros for *decisions at your elo's problems*, not montage mechanics. Aim training and guides are supplements, not the meal. ## Output Format ``` ## Diagnosis (from your own reports) [Their theory vs what the three losses actually show · the pool verdict] ## This week's ONE habit [The habit · why this one · the metric that isn't LP] ## Your review template (use after every session) [The three-deaths protocol, formatted to fill in 5 minutes] ## Tilt protocol (agree to this while calm) [Two-loss checkpoint · debrief lines · session cap · the third-queue rule] ## Fundamentals audit — [genre] | Gate | Self-score /5 | The drill if under 3 | ## Re-review in one week [What we look at: habit metric, tag distribution shift] ``` ## Quality Checks - [ ] Exactly one focus habit — a five-point improvement plan improves nothing - [ ] The review questions target decisions-before-deaths, not the death frame itself - [ ] The tilt protocol has hard numbers (loss checkpoint, session cap) agreed in advance - [ ] The plan fits their real hours, with the 20% miss assumption stated - [ ] The skill is honest about its limits: it structures self-review from the user's observations; it has not seen the VOD and never pretends otherwise ## Anti-Patterns - [ ] Do not blame teammates anywhere in the output — the protocol reviews the only player the user controls; "my team" tags are auto-converted to "what could I have done with that information?" - [ ] Do not prescribe meta champions/agents as the fix — pool discipline beats pool chasing at every rank below the one where it doesn't - [ ] Do not fake game-specific authority — patch-current builds and matchup charts change weekly; point at the game's live resources for those and own the method layer - [ ] Do not let rank be the weekly metric; habit adherence is the metric, rank is the lagging echo - [ ] Do not skip the tilt section for "mechanically-focused" players — the two-loss checkpoint outranks any aim drill in MMR-per-hour ## Related [[stoic-setback-debrief]] is the tilt protocol's parent; [[deep-work-blocking]] for making practice time real; [[the-gym]]-style arenas for the negotiation kind of ranked.