Improve your gameplay: osu!

How osu! helps your League skills:

1) Map awareness: I am frequently peeking at my score board in osu! It is almost an obsession for me to watch that how big is my combo streak, have I already beaten my own record, how much is my score etc. To answer these questions, I need to take a quick peek in one split second. This makes your map awareness automatically better. How? Because in League, you always want to know where the enemy moves. Osu! trains you to have a really good peeking skill and it evolves your skill to get all the information you want from the minimap in a tiny bit of time.

2) Reaction time: Your reaction time gets so much faster than you could ever get without playing osu! In osu! you have to click the tiny circles all over the map within fractions of seconds in some songs. In League, you have to dodge a Nidalee spear that is coming towards you and you see it 0.2 seconds before it hits you. Does this sound impossible? Well, playing osu! maps with impossible difficulty is almost impossible too. If you can actually get some map with insane, you are able to dodge almost anything that one throws at you. This makes your laning much better, since you are able to make skillshot only enemies have a hard time hitting you.

3) Durability: When you are playing a four minute song on insane and you try to maintain an A for the level, you have to have high amounts of Durability. The amount of hand movement, clicking and coordination from your hands, makes you have a better durability in a few weeks. This helps you a lot in League, making your hand movement much more natural and your hand positioning in the mouse much better. This enables easier teamfights and steadier skillshots.

 

4) Precision: Have you ever missclicked a cannon minion and lost two other minions because of that? Have you lost a kill because you have cancelled your autoattack or missplaced your ultimate? Osu! helps. Why? Because in osu! you have to have perfect precision in the songs, due to the fact that missing almost any notes will lose you the game. The same in League of Legends. You don't have chances to miss farm by misclicking if you want to earn enough gold. These things matter, and osu! helps to fix your mistakes. 

5) Concentration: You have to concentrate really hard in osu! It doesn't matter which level you are playing nor which difficulty, since you still need concentration. In League, you have to concentrate on many things at once. In osu!, you have to concentrate too, but the things you concentrate on are different. But still, they both have the same reason where you need concentration; being aware on what is happening on your screen. This helps out your gameplay in many ways and makes you a more consistent League player.

When you start to play: Remember to bind your alternative button you can use to hit notes to "A". This trains you on how to farm consistently and properly. You should buy yourself a gaming mouse to play the game, since it helps out hugely on both League and osu! If you don´t know which mouse to buy, my suggestion is QPad 5K Pro, which has huge DPI and good precision. Also when you start to play the game, remember to start by trying to move rapidly towards Hard difficulty, since it is the difficulty which works out your precision and reaction rate the most (not including the harder difficulties).

Summary of the benefits of playing osu!:

Osu! is a fun game that is very enjoyable while you are sitting on a queue or you don´t have enough time to play League and you still want to do something productive. The game evolves you as a player, both mechanically and psychologically. The game challenges you and rewards you. 

You can download osu! from osu.ppy.sh. Hope you enjoyed reading, see you in the next article!