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I played Quake 3/Live competitively for a number of years. Keeping track of multiple item timers in your head is absolutely something that can be improved with

by ajxs 5y ago

I played Quake 3/Live competitively for a number of years. Keeping track of multiple item timers in your head is absolutely something that can be improved with practice. Naturally some people are just going to be better at it than others though, of course. There's obviously some selection bias if my sample group of 'people who can simultaneously time multiple items' is a subset of 'successful duel players', however I never met anyone who couldn't improve the skill by practice.

PartiallyTyped 5y ago
From experience (League of Legends), a person needs to keep track of - the position of 2-4 players around the map - the timers of different camps (NPCs the players kill for buffs) - the locations of enemy wards (timed items that give vision) - short ability timers and (+ need to know them for all possible characters) - long ability timers ( many pro plays happen exactly as the timers are up )