In post 344, FakeGod wrote:I want to ask you guys a question. I know people here play in a very wide range of ELO, so I would like you to answer based on your OWN game experience, instead of what you've seen in streams or on the professional stage.
How many games you've played where you felt that the
team composition
was the deciding factor in the outcome of the game?
Everytime our team comp ends up being riven kindred yasuo lucian bard against malphite nautilus annie ezreal soraka
In post 332, zoraster wrote:Time for me to clear my queue of nominated players to the club. Please let me know if you are these people or if you know who these people are:
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In post 344, FakeGod wrote:How many games you've played where you felt that the team composition was the deciding factor in the outcome of the game?
Strictly 6 items situation. This basically never happens though. Not anywhere in gold or lower anyway. More often what decides the game is the perception of a team being stronger causing the "weaker" team's carries to forget how to shoot. People not shooting and people feeding are the leading causes of losses anywhere I've been. I think I've gotten a team comp loss like, 10 times in 5 years.
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She refused to group all game, just afk pushing bot and feeding whichever of lee/ekko/wukong wanted to pick up the free kill. We would've won if not for her. No fucking wonder she hates assassins.
Low plat, everyone, where good mechanics and the mind of a moron can get you here.
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dude i think people put too much stock in winrate and not enough in critical thinking
i have a roommate who literally sometimes just picks the champion.gg counter to champs and then goes the exact build with the highest winrate... even if they've played that champ like twice
i mean its usually OK because they aren't bad at the game... its just that it annoys me how brainless this game is sometimes
I had this romantic idea that the pros were at least above average in terms of intelligence. Till hybrid (support player for OG now, g2 before) disclosed that in terms I could understand. Above average would be generous
Surrender, imagine and of course wear something nice.
i think its generally established that people who are good at what they do aren't necessarily smarter, just work harder
i'd be challenger too no problem if I could play for 8+ hours a day. heck I was unemployed for a month and jumped from silver to plat from playing so much
I don't think that's generally established, inte. Not saying you need to be in the top 1% for most physical sports, but between better general health giving you better chances at a higher IQ, and that outsmarting your opponent or understanding your own performance better could give you an edge, I daresay in many a sport the very top is smarter than average. IDK, there's also talent at work, and there's only so much you can do with just training.
Surrender, imagine and of course wear something nice.
I'm a hoot
Stream: twitch.tv/dramonic
-If you stick your ear close enough to the game thread you can actually hear dram suffer in real life.-Beeboy
-Being obtuse is not a consequence of being a mod, it's a prerequisite. I think you may just have overestimated my intelligence before.-Korts
In post 369, zoraster wrote:you think there are fewer than 200 players who play 8+ hours a day?
theres still the hardwork aspect of continual improvement. its not just about shutting your brain off and playing for fun.
In post 370, mykonian wrote:I don't think that's generally established, inte. Not saying you need to be in the top 1% for most physical sports, but between better general health giving you better chances at a higher IQ, and that outsmarting your opponent or understanding your own performance better could give you an edge, I daresay in many a sport the very top is smarter than average. IDK, there's also talent at work, and there's only so much you can do with just training.
i played at a 'challenger level' dota for quite a few years back in high school, and i was i guess the lower end of them. sure lots of them were people i would call smart, but definitely the common theme between most of them were that they played a fuckton of scrims against good players
just my 2c from playing prolly 10,000+ hours of dota between 2006 - 2011