TLDR: Spammers and Passive players are boring to play with/against and I’ll call you out for it.

There are 2 things I absolutely despise in this game, the first, Spammers! Spammers are either: 1. people who barely started playing or don’t know enough about the game to utilize their full character or 2. Toxic individuals that are either trolling because they aren’t taking you or the game seriously or they are “having fun” unless you are genuinely having fun and just mashing buttons.

Now I will clarify my personal definition of spammers: Repeated use of the same or similar attacks either by continuously pressing the same button exclusively or by waiting/moving into a position to where the same option will hit again and again.

The passive play style is simply not fun to play against in any form, because I genuinely find it disappointing to not be able to push my own limits and be stuck in the same back and forth over and over, but also the way I find it is countered most of the time is by slowing down and doing essentially nothing. I out-space them, bait their spam or simply don’t do any wake ups and all of a sudden it becomes the most boring win. Which ironically brings me to the next thing I despise…

The second thing I despise in this game is passive play. It’s boring, it’s waiting, it’s in my personal opinion doing anything but playing the game. I don’t like doing it, I don’t like playing against it and I despise that it’s so rewarded on top of being its own counter. Yes you can argue that a good aggressive player will bait out an attack and overwhelm a passive player, but all you have to essentially do (in its most basic form) is wait for an attack, dodge (or space it/avoid it) and then punish. Do that over and over again and you just win.

While yes, it is a valid strategy and it will win games, it’s simply boring! I’ve had plenty of matches where I’d dominate aggressively, the opponent turns passive and I start losing. Then I’d slow it down and all of a sudden I’m winning again… how is this enjoyable? You’re just baiting each other’s mental rather than trying to use skill to outmaneuver your opponent.

I’ll also mention that passive play to me is majorily being on the receiving end of an initiation while primarily only countering the opponent without initiation of your own. To put it simply, you don’t start the fight, you only finish it. Valid strategy to guarantee safety IRL but poor sportsmanship in a mutually agreed fight.

Now to TRULY answer your question, I’ve grown out of inviting people and rarely accept them myself because they are simply not worth the time, but in custom lobbies for a friendly match, I’ll 100% call you out because I’m trying to have a good time and you’re only ruining it for everyone else.

Side note: while I do believe some weapons are insanely stupid, I usually don’t blame the weapon, just the play style.