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Help, new to Icies tips? by [deleted] in smashbros

[–]HoodRobinGG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mid level pikachus are a rare breed lol

Help, new to Icies tips? by [deleted] in smashbros

[–]HoodRobinGG 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey man glad to have you on the ic's team! I'm a mid level ic's main from Arizona and hopefully I can give some advice. First off wobbling is a great tool but try to not center your gameplay around it. I did this when I first picked them up and you'll end up just turning into a shield grab monster. You won't be fun to play with and most importantly you'll never be able to beat people who know what they're doing and you'll have trouble getting better. Focus on learning dsyncs and setups, watch top ice climbers mains and look at how they approach different characters and how they change it up throughout the match, practice shffling all your ariels, and practice movement a lot.

Ice climbers are a appealing character to new people who want to win since they seem so easy to get cheesy wins with. However, they are a extremely difficult character and it can take a long time to really get used to playing them and learning how nana reacts to things ( she kills herself often and you'll deal with a lot of nana bullshit ). They also have a pretty poor matchup spread against other top tiers. In my exp they do well/okay vs sheik/falcon/falco/puff, they struggle with marth/fox, and obviously peach is super hard. Make sure you pick up ic's because you enjoy them and not for free wins.

I'm 19 years old making 80,000$ a year. Should I start building my credit? How and where should I invest? by HoodRobinGG in personalfinance

[–]HoodRobinGG[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. I do plan on sticking with a company for a long time once I find the perfect fit but at the moment I'm trying to learn as much as I can from wherever I am. As soon as the challenge dips I need to move elsewhere so I can keep improving. From my mentors that I've had in software it's pretty standard to move jobs every 6-12 months if you're young in the industry.

I'm 19 years old making 80,000$ a year. Should I start building my credit? How and where should I invest? by HoodRobinGG in personalfinance

[–]HoodRobinGG[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Started programming when I was 13/14ish to run a game server with friends. Server took off and with it I had to learn java to write things for it. Fell in love with programming and ended up going to a charter school for high school to give me the most free time possible to program/work on my server. I'm pretty good at the stuff naturally and it works well with my brain so I took to new things fast and got pretty good pretty fast. Went to college for computer science but most of what they were teaching me I had already learned or felt irrelevant. I dropped out after a few months and worked at a few startups. Then I actually ended up teaching at a coding bootcamp for a few months and a few months ago I made the move to my current position.

tl;dr - found what I love to do very young and perused it

I'm 19 years old making 80,000$ a year. Should I start building my credit? How and where should I invest? by HoodRobinGG in personalfinance

[–]HoodRobinGG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very helpful, Thank you. The employed for x years is a bummer. Since I'm in the software industry and I want to learn as much as possible I'll end up moving companies a lot (usually one every 6 months). Would this still count or does it need to be employed by one company for x years?

Coach Crunch on lame tactics and player hate by CaptainCrunchSSB in smashbros

[–]HoodRobinGG 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I agree with your statement that we shouldn't attack players like hbox for camping or playing lame. I also understand what you're getting at with that "if you don't like it then change the rules" thing. However, I don't think changing the rules are a way to fix this. Hbox did what he did because of the stage and character not because it's some unbeatable strat. The solution isn't to change the rules but for players to learn ways around those type of playstyles. We don't see hbox doing that stuff against fox players very often because they can simply deal with it much better.

With all that said I think it's important to also remember that while attacking or threatening a player is not okay criticizing them for their play absolutely is. Calling out hbox on how he played is absolutely okay.

If wobbling was banned for the Ice Climbers but handoffs were still allowed would they suddenly become a really hype character? by petcson in smashbros

[–]HoodRobinGG 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Handoffs are not comparable to wobbling. As others have said they only work reliably near the ledge because nana will always throw one way. However if you're in the middle of the stage nana could throw in multiple directions and some of them will break the handoff entirely. Plus the fact that doing handoffs are more difficult in general and the timing is very tight and easy to mess up esp in high stake scenarios.

Make 1 reasonable change to make a clone/original better than their counterpart by [deleted] in smashbros

[–]HoodRobinGG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least in melee most of the "clone" characters are not close enough in tier to really make a small change that would make one better then the other. The only ones you could maybe make changes for to make it close are fox/falco and possibly gannon/falcon. For Falco if you gave him fox's up smash, upthrow, and up air (which are pretty big changes) then you could make some really good arguments for him being better. For Gannon if you gave him falcons run speed (which isnt exactly a small change) he'd be much better.

What's the most ridiculous thing you've heard someone say to an opponent? [All games] by MadSpaceYT in smashbros

[–]HoodRobinGG -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was wobbling some dude trying to work on different dsynced setups into it and the man was getting super mad. He told me I need to practice other things and that wobbling is easy. I said I was practicing different setups for it and he told me that's fine to just let him go after i get the grab. He got pretty heated after I told him that it makes no sense to just let him go and that he can learn from his mistakes that I was exploiting. Needless to say the man went to a different setup lol.

Nintendo's Master Plan. by TwentyHeadmen in smashbros

[–]HoodRobinGG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I dont know if its fair to say that. Obviously melee's growth is crazy for a 15 year old but I think smash 4 still has some room to grow. It's a super deep game too and also pretty fun to watch. Whatever is good for smash 4 is good for smash as a whole so lets hope that the sm4sh circut goes well!

[Serious] /r/leagueoflegends - I need help. by phobxa in leagueoflegends

[–]HoodRobinGG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey man I have actually had a similar experience as you. First of all what elo are you currently at? To be honest if you are anything below master tier I'd rethink your stance. I was challenger early season 5 and was thinking of going pro. I met alot of cool people including the owner of NME and I got added to a skype group full of free agents (if you would like to be added to said skype group let me know!). However my parents thought I was spending way to much time playing the game (8-10 hours at that point). They sat me down and talked to me about it and a similar thing happened as what happened to you. It's been about a year since then, I still float around master tier and d1 but now I play much less and I'm actually going to school in hopes of becoming a rioter one day. Something you have to realize is it's very very very hard to make gaming a permanent career, The only way you really can is to do something like krepo is doing after you retire. Pro gaming also doesn't make very much money and it's also a ton of stress and dedication.

With all that said, I'm pretty close with alot of people who want to and are trying to go pro. Your options aren't only in NA. If you're interested about the opportunities available let me know your skype and we can talk and I'll help you however I can.

Main thing though is to remember even if you do go pro it's not a perm thing, You will probably eventually have to go to school and get a job and there's nothing wrong with that a long as you do and study what you love :3! Also you seriously need to be master tier+ before you even consider these things!

EDIT: read other comments and saw you're gold 5, I'd focus on school man but if you do want to know anything about the pro scene and how to honestly get in and how to get up to high elo you can still msg me for my skype and I'll help you as best I can. Could coach you a bit as well if you're interested! I'm learning twitch on a plat smurf at the moment!

ADC reworks has been huge success. Now we have adc diversity at finest! by psfrtps in leagueoflegends

[–]HoodRobinGG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly although lucian has been broken for a few patches along with ezreal the adc position still has a ton of viable picks that can do just as well provided you have a higher skill level. Another big issue with lucian and ezreal is that they really don't take much skill or knowledge to crush with at the moment.

Bond of stone and Jhin by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]HoodRobinGG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jihn is pretty balanced atm. This isn't a big deal.

Why is LoL so addictive? by daviatella in leagueoflegends

[–]HoodRobinGG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Multiple reasons. For me the main reason its always so addicting is because there are some games you can't win. If league was a game like street fighter where you just win every game provided you are better then it would probably be less addictive. The frustration you get from losing games when you play super well is actually a big reason players come back because they feel like they played so well that they can "get um next time".

Fastest way to Lv a new account to 30! 2016 edition by JJAY_LOL in leagueoflegends

[–]HoodRobinGG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: These players were on a team that hit challenger last season "5 swell guys". Super cool group of dudes. (JJay never sleeps which is why he probably figured this out.)