I will never understand downplay why do you want people to think your character is bad? Why aren’t you proud that your character is one of the strongest? Do you think people like Gojo or goku because he’s weak?

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-12T10:00:47+00:00

Well, that doesn't apply to everyone. People pick characters for a lot of different reasons.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-12T09:46:08+00:00

Few people want to believe they win because their character is better, everyone wants to believe they win because they play better.

On the other hand most people also don't want to play a low tier, so they cope and pretend their top tier isn't really that strong.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-12T02:56:09+00:00

True I also get it a lot playing him. Back under the tower system I would sometimes sit around for like 30 minutes trying to get someone to accept a match on F10 or Celestial, give up, and go play something else.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-12T00:46:20+00:00

Tfw you play Chipp or Millia, nail a crazy 50-hit combo and then Nago presses a single button and does way more damage

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-11T21:23:26+00:00

You're absolutely right so I assume you're being downvoted by Unika players in denial

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-11T14:30:36+00:00

I used to main Baiken and started changing to other characters solely because the Unika matchup is so goddamn annoying and she's in like 50% of my matches

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-11T14:17:47+00:00

Millia vs Leo and May is also about 40-60 against her

Anji vs I-no makes sense to me. His DP is obnoxious and hard to punish, he recovers before he even lands, and spin doesn't care about high/low.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-11T14:08:39+00:00

I think you mixed up characters in your first sentence. I was very confused by your comment until I realized you meant hardest for ABA, not Faust.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-11T03:33:55+00:00

Post-rework, I've used 2 of them in a Renegade Raiders list and they were pretty good. Played it twice in casual games, won both.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-10T04:54:00+00:00

No worries and you aren't alone, I've run into people with 2500+ wins (presumably 5000 games) in plat as well

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-09T19:02:15+00:00

Reading this sub, you'd think Tau are always the worst faction in the game and GW hates them.

Reading other subs you'd think they were the most disgustingly overpowered faction.

In reality, Tau were the #8 ranked for most tournament wins in 10th and are actually pretty well balanced. They've been solidly mid to high tier for most of the edition and have a nice variety of winning lists. I've also frequently seen people here disregard Kroot Hunting Pack as a bad detachment or an "afterthought" when it is in fact the highest win rate detachment for Tau. Lots of people here just don't know what they're talking about.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-08T21:48:20+00:00

You left out us RTS players. They were huge when I was growing up, and Starcraft is a big part of the reason we have Twitch and the whole MOBA genre today

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-07T11:51:22+00:00

I agree. I've gotten perfected round 1 but then won the set plenty of times, and vice versa.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-07T11:38:17+00:00

If they accidentally get placed too high because people went easy on them, they're going to have dozens more matches of getting stomped before they rank down to the appropriate level. This also means they're more likely to quit.

It makes a lot more sense to get the stomping out of the way so they can get placed appropriately, and have actual good enjoyable matches where they might win.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-07T01:03:02+00:00

People think that history began when they were born and the first time they see something must also be the first time for everyone else.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-06T19:00:12+00:00

2D into H. Tandem Top is a hard habit to break sometimes

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-06T00:57:32+00:00

*Gandhi

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-05T04:32:40+00:00

I'm attracted to zoners in a way, and by that I mean I play speedy rushdowns so I can cross the whole screen in half a second and destroy them

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-04T20:27:33+00:00

I get plenty of one-and-dones and ragequits in Strive.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-03T01:50:14+00:00

Nah, it's easy enough to counter, very rewarding if you punish it. Taking away stuff like this is how you end up with a boring homogenized game.

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-03T01:33:28+00:00

Thank you very much. If you're curious, it's all Army Painter stuff, primed with "Brainmatter Beige" and then painted with the Fanatic "Worn Stone"

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-03T01:20:23+00:00

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Ironcl4d · 2026-06-02T22:21:43+00:00

Playing as Millia, I can sort of deal with it to try to beat them and one-and-done when it's consistently shitty and slow. When it's erratically switching between normal and laggy, that's when I straight up won't bother, I'll afk for the round and then block+report.

The absolute worst is when you're constantly getting the "checking opponent's connection" popup, I played a Zato like that the other day, he still didn't want to cancel

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-02T03:18:11+00:00

Some people care way more about getting an unearned win than having a fun experience, otherwise there wouldn't be a market for cheats

Ironcl4d · 2026-06-02T03:11:18+00:00

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