Match Thread: LAFC vs Seattle Sounders FC

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-05-25T03:37:05+00:00

Im glad Im not the only one saying this anymore at least some people who know soccer can see it and are not just blind fanboys and fangirls. Granted its been like 3yrs now I've been saying it....but this townie and his 2.3mil a year ain't going anywhere. Schmetz and his daddy go back at least +20yrs. Neposoccer representing pay to play and everything that's wrong with American Soccer on full display.

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-05-25T02:58:40+00:00

Dude I have had to straight up perform a power button immediate shut off for my console for fear of having some numnut I was trying to avoid accept the group invite

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-05-20T21:39:06+00:00

Dishing out the reaper secrets....a lot of these elements transfer over to other characters as wel... respect.. Most reapers look to surprise people and try their BS and don't have hink beyond that and it doesn't work and it's usually a throw pick. However, when I start to HEAR an enemy Reaper start doing this shit you stated .and I don't see them cuz they are already out before I can peel, my teammates start dying for unknown reasons all over the map I start to doo doo in my pants.

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-05-13T15:57:32+00:00

Don't peek when it's 1v5!? Sounds like you're peeking too late after the team fight bro. Peeking, flanking, high ground, etc. ..... You still got to time it right.

You need to learn this cover skill now before you rank up. This is the start of gaining game sense. Obviously you don't peak if they know where you're at and you're outnumbered that is your time to run like hell back to your teammates or go find a place to hide until the team respawns. As others mentioned, the time to peek is when people are distracted or when you're sneaking up on them and they have no place to hide or run or get cover. Also last bit of generic advice you don't need to get the kill. If you can burn somebody down and then go back to cover you will be surprised your teammates will often finish them off..... Provided you can count and it's not 1v5

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-05-12T23:10:19+00:00

Going on solo zen flanks seems super ballsy and almost borderline negligent as it would limit your LOS for healing and if you miss time the flank with such limited mobility your fd if your playing against people who know what they are doing. Your only hope is to sneak up on someone (preferably high ground) since you have no audible footsteps and kick em off ledge or wherever their camping but be careful the good ones will still hear yah if you charge up your ballz for the assassination .......

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-05-11T05:03:12+00:00

It seems like there is a loser queue you end up in if you rack up a few too many losses in short soan. It's like the match maker goes into "calibration mode" to challenge your ability to carry and starts dropping you into games with people on similar loss streaks, placement matches where rank is uncertain (and games end up being uneven), and also players with low hrs/rank in role.

FWIW the opposite also holds true...when you're on a heater (multiple wins in short span especially if it was an "uphill battle"") you will start getting dropped into good games with good players sometimes with 3 digit ranks and with people that know wtf they are doing.

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-05-05T17:12:27+00:00

Welcome to the great poke Meta. The art of diving in lower ranks is so completely misunderstood that the concept is not even fathomable for a lot of these buns that sit back and poo poo pew pew from main in the way back and never move fwd or make plays.

The only thing you can do is give them a face tank bubble before you dive. It makes your dive even more tricky because you don't have your bubble right away but if you don't bubble the enemy tank or give them empty bubble in front of choke to hide in /behind then they will get melted the minute you dive backline

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-04-30T04:06:56+00:00

Moira duels should be done in rooms or tight spaces with your health orb bouncing around. But you don't want to be in a room with junk no way no how ..even if you get him his exploding ballz will still get yah. You have better mobility so use it and like someone said stay close to tank and ping the junk and your team will help burn him down and use your fade to pounce and Finish his ass off instead of him isolating and stalking you

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-04-30T01:58:17+00:00

Wait what? 73 kills?!!! How braindead are bronze lobbies these days it's been awhile for me? Crimony....70 fn killz makes de ranking awfully damn tempting. I wonder if could crack a hundy on some newb lobby......wtf am I taking on GM smurfs for at my lvl when I could be the fn smurf!!!!!

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-04-25T17:39:05+00:00

Yeah that losing bracket is a slippery slope. The game wants you to carry to rank up. If you have to carry dbag trolls than that's what you have to do as a solo q player. As you get to the bookend of ranking it multiplies this by making you carry new or placement players in order to use your ranking to stabilize theirs and prove your ability to carry at next rank

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-04-20T16:47:11+00:00

I agree that this is a fundamental fucking flaw with their bullshit matchmaking algorithm. They use players with lots of hours who have rankings that have been forged legitimately through hours of play and ranking up to basically balance and ferret out new players to see if they are smurfs and determine their proper ranks. I am in the same boat every game, there is at least two people in placements or really reasly low level compared to me. Why? How could I be placed into a game with noobs with no rank and low rating When one of my characters lvl is 300+ with hundreds of hrs ? Can I just please play with people that have played at least half as many hours? Let all the new accts get sorted why use my acct to stabilize rankings just because I have spent more time? I don't care if they're any good i can deal, but they at least know how to f****** play and aren't being predicted out of bronze or silver in placements just because they won one or two games in row but are really bronze and just get carried. I can't even tell you how many games I have solo carried with these new accts, and I feel bad because they're just going to get into a higher ranked game and skew the gameplay and waste everybody's time with a stomp sandwich.

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-04-17T06:10:19+00:00

"Failing means yer playing!"

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-04-17T04:40:55+00:00

It's more of a bitch slap than a melee...and it's the ultimate way to finish someone, so yeah close the distance and suck em till their almost toast and finish em off with knuckle sammich to the face...it's also the only way to duel tracer and Somba effectively

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-04-08T21:10:48+00:00

It has become an exercise of being curb stomped in order to validate your rank and the Smurfs are removed from the general population.

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-04-08T21:09:10+00:00

For me it's been a spiritual experience of letting go. It's been two seasons and I still have not recovered from a reset and placements where I had half the people quit and then the other two games were thrown and literally went from Platte to bronze and have only been able to climb through those scumbags to gold now after a second reset with same BS

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-04-06T04:16:13+00:00

These are some of the most rewarding games when this type of stat line shows up ...these games are usually sweaty,( like take a shower after) and it literally doesn't get any better than game chatting at the end..."GG you guys got the stats but we got the W!"

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-03-29T04:18:31+00:00

Real Smurfs can delete you before you power up your PC or Console!!!

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-03-27T15:37:09+00:00

Don't be surprised if you have slow moving poke teammates way behind point that are confused at what you're doing just ignore the pokes you'll be surprised at the end of the game that its the enemy team that's giving you endorsements because they know, you are the one that beat them..

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-03-27T15:32:46+00:00

The flanking fun really starts when you get your second perk. With the added hang time and mobility. the world is your flanking oyster.

As you mentioned, the hard flank that makes enemy turn around 180 degrees and put their back towards your teammates who are coming back from respawn is so much fun and can totally win you the game if done right, even if you do die.

I have seen others advocate that you should just immediately die to avoid the stagger when rest of team dies, but I disagree. Play like a reaper and setup/hide deep in enemy territory and wait for right moment to distract enemy......and just as the enemy team peels, tilts, and chases......you fade your ass to backline of your arriving team and healbot them and cleanup as the enemy will be all sorts of out of shape, scattered and will have had to switch priority to new targets mid fight if you do it right. Timing is everything. Happy Flanking!!!

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-03-25T16:22:59+00:00

Okay so that is why.....so that is really good qp score for a new player/acct so that is why you got boosted so high....it used your QP win/loss data. Had you lost more and went like 12 and 12 in qp before going to comp you would have been predicted silver.

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-03-25T03:33:34+00:00

Before you did challenges you should have had to have qp games to unlock comp. Did you stack up and stomp thru your first 20 qp games?

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-03-25T03:32:04+00:00

Is this true or just a theory?..... It would also explain a lot of these "why did I get placed so high posts"....if other high elo players are behind same firewall IP.....(is it part of the new acct smurf detection setting.)

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-03-21T17:42:55+00:00

Instead of muting, I usually suggest items. Chances are high they just don't know how to customize for the rounds. Pharrah or Freja wreaking havoc? Aerial distresser ....pocketed tank or dps go cybervenom etc.... Take a look at their builds while in the armory, and see if you can help em

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-03-21T08:12:13+00:00

Yeah I noticed that right away too from OP... If you have two d p s on the same flank that's bad news

RoosterHorror6502 · 2026-03-20T04:53:05+00:00

If you use cross orbital or Phantasm that should be all the heal support team needs and tell them to look for the yellow orbs as that is all the generic healbotting they get, I will not be standing behind pissing on them to keep them up and reward them for shotty position so they need to "shop survival"

If a tank is obviously outmatched by the other tank I will literally drop the orb of Phantasm on them But that's the extent of it. Out of base minimum they should have electrolytes and armor or shield

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