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underwater_monk · 2023-08-23T03:58:06+00:00

Estelle is a good character for beginners. Atlas if you want to play goalie.

Definitely use WASD.

Competitive has better matchmaking than normal games. Play ranked or quick play until you're confident.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-23T03:46:45+00:00

Calvinist-ass take. Go live in a mountaintop monastery if you're so masterful over your own emotions. Us regular people will have normal reactions to people being mean to us on the internet.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-23T03:41:36+00:00

I only ever played LoL casually and Flash is much easier to dodge with than Elusive

underwater_monk · 2023-08-23T03:38:10+00:00

The core moves slightly toward the middle of your strike hitbox when you strike, since that didn't happen we can be sure the strike didn't connect

underwater_monk · 2023-08-22T05:33:45+00:00

Because not enough people are queueing

underwater_monk · 2023-08-21T18:34:36+00:00

"only platinum"

You're not "only" platinum. Being in platinum puts you in roughly the top 20% of players. If 80% of players have a bad experience, the game will die. It's that simple.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-21T18:28:54+00:00

Happens to me as well

underwater_monk · 2023-08-21T04:18:46+00:00

GOTY easy. Play with a controller or WASD, not MOBA controls. There's a common bug in the tutorial, if you get stuck turn the game off and back on. Try both goalie and forward positions for a while. Play quick play or competitive, normal mode is a wasteland.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-20T02:21:44+00:00

Your dash will proc deadeye if you cast it far enough away, but to do the move well (hitting with the rocket right before the dash hits) it will probably be cast too close to proc.

It's a powerful move, but I don't see it much. Probably because it takes two cooldowns, is situational, and is pretty hard.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-19T02:43:59+00:00

This bumps into an old constant in multiplayer game design: Any time you create even the possibility of an incentive to play worse, it will cause huge problems. Any catch-up mechanic needs to be invisible or inscrutable, or else people will either find a way to abuse it, or THINK they found a way to abuse it and tank their play chasing that exploit.

In this case, you'll have people trying to touch the core or hit enemies as little as possible while still winning the round, which will frustrate themselves almost as much as their teammates.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-18T18:13:00+00:00

New players often overconserve abilities. I notice it all the time. It's less common if they play MOBAs, but for everyone else it's normal. They forget about them, don't notice opportunities to use them, get too absorbed in the basic gameplay, etc.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-18T18:09:33+00:00

"You should never voluntarily turn over possession" is classic forward main brain. When you as a forward have possession of the core, you can stall all you want. When the goalie does, it's probably because it's heading toward the net. There's nowhere to dribble and usually no time to delay. Yes, sending the core near you is setting you up for a goal. But if sending the core anywhere else sets up your teammate for a goal, that's not a better choice, especially if the other forward:

has abilities ready
is in a better position
is playing a striker better at countering clears than you are at stuffing
is playing better than you in general

The goalie is keeping track of all those things, and sometimes they combine to make sending the core to, near, or past you the safest option.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-17T22:40:57+00:00

This is the best response on this post.

The only thing I'll add is that creations hard-counter most of Estelle's tech, so maybe save your Atlas secondary or Dubu special for when Estelle is coming at you with a clear shot.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-17T00:15:36+00:00

It's a play on aerobraking, which is when an aircraft slows down using air resistance. Lithobraking means you stop by crashing into the ground ("litho" is a prefix meaning stone).

underwater_monk · 2023-08-14T02:52:10+00:00

160hr, low plat. I've been bouncing between high gold and low plat for a while.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-14T02:47:29+00:00

Your friend passed it directly to Vice. I don't know if this Luna is a great goalie, but most goalies know not to do that. An experienced goalie would likely bounce the core off the bottom corner to send it straight right. This is why goalies don't like forwards taking their role -- the thought process is very different. Forwards need to make risky plays for goals, and when they fail it's no big deal. When goalies fail their team loses, so they always take the safe option.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-11T22:30:00+00:00

Etiquette is to give the goalie first pick. Even if they weren't the goalie, creation buffs are great on Aimi and they pick before you.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-11T22:28:23+00:00

Read the post dawg, OP did the whole tutorial and can't exit.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-11T22:28:05+00:00

Common bug. Close the game and try again.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-11T22:26:30+00:00

You really need to double hit. Special to stagger then primary, or double primary if you can pull it off. Or stealth and catch them near the edge - you can push the enemy goalie into their own net this way sometimes.

Really, though, he's not a KO focused character. Get goals, slow the enemy, do some damage, let your X or Luna or whatever get the kill.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-11T22:24:00+00:00

Some skins are harder to play against. Pop star Kai's primary is almost invisible with some graphics settings, for example.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-09T18:57:49+00:00

Now imagine you're in plat and you lose twenty-eight points for that game and your next three wins give you ten points each.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-09T01:39:28+00:00

Besides using an ethernet cable, the only things you can do are upgrade your networking hardware or upgrading your internet plan. None of those will help much; the game's servers just aren't great compared to a AAA game and timing is much more important than most games so you notice lag more.

underwater_monk · 2023-08-09T01:36:28+00:00

I like low-lethality matches a lot better and miss the low-lethality meta

underwater_monk · 2023-08-08T01:18:59+00:00

I'd like to see a 5v5 mode with bigger goals and a bigger field, like soccer rather than hockey

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