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When I used to play a lot of CS:GO this effect was very obvious. Ranking up was essentially learning to counter strategies at a certain skill level. But somet

When I used to play a lot of CS:GO this effect was very obvious. Ranking up was essentially learning to counter strategies at a certain skill level. But sometimes when you played much weaker players your playstyle would be over optimized to predict/counter a different style of play. The solution was usually to stop overthinking it and just rely on your raw aim mechanics to beat them.

themoonisachees 3y ago
Exactly my experience as well. When I went back to playing and dropped to silver, you could frequently hear me go "what the fuck is he doing over there?!", Surprised that an enemy who lacks mechanics would not act like a reasonable opponent would, and surprise me.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  Back in the days of Battle.Net and Warcraft III, I used to sit on my friend's computer playing 1:1 games. I played different races a lot and sort of got good, but I was bored. So I decided that I would exclusively play Night Elf and build nothing but Protector Trees. Now Protector Trees are Night Elf "buildings" which are, of course, rooted in the ground but they can throw boulders at attacking units, thus defending the home base. Protectors also have the unique ability to uproot themselves and move around the board, then take root somewhere else. I believe they are not capable of hurling boulders whilst uprooted. So that's what I would do: I'd build a bunch of Protectors (and enough Wisps to repair them all) and then I'd uproot a "formidable" Protector army and march to the enemy base. This was mostly ineffective and readily defeated by a capable adversary, but I really trololoved the reactions some of them had. They would be absolutely flabbergasted that I'd wasted my time on something so dumb. But it was undeniably hilarious from my perspective to just watch a bunch of trees waltz into the enemy's home base and start hurling boulders at everything in sight.

themoonisachees 3y ago

Exactly my experience as well. When I went back to playing and dropped to silver, you could frequently hear me go "what the fuck is he doing over there?!", Surprised that an enemy who lacks mechanics would not act like a reasonable opponent would, and surprise me.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Back in the days of Battle.Net and Warcraft III, I used to sit on my friend's computer playing 1:1 games. I played different races a lot and sort of got good, but I was bored. So I decided that I would exclusively play Night Elf and build nothing but Protector Trees. Now Protector Trees are Night Elf "buildings" which are, of course, rooted in the ground but they can throw boulders at attacking units, thus defending the home base. Protectors also have the unique ability to uproot themselves and move around the board, then take root somewhere else. I believe they are not capable of hurling boulders whilst uprooted. So that's what I would do: I'd build a bunch of Protectors (and enough Wisps to repair them all) and then I'd uproot a "formidable" Protector army and march to the enemy base. This was mostly ineffective and readily defeated by a capable adversary, but I really trololoved the reactions some of them had. They would be absolutely flabbergasted that I'd wasted my time on something so dumb. But it was undeniably hilarious from my perspective to just watch a bunch of trees waltz into the enemy's home base and start hurling boulders at everything in sight.