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I'm no good anymore, but in the VERY early days of SC2, I was good enough to occasionally get matched up by the ranking system with players like WhiteRa and Idr
by kulahan 3y ago
I'm no good anymore, but in the VERY early days of SC2, I was good enough to occasionally get matched up by the ranking system with players like WhiteRa and Idra.
Shocking how much better they were than me. Technically in the same league, but in terms of skill it wasn't even close. The top .1% really are something special in these types of cases. Pretty neat stuff.
- karmakaze 3y agoI just looked and the top 4% of the SC2 ladder is Master+, which I consider to be quite an accomplishment. At the same time, there's so much range of skill within the master's leagues as well as even in the Grandmaster (top 200 players in each region). Even the difference between the top 5 pros and next 10 are visible in matches. This reminds me of the range of skills in Go (board game), from absolute beginner 30-20k (kyu) beginners, 19k-10k casual, 9k-1k amateur (me), then 1-7d advanced amateur (dan), then 1-9p (pro dan). Each few 'stones' of difference can typically squash or run circles around the other. So many orders of magnitude.
- kulahan 3y agoIt's kinda fascinating, isn't it? Small adjustments make such a massive difference. I had a similar experience in League of Legends. I'm no good at that game, but a streamer who was a backup for cloud9 (a support player; I forget who, but his name was kinda edgy iirc??) played with his viewers sometimes. I was a support main at the time, and I just remember feeling like he was more dangerous than his ADC in terms of pure damage. How? It's not possible. It's so confusing. I never figured out how he was so successful with his extreme aggression in lane, but I was utterly fascinated.