You clearly don’t understand how matching works in this game or you would know that your time argument is false.
Qwark can play exactly the number of games it takes to get to legend, stop playing, and you could play 8 hours a day for the month and you wouldn’t match his rank - because it’s not about time.
And I’m sure almost all of them are higher rank than me.
Bonus stars make it easier and easier. People who are good have more of them. It’s not about time.
I will. It will only help your ranking if you win more than you lose. When you get to your skill cap, You’re going to stay pretty static for the rest of the month no matter how much you play.
No one argued based on their personal ranking, though. I don’t even have high rank.
I do understand how matching works in a competitive ladder.
We’re all pretty sure you’re allergic to logic, dude.
So much this.
You are like the guy in the coffee house who read Ayn Rand and took an intro to philosophy course and thinks they’re suddenly an expert.
I know, but to be honest I was a having a hard time even with turn 6 eonar factory bot, I did set up Sonya giant breakdance but since my giants were at 1 mana I could only play Sonya 2 giants and 2 breakdance and since I went second I wasn’t able to catch up tempo and had to dump my tar slick the following turn with backstab and fan of knives. Basically I never get to be the aggressor after that turn since most of my turn are both trying to get answer while building up tempo as well looking for win conditions. Druid was always the beatdown starting from that eonar bot turn.
I think I made a mistake by playing stomper right at turn 4 since I was afraid the guy would do double mix trail in the following turn.
You can keep looking at your rank and keep thinking it’s an argument, or you can keep hearing others saying the same to you in this forum, it’s not convincing to me.
So there’s no point wasting anyone else’s time. You don’t convince me and anyone else who gets credentialism of ranks was never an argument even if you insist.
The technical term for your post up there is “word salad” and it’s often a symptom of a larger problem.
Time is not the biggest factor in rank no matter what low rank players tell themselves to cope. Specifically because of how MMR works, one wouldn’t be a low ranked player if one weren’t a low ranked player.
I’m a low ranked player because I am bad at the game, not because of how much I do or don’t play.
Wut. RNG is always the same because it’s always uncontrollable. And it is always a zero sum game given enough games because your loss is their win now but their loss is your win next time out of randomness.
And “given enough games” is easy at the top ranks, because most of them play for like 8 hours a day.
True, and that’s exactly why relying on RNG is your best bet
You already know your skills are identical as those of your opponent’s so you’re simply hoping for a highroll streak at just the right moment to propel you to a rank finish you set in your mind. If you make it, congrats, you’re “the best”, at least for that moment in time.
Wanted to comment on coaching players from earlier.
I have been coaching some friends recently who are stuck between Gold-Diamond. Most people who have only ever interacted with TCG/CCG beyond there very casual do not think very deeply about their turns. I have straight up asked people why they do not value trade, count for lethal, or play to their outs if they are behind. The most common answer is, “I don’t know, never thought about it.” For a good chunk of people they are on their phone and they think, “play green card.”
Trying to coach someone on the basic fundamentals of card games takes time. They are better off being told what subjects to watch a YouTube video on to start off.
People think on 3 levels: operational, tactical and strategic.
Person you described by this quote is operational, so their main goal while thinking is to pull the best out of the current situation. Such a person will be mechanically solid, as game mechanics is the only thing they have to think about. Their weakness is planning and memorizing the games, which is something you need to work on together.
Other 2 types of people are weaker mechanically, but have better planning ahead. Strategic are the most conceptually gifted people, who will understand what you guys call “fundamentals” naturally, but will lack in execution and tactics.
Tactic people have memory like elephants. They will remember Move 3, card 2 played from any game backwards for at least a few years. That is a very precious talent to utilize in this game, one for which I envy people who have it.
Basically, what you call “fundamentals”, some people instinctively just know, while others don’t even know they exist. I wouldn’t call something like that “fundamentals”. It’s not universally fundamental to play the game on a high level. It just makes your learning much faster to start from there. It’s a shortcut. Unfortunately, shortcuts don’t work on learning something on a level of mastery. You need to tap into their knowledge, and adapt to it, and start from there.
And these are just extremes. Most people utilize all 3 levels of thinking (somewhat) equally, but then again, most people won’t even pay to learn how to think, anyway, so as a teacher of any sorts in HS, I’d be thankful for this piece of advice if I had it when I needed it.
I am talking about things that anyone who spends more than 2 seconds on their turn thinking about what their deck does, they could figure out.
Swinging with Painter’s Virtue then drawing.
Not counting lethal.
Literally not reading cards.
I have seen all these things and more. If someone needs to be taught things on this level, they need to watch tutorials. Not waste a coach’s time. It would be like someone hiring an Olympic level coach to give them diet and exercise advice. Could they do it? Yes. But there are better uses for everyone’s time utilizing other resources. That is my point.
Lacking operational, common for 66,67% of your potential customers
Lacking operational, common for 66,67% of your potential customers
Tactical. Why read if you can just pull from memory? Besides, card text can be misleading, it’s better to see how it works in practice first. 33% of your potential customers
If you know their weakness from the start using this framework, you know exactly what they think about and what they do not think about, so you go from there.
None of this is new to me OR relevant to what I said. Are you just posting this thinking you are showing off? Literally none of this had anything to do with my point.
My point is that someone that new should watch videos before wasting someone else’s time.
The point was, there are people who are extremely gifted in certain aspects while extremely lacking in others. Just because you find it unheard of that such people can even learn anything, that doesn’t mean that they can’t, with good coaching.
This might drastically decrease the duration of that coaching if applied properly. My client is continuiously missing lethals and operational/mechanical things? Np, work only on that and then gradually bring back the other game elements to make their game framework complete.
Are they lacking in conceptual knowledge? Np, when they make a good play, you ask them why they did and then you explain to them why it’s good on a different level, and ask them to start taking that into account.
Anyway, you would get the point if you were interested to find the point. But you are not. And you don’t even like coaching.
If you liked what you did, you wouldn’t type things like these:
This is unjustified. It’s not YOUR problem what your client does with their own time and money. It’s your problem to decide whether to take from your own time to earn that money. If you’re not properly motivated for the job, don’t do it. You’re just doing anti-marketing for all actually good coaches.
P.S.
No. Unlike you, I actually like teaching people stuff, even when they’re ungrateful
I can think something is a waste of time AND money. It is an opinion. Again, you completely missed my point. Maybe stop trying to read additional context than what I am saying. You are trying to hard to be smart and are still missing the point. It is insane.
CAN someone pay for coaching from someone far and above what they need? Yes. I already said that. But, I think it is a waste for both people. Do you get it? Do I need to get the crayons?
So don’t accept the gig. Problem solved. No more rants about how people spend their money and time learning what they don’t appear to truly want to know.
I wrote, “I think this is a waste.” A subjective opinion. And instead of going, “yeah, I can see why someone might think it is a waste.” you did a bunch of posts about how clients/coaches can do what they want and coaching theory.
