That wasn’t the same game, though. You don’t play much BG if you want to compare classic bg to current game. It’s apples and oranges different.
I loved his work in WoW. I get who he is… and so do you… which is why he’s trading off his brand name instead of his current body of work.
As skilled as he may be at other games, he’s not very good at BGs anymore.
It seems like you’re pretty invested in Kripp’s identity here, which is very odd.
Only if you ignore everything he does currently but BGs, I guess.
I have a thing against scrubs slandering people just because they’re famous. Doesn’t matter that it’s kripp, I’d do it for anyone who deserves it when the people criticizing them don’t even understand what they’re attempting to do.
He’s absolute garbage at bgs, dude. Hot trash.
He’s BAD at the game. He shows you a highroll at low level and lol’s when he gets paid for smurfing.
He isn’t good. At all.
I mean, I’ve finished higher than him for the last five or more seasons, but go ahead and do you.
He’s dog water bad. He’s a joke. I’m waaaay better than he is at this mode. So are most of the people who post about bg on this board.
He’s smurfing for clicks. That’s trash.
You want to defend trash? that’s a you thing. I’m going to put it on the curb and let it go.
I am just telling you how he plays BG’s. I never said he was some terrible person. He is well known in the ARPG community as a top players and probably the best builders in that genre next to Raxx although i think Kripp is probably better if not the best.
I think most players who aim for the top 100 or better at the end of a month, play for like 8 hours a day or at least some days. I don’t get it either; if I want to play I usually like ~9 matches a day; that’s a bit over 1 hour since i don’t like very slow decks either.
I don’t judge though. I’ve done way worse when I was taking WoW raiding too seriously.
You are getting trolled, buddy. Neonghost was complaining about BGs a couple months ago, now his profile is private and he’s saying everything is a skill issue. Dude doesn’t even play the game, probably thinks his rank is the same as the stream he watches.
I know. I posted my commentary, and proceed to ignore the opinions of those who don’t pay attention.
Because it was a bad meta.
This one is much better.
It’s higher than Kripp’s is, for sure.
You started with,
But then you went on to explain his history and then seem to know all his rankings. So either you are a liar or a creepy stalker.
I said I didn’t watch him, not that I don’t know who he is.
Kripp is bad in BGs. That’s just a known thing.
What’s actually creepy is all the Kripp stans crying about people speaking the plain truth about him.
What isn’t a known thing is what the definition of being good in bgs is, because mmr maximization by endless 4th place finishes sure isn’t it.
This part right here shows you have no idea what you’re talking about. You can’t climb in ranking with consistent 4th place finishes, Mand.
You get one or two points for a fourth place finish and lose double digits for anything lower. To actually climb you need to get more first or second than you do 6-8.
The problem Kripp wants to bum rush tiers to feast or famine, and that’s not how this season is set up to work. The early meta builds too fast for you to waste gold on fast tiers instead of building a flexible board.
This is one of the best metas to date, it’s full of skill expression, there’s multiple lines of play, and there are catch up mechanics like we’ve never had before.
You’re not listening to what I’m saying.
Obviously you need more 1-2 than 7-8 to climb. But if you always get 3-4 and never get 1-2 or 5-8, you’ll still climb.
Sure, in any given lobby somebody has to get 1 and somebody has to get 8. But if everyone tries to get exactly 3, is that really showing who’s best?
No, I’m saying what you describe won’t climb.
But it gets worse the higher you go because you lose more than you gain - one 8th will drop you over 100 points and you might only get 97 for a first.
Technically, yes, but the rate of gain is so slow as to be negligible. One bad game erases ten, and bad games happen.
No one is trying to get 3rd, though. That’s the misunderstanding.
You’re trying to stay alive long enough to have your payoff.
The current meta actively craps on how Kripp wants to play. He doesn’t want to adapt. It’s a skill issue.
Again it’s not about kripp, it’s about what it means to be good at bgs. And I’m not sure the mode will ever have actual competitiveness due to its design. Sure, people can still tryhard like they could any game, but individual FFA games have never been good for having real competition.
Whining about Kripp is especially pointless since it seems he doesn’t play bgs anymore.
And what do you think it means? That one out of ten games, when the stars align, you highroll hard and it’s a giant flex? The mode has a ranking system and an internal MMR to put players together. Over time, the best players rise and the rest don’t. Not sure how that’s not competitive in your mind.
This is more you don’t play the game enough to even understand the topic than something about the mode.
Being good at the game is pulling a 3-5th place out of nothing because you creatively cobled together enough parts to not die before the other people.
Being good at the game is winning first place with one health left because you managed not to take that one extra damage on turn three, four, or five and lived to triple a T7 minion that completely rewrote the lobby.
People want to complain about “it’s all rng” but it’s not.
Oh, noes. Good riddance.
That it isn’t the kind of game where being good matters, or is even defined.
Someone who doesn’t understand the game would say something like what you wrote above.
You’re clearly not a BG player.
No, I’m not. Haven’t been since Arcane Cannon.
Not sure how you think that means I’m ineligible to participate despite paying attention to streamers over the years.
If you are done with the ad hominem, can you comment on how you think bgs deserves any shred of competitive respect? Because I assert that it doesn’t and never will.
And that’s fine, not every game needs to be esports tryhard gosu.
So you literally have zero idea of how the game plays today but want to make broad assertions about the mode based on what?
Saying you lack the knowledge to understand how BGs play out right now isn’t an ad hominem, it’s a fact.
Okay. Good thing you don’t get a vote in any real sense.