Can you please not? It’s a waste of both our time. I have no desire to carry such players, especially while I’m levelling prestige where I just want my ally to carry his own weight and be done with the mission ASAP. This happened recently with a kerri ally on SoA, luckily he was using mastery and wasn’t in the process of levelling her so it went fairly smoothly with his kerri dying to attack waves that he tried to solo and me mopping up after him and tackling objectives with P2 karax. But he did make a few mutas at the very end so props to him for that?
Today, however, I had a p2 Zeratul ally on the same map (SoA) who also tried to hero solo and lol was it a disaster. He couldn’t do anything by himself, I had to tackle ALL the attack waves AND push into bases. I was so preoccupied with being pulled from left to right that I wasn’t able to properly power up. I had to delay my economy in order to rush fighting units. And I was playing Alarak, I was also early into levelling his p2.
More annoying was that my ally kept pinging me to clear bases and clear a path for the bonus while he was derping around with Zeratul. Even at the end when we were losing he didn’t build a single fighting unit. He typed a simple “haha” at the end. Tl;dr – don’t hero solo if you don’t know what you’re doing.
If you spot your ally being braindead then it might be worth it to cut your losses and just leave, particularly on harder maps like SoA. Yes you lose several minutes but you might waste even more if it’s really bad and you keep trying. Leaving early and re-queueing gives you a new potential opportunity for a competent ally. It’s up to you to judge each given situation.
Look up the “sunk cost fallacy” if you want more details on what I mean.
I think you got it wrong - in my opinion hero solo is usually not the result of someone deliberately choosing not to build any units because of overestimating their skill, but instead just the lack of macro to be able to both micro the hero and build units (and saturate bases, get the required upgrades…) at the same time.
So in the end the issue probably was them choosing too high difficulty, nothing else.
Yeah that’s what I decided after that game. The sunken cost fallacy definitely applies here.
Even with bad macro you should at least be able to build SOMETHING. When not even an attempt is being made to build army units and only the hero is being controlled, you know it’s a tryhard hero solo-er.
Theres some really braindead people out there or kind of dumbsters that just want to see you fail for whatever reason…
Im generally too proud to just leave because i dont like having a loss marker in my game history
The fun thing is, if you look into the profiles of such a jerk, youll notice that the loose most of their missions… I dont get how this is any fun at all. Constantly overestimating theirselfs and failing in order. And seem to not learn anything of it
Welcome to the club. While leveling prestige, you just about to see every kind of player. I’m not sure why people think they can solo Zeratul. As P3, yes you can do a lot of work with it but that’s very map dependent. Such as you’ll take forever solo’ing PP’s hybrid… and making an army behind clicking cleave every 2 sec isn’t difficult.
I guess my point here, some people seemingly just want to derp around. So definitely cut your losses.
Most of the time when it comes to hero commanders for me, the ally eventually rolls out a beefy army in time to clean up the enemy. The commander that I see with troops right away is usually Nova, since outside of shotgunning light blobs she has little direct power compared to other hero commanders.
