I need help, I am just too bad at WC3

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The only way I can play a fair match right now is by making a custom game agaist a bot that has some heavy health handicap.

I got a 0% winrate in online play and people just rage quit while having me on their team.

Any good ways to improve?

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Honestly? Play the game, get beat while trying your best. Then watch the replay. What did opponent do that you don’t? Try to incorporate that to your game. Watch other replays, same steps as your own.
Eventually you will get better.

I’d advise against playing bots. Even the ‘insane’ AI will teach you bad habits that will become first reaction when you cross over to PvP.

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Go check out Grubby’s Youtube channel or Back2Warcraft (they have tournament matches).

Grubby also put a recent guide. Starting with base layout.

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Get someone to play with who knows more about the game. They can tell you what you are doing wrong. This way you’ll improve.

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Hey, I hear you need a practice partner.

How can I help?

:stuck_out_tongue:

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+0 GMT/UTC. I’m from the UK, so I play EU (Northrend for battle net)

I’m a bit rusty trying to play some games now again. I’m no pro but I can certainly help you beat bots.

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Also if you cant find players at your own level and it feels impossible to keep up with better players (most who are playing WC3 multiplayer right now are mainly those who have played it for years and are dedicated fans of it), then I suggest coming back and trying out again once Reforged is launched. But other than that there are plenty of guides available and ofc just playing and practicing is the only way to get better at it.

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Look at pro matches, and matches online.
Usually they know what are they doing.

Having 0% winrate is perfectly normal when starting, because it’s a really hard game to learn.
Maybe watching matches you can start polishing the most gruesome errors you may commit

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This game is not something you get good at just overnight or in a few days, you get decent after a few days and the good once you have played for a long time.

If you dont wanna invest alot of time into it, don’t bother.

Also the best part about this game is the custom maps which you can find on battlenet

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i have a question for the old players since we on topic here: is the matches newbie friendly, or do people go crazy on you for not knowing what you’re doing? though 1v1 shouldn’t be a problem i wouldn’t of thought.

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I don’t think anyone will care to much if you’re a newbie in a 1vs1. Team games might be another story. People in team games do weird things, like give up when you’re winning.

As I suggested and others suggested. Watch pros and practice.

Trying to help the OP but we both seem to have issues hosting games. Thats made things tricky. I really do hope Blizzard fix the hosting of games like that said they will with Reforged.

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Well I do remember that last time I went to play 1v1 few years ago after not playing the game for years and beating someone who happened to be several ranks higher than me (cause obviously with so few players still playing the game, you wont necessarily get the same ranked player as you) I got this very angry message from, cursing how could he lose to such a noob that I was :smiley: I was never really pro or anything in WC3 multiplayer, but I had played enough to know and remember the basics even years after, so ye, its still possible to meet players like that in the game…and ofc that is also why I dont think that WC3 right now is newbie friendly as its ofc mainly some veterans who are there still playing the original. When WC3: Reforged is launched, I bet thats when there might be bigger chance to get players against you that are not so experienced, but ofc there are also going to be many former veterans/players like me who know and remember the basics and thus as complete newbie you might get some tougher opponents in some cases.

But overall like others said, if you want to get better, then patience is the key and learning from others the basics atleast can help. Also I dont know if this still true today (but I would imagine so), undead were propably the “newbie friendliest” race to pick up…atleast thats how I experienced it back in the day, which is why I mainly played as undead :smiley:

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Upload a replay of a game against a computer or a player, so we can see what you’re doing wrong

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is probably because 20apm , not following a proper build order, not using hotkeys, not creating units asap, not managing army properly, not knowing how to creep, not scouting.

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What kind of race do you play?

Go on twitchDOTcom

Follow

-Grubby for good Orc

-Nightend for good Undead

-Tod for good Human

-Happy or Moon for Nightelf
What kind of race do you play?
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  1. Watch on youtube your favorite Race Players to learn the building order in the beginning (mostly u build always in the same style) important to get ur base safe for attacks on your workers! and which kind of units they build as well.
  2. You have to understand the different attack and defend types of the units…its built up like scissors/rock/paper…you have always 1 attack type which is good vs. a special armor type:
    https:// wow.gamepedia. com/Warcraft_III_armor_and_attack_types
  3. if you make ranged units then get a strong melee hero (more health points, better armor) if you go melee units you can do a mage or agility hero as well (less health points, more dmg output/spells)
  4. Play 1 vs 1 for training
  5. Dont loose time, keep creeping as much as possible to earn XP for your hero and finding items to make your Hero stronger (+ you get gold for creeping)…and have an eye on your enemy with scouting
  6. Loosing units while creeping is a NO GO and throws you back…always move single units away or back to your base for later healing.
  7. Try to keep your army always healthy (or heal them), low HP units will die very quickly.
  8. Try to keep always a Town Portal on your Hero that you can port to your homebase and dont use it too quick, try to run away if u cant win the fight (350g = 1 town portal)
  9. Dont run with your Hero in 1st Row, many players focus on your Hero to kill him! You can run with him separate away with F1. Buy him heal potions & invulnerable potion to keep him alive.
  10. Always spend your gold for new units or tech to get better units, dont keep 1000 Gold on your bank.
  11. Each unit kill by the enemy is XP gain for his hero, so try to loose less units as possible (if you cant rescue a unit, better run them into creeps before the enemy player gets the kill or kill your unit by yourself)
  12. Dont start with Human…Human needs much micro management (and fast fingers) in my oppinion. I would recommend Undead as starting/learning race.

greetz UrMoMpLaYsWc3 @ Northrend EU

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