Got whispered today after queing up some skirmishes to finish up my weekly quest that I was being a tryhard and to go play ranked. Soooo if im trying hard to win… thats a bad thing? Is that what a tryhard is? 
Generally people who keep playing after the game is basically over for no reason.
Nah they’re something that the new forums wont even let you type out.
I thought tryhards were just people playing like they’re filming highlight videos 24/7
how else u gone get the clips
by playing wow before 2016 or something. TBH. Like modern wow isn’t even fun to watch.
not sure how you make a highlight video as any spec besides sub tbh
and even then it’s basically standard play now
tryharding is when bad players try unnecessarily hard for how bad they are. Like doing something obnoxious to compensate for being mediocre.
People who were good at CoD or Halo back in the day are probably alot more familiar with the term than the average wow player.
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Tryhards are people that only participate in casual areas of any game with the sole intention of completely dominating players have have little to no hope at fighting back.
They stack the odds in their favor by forming groups and abuse high level “meta” strategies with like minded tryhards and relentlessly farm groups of random kids in lower/casual ranked areas of the game. They take “playing to win” in a very distasteful sense where that “winning” is something that is to be predetermined in their favor where the chance of losing is next to nothing.
They play the game like a programmed AI and treat the game as if its something to be “grinded” instead of improving at. Tryhards often see themselves as the “predator” while the kids they farm are the “prey” that are to be harvested for irrelevant in game grinds that nobody other than tryhards care about.
This is all done to fuel their sense of worth in game and outside of game and to imitate the top players on twitch they idolize. You see these kinds of kids in all facets of gaming whether its losers that premade/twink random bgs 24/7, losers that pubstomp CoD lobbies, smurfers that are high ranked on one account but play on their “smurf” account to prey on lower ranked players ect.
They will do anything to abuse in game systems that allow them to prey on kids far worse than them. They will also cheese/cheat in game ranking systems with the sole intention of claiming the rewards so they can look like top players. Everything about the tryhard is a lie. They only look superior against their prey but are far worse than the players they are trying imitate.
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I’ve always considered tryhards to be the people that just play the game way too much and think that because they have better gear than everyone else that they are better.
There’s a community accepted amount of effort for various forms of content.
Tryhards are players who grossly exceed that effort to ensure success in content that no one else cares that much about.
5-stacking in unrated BG’s with voice comms is tryhard.
Using flasks and pre-pull pots in a random heroic dungeon is tryhard.
Basically if everyone else is playing checkers and you’re playing with a flamethrower, you’re tryharding.
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You guys have it all wrong;
If the other team wins it’s because they’re tryhards
If they lose its because they suck
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MW2: Noob tube/one man army, anyone?
Lol made me think of the kids in halo who would get to 50 in team doubles with a name like “xxMlg_snipedown” and then pretend to be halo pros in level 30-40 teamslayer games or social playlists. Always a good time when you go like 30-5 against some premade team all with wannabe names then get spammed with messages asking to play them in a custom game on guardian or something, or yelling at you over voice recording telling you they’re going to kill your family
Imagine trying to use wow voice for skirms. That’d be a tryhard in wow.
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I have seen it and it was an RMP in S1 BfA and afterwards I messaged one of the players about it and he basically said “so what enjoy your L” lol. They were bm’ing after the first kill and everything. I still feel aftershocks from how bad that triggered me.
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It used to be 3s teams would warm up in scrims and then start rated games. But now none of the good players bother with that.
It felt harder to gain rating way back when. Like, I remember the first time going from like 1800-2k in tbc if I wasn’t queuing primetime I’d get like 5-10pts a win and lose 15-20 for losses. Being warmed up with a bg and skirm or two felt necessary.
I still remember some weeks going 7-3 or something and dropping rating and being totally demoralized and not wanting to queue past the 10 game requ for points lmao. Or queuing at 3am so I could get the australian/chinese players with bad pings and cheese my way to my first shoulders with 1-5pt wins.
Good times
I do this but not because I’m trying to win, I mostly just want to see how long I can survive before going down.
Yup in the original system I believe there was an invisible hard cap at like 2400 mmr or close to it. Top teams could go 10-1 and lose points for the day because they would get 1-2 points a win and lose 20 points to a lower rated team.
It did make the difference between 1400-2100CR quite drastic though and lead to less inflation. Where as today the biggest divide between a 1600-2100 players is moderate consistency and amount games grinded with inflation 
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nah, tryharding in mw2 would be like dropshotting with an m16 LOL
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