I've been playing some solo games without checking allies stats lately. I often end up with very bad allies. Good players often call these kinds of allies "pubs". Lets discuss what makes someone a "pub". That is, lets discuss what it is that makes it difficult to win with these kinds of players as allies:
Here are some obvious game losing things I've noticed that people we call "pubs" do:
Always teching tier 1 after mass; this kind of player fails to realize it is usually better to pool one player for tech or get useful items, mercanaries, and towers.
Getting upset and removing shared control when an ally sends tier zero/one/two units to canon tower when the enemy teams have several lvl 3-6 AOE spells.
Not pooling for wards or rats or jammy before, during, or directly after mass.
Picking weak or useless skill combinations (e.g. Spiked carapace/Evasion/Thorns aura/Avatar)
Very little knowledge or awareness of creeps and their abilities (e.g. dying to newts and golems over and over because of a lack of awareness of how powerful their disables are, casting spells under mana dragons, feeding summons to newts and jammies)
Here are some less obvious problems which affect players of all skills levels but are extremely noticeable with low level players:
Picking good spell combinations but not using them well (e.g. picking nova but never casting nova on clusters of red units)
Poor coordination with allies (e.g. failing to cast AOE spells on the same cluster of units as your allies often leading to enemy teams stealing a huge mass, failing to cast HK spells on the same hero as allies or just reacting too slow)
Poor map awareness and poor scouting
Poor game awareness (this becomes especially obvious in uim games when pro players get 5 or more heroes with useful skills and "pubs" stick with only their first hero, not realizing the importance of getting more heroes with skills like death and decay, mass teleport, resurrection, mind rape, transmute, etc.)
Poor or nonconstructive communication with team
Not adapting well to different game modes (e.g. trying to go tier 2-3 black arrow teleport build in SSD vs lvl 6 AOE spells)
Inability to follow through or capitalize on advantages (e.g. when a team of skilled players gets a very good mass, they take control of the game; a team of lesser skilled players often fail to take control of the game even if they have the highest level heroes after mass)
Playing with average players can be a fun and rewarding experience for high skilled players. Average players are usually willing to listen and communicate with high skilled allies; they will let you lead, they will listen to you, you can teach them things and help them improve. But playing with the worst of players, like the ones who don't realize that it's a good idea to kill their own units in SSD vs lvl 5-6 AOE spells and remove shared control, is frustrating, especially when they don't listen, or even flame you when you try to explain that trying to fight vs lvl 16 heroes with human tier 3 is a bad idea. If you play solo on the bot and never check your allies stats and just play with anyone, chances are you will get the worst "pubs" on your team more often than average players. Even solo players are "stackers" in a sense, because they check allies stats to make sure they at least have some 20-30% average player, and not the worst kind of "pub". Discuss.
so basically, what you are saying is that due to the elo system and score keeping, people stat check other players then decide on who they want to play with because they have a higher percentage of wins.
yeah, that's about right. http://chf.ucoz.com/forum/71-3499-61942-16-1396993348
Playing with average players can be a fun and rewarding experience for high skilled players. Average players are usually willing to listen and communicate with high skilled allies; they will let you lead, they will listen to you, you can teach them things and help them improve. But playing with the worst of players, like the ones who don't realize that it's a good idea to kill their own units in SSD vs lvl 5-6 AOE spells and remove shared control, is frustrating, especially when they don't listen, or even flame you when you try to explain that trying to fight vs lvl 16 heroes with human tier 3 is a bad idea. If you play solo on the bot and never check your allies stats and just play with anyone, chances are you will get the worst "pubs" on your team more often than average players. Even solo players are "stackers" in a sense, because they check allies stats to make sure they at least have some 20-30% average player, and not the worst kind of "pub". Discuss.
well this is how i introduce myself to they when i vs some pro and i need to win share share!!!!!!! me pro!! i am pro do !cs web or -ss see me pro now share the base pet (mass clicking with alt key) pub: why do you need it? what does it do? me:its cute and i need it or at times i see pubs taking base pet even though they are 100% mauler and they have auras only.
at times you meet the perfect team who pool you and listen to you in return i tell they some epic items/stuff or you meet 1 good player and the other who wants to kill darks with footmen at this moment i do the only possible thing to win and thats do -uim ggogogoogogogogogogo for more gold and heroes xd [img][/img]
Message edited by Web-Ghost - Sunday, 15-Feb-2015, 1:53 PM
