"These soloQ fools should know that my strategies are to complex for their walnut sized brain." -brush main on clam blitz

1:50 the fact that the tri is named clueless is even more funny

as a frontliner , this is something i experience FAR too often in solo queue and absolutely something i need to work on . i depend far too much on the hud to see who is and isnt alive , and usually assume if theyre _alive_ , they are in a position to _fight_ basically going forward i need to remember the map exists LOL ( of course that is not all i need to do to improve but you get the point )

Thanks for this. If I had a nickel for every time I pushed forwards after getting a numbers advantage, just for my teammates to lose the 2v2 behind me, I’d have an embarrassing amount of nickels

I really appreciate your mindset about the trislosh. It would be really easy to go “oh the trislosher is an idiot, and that’s why we lost”. You could argue that you already had the lead - why play to win when all you need to do is not lose? I don’t think playing trislosh like it’s an eliter is the *right way to do that*, but… Anyway, I appreciate that you took the time for self reflection instead of just writing it off. The hud gives you a pinch of information about teammate location by looking at the amount of time that has gone by since they respawned. If they’ve only been in play for a second or two, they’re not gonna be anywhere near you.

This is why I tell people to move and play WITH your team, and not against them

that tri be just like me fr, hiding behind the ballpoint spamming fizzies to charge a cooler that gets destroyed by the map in two seconds

I do this ALL the time unless someone is sitting next to me and watching me play. Sometimes it gets me nowhere. Sometimes I get 7 splats in a row (turf war mainly) and my team still manages to be nowhere on the map to be seen. Sometimes my team IS coincidentally nearby to help me.

THE :3 BOMB ON THE THUMBNAIL OMG :3333333333333333333333333 I LOVE IT

This is the kind of discussion that I think anyone who plays any game can benefit from hearing. I've been playing a lot of a small playerbase moba and all I can say is that the high level playerbase consistantly ignores what their teammates want to do or doesn't look at where they are on the map, or in fights they push very aggressively and the teammates weren't ready for it or in a position where they could even help without getting themselves killed

This is something I love about this game. I like the limited communication, so you HAVE to keep an eye on your team and know where they are and work around them. It's hard to do but it makes you a better player.

Classic backline Tri. You love to see it.

2:10 usually my solution to this problem is to just watch the map and see were my teammates are positioned. that way i know if they can move up and help me or not. you also get the bonus to make a play that pinch someone on the enemy team if you try to position in a way were the enemy has to deal with you (that can or can't see) and your teammate.

this might be low-key one the best videos for team coordination. As FLC said "something is always going wrong". So many of the pick ups or SendouQ sessions I play with have this problem where we expect the plan that is said over comms to go exactly like it was said/planned. Many lower level players (including me) try to take shortcuts of getting information and ending making way worse decisions then if we slowed down and thought a little harder Definitely will have this video in my re-watch everyone 3 months or so catalogue

One of my biggest struggles as a frontline is awareness of teammates. Once I engage I lose all awareness outside my immediate field of vision and just sort of blindly hope that teammates are around to capitalize. It leads to long losing streaks where my K/A would say I'm playing really well. V-slosher has been helping me with that recently as I physically can't move as fast as something like a v-shot so I end up taking more coordinated fights, but I've struggled to get that lesson to stick long-term for years

That tri was really living up to their name

I especially get like this, when I Splat 3 enemies in a row, and I'm like "ok team cone on we can push now!"

Honestly your introspection never ceases to amaze me, because this is absolutely my fatal flaw in soloq and I know it. I just know I would have been splatted, opened the map, seen all my teammates in mid/ by spawn and immediately tilted, so this is something I really needed to hear.

Imo this is the biggest hurdle that frontline players need to overcome. It's really easy to just ignore your team and charge headfirst at the opponent, thinking "If I splat them then we'll be at an advantage", but playing with your team can improve the odds that of you actually getting that advantage. Remember kids, don't be a Putz12!

As a certified salmon runner, checking the map constantly is such a hard thing to make a habit of since salmon run has no map. Gonna try to make that habit again so I can see where my team is all the time

One of the big benefits of comms among experienced players is that they talk about this kind of thing instinctively. While it's not the same information bandwidth and response as looking at something, hearing these things takes a lot of mental load out of decision making in the moment. It "makes everyone smarter." For example, someone in this situation could simply tell Gem "we can't push." More interestingly, someone could speed up another decision for Gem a few seconds earlier, making it easier for Gem to cover more bases on planning his follow-up play. The benefits you get from comms speeding up decision making cascade down to future decisions because it lowers everyone's mental load.

Omg the dude throwing fixzy bombs into mostly painted turf 😂

I think there's a balance to expectations of team mates, should they be reading your mind? No. Should you able to position yourself/try to push a play based on expecting them to be doing what their weapons want to be (i.e, NOT sitting on plat and throwing fizzy bombs)? Yes. You still probably would have been splatted with the tri backing you up, but if he was up front with you there would probably have been other plays available to you as a result that could have been successful.

The one habit I know I need to work on is opening the map more often. I basically never do it even though I absolutely should. When I do remember, it wins me games.

One of the things that's helped me develop decent pushes with solo q teammates is whether or not I literally see them nearby on the map. Regardless of advantage, if I can't actually see them, there isn't a lot they can do for me, nor me for them. Is the mindset at least

Why is that splat bomb so THICC

I need to remember that the enemy exists sometimes. I make this issue a lot, and then overextend when I should have retreated and get splatted for it because I assume I'll get the help. The joys of solo queue, knowing that I'm also the issue on the team too

I dont even know what a frontliner / backliner is 😔 AND I CALL MYSELF GOOD AT THIS GAME (Tbf im mainly a salmon runner)

There is sometimes, like a little probability (probably 1%) that me and my teammates have the same idea which is great but yeah, the point of the game is good, thinking my teammates have the same ideas isn't solving anything, also don't just do anything yourself but try and be a little "independant"

man this video applies to me so much 😭 im trying to get better but augh its so hard to step off gas and back to my team when i feel like im whipping out the enemy team

As a Solo Q tetras main I struggle with this so hard. I focus so much on flanking and outmaneuvering my opponents so much that I forget to pay attention to my team at all. My playstyle kind of necessitates that I split off from them frequently but even when I do that it's still important to have some awareness of what's happening with my team. Ultimately my goal with getting behind enemy lines in the first place is to enable a push for the rest of my team -_ there's no point in doing that if I don't make sure they're all alive as well.

"its not your fault your team sucks, but it is your fault your team lost"

This approach applies to a lot of different team games as well. Any kind of game with tanky frontliners designed to draw enemy attention and/or crowd control them tend to be low on damage to compensate their disruptive nature and thus rely on team mates to followup when the enemy has expended their resources on the tank or while they're stunned from the engage. The best mechanically executed engage doesn't really matter if you don't have a team in the position or ability to follow it up.

Yeah that ntri was struggle bussin 😂😂

in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and your solo queue teammates standing on your plat throwing bombs at absolutely nothing.

How do I communicate "I'm skirmishing three of the enemy team, move in and pinch" in a solo queue environment?

It is stronger to brella shield for the rainmaker after the rainmaker has decided to push than to shield before the rainmaker has decided to push.

me every time i play soloQ:

Good video, it shouldn’t always be on your teammates to develop psychic abilities

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Well that will never happen with me

my play is just like that one post from shen comix. my apm is unparalleled, so i can make even more bad decisions than the average player

yes but if u waited for ur teammates to decide to push the enemies could've already forced u out (without killing u) and getting mid for free and make a ball

hello, i had a question on something and figured you would be the best person to ask for advice on it. I am currently a ~1800 xp grey Nzap player, and i've been having issues with... i would say staggering. a lot of my games go in a similar way: i'll play decently all game, getting a few good pushes and then holding those, but at one point, i'll always start dying a lot in a row and then my team will be lacking a cooler and we'll lose. did you have a video on recognizing this kind of stagger loop and how to avoid it?

People dont know shit. They dont even know how to jump to teammates with power clam.