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Nagato - Heavy Lifting:

Hakuryu - Please Restart Queue At 5 Minutes:

CVs are fine the way they are. It's great for playing DDs - none of those pesky planes ruining my match.

Blyskawica - 421 Blaze It:

Think of the smoke issue. Now think about OP's request. You have your answer. (No.)

No, because the cooldown on it is way too high compared to its pitiful length.

Montana - 11 Minutes of Fury:

Izumo - Stopwatch Icon Aiming:

Nagato - RNG Beats Matchmaking:

Blyskawica - What would you do?

You do realize that "Best loser" and "DD meta" are related, right? The reason why there are so many more DDs is tied to the fact that DDs do the capping. Capping gives an insane amount of experience. This means DDs often end up in the position where they don't lose a star if the team does lose. The whole idea that you can get something that's not tied to winning a match is bad.

NEW MICROPHONE! So I heard the Izumo is bad: Kagero - Good and Bad Teamplay:

Atago - Do Not Turn Away From Torpedoes:

Blyskawica - Kraken In Ranked:

Blyskawica - Playing With Fire:

I don't see how typing less would have saved me from blind torpedoes shot into the smoke that I started just moving into. In fact, if I had typed instead of starting to move out of the cap I would've been fine. I would've also been fine if there hadn't been planes above my smoke or if the guy hadn't been able to shoot me after I got out of the smoke. None of those were true, and none of those are affected by me typing or not typing. Tactically the better choice would've been to not go into the cap now once I've reflected on the match. I should've known that the CV was going to camp the A cap with all the planes and headed towards A or just AFKed somewhere doing nothing. It would've given the same result, except maybe we wouldn't have got the A cap but that didn't make a difference ultimately anyway. It's not difficult for me to understand that you don't like seeing chat. What's difficult for me to understand is why you can't ignore the chat. You have to look to the side of the screen and specifically pay attention to it for it to have any bearing on you playing at all. If you need to focus then just ignore it, I have absolutely zero problems doing that and thus miss a lot of chat when I'm streaming. I join ranked because of fun. And chatting during times when nothing is going on is more fun than not doing so. Text chat also has the massive advantage that people can ignore it if they so choose and only engage in it if they so desire. About your "useful info" comment: do you honestly believe it is not important to let people know that going into ranked battles with a <15 point captain is a bad idea?! [edited] That same dude because of that lost us a game before in the match, because he had no way of fighting the planes of the enemy.

Fuso - RNG Makes Up For Bad Play (151k DMG in ranked):

Sure, there will be a greater percentage, because most people won't be playing that much so mostly the people who put mass amount of games in get there. But it's not like a skillbased matchmaking.

Except the #1 on the losing team doesn't lose a star.

That's not how ranked works. If you play enough games your ranking goes up (because it's not a zero sum game). A skillbased matchmaking system would put you into a certain bracket based on your performance and it would stay more or less the same (unless you got better).

I just saw Trigger_Happy_Dad in a ranked battle. I think he's pretty mad at me now though because he got annoyed about "too much chat, that it doesn't let him focus" so I told him to turn it off. Then he told me that there's sometimes tactical information there. Then I told him to mute me. He didn't appear to do that first and told me that if I'm so bored I should get a pet "or something". Then I told him that I'm sorry that he has the attention span of a rock. After that he muted me. Which is how it should be - I can do my chat and he can stay focused. I do wonder though - is it really that difficult for people to ignore chat messages when they need to focus?

Ranked Above Rank 10 In a Nutshell:

Believe what you want. But it's a fact that it encourages a player to be more cautious than push in. If you push in and happen to die then you're not getting #1 score board. The guy that sat back has a chance.

"Most Kills" #2 by Toten_416 in the Fletcher (4249XP):

Except that a person who sits back and doesn't play for objectives is much more likely to get a high XP score than people who do play for objectives. If I die to try to win the game I'm much less likely to be #1 on the board, yet my actions would often end up giving us a significant advantage. Yet the dude that sits back in his BB and just shelling is much less likely to impact us positively in terms of winning the game but he's much more likely to be the top of the board.