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Sandbagging
For those of you who don't know what it means. It's essentially when a player does not play at their best against another opponent for whatever reason.
the most common ones are..
1.) When you're leagues better than your opponent that you just toy with them, which gives them openings and lets them believe they are closer to your level than they really are. This is easiest to know when it's being done to you when you can manage to get them to low life, and suddenly you can't touch them anymore. You're not doing this to be rude, you're just doing this for your OWN amusement. Going for some ridiculous combo, that isn't the right one to use at the moment but you keep going for it just to get it. Stuff like that.
2.) Other reason is just fatigue, Sometimes you played so many games back to back your mind wants to play the game lazy. I personally have been a victim of this and i use to have to constantly mentally slap myself to get refocused.
3.) Intentional to not discourage lower level players, Some people are too nice and don't want to suck the fun out of their opponent by beating them so hard they literally can't do anything but watch a combo video and they are the victim. So the player purposely falls into traps to encourage them a little bit but NEVER lose the game. I'm guilty of this one too, I've tried to get people into fighting games on a competitive level but they get turned away really really quickly if I Rape them too hard. So I ease them in and tell them good job when they do something to encourage them.
4.) For the LoLs: this is probably the most rude way of sandbagging, where you are doing it so obviously, and winning? that you come off as a dick lol. like you were obviously just doing some advance gameplay mechanics earlier int he match... then suddenly changed your style to doing 3 moves in well thought out cycle. Sort of trolling your opponent, and kind of a slap at their face like "I'm way better than you son"
In general the player of lesser skill is normally not the one sandbagging unless it's scenario number 2.
do you guys think some of these methods are ok? Which ones are or not? and why?
For those of you who don't know what it means. It's essentially when a player does not play at their best against another opponent for whatever reason.
the most common ones are..
1.) When you're leagues better than your opponent that you just toy with them, which gives them openings and lets them believe they are closer to your level than they really are. This is easiest to know when it's being done to you when you can manage to get them to low life, and suddenly you can't touch them anymore. You're not doing this to be rude, you're just doing this for your OWN amusement. Going for some ridiculous combo, that isn't the right one to use at the moment but you keep going for it just to get it. Stuff like that.
2.) Other reason is just fatigue, Sometimes you played so many games back to back your mind wants to play the game lazy. I personally have been a victim of this and i use to have to constantly mentally slap myself to get refocused.
3.) Intentional to not discourage lower level players, Some people are too nice and don't want to suck the fun out of their opponent by beating them so hard they literally can't do anything but watch a combo video and they are the victim. So the player purposely falls into traps to encourage them a little bit but NEVER lose the game. I'm guilty of this one too, I've tried to get people into fighting games on a competitive level but they get turned away really really quickly if I Rape them too hard. So I ease them in and tell them good job when they do something to encourage them.
4.) For the LoLs: this is probably the most rude way of sandbagging, where you are doing it so obviously, and winning? that you come off as a dick lol. like you were obviously just doing some advance gameplay mechanics earlier int he match... then suddenly changed your style to doing 3 moves in well thought out cycle. Sort of trolling your opponent, and kind of a slap at their face like "I'm way better than you son"
In general the player of lesser skill is normally not the one sandbagging unless it's scenario number 2.
do you guys think some of these methods are ok? Which ones are or not? and why?
