Hearthpwn

The thing is, when you are playing a mobile game, you could playing anybody doing anything. People play games on their phones to fill time. You could be playing a friend who is on that person's acct, sometimes I wonder if I'm playing somebody's kid. The makers of this game have limited our socializing to emotes. We have so little interaction because of salt. Don't add to it.

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To be fair, not much thought is required to play this game well.  Rng is the name of the game.  

I’d say people who rope when they have no chance to win.  Those are bad players.  Other than hat it’s hard to tell since luck is the biggest factor in the game.

i predict the incoming comment: “People who think luck dictates games are bad players” lmfao!

 Ironic coming from you. All your threads are asking other people for advice. Not much thought is required when you farm out your answers to the community.

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You know when you're facing a bad player when;
He has a name like; Swagbruh or DankMemes or A random food or random item like 'Buttermilk' or 'HepaFilter' as their name. 
We also have the "watch out we have a badass in the house" names like 'killyoubro' or 'Annihilateyou' or 'Yourpwnd'. Add in bad spelling and numbers or cradle the name with x's at the start and end.
Sometimes we have the bad players who compare themselves to deities like "GodRank' or the opposite like "GodKiller'.
Then there are the slew of pants names which I see about quite a few a day like 'grumpypants' or 'swagpants' but really all the pants players should be called 'ClownPants'

Oh good to know! So everyone named Ruslana is a pornactress and people named Bob are builders/contractors.

Check the names on this list from the top HS players in Feb2019 and you're first point is proven wrong already:

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/hearthstone/22922068/top-hearthstone-players-february-2019

Examples:
IwillHuntYou
Destroyer
L3GENDARY

 Or instead of focusing on just one part of the post to reply with you take the whole thing into the proper context and see that it is a cumulative description of a bad player not just one off observations that make the whole.

The entire post was a shitshow to begin with. Can't blame people for cherrypicking to try and salvage what little is worth salvaging, to be fair.

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You know when you're facing a bad player when;
He has a name like; Swagbruh or DankMemes or A random food or random item like 'Buttermilk' or 'HepaFilter' as their name. 
We also have the "watch out we have a badass in the house" names like 'killyoubro' or 'Annihilateyou' or 'Yourpwnd'. Add in bad spelling and numbers or cradle the name with x's at the start and end.
Sometimes we have the bad players who compare themselves to deities like "GodRank' or the opposite like "GodKiller'.
Then there are the slew of pants names which I see about quite a few a day like 'grumpypants' or 'swagpants' but really all the pants players should be called 'ClownPants'

Oh good to know! So everyone named Ruslana is a pornactress and people named Bob are builders/contractors.

Check the names on this list from the top HS players in Feb2019 and you're first point is proven wrong already:

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/hearthstone/22922068/top-hearthstone-players-february-2019

Examples:
IwillHuntYou
Destroyer
L3GENDARY

 Or instead of focusing on just one part of the post to reply with you take the whole thing into the proper context and see that it is a cumulative description of a bad player not just one off observations that make the whole.

The entire post was a shitshow to begin with. Can't blame people for cherrypicking to try and salvage what little is worth salvaging, to be fair.

 Defend it if you must but it is ignoring 95% of what I wrote and even denying that the type of player I was describing exists. They exist and they all have the same characteristics as I described in my original post. Seems to have touched a nerve with some here.

Good Lord, you people just went and gave a thread you find abhorrent 4k views and 4 pages of replies. Why do you keep these threads alive if you hate them so much, Hearthpwn, why?

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Quote from MProdigy >>

To be fair, not much thought is required to play this game well.  Rng is the name of the game.  

I’d say people who rope when they have no chance to win.  Those are bad players.  Other than hat it’s hard to tell since luck is the biggest factor in the game.

i predict the incoming comment: “People who think luck dictates games are bad players” lmfao!

 Ironic coming from you. All your threads are asking other people for advice. Not much thought is required when you farm out your answers to the community.

 I’m a lousy deck builder, and like to know what people thinks of specific cards before crafting.

Of all these members, why attack me? Lmfao

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This isn't meant to troll

 Having read your post, I found this to be untrue.

Wow, am I the only one who read this thread as just a bit of fun? You can't take what OP says so seriously. It's obviously extremely tongue-in-cheek, yet became an "Um, honey, y'know, akshully..."  thread immediately.

So, at the risk of being flamed, I'm just gonna join in on what I believe the initial idea for the thread was about:

Over-emoting: When I start a game and get a "Hello", I think they are polite opponent. When I start a game and get "My magic will tear you apart" I immediately think "Is this guy seriously trying to tilt me already, at turn 1?" Then, they proceed with their "Wow"s and "Well Played"s, which makes me think "Yeah, they're trying to put me off my game already!". Instantly makes me squelch and think they're gonna be bad players.

Playing THE tier 1 deck in casual: Bit of a double edged sword here, cos on the one hand, they might just be playing this deck in casual to guarantee the daily quest completion, but on the other hand, they may just not be good enough to cut it in ranked even with the best deck out there! I tend to assume the latter!

Coining out hero power turn 1: Not always a bad play necessarily, but when this happens, I can't help but think this is a massive mistake!

Aggro players who never trade: Yes, I'm jumping on the aggro bandwagon, but with a certified caveat. I play all kinds of deck, but tbh, prefer control. So, when I have a 2/3 turn play in mind, and they don't trade off my dangerous minion (Lets say something like a Antonidas or Malygos, for the sake of an OTT example), then I can't help but think they don't know what they're doing...

Similarly, control players who over-trade: Sure, a lot of control decks rely on removing the board all the time to win, but sometimes players are over-cautious. Especially against OTK or warrior decks. Sometimes control players need to know when they're out-controlled and need to amend their gameplan. I see this happen a lot and always think my opponent only has a plan A and nothing else.

1. Open your smartphone's camera app.

2. Select front camera.

3. Profit.

It worked on my device!

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You know when you're facing a bad player when;
He has a name like; Swagbruh or DankMemes or A random food or item like 'Buttermilk' or 'HepaFilter' as their name. 
We also have the "watch out we have a badass in the house" names like 'killyoubro' or 'Annihilateyou' or 'Yourpwnd'. Add in bad spelling and numbers or cradle the name with x's at the start and end.
Sometimes we have the bad players who compare themselves to deities like "GodRank' or the opposite like "GodKiller'.
Then there are the slew of pants names which I see about quite a few a day like 'grumpypants' or 'swagpants' but really all the pants players should be called 'ClownPants'.

So I'm assuming, by this argument, that killinallday, a guy that featured in many HS Pro tour tournaments, is a bad player?

Before we can spot a bad player it might be necessary to define what a bad player is. And I am afraid that we are not all on the same page here. I can think of a number of definitions to rate a player:

• winrate below a certain percentage
• lifetime achievements (highest rank attained etc, total price money earned, number of followers on stream)
• average number of obvious misplays per game
• number of high legend finishes

All these chracteristics can only be observed after more than one game. So my first thought about this question is: you can only spot a bad player once you have faced him at least 5 times (or some other meaningful number) or have some record of how he is doing over a longer period of time.

The fooling around with emotes or handling of the rope and even his name can be part of a decoy to make you believe you are dealing with a bad player, in other words these are the common plays of the hustler. And even an obvious misplay at some not so important moment in the game can be intentional (to invite extra agression etc). It is possible to bluff in HS.

So I think its not so easy to recognize a bad player from one game experience.