The Inevitability of Trolling

Trolling happens alot in sc5 cause the game is scrub friendly. You dont need any skill to spam one move thats hard to block online. Movement delay = block delay = getting caught up in moves you would usually dodge.

A person who trolls is no better then a super online try hard who just spams 50 50 mix ups.

Why dont we see trolling offline? Cause it doesnt work, with out frame delay trolling doesnt exist. When you troll both players end up not getting better at the game.

Only reason i see to troll is to try to mentally throw your opponent off. Its actually a strategy. You say its something to make you laugh. But its actually a lag tactic you use to win.
 
m216xlegendx said:
Trolling happens alot in sc5 cause the game is scrub friendly. You dont need any skill to spam one move thats hard to block online. Movement delay = block delay = getting caught up in moves you would usually dodge.

A person who trolls is no better then a super online try hard who just spams 50 50 mix ups.

Why dont we see trolling offline? Cause it doesnt work, with out frame delay trolling doesnt exist. When you troll both players end up not getting better at the game.

Only reason i see to troll is to try to mentally throw your opponent off. Its actually a strategy. You say its something to make you laugh. But its actually a lag tactic you use to win.
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We see trolling offline all the time. In game and out of the game. Shen Yuan vs Nofacekiller at Evo was a perfect example of in game trolling. Shen Yuan was doing some of the stupidest things with Siegfried and still won. There was one point where he ran up to Noface who was ready to block an attack and Yuan decided to mash the guard button instead. Totally messing with Noface in the game.

Verbal trolling also exists, are you saying no one shit talks in person? Shit talk has been a staple of fighting games before online mode even existed. Norcal gets pretty loud when we play. Same with areas like ATL and Texas. There was this Law player in Final Round recently. Everytime he won, he got up and pretended to be Bruce Lee. The rage on the other players face was kind of priceless.
 
KokoYoshi said:
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I'm not sure you're getting the ideal that I'm conveying here. Just because we're competing in opposition does not mean we're enemies. There doesn't need to be any emnity. But that doesn't mean things have to be mushy, either. I don't say GG after *every* game, usually just when the set's over. I don't want to have my efforts shit on through constant trash talk or teabagging, but that doesn't mean I want constant reassurance that I'm doing alright, although it may seem otherwise. (If I've spent all day getting shit on by douchers who like to lord their superiority over me, don't be surprised if I want to be reassured that anything I'm doing is working out at all.) I don't like to smack talk, that's just me. Like... I'm just looking to enjoy the game together. Watch the video of me getting "exposed" by Sluch. I went into that match knowing that I was going to get bodied, and at the end when he just waited for me to slam into his CE, that shit cracked me up (the video doesn't show me laughing like a doofus after the match).

Like, you call it "extra rainbow carebear stuff", and I kind of find that insulting. I just don't like competition to have such a cutthroat "win or stfu and gtfo" attitude. It may be a locality thing. Everyone in Cincinnati's nice. You're not gonna have anyone treat you like shit just for losing a match, unless you start shit.

In regards to what I know you're calling me out on... it was a particularly bad night. I do apologize for that.
 
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