ITT give the person/people who you admire the most and whose gameplay you tend to emulate.
When I first started playing comp my first idol was turquoise. I thought she was absolutely incredible and I would sheep her every game.
Obviously, turq left after some time. I think I tried to pick up some of Shivv's game play but failed miserably. But I really did admire Shivv even though he was kind of a douche.
While Anthony was banned I would occasionally play games with him and his friends. I admired his love for the game and when he came back to main lobby, I picked up some of his scum-hunting techniques. I think Anthony was the one who inspired me to be less of a troll player. I think these days I'm like 10% troll and 90% serious in ranked mafia games.
One final idol I have from this site is none other than pranay. Everyone questions this player quite a bit. If a player like Anthony stuffs a game, everyone just goes "man Anthony you stuffed it but good try" mainly because he's less aggressive than pranay. When pranay loses a game everyone bashes him and makes fun of him. We're not all perfect, we're all gonna have bad games. Due to pranay's aggressive attitude in all games, his games where he absolutely dominates the game are undermined due to it being popular to bash him when he loses as opposed to applaud him when he wins. Regardless, over the years, I've acknowledged that pranay knows the game like the back of his hand. He knows how to adapt to every situation. He knows all the techniques. I noticed that when I played with him he was very smart about the game like me. And I highly respected that. So I emulated his game play quite a bit as well. Hence why I'm super aggressive in about 80% of my games. Players like turquoise and Sarah who played with me when I first started comp would say I was an easygoing player. Players today would say I'm a manipulative aggressive dominating player in most games I play. And that's because I've emulated pranay's playstyle because I mad respect him.
Also as of recently, I re-joined mafiascum which was the mafia site I used briefly before joining epicmafia. As of recently I've definitely emulated some of the playstyles of people there. It's irrelevant who though since most of you aren't on that site.
TL;DR: turquoise, Shivv, Anthony, pranay7744, various MSers
deleteddeletedabout 10 years ago
now i wanna know what MS players soda emulates. name and shame
deleteddeletedabout 10 years ago
my mafia idols? only thing i look up 2 is the sky
deleteddeletedabout 10 years agoedited
ill never get y ppl think this lol, the last 3 games i ever played with her she made town implode thrice by tunneling on the same blue she fosed from 20 secs into daystart while i scumhunted around and found both maf and tried to convince her she was rong for like 5 minutes... she got a lucky winstreak on her last run on jan 2.0 but tht happens to bad players all the time. if u want proof of this, lolwot went 33-6 this round and she plays like complete butt lol
and most of her surviving alts r like 50% winrate or less too. lol. maybe she's better than everyone who posted in this thread though
Also I want to give a special shoutout to everyone who has pushed me to be more inventive with my play.
Specifically, my scumplay would have never gotten to the point it was without certain people obstructing me. Whether it was true or not, for a long time I've had phases of perceiving people as being overly me-centric during games, whether it was simply spending way too much time on me or by fearlynching me regularly.
Regardless of whether or not my perception in those areas was correct, it pushed me to do more and more to be townread and come up with new and novel ways to get better.
dyl inspires me every day to be the best person i can be, not a rat like him
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deleteddeletedabout 10 years ago
turquoise is massively overrated lmao
naw, she does get hella emotional tho but she'll win her game if you throw her in any table
deleteddeletedabout 10 years ago
I've already said that bacde is worthy of being compared with any legend on this site. He has the skills. He has executed it many times. When I am his maf partner, he understands all my tricks without me having to explain it to him and he supports in a way much better than needed or expected. Learnt many ideas from him as well.
When I was new I learned a fuckton by observing: LetzShake Strider SGR brown Atikur crypto Kyle Erica Iphigenia EvaGreen Hurricane13 LaurieRose (yes, LaurieRose) projectmatt Moxie Riotkiller and probably many others, especially lesser known players when I was still learning how to play the game, including many of my irl friends who taught me how to play irl and then introduced me to the website
But we learn from everyone we play with, wherher we know it or not, even if it was something we saw that we didn't like because it taught it what not to do. On the conscious and subconscious levels we pick up more infomation than we can fathom
did laurierose teach you how to be a godawful poster too
deleteddeletedabout 10 years ago
i believe that mentality only works because the average skill of an EM player is pretty low in comparison to those who could be considered good, and that can be shown even today
Also, as a side note, Anthony is extremely well regarded in the community, but even with all the acclaim he's still one of the most underrated players.
Dude is insanely good and better than even most good players realize.
Idk he is good sure but he never impressed me to that extent