revamp approved by bludz
Original approved by AM and Aragorn the King
-Better Battlers Project-
One of the biggest struggles new players in any game face when starting out is improving how they play. In most strategy games it is encouraged to review games afterwards in order to gain an understanding of what improve on. However, how can a new player truly improve if they aren't fully aware of what they did right or wrong? Not to mention the frustration of losing often prevents people from analysing their games regardless of experience. This is where the Better Battlers Project comes in. This thread has two purposes, for newer players to receive assistance on how to play matches and for experienced players to go through their own thought processes during a match, allowing both newer and more experienced users alike improve the way they play. Hopefully this will slowly improve the notoriously low quality of the ladder and also shake up the rather stale tournament scene with some new blood.
To further the help this thread will give to players regardless of skill level, every 2 weeks my co-host Analytic will post an incomplete replay or a printscreen of a team matchup, asking players to assess how they would approach the game from there/start the match. These will hope to promote better playing from even those who are not posting replays.
The Basic Idea
NEW GUIDELINE FOR POSTING AND REVIEWING REPLAYS - IMPORTANT
Previously, replies to peoples replays would often lack depth, focusing on a play-by-play commentary rather than actually attempting to improve the way the person plays. You may have noticed myself attempting to deviate from this play-by-play commentary because I feel it actually helps a player improve in future matches more so than the normal way does.
For this reason, a new template for posting replays will be implemented that aims to complement this. Instead of posting a single replay and going through your thought process, I would ask that players post at least 2 (preferably more), with a description of their general goal in each match rather than a turn by turn commentary. From here someone will be able to help hopefully more effectively than if it were a single replay.
Template for posting
Leadexrs
Flamer
Analytic
GeeMick
Original approved by AM and Aragorn the King
-Better Battlers Project-
One of the biggest struggles new players in any game face when starting out is improving how they play. In most strategy games it is encouraged to review games afterwards in order to gain an understanding of what improve on. However, how can a new player truly improve if they aren't fully aware of what they did right or wrong? Not to mention the frustration of losing often prevents people from analysing their games regardless of experience. This is where the Better Battlers Project comes in. This thread has two purposes, for newer players to receive assistance on how to play matches and for experienced players to go through their own thought processes during a match, allowing both newer and more experienced users alike improve the way they play. Hopefully this will slowly improve the notoriously low quality of the ladder and also shake up the rather stale tournament scene with some new blood.
To further the help this thread will give to players regardless of skill level, every 2 weeks my co-host Analytic will post an incomplete replay or a printscreen of a team matchup, asking players to assess how they would approach the game from there/start the match. These will hope to promote better playing from even those who are not posting replays.
The Basic Idea
- Any player can post a replay of a recent match they had, an importable of their team and a summary of the match, explaining their goal for the match and key plays made.
- Someone from the analysis panel or community will analyse your game, giving you tips. Experienced members of the community can also help out if they wish.
- Tournament players and other experienced users are also encouraged to post replays of good matches they've had recently to demonstrate what sort of thought process a good player will have during a match. These will likely not be analysed by the team and are there for the benefit of all.
- Be civil, the aim of this thread is to help people, not scare them off. Like my mum always used to say, If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. Any flaming of other users WILL NOT be tolerated.
- Make sure to use Hide tags in your post to prevent cluttering (for those that don't know it's [ hide ] what you want to say [ /hide ] (remove the spaces inside the square brackets)).
- This is for OU battles only, I dont particularly care If you played really well in Balanced Hackmons, this isn't the place for it.
- Do not help people if you yourself are not experienced. Doing that will only serve to clutter the thread.
- Upload matches you felt were close and weren't swayed one way or another because of hax. It's hard to help someone get better if the match was just a jirachi paraflinching everything in its path.
- Giving some context to what the team(s) you are using are trying to accomplish will help people write better reviews.
- If you have further questions you want to ask a reviewer, PM them privately to avoid cluttering the thread.
- First ones pretty simple, don't give the person shit because they're not at the same skill level as you, thats just going against all the stuff this thread is trying to promote. Being thorough with criticism, however, is encouraged.
- Try to focus on improving the players thought process rather than criticising poor move choices. If those move choices reflect a poor thought process then go ahead and comment on them but if the person switched in a Bisharp on a potential Defog from a Latios and the opponent used HP Fire instead then dont berate them for it.
NEW GUIDELINE FOR POSTING AND REVIEWING REPLAYS - IMPORTANT
Previously, replies to peoples replays would often lack depth, focusing on a play-by-play commentary rather than actually attempting to improve the way the person plays. You may have noticed myself attempting to deviate from this play-by-play commentary because I feel it actually helps a player improve in future matches more so than the normal way does.
For this reason, a new template for posting replays will be implemented that aims to complement this. Instead of posting a single replay and going through your thought process, I would ask that players post at least 2 (preferably more), with a description of their general goal in each match rather than a turn by turn commentary. From here someone will be able to help hopefully more effectively than if it were a single replay.
Template for posting
Code:
Battle: Put your battle links here
[HIDE=Team]copy and paste your team into here[/HIDE]
Username: Put your username for the battles here
Summary: Put the summary of the matches and the description of your teams strategy here
Flamer
Analytic
GeeMick
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