Don't Be That Guy - Wrong Lesson Edition

Welcome to today's edition of "Don't Be That Guy". Today's winner was playing a T-50-2 in a Tier 6 battle on Redshire. Redshire is a pretty good scouting map, usually, so you'd expect him to have done well, if he was any good. But take a look at this minimap...

That corner is where he hid for the entire battle. At this point in the fight, by the way, the score was 12-12. So, o.k., he's a noob who doesn't know the map, no sin in that, everybody has to learn.
Except he's not. This player has 55,000 battles. He should be plenty familiar with Redshire.

But O.K., lots of players don't really help their teams, why am I highlighting him?

Attitude

The fast way to get featured on DBTG (Don't Be That Guy) is to have a bad attitude. In addition to hiding in the corner, he spent his time on chat "LMAO" at people who asked him to come out and help, and at one point said he was "Winning the battle for your stupid ass."

And to his credit he DID get 3 kills. But that's the problem....

Wrong Message

He only got 3 kills because three wounded enemies drove in front of his gun. He got 3 kills, but only did 663 damage. And it wasn't that he retreated to that corner in the late game. He went to that spot in the first 90 seconds of the battle, and stayed there right to the end. This game ended in a draw.

But because he stumbled into 3 kills he THINKS he was the star of the battle. In the meantime he spotted exactly 0 tanks and got exactly 0 points of assistance. In a top tier light tank.

That's exactly the wrong thing to learn if you want to be successful in this game. If he'd been playing a casement sniper TD then MAYBE sitting in the back and sniping to 3 kills would have been the right play. But he wasn't. He was in a light tank and his team needed him to be out front scouting...or at least chasing down the enemies at the end to try and get the win.

Instead he sat there, on full health, chortling in chat about how good he was playing, while we really should have lost.

Unteachable

Predictably several members of our team were berating him in chat for his inaction. But that was pointless. He was sitting on 3 lucky kills so they weren't going to convince him that he wasn't the top player on the team.

Furthermore he's got 55,000 battles. If he wanted to learn how to play better he would have already. He's a 47% player for a reason. Because he's not very good and he's not interested in getting better. And that's ok. People aren't required to care.

The Lesson

Instead the lesson here is for us. After 55,000 battles, that guy isn't likely to improve. The fact that the enemy handed him a couple of easy kills just sent him the wrong message. And for us...don't waste our time or karma attacking him in chat. He doesn't care. And unfortunately he just learned that hiding in the corner the whole battle is the way to be the best player on the team. (Even if he wasn't)

Better for us to just focus on our own performance (I had an OK battle in the BDR, didn't get very good RNG) and move on to the next game.

Skill is Back!

However, if you want to see somebody who DOES care, and is good, and helps others improve as well...Skill4LTU, the King Baboon, has returned from vacation and is back on stream. Check him out at https://www.twitch.tv/skill4ltu. 

GLHF!