It’s likely that the anti-sleep team you faced had an anti-poison section too, same goes for the opposite. It’s just that you are more likely to notice when a team is countering the strat you’re running, rather than a strat you’re not running.
Sleep and Poison are both very common strats, and they have high potential (Sleep is an extremely powerful locking tool, while the Poison archetype has plenty of multi-target sweepers). Well built PvP teams incorporate counters to both strats, and sometimes one monster is enough to block an entire strategy: for example, Ashterios’ Insomnia+Purify is a hard wall to players who rely on Sleep.
There, simply put, is no such thing as an anti-sleep team. What you encountered is a team running stun, or LINK Fire, or even also running sleep, who also had monsters to counter sleep. There is no such thing as a whole team dedicated to countering sleep, but as Interference pointed out, most meta teams do incorporate sleep counters into their team somewhere.
I never accused him of exploiting the system, but additional knowledge and being a player and a mod on this forum should indicate some level of knowledge sharing what could be construed as common knowledge.
Ah. I misunderstood you calling it unfair information. Honestly, I’m of the opinion that no player, no matter how trustworthy, should know how the matchmaking system works. It’s such a delicate system, and tbh I imagine that anyone who knows it would probably exploit it subconciously.
Like, if the system gave you easier opponents when it was night to compensate for you being tired (obviously untrue cause I don’t want to share any real exploits), then he would probably be more likely to play while he was tired than otherwise, or he might be less likely to keep playing during the day if he got bored.
It’s not just someone deliberately coming up with exploits, like systematically losing hundreds of fights during unranked. Simply knowing this information will likely change your behavior. And even if those changes are small, a small advantage is still an advantage, and an advantage from external knowledge is still unfair.
I agree with your points, to that effect though and on that basis, KD should not, as a player, have knowledge of the PvP system that is not common knowledge to other players as it serves no purpose if he cannot divulge said information to others, so my question would be to what effect and for what reason does he get privileged information that normal players are not allowed to have?
@Killerdog I apologize in advance because I realize as the discussion has gone it seems I am villafying/attacking you, and I want to make it known that is not my intent, I am simply trying to get to the bottom of common knowledge vs restricted knowledge and why or why not there is a distinction when it comes to members of the player base as a whole. No offense is meant now nor by my future posts with this, my comments are meant as discussion material not as instigative or offensive.
I don’t know how you guys read this and started thinking I know hidden secrets that give me an advantage. It’s ambiguous for sure, on purpose, but it could just as easily mean I don’t know anything more than you do. Either way, don’t stress yourself over it! I think it’s generally best we don’t know all the rules about matchmaking. There will be many people out there who would use the information unfairly. I’m sorry to hear about your low rank account being poorly matched, definitely doesn’t seem like the intention of matchmaking
I feel you on this. To be fair, when I read your previous post, the way it was worded, to me anyway, inferred you had information you were unable/not allowed to tell us. #ConspiracyTheories
That’s exactly what I mean. The PvP-competitive Sleep monsters are a handful (I think Vigziarid, Malwing/Sobeking, Gremoris, Sanctistag, Oniblade/Stratustrike, Sakuralisk and Lemon are the ones you’re gonna see the overwhelming majority of times), but they’re dangerous because disabling one/more monsters for 300sec is very powerful.
