How To Win More Games

[@kano4282]

I played about 10 games today. All were slaughters. I tried everything. Running wide, running with a dd, running with a bb, running up to an island and parking, running with 3-5 teammates. Every game, no lie, EVERY SINGLE GAME was an a$$ kicking. Most games, every member of the other team had more xp than all of my team. Me included of course. It was a blood bath and was so unenjoyable. This has been my experience often in random battles which is why I mostly do co-op against bots. But I don't want to always play bots.

[@FreeCrimeaNow]

This description is virtually my experience in every case. With Co-op, usually friendly camaraderie and quick games. In Random, players are cursing my mother and children within 2 minutes and generally wishing a quick death on me while questioning my intelligence and reason for existence.

[@kano4282]

@FreeCrimeaNow yes!!!! That, too! And one on my team msg'ing BOTH teams to report me for sucking. Too bad he didn't fully realize that my flank became quickly overwhelmed. I lost my dd, my cruiser with radar, and was staring down the barrels of the same opposing force except for an additional bb, so I packed my Iowa up and started steaming mid. It's like, seriously? You'd take on 4 ships in a large bb with a suite of consumables highly superior to what I had? And I love the Iowa. Don't get me wrong. By no means an Iowa bashing.

[@stormdragon2529]

so TLDR: 1: go to your respective flank when spawned 2: if the you have numbers advantage on your flank ,push 3: if there are more enemies kite back 4: push with caution if you have to oportunity 5: try to apply as much preasure as possible 6: dont push at the begining if the enemy team has sniping ships or DD's

[@benjaminbills9533]

Great content as usual. Appreciate all the work you’re doing for the community.

[@aristosachaion_]

I really appreciate videos like this.

[@chriscannon4262]

Thank You for giving this very good advice to the general public! Decisions win games indeed! People play way to aggressive or way to passive, make the worst decisions but blame everyone else. o7

[@rogerwilco71]

Potato dropping knowledge +1

[@Ensign_Cthulhu]

17:44 - Regarding the specific captain skills, two questions come to mind. 1) Where are the last three points going to go? 2) Is there an obvious choice between fire prevention and extra heal if you are not willing to sacrifice Deadeye to have both? On a more general note, for the beginners who may be watching: if you are working a BB captain up from scratch, where would you put your first ten points and why? And does it change depending on which BB we are talking about?

[@rith2757]

Incoming fire for 1pt skill, Vigilance/grease the gears for 2pt (vigilance is really good as a tanking BB or any BB, grease the gears over vigilance if your turret traverse is just bad). Brisk is also a good 2pt skill for **stealthy** and typically fast bbs (can work on stealthy slow bbs to just give more speed) but i'd save brisk for later. 3pt is OBVIOUSLY adrenaline rush , AR is necessary on every ship. 4th skill i'd go concealment or the extra heal, i find that you can usually live without fire prevention unless something like the Kremlin line. theres a normal tank build for any bb, a brisk/glass cannon build for ships like thunderer and constellation and whatnot (brisk, turret traverse, extra heal - focusing more on gun efficiency, speed, stealth, and being able to heal hp back), and then a secondary build for bbs. If I were you, id just watch videos from PQ or flamu or someone for skills. hope that explained it.

[@martyrudd5385]

Your first comment was huge, "play the side you spawn". That should be followed up with "if you spawn towards the middle, go the flank that balances the sides evenly" imo. To many matches are lost by overloading one side and then stalling. The bad won't push, or maybe push poorly resulting in a Yolo. The "good" players will try to use the bad as meat shields, but the clock is killing your win then. (This is the ideal move for non WR stat focused players to pad their damage done stats). Learning to play from all 4 corners, on all maps, with all ship types, is necessary to be a good player. Side note, the ppl who won't play a cap because "torpedo alley" or because "it's a meat grinder in there" are overlooking the fact that one of the two sides WILL win that flank. By deliberately not playing it, you are likely handing that flank, and the win, to the other team. Good video, you might be earning my sub back after all the Dead Eye ire in the last few weeks.

[@trindamere63]

My friend started to play wows, and he actually, in 500 games, improved alot by watching your videos. But he learned, as we all now know, that even when you have good game understanding.... it depens on how your team perfom. Either all dds dies in the first 3 min., or you have cruisers that rush and call "0 support". And he started to get frustated that he learned how to play, but the team throw his efforts.

[@alcel24]

He should be playing cb or ranked games in highest ranks. People usually know what they are doing there...

[@jowhis5107]

Where can I have the X mark mod in your minimap?

[@Brimmlinn]

Are videos like this not the definition of a “Community Contributor”? #CC4PQ2021

[@majestichotwings6974]

honestly, WG killed their cc program with all the restrictions they placed on them. Why bother dealing with WG's crap for no compensation when you can make your videos and just say what you want.

[@wombat4191]

@@majestichotwings6974 Yeah, I think PQ said in some video that it would be nice to be a CC, but he will not even attempt to become one because he would need to change so much how he does things.

[@majestichotwings6974]

@@wombat4191 CCs used to so important to WG, it was a great program to have actual players promote your game and help inform the wider population but I guess WG decided that it wasn’t what they wanted

[@greatgiginthesky1268]

Looking at what happened to Flamu and the fact there's no money involved, I don't see any point in being a cc, just make videos however you like, you'll have more fun and probably earn more.

[@marcellorenzz9525]

The definition of Community Contibutor is "Unpaid Marketing Farm Dog". You can do what you want, but dont forget who holds the leash! And Don´t Scare The Sheep!

[@rosalina2938]

...unless you play vs t10, then you cant push like this because 4 thunderer 3 conquerer and 2 yamatos are just waiting for you while your shima gets torped at min 3, your halland trying to get around all the enemies to torp the cv, every cruiser sits so far behind an inland they cant see anything but rock and you ask yourself if you had accidently started a botgame while being unable to shoot anyone cause they are all concealed or 35 km away. That sums up 80% of my games. But my collection of US ships is so much fun to play, I don't even care anymore :D

[@ThatOneDude7]

I'd like to know which game mode you're playing that has 9 Tier 10 ennemy BBs with 2 DDs on your team and a bunch of cruisers

[@rosalina2938]

@@ThatOneDude7 please tell me you are just kidding ^^

[@Applejuceee]

Very good Vid Mr Potat! btw just by looking at the map i can spot a few ships that are just "sailing around" and aren`t even like plaing a "fighting game" , sailing the long ways, not even fast but with useless turns to cut speed and so on...

[@zalannemeth7957]

"we all know there are games that are unwinnable"... I will never ceed to that

[@stormdragon2529]

when all your dd's die in the first 4 minutes of the game and your CV has no brain, i think its over ngl

[@vtr0104]

James Tiberius Kirk - I don't believe in no-win scenarios.

[@zalannemeth7957]

@@vtr0104 Amazing find xD I love that quote.

[@stimublu8570]

Very informative. I know when to push now I learnt when to back off.

[@jarodlemuellcuenco7836]

Hey,,, im new to the game, exactly how you get a invite code to get the warspite?

[@ohayou828]

what are the available "decisions" when the game starts? other than bow in and stern in

[@articlered2334]

Have a follow I’ve not played for 4years great tips for returning players 👌🏻

[@mab2187]

Can someone link for Mod Station, for EU server.

[@neorvo5599]

Thanks. Repeat more of these lessons pls.

[@dawrut]

What kind of mod are you using? I see that you have a bit different in-game UI.

[@stevepeterson6070]

For newer or average players with the current broken matchmaker, it isn't 40% of games we can make a difference, more like .01%.

[@Eduardo_Panceri]

Realy nice video. also top tier warspite is just a power house, tier 6 cruisers dont have the fire power or survaiviability to stop this.

[@Krunari]

"There are games that are unlosable" I'm going to stop you right there, your team mates will find a way.

[@jasonsu6214]

do one for cruisers please

[@SEJIBAQUI475]

"Go to your flank" If going to your own flank was the best option, you'd run into the same number of enemies and you wouldn't have to deal with steamroll lemmingtrain flanks. If the flanks aren't optimally spawned to balance ships (i.e all tier 8 on on side or all radar cruisers on one side), is it better to try and flex your position to spread your coverage?

[@dzello]

I feel like '' go to your flank '' is pretty simple to understand. There's no ''if'', it's literally '' go to your flank ''. It is the best option in every scenario. The time you waste moving to another flank loses you more than any potential gain you could do in a bad flank.

[@Ranma1981]

If you see the enemy with a steamroll lemming-train flank pushing in on you ...... stop playing aggressive and start a kite play.....drawing the enemy away at an angle to stall them, make them waste shots and time all the while you pummel with HE and dodge fire.....when the other flank overtakes the enemy weak flank they will be able to cut back in and if all works out the odds will be in your teams favor. Also keep in mind players that lemming train are usually garbage players who have no confidence in their abilities to play solo.

[@zagareth4604]

Random Battles: You can make good decisions all day long, but when the team doesn't work together, bitches in chat all the time and leaves your actions w/o support, then all good decisions are pretty useless. My decision for these 12 vs. 12 Minigames: Get a good cruiser, make at least 100k damage, tank at least 1.5 million damage, support the good moves, ignore the idiots in the chat constantly pinging and bitching and THEN see where the battle flows. Clan Battles are something different, because the communication is way better - but Random Battles.... thats the worst of the worst and only sometimes you get a jewel of a fight, that is worth mentioning...

[@billy6363]

Why is there no wave at sea?

[@thevoin8389]

It's a mod called calm sea. You can install aslain mod or modstastion to get it.

[@Qweasdzxc-q1i]

Been play rank for 2 days, most of the time I lose even I brought 2 away with me. The only win today is on my Mushashi bring 3 ships away, at the end, I am solo fight 2/3 hit point FDG and Iowa. Quit the game instead.

[@lo5tcau5e35]

Yeah that’s great n all but this pleb has no such commander nor other premium commanders so any chance we get captain builds for regular captains. I love ur work man but I can’t move or respec my captain either willy or nilly. Apologies, I know I’m not worthy but I live in hope. Kind regards

[@dreparker23]

Unwinnable Games? Yeah, had that yesterday when EVERY SINGLE BATTLESHIP AND CRUISER on my team decided to lemmingtrain around an island at I10. The worst thing about it? The gamemode was capture the middle 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@somecallmetim42]

Those capture the middle games really make me laugh how many times teams simply fail to grasp the simple premise that you will never win by avoiding the middle completely.

[@tomriley5790]

Great ship was my first premium :-)

[@abhinavbodas]

Nice commentary!

[@info_fox]

How do you get your water to look like that?

[@DaxRandalman]

Minimal waves mod

[@ashleymiguel8408]

Hey Potato would you share that code for the Warsprite here aswel ? would be thankful if u did ;)

[@petrosmarko3092]

What code?

[@arnstad]

Great advice, thank you

[@kieranjones2346]

Wait you can win games in World of Warships?

[@pgale]

Nice channel

[@reformedartist8528]

how to win more games? Play a strong ship. All my strong ships like salem petro and nevesky and kleber and dm are all over 60wr solo and I still deal with bs teams. It is what it is.

[@lcwpg]

play a stronk ship higher potential to carry, but even so sometimes team melts so fast cant even do anything

[@stormdragon2529]

how to win more games: play premium ships with premium commanders lul

[@colmcorbec7031]

Thanks Sensei!

[@zsa208]

DD wins games. Decision is secondary.

[@TrentRoogna]

Wouldn’t that imply that DD decisions were the deciding factor?

[@wombat4191]

But the other team has DD's too. What if they are better than you? But you are right in a way. BB's are relatively easy to play on a basic level, but having high impact is harder with them. DD's are harder to grasp, but it's really easy to have a big impact on the game with them.

[@Pepega_Ch]

@@TrentRoogna yes

[@SkullHuntah]

Iknow it's not related to the vid, but I saw you're now called renamed user was that you or did wargaming just steal your original tag

[@aladindeuh3328]

i think it's to avoid getting instant focused (not sure tho)

[@2138Dude]

You can do this only on noob servers. In RU server you won't ever push thourh the middle of the map like that

[@davidmatos5773]

I have a Fuso... I'm not a great player but it seems to be a good ship.

[@theheavytonk928]

It is. But it becomes weaker against higher tier ships

[@davidmatos5773]

@@theheavytonk928 Recently I played with him against Kansas and I actually performed well!

[@droidmotorola3884]

@@davidmatos5773 gonna be honest, Kansas is one of the worst ships in the game, a new Mexico could, would be a better threat.

[@atpyro7920]

How to win more games: Play less games.

[@Pepega_Ch]

this tbh

[@imlate8079]

In order to win , u need mm on ur side, in my recent battles 10 out of 7 are defeats, in one of those defeats, i am on top of the leaderboard even with 80k dmg in my shiki.....

[@basslover352]

sorry to say but 80k is below average in shiki

[@imlate8079]

@@basslover352 my point is, even i play like crap, i can still be at the top place, which means others did even worse than me.

[@basslover352]

@@imlate8079 Ah yes lol. I barely did anything and I'm somehow at or near the top games

[@snafufubar]

80k? Had a 26k game and came top. Ended in 7 minutes. One decision is don't speed off in your 36 knot dd or cc then complain the 21 knot bb didn't support you or tank any damage.

[@taterino2722]

"how to win more games" play more games(hopefully?)

[@JohnSmith-df6oi]

The large amount of players with 5,000+ games and 40% win rate and sub 30k average damage tells me otherwise.

[@brigdonbishop3095]

Stock North Carolina has less hp than Warspite and it goes against tier 10.

[@crevieauxquentin9657]

No problem : uninstalled the game. Deadeye was the last thing that wargaming did to insult us, i'm over.

[@gutholz4443]

i made the experience, that one players influence on the battle is marginal...even if you kill 75% of the enemy team alone, you can still lose, and often do second point: matchmaking is wicked...if you check both teams in the list, you see (judging by the coat of arms a lot of people chose) that one team often has the pro advantage, they do not match the same amount of pros and average players similarly into both teams

[@bigphillyed]

🥔 curious if you ever division up with any of your subscribers? Look for a good smart player to give me constructive criticism in battles. I find to many big players that simply refuse to help others get better. I am at the point, with ships that I need to play better to progress myself, before I give up on the game. 5his commander rework has destroyed the game and almost impossible to get wins anymore. Since the BB's just snipe. I have also noticed that WoW is stacking teams again by skill level. Just want to improve my game play. thanks for the content.

[@Tecnodoc32]

60% of my games are unwinnerble and 40% are unloserble

[@droidmotorola3884]

Am gonna be honest with you. Winning doesn't depend on you, it depends on your team, whether you get a kraken in a kitakaze, or confederate in an ohio, is what your team does at the start and the end that defines your battles. That is what wg wants it to be anyway. (Yes I haven't watched the video yet)

[@jewsownthemedia3811]

Im watching KZbin. Clearly Ive been terrible at making decisions. 🤔

[@QuasarRedshift]

odd - I don't recognize this map . . .

[@tomtiger4120]

easy deathstrike, lol

[@Omegawerewolfx]

win more games: play thunderer also: make lenin video :P

[@somecallmetim42]

I find that Thunderers just sitting at the back spamming HE don't necessarily win games, it's the team that works together gains ground and gets objectives that usually wins. This has been especially true for recent ranked battles which has proven that close in fighting is still essential to win games (and is still fun)

[@SaltySaiyan98]

In my experience, the best decision you can make to win is to not play at all

[@tommasobey8003]

first

[@MaybeTiberius]

i allways wonder why american people allways.. dont even try do give foreign words a correct pronounciation. I dont pronounce ''new york'' as NEFF JORCK either me when i learn or speak a foreign language: trying to not sound like a tourist by trying to mimic how the natives make a word sound. i mean... what is a ''krafffspi'' ? xD meanwhile americans: nah. my mouth cant do the letter ''e'' like in ''me'' imagine ''me'' but longer... with another e, so mee. take away the m... eeeeee. The word ''spell'' has sp in it. so just say sp...and put som eeeee behind it. There is no i in it. its not spi or spy or spieh ^^ its like the word SPEcial but without the cial.. its not spiicial ^^ why do have americans such huge problems to pronounce words that are not english? if german people would not even try to pronounce english words correctly, you wouldnt even understand a word... Häff Juh äwer bien tu neff Jorck? literally noone talks like this...

[@pancement]

just dont play german ships