Powerful Anvil Combo: CRITWOOD STAFF & FALCON BLADE | Backpack Battles

[@crystallized1676]

2:40 Really Girl over Blood? Such a midrange Andy :D With Blood you will get better board r18. 4:30 You should buy that 1 clover for a Girl and extra accu. Later also possible Piggy if you need crafted item for an Anvil. 5:40 Altough I haven't seen final board yet you may f up here. I think Thornbloom+Falcon+Critwood with a Carrot Goob on Anvil was the play here. Nice you have hit and beat that drooling midrange noob who thinks he is super good xd He tries to play Dragons with Critwood (good) but on heat and Blade (really bad). I guess he didn't get the memo that we no longer play Dragons with Blade xddd Also as always 0 eco and wasting resources on potions which are useless in what he is going for :D 6:13 You buy those weapons on sale with 2 or more lifes even if there is 0% chance you will want to keep them. There always might be a reco in the next rolls. If there won't be you will sell them back in 98% cases but you are giving up on a freeroll for no reason. 8:30 Illegal pick. 100% Blood. You must be drunken to pick stats :P Ok I jumped to the final board. First things first: you are paper as F. All your defense is Vamp armor, 2 vamp on Falcon, 12% extra hp, 40 armor from shoes, 20 net life from pot and a little bit of regen from girl. The whole layer of defense is assuming Lamp procs and than 35% lifesteal holds the dmg where you can race from that point with incoming another lamp proc. 2 issues: first you are left with around 450 life till 5 seconds which means anything 90+ dps annihilates you. Again you are making a board vs weak players cuz 90 is really not that much. Second: lamps are actually little bit too slow. Yes, you are getting 1 proc just before 5 second mark but considering you have to race as you have no defense other than maybe stabilization from BR it's too slow. And than because of these 2 factors combined: being burst style paper and having somewhat too slow lamps you are actually helpless against counterqueue. If there is any disable you will be in serious trouble. Even sth as dumb as 2x draco orbs grave you probably. Could have been a really nice build but it wasn't as alltogether it was too slow. This is sort of 'antinewbie' build - performs very well against bad players and against good ones you are cooked cuz either they will be fast enough, they will have disable or they will outrace you due to massive healing advantage :P You need to watch out for this cuz it happens not so rarely. Careless is not the same as optimistic :D

[@baumfan4466]

ever thought about people wanting to have fun in the game instead of just going for the same 3 builds every round? Theres no need to be toxic to someone that shares a fun build.

[@crystallized1676]

@@baumfan4466 Bro I'm not toxic o0 I'm just pointing out a mistake in build planning and execution. This is why he lost r.18 despite that Mega being pretty bad. You can do the same build idea and hold against that board. It has nothing to do with build preference/pick. I admit some builds don't work based on basics but it's not the case here. If anyone you are the one being toxic as you identify people playing serious builds as antifun people. And I don't mean 'serious' by 'meta' only cuz probably you will think that way knowing your type. I checked my history: last 15 runs where with all different builds. Worst one had around 100 dps, 120 hps + blind and armor so basically 15 different, serious builds. I don't think 'going for the same 3 builds' has any merit no matter whether it was directed to me or not. This build could have passed the test as well. Wasn't far off.

[@LuckOuts]

I understand you point of view, this end game board could have been way more awesome and if I planned from the start to play this I could have optimised it like crazy but during the run there were many decisions that lead to that board which one was maybe switching to the Busted Blade. Since I tend to play more flexible (or sometimes no idea what I am going to play) I tend to get these less optimised boards but you are right having some more planning into what to play will lead to more optimised builds.

[@crystallized1676]

@@LuckOuts Yeah that's what I think. Obviously this has two sides of the coin - more thinking on planning and particular important decisions (like that pig spot) will make video longer and probably force you to edit more :P I'm aware of this. Sth for sth. I want to be crystal clear here - I do not consider myself a better player than you AT ALL. You are by far the strongest BB youtuber in my opinion. However I do indeed have stronger final boards than you and there are 3 likely reasons for that. Planning is one and here you definitely have a weakness just as I have big weakness piloting slow builds. Second is envoirnment as I mostly play unranked which is slightly easier and there is no rank pressure at all. But there is also a third reason which I think is important and that's perspective. You are in my opinion too often satisfied with a just good results which hinders you in the long run. If you crave for more you will release full potential and keep further improving on the road. Final boards will be more optimised and perform better as a consequence. The thing is in BB you don't need to have great boards to win as there is nothing like knockout stage or anything along these lines, you only need good ones so the pressure to create best boards is on the player himself. If you don't put that pressure you will sleep on part of your skills :P I slept myself but thankfully to hardwood and amulets patch I was able to shrug off and that made me a better player with all that venture to crazy dps boards. And something connected with that is tempo. Everyone knows tempo is important but there are 2 schools on that: one says tempo allows to win fights and second one says tempo allows not to lose fights :P Same? Not really. Second one uses tempo to buy time for setups (I'm that school), first one wants mainly to win. It is easier to plan, execute, optimize and create strongest boards if you are type 2 player because in that case tempo is a resource not aim on it's own. Trick is not the all tempo is created equal and some tempo for achieving setups is good once other is bad :P You know it though. A lot of text but I think these are 3 reasons why you somewhat underperform in boards strength. As I said: I don't think I'm any better than you, I simply think you can do considerably better than you do and I want you to do as good as possible :)

[@LuckOuts]

Oh wow. Thanks @crystallized1676, that means a lot to me to hear that but I just want to say that without your tips, help, pointing out things that could be improved and advice, I definitely would not be as good as I am today, so I just wanted to say thanks for that, I really appreciate all you have done. The three reasons you have put here has really given me a lot to think about. Your First reason: Planning, definitely a weakness of mine, I plan one build and pivot as soon as I see something else or go into a game not knowing what build I am going to play (leads to some interesting builds too though but are often a lot more underwhelming in terms of DPS, Heals & Block) and often times I like jumping in and trying out some different/ unusual things to see how it goes (a lot of time not great haha) The second: Rank Pressure, Yeah I agree with that. Honestly not too much else to say about this The third reason: Satisfied with just good results and the tempo as well, this has given me a different perspective on going into to future games and also has given me a lot to think about too but I believe the reason you have put here will help me in future runs for sure. I will say though a build that has good results and may not optimised fully has to do in order to be able to get out Daily Videos. Also, from all the builds you have told me about and the tips/help and the advice, I think you are better player than I am @crystallized1676