World of Warships - Queen of the Potatoes

[@dolomaticus1180]

Well its a simple reason why she is 43% winrate: She did a lot of losing while learning the game, which is reflected in that. If we looked over her whole career I can bet that a lot of her losses were clustered near the beginning. That is why you treat every person like they can play better than you, cause that person can be a Wolf disguised as a Potato.

[@crystalwisp4536]

you just hit the nail on the head with that comment. it took me 3 years to learn the game properly so i lost a lot over those 3 years. only this year have i been doing well in comparison. i still screw up sometimes but for the most part i am doing better

[@bensmith1689]

​@@crystalwisp4536 Yup. Same here. I spent my first couple of years just playing loads with people who didn't really know how to play the game. Now I do pretty well in cruisers and DDs. Still have 48% win rate due to the massive number of battles I played not knowing what the hell I was doing.

[@onepunchbud1472]

I am currently at 65% WR the last 300 games or more because i stopped playing ships i am not good at like light cruisers while my overall is still at 54%... So yeah - recent WR matters, the rest does not

[@bensmith1689]

@@onepunchbud1472 Yeah by default I think we should look at the last ~500 -1000 games to calculate win rate

[@jamesmaclennan4525]

My PvP win rate is 46%...in closed Beta it was 65% then the herd joined us and i fell hard due to my teams constantly losing...it's stayed at 46% for the past 4 years because i win about 50% of my games nowadays..

[@22Foury]

Did anyone else see Queen of the potato and think oh gawd here he goes picking on Rita again

[@1110jesse]

My thoughts exactly

[@brentkalmbacher9092]

My reaction was oh god what did Rita do now.

[@Sir.Craze-]

Yeaaaaaaah....

[@astrithaurelia]

something to that effect yes

[@Gib01]

Hahaha!

[@kagakai7729]

A rough run-down of all the good decisions she makes over the course of this game 1:05 she starts to turn to follow her two divmates, but then realizes that a. the other flank, C, is significantly undermanned, as well having a lone (and their only) radar cruiser, escorted by only two tier seven ships. Thus, she turns to give their side support 2:38 that Tirpitz has been spotted for a while now, however, she doesn't take a pot-shot at him, as it wouldn't be worth getting spotted for longer, just to get some superstructure damage. Also, note how the course she has set takes her closer to the Tirpitz, while ALSO offering that island to duck behind if people close to B start sending cross-map shots at her broadside 3:00 turns OUT, instead of turning IN. The Tirpitz is not alone, and if that Nelson switches to HE, she would be in trouble. She chooses not to take this fight. A good call. 3:45 switches fire to the most important target, the Buffalo trying to peek her DD 4:05 IMMEDIATELY sets her secondaries on the DD the moment he appears. This means that she was anticipating him from the start. This is unicum-level game sense. 5:03 she anticipates their DD dying, and begins pushing, recognizing that the only torpedo threat on her flank is about to be gone. 7:07 people might be critical of her decision to broadside all the ships in front of her to shoot the Nagato here, but I think it's a good decision. She can't be citadelled, meaning she loses a quarter of her health absolute worst case scenario, but she's done a fair job of conserving hp up until now, and she has chosen to trade it for a full volley on a Nagato's relatively weak broadside. That's a good trade that even some unicums would make 7:20 this isn't just a potato sailing full broadside, anyways. she immediately snaps back into an angled, defensive position the moment the volley is out. 8:00 she was angled against Nagato only up until now, since the Nelson didn't have shots anyways. However, now that she's cleared that island, she immediately checks whether the Nelson has turrets pointing towards her. Even though he DOESN'T, he immediately becomes top priority for her, since his threat keeping her from bringing all turrets on the ships in front of her. 8:06 aiming for the region under the first turret, that's where the Nelson's 32mm center plating ends. She knows where to aim to get citadels. 8:51 Tirpitz about to close within 6 kilometers, she pops hydro. This is a good, albeit obvious call that many german BB players don't do. Usually you see hydro activated AFTER the torps have arrived. 11:03 she's not pushing deeper into spawn, protecting B is their top priority and she knows it. 11:40 possibly a coincidence due to a lucky turn, but she's set a new course to keep the island between herself and the Ibuki's HE spam. If intentional, this is a GREAT call 13:03 not only did she anticipate the Ibuki rounding that island, she continues to prioritize him even after the Georgia pops up, recognizing that his fires can kill her faster than that Georgia's AP, since she's angled, anyways 13:10 AGAIN, she focuses her angling on and prioritizes the person on her broadside as her most important target. The Ibuki is still there, but the Georgia sitting on her side is more dangerous 13:51 she's caught in a three way focusfire. Thus, she focuses on getting behind that island and reducing the number of ships firing at her to just the single tier seven cruiser. Also, the Georgia is close to being put out of commission, thus she focuses both secondaries and main guns on him. 15:11 slowing down, she doesn't want to risk the win by chasing a cruiser on her health. Instead, she waits for him to round the island. He doesn't, so she doesn't try to force an engagement.

[@lairdcummings9092]

Underrated comment.

[@sheridangreen146]

@@lairdcummings9092 Agreed, this is a great synopsis and gives practical tips for developing high percentage plays that the less experienced can use

[@aacannonman2896]

This comment really deserves more likes than the amount it has, I'll actually make screenshots of this for some friends of mine

[@MrRadialdrift]

Interesting hey. She is only 43% and makes good decisions. Makes me believe strongly in the fact that win rate means nothing.

[@kagakai7729]

@@MrRadialdrift Unless it's an extreme case, like a unicum intentionally trolling in a 40% Smurf account, or a potato who bought an account with 60%, or someone who has 10,000 games in Giulio Cesare or Massachusetts, you generally see winrate reflect ability.

[@SenadCicak]

Jingles: "Rng-Jesus was not on her side today!", she sitting with 7 citadels! And me beeing happy on a match with just 2 thinking it was a good week!

[@bagustesa]

gotta swipe the card for premium days

[@SenadCicak]

@@bagustesa Or play more matches with Russians. :P [hint, hint]

[@benjaminlee4937]

I would say rng was on her side. Getting kills is just about prioritizing weaker targets, nothing really to do with rng. The cits on the other hand are.

[@STNeish]

Ya, I haven't landed a citadel hit with any of my battleships in over a year.

[@SenadCicak]

@@benjaminlee4937 Especially in F. Der Große those German guns have terrible alpha.

[@ryanlahart534]

Jingles: "Her shots are protecting the last remaining destroyer on her team." Me: *counts 2 destroyers left* 🤔

[@eliasvenaas1685]

Good old Jingles moment right there ;-)

[@DJVC1985]

Jingles: Well, the enemy KV-2 must be somewhere here because otherwise, the Reaper Leviathan wouldn't be able to attack my Fortress here in Conan Exiles.

[@117thWing]

She's just that good that she proactively made sure her team's last destroyer survived before it was their last destroyer.

[@jonathanbair523]

Yep its the kind of thing we expect from him and love about him.... Even with the new computer and all... What can I say, he has skill, lol... Seams like Crystal is on her way to boosting the win % and loved watching that...

[@Wolfshead009]

Weeeellllllllll, it was the last... left on that side of the map?? ( I know, I'm reaching.)

[@OneOceanTenOfficial]

Great job, Crystal! Badass!

[@Unknown-rf1iy]

Did not expect to see you here Chief i mean Ocean

[@OneOceanTenOfficial]

@@Unknown-rf1iy Big fan of Jingles :-)

[@oCapta1n]

Hey jingles I found out about your channel a couple weeks ago. Now I’m playing wows as well. And enjoying video you have made.

[@Persian-Immortal]

Welcome!

[@andyreid7274]

Fresh meat for the salt mines!!

[@amisunbalanced7207]

I found Jingles a few months back and started with WoWs too! welcome!

[@ELCADAROSA]

Jingles is an exceptional KZbinr. Even if he’s being exceptionally crap at times. :D He's even narrated or added his perfect-if-not-quite-Sir-Sean-Conneryish tones to a few historical videos.

[@neomotau6127]

i found jingles about a year ago and have been watching his videos ever since.i got hooked when he spent the first 2 minutes of a video laughing at an in game chat comment that the player made....ive been playing wows now ever since my country went into lockdown, been trying not to be a potato but its harder than it seems🤣🤣🤣

[@Schnittertm1]

Jingles just confirmed that the Blyskawica is not a destroyer, despite what the symbol tries to tell you.

[@hondacivic8222]

That shit can play like a Leander and I love her for it

[@thelastholdout]

I see where the mixup is. The Blys does die and leave the Maass as the last remaining destroyer, but it happened about a minute later than Jingles thought it did.

[@douggalbreath736]

Hey, the Blys is one of the best light cruisers in the game....

[@taterkaze9428]

Blys is one of my most-played ships - 649 battles. Love her history, a true legend. Sad to say she suffers in the current meta of fast reloaders and reworked CV mechanics. Power creep is real.

[@drewdane40]

#MakeJinglesCrapAgain

[@FolgoreCZ]

Gareth: *Sends friends video to Jingles to boost her morale.* Jingles: *Proceeds to call her 43% potato the whole time.* Well done, Jingles. Well done.

[@HfknK]

Yes, I noticed that, as well. Win Rate isn't based on a single player, it's a team rating. It's not a single player game. lol

[@tobiasbernhard4332]

@@HfknK i see you haven´t listened to Jingles explanation on why Winrate is indeed a SinglePlayer stat.

[@Persian-Immortal]

I wish Jingles could call me that!!! I would then work harder at the salt mines.

[@MrRickybubbles]

Tobias Bernhard Except what he says is impossible, but not like jingles has ever made a mistake is it? This IS a team game, you can be the best player in the world, but if you are in a bad team you’re going to lose. That is why top clans will have high win rate, because it is a good team, not because individual players are good!

[@MrRickybubbles]

SpartiuS94 Oh ok, sorry, it’s only like that for a couple of games, I didn’t realise, feels like it’s constant, but you obviously know better and know what I have experienced better than me! Funny how nearly all my krakens, confederates and high calibre medals have been from games I lost then. Also funny that at tier 3 I went out in a destroyer, killed 6 ships and did over 180k damage before I was killed, I was the first on my team to die, so it was 8 on my team vs 3 enemies, surprise surprise we lost that game. Must be because I’m such a bad player! I’ll try and do better next time and kill the entire enemy fleet by myself!

[@winghungyuen2726]

Now this was a stellar FDG match. I’ve never had such a game in that ships myself. This is why I don’t worry about win rate too much. Because it’s only one stat and can’t tell the whole story. Good on Crystal for this performance and good on Gareth for showing it to the world.

[@winghungyuen2726]

Gareth Fairclough Ah well, the main message got across. Never was the best at delivering messages in an elegant manner as Mr. Jingles. ;)

[@SensationXBlack]

Everyone can have good games, regardless of what winrate they have. It's just that high winrates have good games more often.

[@jakegross9428]

4:10 “only surviving destroyer”.... *looks at the team roster to see two triangles *

[@KimwPerks]

That was a joy to watch. I rarely get potatoes on the enemy team and am struggling to maintain my 50% win rate. She captained that FDG so well. It was awesome to see what that ship is capable off.

[@andyreid7274]

Well played by Crystal. Hope her struggles in life ease up for her. Thanks for highlighting this Mighty Gnome Overlord.

[@MajesticDemonLord]

'Last surviving Destroyer' Eeeerrrr Jingles, they still have 2 DDs, they've only lost a single ship....

[@Mr.P.Griffith]

It's called foreshadowing. lol

[@jarigustafsson7620]

so much for identifying everything right in GLORIOUS 4K MONITOR!!!!

[@acrandal]

If I was in the other DD, then the assessment would be spot on. "One remaining DD that matters" /sigh

[@casperreininga3253]

was he not mentioning the friendly DD?

[@flymeperson9647]

4:06 Yes, the Maass is the only surviving destroyer on the team! A blyscawica is simply a fast cruiser with good stealth, torpedos, a smokescreen, an engine boost, and destroyer guns but with the added bonus of not having a citadel! Wait, that sound a lot like a destroyer. Hmmmmmmmmm

[@mattevans4377]

Jingles: It's not the matchmakers fault, it's your fault. The current match: Am I a joke to you?

[@lint8391]

Her 2 division mates were bottom of the team for XP in top tier ships. That might be part of the reason for the 43% win rate.

[@LeatherCladVegan]

That is not the reason. The reason is that she had to learn like everybody else, and her first game counted for 1/1 of her WR, the next game 1/2, next 1/3 up until now, where her games are counting for 1/5000-odd percentage points of her WR, and as such it is impossible for her to claw it back. People with Unicum WRs simply started a new account after they learned how to play.

[@lint8391]

@@LeatherCladVegan I have a 63% win rate over thousands of battles. No re-roll for me. My win rate after 50 battles was below average because I was new to the game and learning the basics. After 100 battles it was up to 50%. After 300 battles it was up to 57%. From there till 1500 battles it drifted up to 62% to 63%. Where it has stayed ever since. That was playing almost entirely solo. When I divisioned with my son we had a 70% ish win rate. I would stress that I merely consider myself a competent player that just happens to have enjoyed playing certain ships at certain tiers over and over again.

[@LeatherCladVegan]

@@lint8391 Sure. But you get my point, right? Every game you play has less of an impact on your WR than the game before it. P.S. A 63% WR would put you in roughly the top 0.5% of players, including re-rolls.

[@LeatherCladVegan]

@@lint8391 It seems to me that people make the mistake of thinking that 'half of all people win half of all battles', but this isn't true because we didn't all start at the same time. So you, being in the top 0.5% on the SA servers, at least, would kick my ass every time. This would smash my WR into the ground, whilst doing very little to raise your already amazing rate. Because this is the way things work, remember that 'winning streak' doesn't factor into WR. I could be on a 20-win tear, and that would make me a dangerous opponent, but it would not be reflected at all in my WR. Does this make sense?

[@AgentFrosty]

I was one of her div mates in this game, in the Soyuz. It was...not my best showing by far, obviously. lol. I went to cover the western flank while she covered the east, ended up getting boxed in by the rest of my own teammates where my only way out was backwards or show two Georgias my broadside in a turn, was perma-spotted, and consequently farmed to death in short order. I do put part of the blame on my teammates on that flank, but it was also my fault for getting caught in that situation in the first place. Not to mention, iirc this was only my 2nd or 3rd game in the Soyuz, and the Russian BB's were my first line I decided to grind through as well, so that should also tell you how early in my WoWS career this game was. Not quite a year later and my WR is 50% exactly in Random, 57%/59% for new/old Ranked respectively (obviously Coop is higher, 97% because...well, it's Coop. lol). I'm not unicum, but I'm not potato. I have games where I make all the right decisions, have great map awareness and can correctly anticipate what the enemy will do, and games were I flat out just go full potato and am left sitting there realizing just how badly I played. I'm a good role/utility player, and I play for team victories as opposed to farming damage, so my total damage per game may be on the lower side (between 80-110k on average these days) but the damage I do is usually calculated and on priority targets that will help win the game. That being said, our 3rd div mate, Steve, is a complete potato and he knows it and relishes in his role, we have great fun trying to figure out which way he'll end up at the bottom of the ocean in each match. The Crystal of today is very much the same player you see in this video. She has bad games, sure, but I'll be the first to tell you she's better than I am. I honestly believe she is one of those few players whose WR hides her true abilities. I can't count how many times she's held off and controlled an entire flank on her own when the rest of the team with her withered and died, or ran. She is better than her WR lets on, full-stop. If she were to start a new account today, I can guarantee her WR would be in the high 50's, if not low 60% range. Like explained by LCV here, it took her so many games to get her skills developed that by the time she had, it didn't matter anymore. If you ever see her on the EU server and end up playing against her, it will be in your best interest to take her out quickly, because she most definitely is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and games like the one above are not uncommon for her anymore. Unless she's in a CV. She sucks at CV's, she'll tell you that herself. xD

[@casperreininga3253]

This person I sincerly congratulate. She gave an outstanding performance here. And when it comes to winrates, while I am not a denier, I do feel like my 52% winrate isn't really deserved, considering that I make far more mistakes then what I see her do here (and I have more then 1000 matches under my belt already).

[@rtwiceorb770]

dmg is noting to look at I have about same winrate as you and I do 60k on awerage lol

[@riquelmeone]

Thanks Jingles for choosing this one. I can highly relate to it as every once in a blue moon I achieve more than 150k damage. I am on my way to this ship right now, having played hundreds of battles in the Bismarck. Really enjoyed that!

[@landochabod7]

To be fair, the Bismarck is not a good damage dealer. The guns are small for her tier, you need to show broadside to use them all (that means you'll get penned in return, which is bad even if you won't get citadelled), and they have poor accuracy. She can win games because she can push with secondaries+hydro, but if damage is what you want there are better options (Amagi, Richelieu). At T9, Georgia and JB can often pull 240k games, if you know what you're doing.

[@jamesgreeniii147]

Every player should watch this video. I found it amusing and relevant. She made the right choices at the right time, played the correct objectives in her boat and used great target selection. Great game! I would div with her. Thanks Jingles for another great video! Signed, the (STW-A)GreenWeeny.

[@robertmeehan3072]

i am ready for my next tour in the salt mines Jingles!! lol

[@mastex5575]

Our evil and mighty gnome overlord does not ask if you are ready! He demands that you are ready at all times!

[@craigbrightman2632]

eeteeeeee was a nice @@mastex5575 deeedeeeeddeeeeeeeeeee

[@mcgoo721]

Moments like when she was charging into 3 enemy ships is why this is my favorite ship so far. It's rarely optimal but when my secondaries can pop off it's so fun.

[@cadeypie]

I remembered when this was on iChase's channel and he said "I'm not gonna publish her winrate." First thing I hear in your vid is her winrate. Love it. You're fantastic.

[@GBisme]

I thought I'd seen this replay somewhere before!

[@petermoeller5901]

"I remembered when this was on iChase's channel and he said "I'm not gonna publish her winrate."" Jingles seems to not care when he talks people down, he does it all the time, unfortunately.

[@mahmoodali5043]

We love you uncle jingles Salty when salt is due, and kind-hearted fuzziness when it's due Thanks Jingy

[@sambone2809]

though unlikely, she definitely could've thrown the match by dying, her teammates had next to no health.

[@greatitbroke]

That was amazing. WOw. Great Job Chrystal. You are not a potato for sure. You should be up in the 60% for sure playing like that. I took a break for a few years from WOT and had a 45% WR people thought I sucked. But my Performances showed otherwise. I was told that by clanmates I joined in game. One guy said I don't play anywhere near like a red player So take heart. It will get better.

[@tim1polman]

"unlucky with rng." really? The times I've shot at broadside ships aiming at the waterline, hitting the bow, stern and superstructure, and just getting overpens, maybe some pens and no citadels at all beg to differ that this was bad rng. Sometimes it really makes you wonder what you're doing wrong aiming wise. -.-

[@TheMan-jw5ro]

I am the master and commander of the over penetration. I see flat broadside and all I can think is overpen.

[@suddennr1]

I,m wondering exactly this now, happened several times recently where I've had broadside cruiser at point blank and getting nothing but overpens.

[@HrothgarHeavenlight]

For example with british AP you should aim way above waterline, try to hit ship in middle of height. Best chance for penetration and citadels (though 15 inch and higher, lower ones dont have much chance ).

[@KimwPerks]

The FDG guns troll me sooo bad. I have never seen that many citadels. Ever. Over hundreds of games 😂 Overpen, bounces and ricochet on broadside, less then 8km away ships are my bread and butter.

[@atpyro7920]

Sometimes sigma Sometimes dispersion Sometimes RNGsus really, _reaaaaaaly_ hates you.

[@Malhadras]

Key element (in my opinion) and what gives a nice suggestion that Crystal will improve and get her winrate >50% is - that she was NOT CAMPING in a (brawler) BB - and was actually charging in. Well done. The biggest contribution to losses is the campers, specially in BBs that would do well much closer. It doesn't mean, that they need to yolo, but being able to support your cruisers and DDs, like Crystal did here, is a MAJOR advantage that can easily make the difference between winning and losing. I applaud for Crystal and her performance, which was astonishing and she really carried the team to win... and I am convinced, that if she plays like that in the future, she will be raising her winrate rapidly. Well done, and I welcome her to my team, anytime - winrates be damned.

[@landochabod7]

To be fair, it's easy to charge when you're top tier, no one overmatches you but you overmatch everyone (Nelson, Nagato and Buffalo, in this case), and you have good secondaries and hydro as well. When I play JB for some reason I always find Musashis in front of me, and that's another matter entirely...

[@pipeepapofckgug3633]

The way Jingles pronounced Rich El Lou sounds like he's talking about a mexican drug lord :D

[@thomasbernecky2078]

From a 47% wr player, thanks Crystal, you and Jingles have given me hope to improve.

[@Zappyguy111]

Trying to shoo away flux pop up, only to realise it's not mine.

[@Eon2641]

Same, I clicked on it and sat there for a second wondering why the video paused lol

[@HotShot1359]

Been watching these replays for the better part of 2 months now and decided to get back into World of Warships after all these years. I don't even remember when I last played Warships, but it was back when the "Rock, Paper, Scissors" gameplay was still a thing. Hope for a good replay to send to you Jingles!

[@AllAhabNoMoby]

I have a 50% WR. And I have never even come close to a match like that.

[@ivvan497]

You need to wait for a good RNG.

[@Scarheart76]

I was this sort of player until I had a game like this about a year into playing this game. 44% WR, couldn't figure out why I was bad. Starting watching videos, started having games like this once I started paying attention. I still have bad games, but as of now, I am at 56% WR and I don't division. A lot of self-improvement comes from realizing you want to get better and take steps to get better instead of pointing fingers at other factors. Bravo to the young lady in the German battleship! Well played! I do hope she has many more matches like this one in the future!

[@MrRedRye]

You called it exactly right with the stat deniers. After 3000 games you have more than a big enough sample size to draw conclusions. You should always look at the stats holistically but winrate is a great snapshot of overall performance and impact in game. It can be seen that players with lower winrates also usually have lower average stats in all other areas too (damage, accuracy, cap points/defends, spotting etc). PS: the FdG is not an easy ship to do well in!

[@The_real_Arovor]

Don’t look only at the winrate! Look at average XP over time, average DMG over time, winrate over time and „personal rating“ over time. If you’re not a unicum player and it doesn’t change upwards, you should try to improve. If you don’t improve you stay a potato! I don’t care if somebody has a bad winrate, i care if that person shows no interest in improving, which is reflected in stats over time and constant whining about bad matchmaking, other players, mechanics and other stuff.

[@kano4282]

FANTASTIC match, commentary, and spoken moral of the story!!!! Very much appreciate that replay. ❤

[@zoojuice7893]

This is why I've stopped playing solo, its far more fun playing with a divison and you get better stats and over all more oppurtunities in game.

[@Nukefest2179]

When i play in div with my friends, we tend to get upmatched in 90% of our matches. It's not funny after a while, but we keep trucking on.

[@landochabod7]

You don't get better stats if your div mates are like Crystal's: they ended up bottom of the team, both of them.

[@petermoeller5901]

@@landochabod7 The thing is that in a division people generally communicate and coordinate actions. At least that is what you'd expect. It is this coordination that will give better results... but you need division mates with at least some skill, fair enough.

[@nvrumi]

This made my day. I'm not really a WoW player, but I can tell a good play when I see one. Well done, Crystal.

[@jage1559]

Jingles, please. The Å in Skåne is pronounced like the word "awe" in English.

[@shawndavis8576]

Careful! He's English! Tell him how to pronounce something and he'll probably butcher it worse on purpose next time!

[@Tom55data]

Just be glad he recognized it as a DD ;) You should try the Jingles Captain - best captain in the game.

[@GM-rv1dn]

@@shawndavis8576 and from now on Skåne will be called Dave

[@garhull11]

The lad has been in Sweden and yet did not learn how to pronunce that one. Fair enough, he went to see tanks but still

[@Ned-Ryerson]

Hey, he clearly said "Scania". ;)

[@adamthethird4753]

This video contains life advice. Not just game advice. You are awesome jingles.

[@sabre0smile]

Well, keep playing like this and that winrate isn't going to be that low for long. Also, I use flux too :D

[@adamcharman8726]

why spend money on blue light filtering glasses when you can install a program that does that for you :D

[@ainumahtar]

I would certainly not mind having this gun RNG on FGD though, god damn.

[@Sir.Craze-]

Isn't blue light eye damage BS? And it's only instinctual tiredness it effect? Waaaaait. Hold on. Have I missed something? I think I've missed something... 🎩👌

[@ainumahtar]

@@Sir.Craze- Afaik there is little conclusive evidence to support it is a significant issue, but it also has not been definitively disproved. Either way, avoiding it before going to bed helps some people sleep (my gf sleeps a lot better if she uses blue filters). As a multiple colorblind (proto- and deuteropania) person I kind of can't avoid it, so I've looked into it a bunch, but until there's more research done on it, my stance is that it's basically inconclusive.

[@TrangleC]

Nobody believes it, but some players in such games (and other types of games) are just persistently unlucky and their win rate does not reflect their skill level. I'm not a superstitious guy, but some games seem to try really hard making me one. Towards the end of my roughly 6000 battle long World of Tanks career, I had gotten pretty used to being among the highest scoring player in most battles I played and I was getting cranky when I didn't do at least 2000 to 3000 damage, I had a bunch of "Marks of Excellence" on my tanks and I could hold my own against Unicorns. Happened several times that some purple dude killed 7 or 8 of my team mates and then I stopped him. As soon as I got out of mostly playing all those shitty low tier garbage tanks and unlocked the first few capable tier 7+ machines, my WN8 rating, which had been climbing slowly but steadily till then, shot up at a 45 degree angle in the graph. Yet, my winrate was still well below 50%. Despite my overall stats "going green", I think I hadn't even gone above 48%, if I remember correctly. I still had those evenings where I would lose 30 battles in a row, because my team evaporated around me and I ended up being the only guy who did more than 500 damage before being overrun. That was quite common, actually, happened at least twice a week or so, but I don't remember ever having had a single comparably long winning streak, not once. I was actually surprised my winrate was even near 50%. The way it felt, it should have been way lower. Of course I know what Confirmation Bias is and so I actually did a statistical study of another game I played a lot: Minesweeper. I don't know whether you ever played it, but it happens pretty often that you encounter situations where you cannot deduct the position of a mine and have to guess where it is. Often there are 2 or 4 veiled squares left, with 1 or 2 mines in them and there is no way of knowing where. You got to guess and you got a 50% chance to get it right. I had the feeling I failed at those guesses way more often than not, so I started counting and writing down the results. After recording no less than 11 000 instances of me having to guess with a 50% chance, it turned out I had failed in more than 77% of cases. That is so improbable and skewed that the most likely explanation is that the game is cheating and is deciding where to put the mine after you made your guess. But why would it do that? Why would the programmer want to cheat and frustrate the player of such a single player game? It doesn't seem to make sense. That I could have been so unlucky over so many games played, doesn't make sense either though. That is what I meant when I said it seems games are trying to make me superstitious. In WoT I stopped judging people by their winrates and I stopped believing those predictions that mod made at the beginning of the match. They didn't match up with my experiences at all. I think I must have won more battles with a 30% win probability team than I won with a 50% win probability team. I didn't write those down, so that might be confirmation bias, though.

[@garethaustin1671]

Epic game Crystal, very well played! Thanks to Jingles for his honesty regarding Crystal. There was no disservice done and rather amplified Crystal 's achievements and gameplay. Mucho respect Gnome Overlord!

[@jacobliefeld9248]

I mean, she’s playing well. But she’s also getting awfully lucky with that German Battleship accuracy.

[@Eon2641]

I dunno, most of her big hits were fired within ~10km. Is that particularly lucky? I guess she had good citadel rolls.

[@Ali80076]

well most of her hits were at less than 15 kms so dispersion does not effect it that much, but 1 or 2 long shots there were very lucky, most shells missed but the ones that did hit managed to hit citadel.

[@BiOhAzZaRDqqggbb]

I'm a 52% guy and i can definitely tell you, i'd have thrown my ship into the trash in so many different occasions to crystal, kudos, well played. The constant and unwavering thinking, instead of getting taken away with the moment, is the most important quality in a wows player imo. She is probably not gonna be a 43% wr player for long. Some people just fuck up royally when they start the game, as expected, and have a very tall order of repairing their account to reflect their true skill after they learn the game. Case in point.

[@petermoeller5901]

What you say should be obvious. The win rate reflects the average skill over the entire time since a player started. Crystal's WR for the last month would be substantially higher than 43%. If Jingles, the storyteller he is, thinks he can make his "story" more interesting by riding the "43% potato", he will do it.

[@meleardil]

I am the same kinda potato... I have been playing WoW since the very beginning, but I play just few hours a week. I am a "recreational" gamer... So, my stats are bad, I am not that experienced, and make bad decisions. I have only 2 Tier X ships, because that is what I was able "grind" with the amount of hours I played. The rules change faster than I can be used to them, and all of my favorite ships were power creeped into crappiness. But I play good enough that more than 50% of the game I am in the top 3.

[@M4ni4cZ]

Few hours a week since the beginning, should make you a very experienced played. So you could easily do better than 50%. Although, fair point to you, the game changes too fast, and if you dont spend time to look on the changes, then you do play with a handicap

[@meleardil]

@@M4ni4cZ I have a 50.42% win rate. worldofwarships.eu/en/community/accounts/519041804-Meleardil/!/pvp/overview/ In some ships I am very good, in some ships I am the dumbest potato. For example in Kamikaze I have 60% win rate, my highest base XP was 4347 and my highest damage is 254449. Yet I am STILL a potato, because I have less than 4000 battles since open beta... for the 4000 battles I have 1263 devastating strikes, 437 first blood and 92 high caliber and 22 kraken. So... Am I good or bad? :P

[@MrGrimsmith]

@@meleardil Better than I am, that's for sure! I chop and change ships too much, I really should stick with I'm less terrible at TBH - RN Light Cruisers and German BBs. I just want to try all the shiny ships out, you know? And apparently I have a short att...hey look! A squirrel! :P

[@Autobotmech]

Thanks Jingles, the general encouragement helped

[@TheLesserWeevil]

I'm 4 minutes in and wondering what the hell I have to do to get this level of accuracy on my FdG main armament.

[@ScottKenny1978]

Sacrifice a couple of goats?

[@clothar23]

@@ScottKenny1978 Ja we will go with this mein Herr..goats....

[@joshuadupay1285]

Its great to see that clearly she put in the work, and it showed in this battle. Great battle Crystal, and thanks for the great video Jingles!

[@benjamindover2601]

Looks to me like a classic example of a formally bad player that has spent some time learning the game and will be slowly creeping up the Win rate %.

[@The_real_Arovor]

It’s a slow and painful creep though 🥺

[@ShiningDarknes]

yeah but if you have spent that many games as a 43% you need to maintain something like 70% over 1k games to even put a dent in your lifetime winrate. In other words you basically have to suddenly become unicum otherwise you will be a potato forever

[@petermoeller5901]

Sounds like you got it. Maybe Jingles will get it one day? Jingles is a storyteller. He never lets the truth get in the way of a good story.

[@VosperCDN]

Yeah, that last move to stop under cover and let the clock run out, is absolutely the thinking ahead that showcases a good player.

[@kurumi394]

You don't really respect the Nelson's guns do you? You respect the fires they cause

[@DevilWarshipper]

You ought to respect the AP though, even 2 tiers higher. Nelson can obliterate almost anything it catches broadside (aside from the Germans), assuming it can survive to get in range. Don’t assume every Nelson driver is an HE spamming potato!

[@landochabod7]

Not more so than the fires set by a KGV or a Monarch. The Nelson does have some fearsome AP, though. What holds her back is the so-so accuracy, but she can easily do 15-20k on a broadside FdG, at medium range.

[@matheson31]

Jingles I have been watching your youtube videos for the best part of the last 2 years now and I finally got the technology and will to actually play the game. I have World of Warships on mobile, Xbox, and I just got it about 2 months ago on pc. On mobile I have no idea because I haven't played it for the best part of the last 8 months. On Xbox I believe I hold a damage record in the USS Atlanta B at 197k and I have a 56% win rate and I have about 1,300 battles played. On pc I think I have a 61% win rate and I have about 1,000 battles played. I don't have a lot of games because I only play on weekends but I'm not complaining. Love your videos, keep up the great work!

[@jamesli5343]

This match was featured by iChase last week. Took you long enough Jingles.

[@mrnice81]

Jeez, i searched my YT history and this comment section for half an hour because i KNEW i had seen this battle arleady, just didn't know where. Thanks for the reminder. Still a decent battle but i guess ill skip this one today ...

[@davidmanwarin221]

Love the video. Heartfelt praise, really enjoyed that. Also awesome job to Crystal!

[@danielkroeker2229]

to every one says first be warned I Have A Blue Shell

[@CardSharkOfficial]

There are behaviors that may artificialy lower someone's win ratio without him being actually overly bad. When you try to make as much XP per ship as possible everyday in a constrained time by stopping at the first victory to get the bonus then switching to another ship. It ensures that you will stop at the first win but may experience several defeats before. Moreover i may not be the only one, when i get a poor streak due to unlucky matchmaking or being a potato myself, once i get my first victory in a ship I am all too happy to switch to another boat rather than fighting a win for each defeat I experienced.

[@jamielonsdale3018]

7:40 Jingles, I just wanted you to know that I have 5x T10 and 4x T8 and have not yet played 1600 games, let alone 2000. I'm above average in cruisers, unicum in destroyers, super unicum in aircraft carriers (not that I actually play them more than a game per week if that) and fried potato in battleships, because they're too slow to unfuck themselves if they make a mistake, and I suck at WASD hacks in ships with double digit rudder shifts. You certainly don't need 2000 battles to get into an FDG. You can get a tier 10 within 600 PvP games if you spend about 3 or 4 hours on PvE practising your aim. I would know, because that's how many battles it took for me to get myself my Gearing, which was my first T10.

[@steeljawX]

I'd say that was very impressive. She battleship'd correctly and didn't long-range bombard, edge-of-the-map-camp like a niche of BB captains do. But she didn't "Leroy Jenkin's" charge either. She knew when to fight and when to survive and she had target priority and awareness of her surroundings. She took hits when she needed to and tried to take them at angles as optimally as she could. I'd also say that the general rule of collisions apply with that run in with the Dmitry Donskoy; unless absolutely and indubitably done with malice and the intent to troll, fault is never with the Battleships or the Carriers. So I'd have to call this a nearly perfect game. Ideally, more kills were deserved, but supporting the team towards victory is something a lot of players need to learn how to do. Great replay.

[@nazamroth8427]

Sadly, Jingles, it is entirely possible to be a decent player in all sorts of games, and still have a winrate in the low 40% ranges. That is online gaming for you. Full disclaimer before the accusations: I *am* abysmal at WoWS. But in many other games I was actually quite decent at, my team tended to be more of an obstacle to victory than the enemy. Yes, things average out, but the average is below the frog's ass.

[@ainumahtar]

Except you can actually look at your gameplay and see where you went wrong. There's no reason whatsoever to be below 48% or so. Maybe you're too passive (not contributing for the sake of 'playing it safe') or too aggressive (suiciding early), one of those is usually the main problem.

[@nazamroth8427]

@@ainumahtar I tend to suicide early in most games. But I would say that if I took 3/5 enemies with me, and my remaining 4 teammates still lose against the remaining 2 enemies, it is not exactly my fault.

[@AlanDampog]

jingles advice for WoW ring true for every part of life. thanks jingles!

[@restarting_krnl]

Win rate is a terrible measure of player performance nowadays, consider how the player base today trying to pull down all your quirky performances in numerous ways

[@gfg_horseman7159]

Great play!!!! Good situational awareness and great aim, good positioning and angling! That was a treat to see :)

[@paulvamos7319]

Amazing game Crystal and thanks Gareth for sending it to Jingles!! This is why I could care less about Win Rates!

[@dudochnicht8546]

Very nice game Crystal Warrior...and fine job by Jingles narrating the progress of a former Potato.

[@acethefiredragon8525]

Only jingles can compliment and praise someone so much, and still call them a 43% potato the whole time.

[@BPKPhoenix]

That is DEFINITELY something to expect from someone who has learned the game, grinded through the hellstorm of potatoes to become a great player and proves that 42% winrate is just a number that can change. I've seen near-unicum players just to the most potato things at tier 9-10 because they're just padding stats at the lower tiers. Awesome video Jingles and awesome gameplay Crystal!

[@davidlabedz2046]

Great game to watch. I wish that I could potato like Crystal more often! Well played along with excellent Jingles commentary!

[@matthewhurst6099]

Gg krystal great to see a big score for someone who may not have that happen often. Keep going you are clearly improving at a great rate.

[@crystalwisp4536]

that was my new high record!

[@northernzeus768]

Wow! That was amazing. Congrats to her. She will always remember that game I think.

[@TheYang2208]

before watching: betting that jingles uses the phrase “Even a broken clock is right twice a day”

[@DarthPhallix]

A class act as always, Jingles. As a Canadian, I still watch your Haida review video periodically and get misty eyed. On a side note, the next time they're looking for a Conductor for Thomas the Tank Engine, I'm personally going to pen an online petition to ensure that they at least call you up for consideration. Other than casting the occasional filthy dissident into the Salt Mines, I feel that it would be a role that you were born to play, bud.

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

She potato'd her way into a really really good play towards the end with the crossfire.

[@elmerstevenson8071]

For a " Queen of Potatoes " that was a hella good match. Way to go.

[@jediknight1294]

I had a truly horrendous early career whilst trying to tweak my gaming setup to deal with my.Cerebral Palsy so I'm used to the low skill status. I learned a lot and spent a good amount of time watching KZbin stuff to try and learn and improve once I got everything setup to be OK. Protip, not being in agony in the seat and having pain tremors really helps. As does getting your anti spasm meds redosed.

[@TorchCad30]

Congratulations! Crystal for such awesome show...nicely done and to Gareth for all the support you show your friend. 🤝👍

[@thecityforever1215]

Great to see you use f.lux as well Jingles! That filter has saved my eyes significant strain and averted innumerable headaches.

[@startrekker4596]

For a minute, I thought the title was a reference to King Fredericks great potato scheme

[@fuglbird]

A very nice game by Crystal. I'm not surprised to see a player with a 43 % win rate play well. She was not only focusing on a high score. She was focusing on the objective and was supporting her team. It was good to see. In my clan we are several players that have a win rate near 43 %, when we play separately. Three of us playing together in a division have a win rate of 73 %. Just a tiny little corporation between players increases the win rate amazingly.

[@rpryce2140]

I hope, after this fabuolus performance, that Crystal has a long list of invitations to division up with folks. I'd take on my team, any day of the week!

[@evoSieg]

That's why people who call out low-winrate people should keep their mouths shut, unless the potatoes are hard-core potato-ing. At that point they should advise instead of berate. Good job, Crystal!

[@bertjesklotepino]

Jingles, you saved the day with this release

[@aaronbanks7167]

Well done, Crystal! Better game than I've ever managed.

[@hondacivic8222]

Email: doesn't get noticed Garret: I'll fucking send it again

[@chanisarmir5991]

I have about the same win rate. I've tried to learn from my own mistakes, and put anything I've learned from watching these videos into practice. I am getting better. It's also helped that I've pretty much stopped playing Random, and mostly play Coop and Scenarios, to help with my confidence level. I will play Random occasionally. The drama there really makes it loose some of the joy in playing. Watching Crystal's game, it really gives me hope that I can become a much better player, and my teammates won't sit there and groan when they see my name in the line up.

[@Sause0]

a well-driven ship is a work of art! amazing game Crystal!

[@TheOnyxRebellion]

You’ve inspired me to make my own videos about world of warships and world of tanks, thank you for the entertainment

[@Narkissos_1]

i think the collision with the dm donskoy was her fault , she saw the maneuver so she should try to pass from the stern and not the bow . also in irl ships u have to pass port-port or from the stern almost never bow.

[@dolomaticus1180]

I think you should also give a shout out to the teammates who were with her. Cause I have had plenty of times where I would wreck a ship, then watch them escape to heal up or destroy my team cause my backup would ignore the ship. Having a team that can finish off targets you beat into a pulp is something to be treasured.

[@gonotgone1]

That was a fantastic game and shows a player clearly learning how to get better

[@karlsmink7037]

Nice job Crystal. Nice job Gareth. Nice job Jingles.

[@Schugger1]

Well played and a well deserved win. Keep it up :)

[@johndejong2390]

That was a great performance and based on that performance your 43% winrate is immaterial. I do question the performance of your div mates, their positioning was questionable and early demise inevitable. You seem to have very good map awareness and your target selection was perfect. keep up the good work!

[@Vhailor2003]

12:43 Docking computer is at it again.

[@Lucians_legacy]

Solid battleship play, you love to see it.

[@JessWLStuart]

​ @crystal wisp This game is inspiring to me! I figure I should focus on my own mistakes and improve, because I can only change myself. Between your performance and Jingles commentary, it's inspiring to see the 'focus only on what I can change' approach encouragement!

[@radioactive9861]

A Jingles WOWS video entitled: "Queen of the Potatoes"...how can I NOT watch....

[@angelmaldonado7967]

BB's,Cv's, DD's, and CR's yoloing at the beginning of the match in tier 10, and you sit there going WTF. I had 3 in one match, it was unbelievable. It was so tier 1 to watch that happen.

[@brucescott5387]

despite what it says in the right hand column of the AP overmatch chart on the WoWS wiki for armor thresholds, 26 mm plating will not bounce 15 inch AP. the caliber of these guns is 380/381 mm and the required caliber to overmatch is only 371 mm.

[@jreimer9487]

Classy win, message received. damn that 2 brothers map

[@brendanrisney2449]

Never has a KZbin title interested me more.

[@joshakers4223]

Wow, that was just awsome...did not see that much damage she made happen!!!! Thats a real good player!!