Claim:
Justification:
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oh wait there IS no relevant justification
^ this is the slippery slope fallacy and is therefore invalid
Evidence:
...YEAH NONE THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHTBad idea for obvious reasons.
-people can't assess their own skill levels accurately
-giving advice that isn't the highest level won't help them beat good people in tourney
-argument defeated-
Okay, wow.
1) I did give justification... which you acknowledged by arguing with it? You literally just said "You didn't give any justification for your point of view. Now, I'm going to go argue against the justification you gave."
2) It's not slippery slope because I'm not assuming what will happen. I'm saying it has, and does happen- all the time. I get texts, IMs, PMs, FB messages, etc from a large number of people, on a regular basis, asking why when they do *insert Ramin/Leon thing here* it never seems to work out for them.
3) People, unless they're bad to an extreme level (i.e. they're just joining/don't know about the competitive scene), are typically alright at judging their own skill level, assuming they genuinely want to improve. For simplicity's sake, I'm ignoring those that have "best kid on the block" syndrome as they don't think they need to improve and would be less inclined to look. So, ignoring those, and ignoring those that are fresh, we're left with people who know about the scene, the levels of play, and want to get better. While they may not be completely accurate, they still are likely to be able to judge themselves well.
4) There's a difference between the best advice you can give someone and the best advice there is. You don't tell someone who is still practicing spacing fairs about frame traps out of grounded grab releases by using dtilt. If you do, they'll get into a match and they'll try to do that stuff instead of focusing where they should be- on their fundamentals.
You don't tell a Snake main to learn to SDI his own C4 when recovering to make it more difficult for their opponent to footstool them until they know how to C4 recover consistently and are able to DI well enough to live consistently. Otherwise they run the very real risk of C4 recovering, trying to SDI, missing/pulling a Nikita instead of detonating C4/not being able to DI in the right direction because they're so focused on SDIing the C4.
Chi says you're a decent player so I'm going to assume that you know about C4 recovering-> tech-> Breverse grenade as a recovery option for Snake, yes? Would you tell a new player to just learn how to do it, or would you tell them that it's not important right now- focus on just teching the stage consistently?
I don't know about you, but everyone I know would certainly do the latter.... which is giving advice to the level of the player instead of in general.
Have you seriously never heard the phrase "You need to walk before you can run" before? Because that's all this is- you teach them what is appropriate for their level of play so that they can preform it, move up the levels, and then they learn what is then appropriate for their new level of play.