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Yup. And he's built quite the following of new / scrubby smash 4 players who think beating 6 year old children on for glory and making combo videos out of the footage means UBER SKILL.
Yeah...For Glory =/= Skill.
Dude /claps THIS perfect man
For Glory montages are the cancer of smash 4.
Alpharad did state that he's not that great at Smash (it was stated once when he did a collab with StylesX2/Zero). Pretty sure the video's entire purpose was to prevent the "6-year old" players from continuing to play like that. The stuff he pointed out is actually good for most games since tunnel vision actually is a thing; he's just restating it in a game-specific video, which he did mention that he was doing exactly that.
Agreed, and I like Alpharad so I'm positive he has good intentions.
Like you said, he has made his name by abusing the bad habits of awful players.
Nope. If you're not being punished by a better player for each mistake you make, you're not learning anything aside fron the tiny basics and common sense. You're not going to be able to educate anyone without the experience of losing HARD to a much better player over and over, and over.
Alpharad beats up on weaker players, and now he is telling them why he is able to, in the hopes that knowing their bad habits will allow them to improve. Yo do not need to be a master to exploit a bad player's mentality, and as such you do not need to be a master to teach said bad player why their mentality is bad.
0/8
His Little Mac 101 was genius, don't be ignorant of it's beauty. Most definitely my second favorite 101, right behind Rosalina's, of course.
That's not how it works, if a person is absolutely destroying you, you should probably change your play style to counter your opponents.
Never i will play the same playstyle because if i get beat i wil never win i will never lose, i like it like that and theres that so no , im still butt at this game need to git gud this aint helping at all
It was ok. Little mac mains had to have been pretty dissappointed though. I personally liked the 202 better. And so far DDD's is the funniest. xD
uh, i wasnt aware of what tunnel vision was prior to his video. does that automatically make me a bad player, despite playing smash with most competitive knowledge for quite some time now?
The cool guy shades will remain on.
uhh, if you never win.... then how do you never lose? if you don't win, you lose...
IF ya lose you win ya win but if i dont win i must lose but win at the same time and if i dont welll whats the meaning to lyfe when theres no lyfe at all
You are quite possibly the single worst troll I have ever seen.
v.v never that
Except he is qualified to teach Smash. And even if he isn't, so what? It's YouTube. He knows he isn't a "professional", and honestly it sounds pretty condescending to think that only "professionals" can help other people learn to get better at a videogame, especially a videogame that isn't strictly competitive only.
I believe the problem isn't so much that he isn't professional, but that his gameplay videos rely more upon For Glory rather than tournaments or Anther's Ladder. Which isn't so much of a bad thing until you realize that For Glory is generally full of weaker players; this may sully the learning experience for some viewers. Even if they're saying the same thing, I'd much rather listen to the person who attends tournaments and loses than the online warrior who verses 'scrubs,' simply because the tournament goer is not only playing better players but is more likely trying to push the game farther and trying to understand whatever they can.
See, I think you're missing the point. He's not making tutorials to push the boundaries of the game, or get people up to tournament level, or help players perfect their game.
Except most of his viewers aren't really tournament level. As he said, most of his views come from people who aren't subscribed. Not everything has to be tournament-level.
You both are right. So long that it helps, it's not exactly harming, and I suppose covering something such as the neutral will be a bit tough for those who have a basic understanding. Weening them in may be more beneficial.