Do you care about your w/l?

[Roukiske]

I certainly hope you don't care about your win ratio. I'll let my win ratio hit 1% if it means I get to play a top player a ton of times.

If I play a few matches with someone really good or respectable I'll usually end my games with them by switching to Kirby with the tag G2G BYE!!! and do his wave taunt and SD. I dunno, I think its fun. Sometimes I'll change my tag to 1MoreGame before that. So... there some losses there...

 

[Tino]

Hell no I don't give a **** about it. Despite having about a 45% win rate, I still play this for fun.

 

[Mysteltainn]

Don't care one bit personally. Although I find myself actually playing 1v1v1v1 FG and Team FG more often than 1v1 anyway. Heck, I even prefer For Fun FFA over 1v1 FG most of the time as well. Last I checked I was around 67% or so, but it really doesn't matter, there is always someone better out there. It's how you deal with it that either holds you back or helps you improve. At the end of the day, all you can do is get better if you're a good sport about it. Sore losers (usually people who seek out and farm newer players) who wallow in their defeats will find it hard to improve, and probably won't.

The most important thing though, is to enjoy it.

 

[Phenomiracle]

It's funny, I care about getting better to win, but I really don't care about my win rate.

It's sad how Nintendo hasn't given us a reason to care. No detailed matchmaking based on skill, no leaderboards, the fact that so many of us don't care about something we could care about greatly shows that they've fallen quite short in delivering the competitive online scene they were apparently trying to.

 

[Linq]

It makes me feel good to see it high, but it makes me feel even better to see it really low and know that I have been learning a boat load in a short amount of time. If I'm facing someone who is clearly better than I am and owns me every game, I stay in until they leave.

 

[LancerStaff]

It's funny, I care about getting better to win, but I really don't care about my win rate.

It's sad how Nintendo hasn't given us a reason to care. No detailed matchmaking based on skill, no leaderboards, the fact that so many of us don't care about something we could care about greatly shows that they've fallen quite short in delivering the competitive online scene they were apparently trying to.

Uh, they weren't. This wasn't supposed to be some end-all competitive scene, it's basically just for quick matches. Which it does well.

 

[Mazdamaxsti]

If you use Captain Falcon, Sheik, and Diddy quite often you'll have a better chance of winning

Uhno, it depends how good you are. I was a decent Sheik, but I would only win 40% of my matches.

I can't stress this further, just because someone has a high ranking in tiers, doesn't mean they'll always win and only win cuz of it. Heck, I switched from Sheik to LUIGI, a bottom tier character, and took my W/L from 35% to 40% in a couple days.

Basically, I don't care about W/L. I used to main Kirby, and my W/L went down because I faced a guy that always barely beat me, and I won 5 out of our about 50 matches. Been going up since then.

 

[Deleted member 245254]

It's funny, I care about getting better to win, but I really don't care about my win rate.

It's sad how Nintendo hasn't given us a reason to care. No detailed matchmaking based on skill, no leaderboards, the fact that so many of us don't care about something we could care about greatly shows that they've fallen quite short in delivering the competitive online scene they were apparently trying to.

To be fair they haven't finished delivering. There's still a tournament function yet to be implimented.

 

[BSP]

W/L ratio means nothing. If you're trying to judge how good you are, who you beat is all that matters.

If you care about your W/L ratio too much, you'll also be too scared to try anything new if it means risking more losses, which is not the way to get better.

 

[Trekkerjoe]

My w/l ratio is something I would try to keep high, but not to an extent of ruining the fun for me or my opponents/friends. In the end it is only a number, irrespective to the actual skill I actually have, nor how much fun we are having, so I would rather keep my friend's opinions of me high, and have fun, over keeping my w/l ratio up.

 

[genesis_SOC]

I care about mine personally because of the way I play FG: I only stay if I feel like my opponent can offer me something I can learn better or I lose. I never farm bads to make sure I don't inflate my %.

But that's why you shouldn't take anyone else's seriously. Anyone can farm bads and inflate it high.

 

[MightyTro]

All I care about is learning to be a better player and to have fun.
If someone beats me I love to play them as much as I can! I don't care about the ratio, heck! I know I'm not a good player, but I'm already learning a lot. About the limitations of my character, what people expect/don't expect, how to time certain combos and attacks.

Hell, one match I just did I was playing Mario Vs. Samus, and somehow I managed to perfectly time both a cape to reflect her charge shot and kill her, AND then on the next stock finish her of with a forward+a aerial dunk of the stage.

And some people really don't know how to handle G&W's bacon. Sure it's a weak projectile, but it is a little random and sometimes going in close and hitting them with the pan actually throws people off guard. (and doing weird stuff with G&W in general is a good idea since he's very erratic, but still strong in his own way. You just need to lure your opponent into slipping up and punish hard)

 

[Eisal]

Went from 60% win to 54% win just battling the same guy over and over. I was absolutely wrecked but I felt an improvement every match and I managed to beat his C. Falcon as Palutena in the end, and then he left.

It just looks 'nice' but it's nothing I care for.

 

[erico9001]

I care about the W/L because online is my only source to measure myself at the moment. Yes, lag makes this more inaccurate, but I am not fortunate enough to live in an area with an active Smash 4 scene (although, I'm looking to contribute in making one). Currently, my best irl source of battles is my two brothers, but they get annoyed with how much I beat them. You'll probably find a similar case for most For Glory players.

 

[Bearbuddy4]

Uhno, it depends how good you are. I was a decent Sheik, but I would only win 40% of my matches.

I can't stress this further, just because someone has a high ranking in tiers, doesn't mean they'll always win and only win cuz of it. Heck, I switched from Sheik to LUIGI, a bottom tier character, and took my W/L from 35% to 40% in a couple days.

Basically, I don't care about W/L. I used to main Kirby, and my W/L went down because I faced a guy that always barely beat me, and I won 5 out of our about 50 matches. Been going up since then.

What you said was correct, it depends how good you are. I just said you have a better chance of winning.

 

[Jdm262]

I don't care about it that much. If anything, I use it as motivation. I know that I'm not the best and that I have more losses than wins, but I learn from my losses and I'm getting better every day.

 

[MatrixNexus]

I play to learn, not to win. W/L ratio means nothing.

 

[Ryuji]

I care in the sense that it helps me gauge my own skill level and where I still need to improve. I've literally lost countless times to people who are better than me. However, fighting them after losing a few times does tend to turn in my favour eventually or at least have a more even match. It does wonders for me. I always view losses as a fault of my own. With this said, I have been improving greatly and it shows in more higher win rate.

 

[Duzzzyy]

Nope, seeing as I'm very bad right now I just use online For Glory to practice and the win loss ratio is completely useless to me.

its ~15%.

 

[xPROFx]

Nope. (10 char)

 

[Timbers]

It's impossible to care about W/L? I mean, it's exclusive only to you; no one else can see it, and you're not ranked based on that ratio. It's also way too easy to exploit that ratio with how FG is designed (find only bad players, continue playing to inflate W/L)

 

[sweq32]

I can't say I care too much about my w/l ratio, honestly. Due to a lot of other factors (lag mostly), my w/l ratio doesn't really represent my skill level too well. Therefore, I usually just disregard it.

 

[Tojiro2]

Dont Know If I'm allowed to pose this here but yea http://smashboards.com/threads/what-do-you-get-out-of-winning.383114/#post-18206846.

OnTopic: I dont care about W/L but I find little spamming Links and stuff so often that even if i wanted to get my W/L up i cant because as soon as they come out i give up because im annoyed to the absolute brim of fighting them

 

[Spurreon]

I don't really think the W/L ratio accurately determines a player's skill so I disregard it. I could easily have a 10% w/l due to not trying to win and goofing around in for glory but still be a fairly decent player.

 

[HerrAlex]

I used to care because I kept losing more than I was winning and I didn't wanna accept that I'm really not that great at this game. I'm pretty decent. This even made me play less FG than I did before because I was afraid of messing up my ratio.

However after reading some posts in this thread and some rethinking, why does it even matter? It's a game which is created for enjoyment and no one else but me will see my score. And it's good to play against better people so I know what I'm doing wrong. Even if my win ratio is below 50% I'd rather take that than a "fake" ratio (like the time I played against this really bad player and won 9 times in a row with barely any effort.)

 

[Karthage]

I care a lot because FG 1v1 is the only mode I enjoy playing. Right now I have it at exactly 90% after 610 matches.

It's a bit stressful but it kept me focused.

I'm moving onto guilty gear Xrd now, hopefully it has a better online than smash

 

[Darklink401]

I used to care, but then I began looking at FG as an experimentation ground to improve on characters I'm good with, and get better with characters I wanna learn.

 

[Donkeykong98123]

I always play people that beat me until I can beat them/they leave. Then I keep playing anyways

 

[missla]

Obviously I do want to improve my win record, but I want to improve that by getting better, not by only playing people who are worse than me. Therefore I don't mind having a mediocre win rate on FG because I've been paired up with some incredible players that I can learn a lot from. I would never have adopted new strategies and increased my tactical/defense game if I'd only played easy people. It's because I got my butt kicked that I had to change gameplay to improve.

 

[The Stoopid Unikorn]

I really don't care about my w/l. As long as I have a great time while fighting online, I'm already a winner!!!

 

[Hayzie]

So it seems like it's split almost halfway about people caring for their Width/Length. Just make sure you get in, get yours and have fun. That's all that matters.

 

[vegeta18]

idk how to delete a post, ignore this comment.