what % of the game is skill/equipment

[mag-rebelution]

I say 65% equipment 35% skill reason being is that the equipment evailable today is insane . i know for me mygame realy stepped up when I went from my old carbime to my first mag . There are exceptions too though . Those kids with here 1000k+ angels drive me nuts

[IcantBelieveit]

95% skill 5% equipment..if you don't have the skillz to pay the billz then what good is equipment?

[sniper1rfa]

the opposite is true as well. if you have the skills, but your gun is a piece (chops, misfeeds, shootdown, etc.) then your game WILL suffer.

i remember when, ater three years of my raptor, i upgraded to my current gun (my mayhem, amongst others). It was amazing. i felt so much more confident, and was getting many more eliminations, as well as staying in longer and using less paint. The skills were there originally, but the equipment was hampering me.

I say with lower end guns, its 30% the gun, and 70% game. with anything nice, its almost 100% skill.

[IcantBelieveit]

o.k with the mag. 100% skills b/c the equipment will not hamper you

[darklord]

Originally posted by sniper1rfa
I say with lower end guns, its 30% the gun, and 70% game. with anything nice, its almost 100% skill.

I agree. This comes to play especially in tournies, where you need a fast gun in order to compete.

[BajaBoy]

after i got my mag i started getting better, i now have my rt and everyone knowes that i have one of the fastes triggers around here. And everyone knows that my skills are showing now on the speedball field. And just for the 411 when i said fast trigger, i Do not spray and pray. Only sometimes when i know it might help... as a fellow back player



but i do think if the right person has the right gun then there is no stopping them. (in more ways then less)

[LaW]

Originally posted by darklord
I agree. This comes to play especially in tournies, where you need a fast gun in order to compete.

entirely not true.

[darklord]

Originally posted by LaW


entirely not true.

Says you, woman! I wouldn't dare step out onto a field up against timmies, angels, and matrixes with a bone stock mag. It just aint happening. 8bps doesn't cut it.

[SI|ENT|3O|3]

hmmm...this is a tough question, when i had my rebel i got almost no eliminations, most of the time i was on the sideline watching techniques. After i jumped to my mag, i saw vast improvments, but i had also became much more aware of how the game works. i would say its about 90/10. I felt really good about the last time i went out to a cocker infested local field, and was nicknamed "the good guy with the mag" just made me smile, it almost brought tears to my eyes.
-sebastian

[LaW]

wow, i would feel just as confident goign on the field with a "reliable" spyder ... sure i'm limited on rof... however come on... that extra rof isn't going to do much

[ezrunner]

95/5

I would say 95% skill, 5% marker.

A 2 round shot from a snap shooter with a mechanical gun that is dead accurate, or a 6 round burst from an electro that isn't as well aimed are both something to dodge.

The point is that the 5% margin can kill you. If your gun goes down, then your game can and will suffer.

The gun does not make the game. However, you don't wanna walk into a field of angels with a spyder.

-rob

[darklord]

Originally posted by LaW
wow, i would feel just as confident goign on the field with a "reliable" spyder ... sure i'm limited on rof... however come on... that extra rof isn't going to do much

Would you, honestly? The ROF would do a lot. Not for snap shooting, but if you're laying down a stream of paint, it would. If I'm playing back, and I start shooting down a lane at 8 bps, there's a chance a fast runner could sprint through the stream. Whereas if I had say, a timmy, at 14bps, there'd be less likely of a chance for said player to dodge the paint. I guess it depends on what position you're playing.

[LaW]

Originally posted by darklord
Would you, honestly? The ROF would do a lot. Not for snap shooting, but if you're laying down a stream of paint, it would. If I'm playing back, and I start shooting down a lane at 8 bps, there's a chance a fast runner could sprint through the stream. Whereas if I had say, a timmy, at 14bps, there'd be less likely of a chance for said player to dodge the paint. I guess it depends on what position you're playing.

but you do know that it doesn't mean the game if he does happen to get through your stream of paint. You do not need ROF to be competative in tournament play. That is all I am arguing. Honestly I will go out on the field with whatever I have.

I played a tournament in low tech with our team of tracer pumps last march. There was only 1 other low tech team so we had to play high tech. We played very competative against all of those teams. Almost maxing at least 1 game. We were only maxed once, but every game we were able to score at least 2 eliminations with our pumps.

[�.C.]

Well it really depends on skill level. The more skill a player has the bigger the effect of a marker will be, the less experience a player has the smaller effect of a marker will be.

[GT]

I swear I get 99% of my kills in the first 3 shots.

I won my first tourney with a m98. Hell our whole team had 98's. the lastgame of that tourney we maxed 2 out of 3 in the finals, aganist what? eclipse angels!!!.

as long as it feels good in my hands I say it is 100% player. I think you guys see a kid with an angel/timmy/electro super sprayer 2000 and let it go to your head.

jb