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CommanderSanchez has close to the ideal Healthy Mental Attitude™. It’s like going to a party where you’re kind of new. Your attitude is largely going to determine your experience. Leave your ego and prejudices at home, and just go with the flow and have a good time. It seems to be his second RD2L season, but he does still kind of have a new and unopened, still in-the-original-packaging, feel.
Which is what I like. When I’m captaining, I like players who won’t be in my way. Most of the time, new RD2L players will have the “first time at this party” attitude. Whatever your ability is, let me figure out how to use you. Whether you’re a jungle-only player or a techies spammer, that’s fine.
Hivemind rating: 7/10. We won’t be on the same page the first time I say something, but by the third or fourth time it will work. If we kept playing together the hivemind link would only keep improving.
I’ve been trying to play RD2L with Ark for years, and he finally said yes :). If you could just play rd2l with people you like, what more do you need really? I still wish he didn’t climb to an all-time high badge two days before the draft, and then lose it again right after the draft. REEE.
Ark can play almost everything, go ahead try banning him out guys 🙂
Hivemind rating: 9/10. We’re almost always on the same page, but Ark has more tendency to be influenced by external factors, instead of doing the influencing. He’ll often just go with whatever the teammates are doing. It fits his character, and I wouldn’t ask him to change. If we ever are not on the same page, it’s usually due to a difference in perception/information, and not due to core programming.
Xshal52 stood in for me last season, and Gachi wanted me to pick him this season. Finite likes him too, and Finite doesn’t like that many people. So really, this pick was fated. It’s interesting how different everyone on this team is, personality-wise. Xshal is definitely more of an action-gamer than I am. Frequently after our dota sessions, he would go unwind by playing a shooter. I’ll give another example. If I ask Sanchez what he can play, he can’t play anything. If I ask Xshal what he can play, he can play almost everything.
So our team ended up like a family wherein everyone is way different 🙂
Hivemind rating: 3/10. On a micro level during fights, Xshal is generally on point. Things like Naga sleep coordination cannot be pinned on him. On a macro level, the hivemind link hasn’t really connected.
GSKW and I are quite complementary picks in RD2L. He’s a value carry at low-divine, which is just what I require. I also suspect that he does better on a team where someone else can be the bully, directing things–which I can do. He’s quite a flexible player too, a quality which I find invaluable in players. He’s also pretty mentally and emotionally stable. (Who wants to play with the emotionally unstable, toxic people…)
Basically, what I’m saying is, GSKW ticks all the boxes.
Hivemind rating: 6/10. We don’t play dota quite the same way. This isn’t meant as a flame, but I think our team would do better if GSKW would defer macro-level decisions to me. This isn’t to say I’m right or my way of playing is better. If he were playing with Ultra or Waifu, he should defer macro-decisions to them. I just think that by increasing the hivemind value of whatever team he’s on, he would unlock higher potential.
Part of it is that I’m not always clear in what I want, which Gachi has helped point out. I’ll say things like “don’t chase too much” instead of “get back”, for example. In real life, euphemism and tact is the way of the world. But in battle, clear instruction is better. I need to reprogram myself.
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