Once we agree that the gap exists, really it comes down to how much each player values certain elements in a tank, personally, I’d say that a small mobility advantage in top tier is the difference between holding a spot and being the one pushing that spot, which for my playstyle, is huge.
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Well, new players do buy the clickbait, now RDF/LT, Wolfpack, KVT, and the sales seem to be doing well, and those tanks are spammed frequently, especially during sales, and the data I’ve found is the higher the number of premiums that are spammed per-nation at top tier, the lower the nation’s WR. Plus, well, I looked at the hard stats on the Abrams, it is definitely one of the better picks for top tier.
I just know enough about the 122s that they are so good that having a 1.5-2.0 K/D in them is pretty much the bottom value of what I would consider decent player performance in them. Let along good player performance.
Sure the Abrams might be 0.1 second faster to said positions, but it will be 10x easier to be pushed off. I have 7 nations at 12.0 now, so I have played enough with and against the M1A2s.
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Show it. Otherwise, i can say through my data™ is that it’s not necessarily the case with the L2A4M/T-80U-E1
Yes, they are better, but I’d say the Abrams armor is “good enough” to be hard to push off of an objective, although the 122s can just push against players with poor aim and be near invulnerable, so I agree with you that they have the edge over-all.
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Well, with the T-80U-E1, 2s38, sometimes T-80UD, it is the case as well. if anything Russia dropping off just below top tier supports my stance even more that prem spamming is the issue.
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Eh I guess it depends on the players you face I guess. 90% of the time I have no problem pushing Abrams off anything that isn’t a hill in the back of the map, they are just pretty farmable in close range.
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given you’re here I’m just going to be under the assumption you’re going to be better than the average player when it comes to aiming, but in my own Abrams I definitely get some good results defensively unless I’m being run over by half their team, but that is, and should be the case with any tank.
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I’d like to stop around here, which is the Clickbait/2A4M/T-80U-E1.
The only part the data™ shows a significant plummet is at the downtier 10.7-11.7 bracket for the USSR, the rest sits comfortably at above 50% WR.
The US does not have a single bracket above 50% WR on any of those premium brackets. So it’s fair to assume it’s either not beginner friendly or it has flaws. Or it’s the remote possibility that it has both, crazy stuff.
Correct, they suffer from the Premium issue the worst, but with high tier BRs I can use Russia to confidently state that prems are the issue, and wherever they’re spammed the most, you will always see WR dips.
And since some nations have this issue way worse than others, I propose nationless mm for ground RB as it has balanced the game out well among nations in Air rb already, excluding vehicle to vehicle balance, where I’d say it’s worse than ground rn.
Even after a year of release? Beyond a stretch.
It is a way on balancing, the issue is the sound mayhem with all the mixed sfx will make it chaotic at best when it arrives.
It is the only explanation that is consistent, given my China and GB examples of bad nations with strong top tier WRs and low premium spam values.
yeah… ‘The only’.
Well, China and GB would throw a wrench the theory that US has a low WR proportional to the quality of it’s lineup.
Whenever they become 2/3rds of their teams, they’ll surely do. In the meantime, when they’re max 5-6 players out of a team of 16 (therefore, completely dependent on their teamcomp), it’s just a coincidental rationalization.
I’m pretty sure it is because of the premium/squadron players…
I have yet to see 3/4 of russian team be premiums. Where as for the US I’ve seen quite a few.
The clickbait is simply more popular and not only that has went on sale more than the UE1.
If both teams had the same level of skill, I guarantee you both would put up a good fight. Only a quarter of games were like this and it was the most fun I’ve had. The rest was just a curb stomp.
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Well, if that’s not enough how about an example from a nation that has a dominant composition, that big red strip in Russia, a big 3 nation, as well as the 5.7-6.7 bracket and some of the above ones for Germany.
I think it’s widely agreed that 10.x Russia and 5.7-6.7 Germany are extremely meta BRs, and they are both laden with premium spammers, we see the same trend present here, is that more convincing?
Easy its the lineups, Russia and other nations has decent enough lineups to keep the game alive while US doesn’t have a decent lineup, Russia has one of the best lineups with SPAA because they can get teams with decent CAS with the Pantsir/2S6 and the Top tier jets that have the broken Kh-38 that can wipe out a whole team, so most of the win I have seen with US winning is when Russia was on that side. also Russia can bring out 6 prem/squad tank to do while the US only has what 3 decent tanks if we want to talk prems and Squad stuff only. While the 2S38 is still kinda broken at 10.3 while any US tanks at 10.3 is kinda bad. also the 2S38 can take down stuff with ease while the new RDF/LT kinda suffers at taking stuff down.
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They just need to fix the current problems of US vehicles then i reckon it would be slightly better
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what
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