Rhade vs Leonidas Championship duel video

[Ruthven]

Your argument is simply that you lost in an area where you did not practice. It's a melee tournament. It doesn't have to be out in the open, it just has to be melee. You even admit you have only one skill set, distance control and all that shark nonsense. If I was only good at fighting in enclosed spaces with a one handed axe, I could use your exact argument.

"It's not fair because he's better than me."

 

[TheRealLeonidas]

Whether or not he was a little foggy with handling it, it shouldn't matter. Fook says that the center ring concept was pitched before the duel, and for Leo to complain about John not doing a good job just shows a lack of respect. John ran the tournament, and for all we know every member of his immediate family died while he was trying to keep it together, and it all worked out in the end. It's common knowledge that the duel was to be set in the Arena map, and well, the center ring is certainly a part of that map. Leo can't say it was unfair to play there because he isn't any good at it. It's part of the map, not being able to switch his playstyle to suit any aspect of the map is another reason why Rhade deserved to win.

To be fair I thought that this would be taken into consideration

This is what I said from Koa  Duel



Agreed! I believe a great deal of blame can be put on a lack of practice. If you /know/ there is an eventuality where you believe you will be unfamiliar with a certain territory and you're already strong at one of the choices, why not practice more? It was still well in advance, there were at least days of practice. I saw Rhade practicing both in and out of the ring. Why can't Leonidas do the same? I don't understand any unfairness involved -except- self-imposed kinds.

To be fair I thought that this would be taken into consideration

This is what I said from Koa  Duel

You know I was thinking, he always chooses the speed, he always chooses the server, and now he actually asking to choose the way we fight, in the arena. All of this on top of the fact I have to beat him twice. After thinking about this, I have decided to fight however I want to. That means in the open. There are no rules governing this which means its my choice. I will fight how i fight.


Rhade then said this


But you know, after all the *****ing, I don't give a **** at this point. Outside the ring, inside the ring, it makes no difference, but during the fight and after when you're all thinking and saying "damn, I thought that would have been a lot more entertaining," don't ******** cry to me about it.


After this was done, I never would have fought that John would put us in the ring.

 

[Ruthven]

Can you try to rephrase that in a comprehensible manner?

 

[Orion]

Save face, Leonidas. Delete your posts, man up, say GG and move on.

 

[ryizzel]

Also, if I recall correctly wasn't the last duel done outside the ring? Didn't that also lead to the same conclusion? Idk how fighting outside would make a difference. Rhade still would have won, but we probably wouldn't have gotten the pleasure of seeing you shoved against a wall and beaten like a red headed step child.

 

[BigBoss]

Also, if I recall correctly wasn't the last duel done outside the ring? Didn't that also lead to the same conclusion? Idk how fighting outside would make a difference. Rhade still would have won, but we probably wouldn't have gotten the pleasure of seeing you shoved against a wall and beaten like a red headed step child.

 

[Orion]

Rhade is a great player and definitely one of the best in the world

I wouldn't go that far mate

Nobody needs your Aussie-brand trolling, John. Go away. If you're who I think you are, you should be perma-banned for creating a new account to circumvent your previous ban.

 

[Orion]

Coming from a player that has never seen him. Honestly, your opinion has no relevancy here. Go away.

 

[Ruthven]

Is Rhade the best duellist in the world? Maybe not. But no matter what situation you're in, he's definitely the best person to have with you. He'll kill you (and all your friends) alone, any time, any place, any weapons. To put this into perspective: Leo will kill you in the open, with a greatsword, assuming you're alone.

 

[Orion]

Rhade's in the undisputed best clan in NA, with a spotless win record against all of the major NA competitive clans. He and some of his fellow members have appeared on both NA Nations Cup teams. When Rhade & BkS are on a team in a battle server, scrim or pub, their team wins 9 out of 10 times. The 1 time he gets shot in the head or gangbanged by half a dozen people, and don't tell me Aussies can take 6 shafts up their ass at once and come out on top or you're all a bunch of benders.

 

[Ruthven]

IMO, Leo wins duels. I wouldn't say he's the best duellist. But that's just my own personal morality - I value being able to kill someone quickly, and frown upon that ridiculous ground feinting **** and I'm not a huge fan of greatswords either. (Mostly because I think the models are kinda ugly and unwieldy.)

 

[Papa Lazarou]

That's a lot of feint-spam and turn-taking. (#1_au here.)

Rhade's in the undisputed best clan in NA, with a spotless win record against all of the major NA competitive clans. He and some of his fellow members have appeared on both NA Nations Cup teams. When Rhade & BkS are on a team in a battle server, scrim or pub, their team wins 9 out of 10 times. The 1 time he gets shot in the head or gangbanged by half a dozen people, and don't tell me Aussies can take 6 shafts up their ass at once and come out on top or you're all a bunch of benders.

Sounds exactly like KEEN to me, except for that one match against Sergeant Pepper's.

 

[LordHasek]

Rhade is a great player and definitely one of the best in the world

I wouldn't go that far mate

Rapace, I'm pretty sure you don't even approach the skill level to even be considered qualified to comment. But then again, Australia probably has a group of super players who really turned out and dominated the Nation's Cup - oh wait.

 

[Orion]

That's a lot of feint-spam and turn-taking. (#1_au here.)

Not all NA duelists are like that. LordHasek & I have a much cleaner style, where three feints in a row is a rarity and unfeinted swings are the most common. There are duelists that feint a lot, there are duelists that don't.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Rapace, I'm pretty sure you don't even approach the skill level to even be considered qualified to comment. But then again, Australia probably has a group of super players who really turned out and dominated the Nation's Cup - oh wait.

To be fair, he does approach that level, and Australians get over 200 ping on American servers and over 300 on European servers.

That's a lot of feint-spam and turn-taking. (#1_au here.)

Not all NA duelists are like that. LordHasek & I have a much cleaner style, where three feints in a row is a rarity and unfeinted swings are the most common. There are duelists that feint a lot, there are duelists that don't.

Oh yeah, I wasn't meaning to generalise about Americans.

 

[Orion]

To be fair, he does approach that level, and Australians get over 200 ping on American servers and over 300 on European servers.

To be fair ( ), "approaching that level" and being on that level are different things. There are plenty of players in NA with the potential to be top-tier killing machines but they don't commit to clans that foster their talent, so they stay just one rung below on the ladder of epeen.

 

[LordHasek]

Rapace, I'm pretty sure you don't even approach the skill level to even be considered qualified to comment. But then again, Australia probably has a group of super players who really turned out and dominated the Nation's Cup - oh wait.

To be fair, he does approach that level, and Australians get over 200 ping on American servers and over 300 on European servers.

That's a lot of feint-spam and turn-taking. (#1_au here.)

Not all NA duelists are like that. LordHasek & I have a much cleaner style, where three feints in a row is a rarity and unfeinted swings are the most common. There are duelists that feint a lot, there are duelists that don't.

Oh yeah, I wasn't meaning to generalise about Americans.

Fair enough Lazarou, it seemed much more likely he was a random jumping on the bandwagon. Leonidas really has one of the most defensive styles you've ever seen and attacks so rarely that chambering isn't especially viable.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

To be fair ( ), "approaching that level" and being on that level are different things. There are plenty of players in NA with the potential to be top-tier killing machines but they don't commit to clans that foster their talent, so they stay just one rung below on the ladder of epeen.

Well, when there were proper clan-matches in Australia, KEEN dominated without exception (almost), and turned several of their recruits into borderline-unstoppable killing machines. A proper comparison is impossible of course, but they were undisputedly the best players in Australia, so it's not just bravado. Anyway, I'll stop derailing now.

 

[Orion]

That's actually quite relevant to this thread. GJ.

 

[Kevlar]

You even admit you have only one skill set, distance control and all that shark nonsense.

He is mad is script for feinting couldn't compete with actual human skill I guess.