My current win\loss is like... 7x \ 7x. I win just as many games as I lose. When I win, I'm like YEAH THAT WAS AWESOME. When I lose.... it's like.... RAAAAAAGE WTF THIS GAME SUCKS.

I'm also in silver.

Custom games are what I love the most. I'll never be pro. I prefer to watch the pros at tournaments and stick to my custom games

Stratus

United States38 Posts

November 09 2010 15:43 GMT

#63

If you win 90% of ur games i think the game would get boring cuz there would be no real competive aspect nemore. since this game is so new i think there is so much to learn still which is what makes the game fun.

Enervate

United States1769 Posts

November 09 2010 15:46 GMT

#64

This sounds like the usual "scared to play" problem. No one wants to tarnish the beautiful 5-0 you get form placements. If you like to win to make yourself feel better, just play custom games.

atrocity3010

70 Posts

November 09 2010 15:50 GMT

#65

NotSupporting

Sweden1998 Posts

November 09 2010 15:52 GMT

#66

I used to have this in SC1 but after playing poker for a year before starting SC2 I completely lost it. I mean, when you get used to losing hundereds of dollar when you "lose" it doesn't make any sense to be scared of losing in a computer game - you don't lose anything.

Trowabarton756

United States870 Posts

November 09 2010 15:55 GMT

#67

On November 09 2010 22:20 imarriedacow wrote:
"My advice is give it time, once people figure things out a little bit, timings, strategies etc, you'll see the pros winning percentage go from 60-70 to 80-90."

This is completely untrue. Even the best pros back in BW had about a 75-80% win percentage for a small period of time. 80-90% is completely unheard of.

mmm someone feel free to correct me when im wrong but I thought savior had a 91 or 97% win-rate one pro league season. Same with flash....he had like an 80% win-rate over all....so its not unheard of...just extremely uncommon.

Endorsed

Netherlands1221 Posts

November 09 2010 16:03 GMT

#68

The ladder system basically forces a 50/60 percent winrate on u. Get used to it. Or get on another level.

Lysenko

Iceland2128 Posts

November 09 2010 19:17 GMT

#69

Others have said this, but the only way you get above a 50% win/loss ratio is if you're so good that the matchmaking system can rarely find anyone logged on who's at your level. Only the very best of the best get anywhere near this, except for people who blow their placements and then don't play very frequently (who wind up with a high win/loss ratio for a short time afterward). Even mid-Diamond players have 50% win/loss ratios, and those people are in the top few percent.

Think of it like you suddenly decided one day that you wanted to run marathons at a competitive level. If you're not already a long-distance runner, it's likely to take you half a year of training just to complete a marathon, and winning will take much more training plus some luck to have the physical attributes that make it possible to achieve that level of performance.

SC2 in particular is a marathon, not a sprint.

SilentDrop

Brazil29 Posts

November 09 2010 20:44 GMT

#70

Benjamin Mays once said:
"The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach."

Taking this to starcraft: You have your goal, now go and try to reach it, even if it seems unlikely.

Shadrak

United States490 Posts

November 09 2010 21:06 GMT

#71

I get this feeling often after going on a winning streak. In fact over the weekend I went 9/10 games won and I've been scared to play since

What I do when I feel this way is just practice other ways until I feel the pressure lesson. Work on your early B.O. against the AI. Team up with a partner in 2v2. Watch pro replays. You'll get to a point where you just wanna play again for fun and forget about losing your points.

Reason.SC2

Canada1047 Posts

November 09 2010 21:14 GMT

#72

Think of it this way: what are the ladder win percentages of the top pros. (the ones that actually ladder beyond 200 games where it begins to equalize due to the majority of your games not being played against people who are platinum/low diamond due to your MMR not being established).

Usually they are between 56-70%. These are the guys who win big money at tournaments.. the best in the world. If you set your expectations to be better than the best thats good and all, but having unrealistic expectations is just a setup for disappointment and perceived failure.

Like others said, play to play well and improve. Its kind of like poker. If you play every hand/session expecting to come out on top, not only will you be disappointed with the results, you'll actually end up playing worse due to the psychological effect this will have on you.

The mind is the most powerful tool you have at your disposal. Use it wisely.

Offhand

United States1869 Posts

November 09 2010 22:37 GMT

#73

Thinking that you were great at one video game isn't going to apply at all to a completely different kind of game. Being afraid of any failure or even *gasp* normality isn't going to get you anywhere in life. It won't in video games either.

Ksyper

Bulgaria665 Posts

November 09 2010 22:46 GMT

#74

The only way I can think of having a more than 70% win rate is playing only custom games with the very best of players all the time and having them coach you. Also you will only play when you are in the zone, you go and do 5 practice games vs a 2500+ diamond player and then you start laddering for a 5-6 games and if you feel like you are not feeling it anymore just go back and play custom games.
But you need some really good players to practice with, and when you get really good against them you could start laddering.

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