Anyone else skeptical of swolebenji’s Deadlock advice/rank?
Does anyone else feel like this Deadlock creator is lying about his skill level and damaging for new players?
He presents himself as an authority for newer players, calls himself an Eternus player and some kind of “macro master,” but when you actually watch the gameplay critically, the skill level just does not seem to match the claims. Every game I've seen he is full on pve mode and hits neutrals for 90% of the game, regardless of role or hero.
He says he has several eternus-ranked accounts but he can’t show them because he’d get “stalked,” but the account he does show is an Arcanist-ranked account with 700+ games, which he dismisses as just a trolling account. That explanation sounds incredibly convenient...
"macro master video"
https://youtu.be/Qezw7fDjdGo?si=rW6vcNUwa7Gbb602
I know one clip means nothing. But watch the segment in the video from 16:11 to 16:22. Billy runs at him in a straight line after getting parried by his lane partner, which should be a free cleanup, and he completely fumbles it. Aims awful, misses most of his shots, misses cards, doesn’t manage stamina properly. And worst of all, he spends most of the video just flaming the same team mate saying the Ivy is bad.
The bigger issue is that this guy gives advice and build recommendations aimed at newer players while acting like an expert source. If this guy behind the advice is massively exaggerating his skill level, that actually matters, because new players will copy bad habits, bad decision-making, and terrible builds without realizing it. Its actually what happend to me.
What also makes this look worse is that any critical comments seem to get deleted from his videos.
This whole “trust me, I have four secret high-rank accounts, I just can’t show them” thing combined with the gameplay and comment moderation absolutely reeks of bullshit.
Has anyone else watched this guy and gotten the same impression? I watched him when I was new but realized his guides gave awful advice and was damaging for my gameplay.