• when he repeatedly tries to destroy the enemy's gold mine.

When they flip teh fux out when they get owned.

I don't care how good you are, your acting very newbish if you flip out when you get owned.

Your Erebus who is returning to heal from another stupid semi-suicide attempt succeeds in finishing himself off by accidently eating the -hp potion from his last death, <10 seconds before getting to the crystal.

when your Regulus wants to leave portal flags near your base capped for the enemy so he can get "easy xp and gold!" and tells you he is a melee mine build. 

When his ping says AI.

... your partner says "this flag is broken, it doesn't move!". This HAPPENED to me.

You know when you'd be better off with a Noob when;

   Your teammate fills the screen with posts dictating strategy, commentary, and critiquing your Rook build, while he racks up the largest number of deaths trying to show how his Regulus can "almost" kill 2 demigods . . .

When you try to help coordinate a team, and you get everyone calling you a douchbag. You end up feeding because you end up getting ganked 3 on one, and they call you a feeder(rightfully, I was a feeder, but only because I rarely got the support I needed). When you finally try to put together an offensive, they completely ignore the perfect backdoor you set up, and then blame the entire loss on you. Not to mention they completely neglect citadel upgrades for the soul purpose of spiting you.

I'll admit that I'm not the best player in the world. Far from it. Quite average, if not worse. But that doesn't change the fact that I'm a decent stratagist. And it doesn't change the fact that if no one coordinates the team, it will fail. If you don't want to make the effort, don't complain when I do, because I have no fun chasing butterflies, and I won't win like that.

I love you too, SecondAdvent.

PS: Get the fuck over it. It's just a game. We all have our bad matches. No need to lower ourselves to personal insults.

Nearly every Reg i matched up the last days did it^^ was very funny espacially in a fortress match... we took out 3 fortress and the Reg just wanted to outlevel us with this... i laughed my ass of every time i took a look to the map^^

you know you have a noob partner when...

you get gratulations for capture locking in Domination and he never uses CLs.... I think he wanted me to suicede

Dude, I just found it amusing.  Had you not identified yourself (I didn't even remember your name) nobody would even know it was you. 

And don't feel bad, I had recognized the opposition names as a group from a previous game that was pretty good.  Our random PUG was going to have a hard time no matter how good any of us played.

Peace out.

you know when you have a noob partner when...

your team mate doesnt get bite as erebus.

When your partner tries to be an offensive Sedna using only pounce and healing wind

When he picks Squirtle over Charmander for his first Pokemon... I mean seriously... what kind of pansy walks around with something named Squirtle in his pokeball?

A noob.. that's who.

You know you're playing with a noob when....

after ganking the enemy Oak, who then enters Last Stand mode, your teammate continues to wail away on the invulnerable undead Oak until he gets killed... and he does it more than once in the same match... AFTER you've told them in text to run away after Oak is dead...

OR

your teammate IS Oak, and after getting killed trying to flee the enemy DG's, he continues to flee towards the healing crystal... while in Last Stand mode...

Both of these happened to me for real... in the same day... but thankfully not the same match...

Koz

When your partner walks into 3v1 gank situations despite knowing he won't get help.

... when your partner calls you a noob even though they have 4 times the amount of deaths than you. I may still be a bit of a noob, but come on!

Oh, and I had to laugh at the Oak's Last Stand comment. I remember one of my first games I had no idea what Last Stand was. I think it took me a couple deaths to figure out why this shiny guy I just killed wasn't taking any damage.. lol.

If by "alternative builds" you mean "choosing all the broken lame ass abilities of your class and trying to win with them", then yes.

Actually, literally all the Reg did the whole game was snipe. Wasn't really an issue until mid-late game where snipe no longer did all that much to my 4,000 hp+ opponents. He didn't bother trying something else, just happily kept sniping, and the enemy team kept happily absorbing them with minimal damage. Useless.

And as it stands, going yetis for Sedna or non tower spec for Rook is nonsensical. It's like refusing to take Spit as UB.

I wouldn't have a problem with alternative builds if they actually work, but when they're as effective as a Yeti's path finding... You get the idea.

I've played some very effective hammer builds.  Stun (including rock or teammate) + hammer is pretty much the only way to kill my erebus, and even if I dodge it usually kills most of my minions.  Sedna yetis are pretty bad yeah but regulus without mines can be OK.

See, this is why I play almost only single player. No one in my games is absolutely and solely obsessed by winning. So anyone can play any build he likes, just so he can have some fun! (I know, it's unreal, someone playing for the fun, and not to win).

No wonder ppl want more demigods, they only play one build. I haven't even played all of them yet (builds).

Ooze with no spit seems to be working for a lot of people, if you read around the forums.

twifight: If by fun you mean "losing the game for my team every time because I just want to mess around", then yeah.

Spe: You can do the ooze spec thing, but imho there really isn't a reason not to take spit. It's an incredible ranged ability that rivals (if not surpasses) ranged spec DG abilities like the TB's rain of ice (who is a RANGED centric hero). Ooze can work, so I'm not complaining about it. Prancing around with Yetis that are stuck on a corner three miles behind you doesn't work, so I do have a problem with it.

If you want to mess around just for fun in a private custom game, that's fine. But if you get matched with me in Panth and then quit after doing stupid things the whole match, I do have a problem with that. Sorry.

Is that even possible?

I'm sorry, but when there's a sniping reggie combined with a stun UB, it just gets hard to escape before it's too late. Very little I can do in situations that limit my escape without help.

Well if people suck they suck, that is pretty straight forward. But people do not suck because they have an alternative build. Think outside the box. If you would only allow teammates to play a certain build then they could have just removed all demigods except one with a perfect build. But how much fun would that be?

Remember, a big part of the competition and fun in the games comes from different people playing it in a different manner. You never know what to expect. It wouldn't be the first time for me to laugh at somebody's build but then get absolutely slaughtered by him.

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It's a bit offtopic, but I see this alot.  You can do things with skilled allies that work because they back you up and when you try them with an average pickup group they end up killing you and making you look like the worst kind of noob..