Tox got me into quake after watching some vods on youtube of him raping everyone in Q4, so I'd say he's a close 2nd. Like stermy and the whole colwn crew too.
Toxjq hands down, practicing since Quake 3 Arena OSP 2003 against him, he got me into Quake 4 1v1 where we spend infinite amounts of duel against eachother. Later on when he moved on to Quake Live in 2013 he asked me to play Quake Live duel with him when i was still playing Quake 4. He ment alot for me and my railgun 8>
wow you are so cool knowing toxic for so long and that he even asked you to play and that you even denied and that you even even railraped him. so wow. :)
Nice thread, although I don't really play anymore, Strenx, Dahang, Fearzzz (dope as fuck style), I really liked watching Arcaon during my brief tenure moving into DeFrag (and failing miserably)
then rapha who I doubted at start, but slowly I realized what a genius he is
I also like daddy's dedication
my least favorite is dahang, he is an excellent player, but he makes me feel that he thinks he is much better from everyone here, just because he is a good player. I like his game, but not his character.
ins is mostly aim, but he is a really nice guy and grew to like him
Ye but Cypher is better. Rapha won yeah in his first year 09 a lot titles ((typical newbie luck). Cypher beat the shit out of them on every quakecon (whe he attended). But rapha is good. He is #2 for sure.
In these three tournaments, both rapha and cypher played duel, and rapha got #1
Besides, thats not even the point I was making. My point is that Rapha reached a skill level in Quake duelling that nobody ever reached, at least for QL, which was the main Quake game in the last decade.
1) wicked aim
2) high duel skill
3) entertaining stream
4) funny personality
5) very quotable
6) easy to relate to by never having huge success in Quake unlike rapha, cypher etc.
hi , its Elky . Dont know which troll put my name here but ok .
Birding style is the fact to run very fast around the map and flick rail people you see . You can as well rocket them and SG ( very effective in close combat =) )
You need to be top 10 world in baiting too. Your lg accuracy must be minimum 40 and you need to know how to close dodge rocket and lg very fast. ( doing circle get you more UPS while walking/dodging ).
According to me , the best Bird ATM is T1hol without contest . maybe are other good bird , but i dont have the chance to play with them or i dont know them .
Cypher, for his apparently unlimited top skill ceiling, his dodging, his movement, but mostly his personality; he has (had?) lust for win, no matter how many times you fragged him, he always came back stronger to win the game; apparently completely immune to feeling any pressure even when all comes down to hit a flick rail in overtime or charging with only a rocket launcher or stealing the mega when the stacked opponent is near
Cooller, for his in-game personality, his marvelous style, his story
Av3k, for his style; Fatality for his story, his motivation, his aura and because he's easy to spectate;
He is ok, busy with life and rarely plays quake live, just for fun. Still good and smart at his play, btw. If he dedicated himself, I am sure he would have been top contender in a two years window.
Logged in just to plus this. How crazy that we never got to see a quakecon grand finals between them. But dh13 final still blew most other finals out of the water. That, qc16 final and qc10 finals probably the best 3 finals matches
I liked watching Cypher because i believe in terms of weapon switching that's how quake should be played at the highest level. Nowadays players like Evil just abuse the lg imo.