I'm back in Smash and I'm going hard

MLG San Diego is going to have a HUGE amount of skilled players there. With that especially non-BG9 competitors fresh to a LAN tournament are big underdog players. So like in all my blogs I'll give you the 411 on BG9. Thats titled Battlegroup 9 from WoW PvP realm clusters. There are many battlegroups, but in the US BG9 is considered the best and most competitive. Now if you're not from BG9 it doesn't make you bad it just means chances are you don't have as much competition in your battlegroup as them... and as a result you're probably not as good as you think you are because a quote I love says "You're only as good as your competition." Meaning if you're always beating up on your little brother you're only as good as the 2 of you when there is a WORLD of fighters all ready to take you on that you haven't even faced yet.

So after saying that it makes me love and appreciate the Blizzard held WoW tournament and the tournament realm as a whole. Even at 1500 you run into some of the best players from various battlegroups, you get to chat with some of the biggest named guys from other battlegroups that you probably never got the chance to ever talk to and its a great pre LAN tournament warmup. My team in particular, Team Supremacy :), have been playing absolutely 100% mod-less for the past week so when we get to MLG San Diego we'll have a edge on some guys that are stuck on stupid with mods. I'm sure plenty of other guys are doing the same and why wouldn't they? You have the exact same tournament realm you're going to play on at a LAN at the convenience of your own home, might as well add the same mod-less UI as well. I see a ton of teams losing first round due to not knowing how to counterspell without proximo.

So I was going to talk about what we're going to be running at MLG San Diego... but I changed my mind so I'm not. BUT what I will do is talk about some top make-ups I DO see doing well.

First and foremost: Sublety Rogue, Frost Mage and Discipline Priest aka RMP: The 3v3 classic, most balanced team make-up with a solid amount of CC from all angles, great burst from the mage, offensive and defensive dispels and lock-down control from the rogue. The priests primary job is to heal and dispelled, but the best RMPs priests play extra agressive with mana burns, mind controls and offensive dispels. The mage IMO is the key to this teams success as he can single handedly turn a game from defensive to offensive in seconds, a recast able Crowd Control, ranged snares and spell school lockout the mage is probably the most important part of this team. The rogue is there to train damage but the best rogues go beyond that, sapping people out of fears, preventing CC on himself, keeping others locked down as well with switch gouges and kicks to stop heals... its a very judgmental class that isn't given enough credit IMO to the most skilled rogues.

Shadow priest, UA Warlock + Healer (preferably resto druid or shaman): The S1 2v2 champion team makes its comeback after the absolute decline in them when they introduced arena water, DoTs effecting resilience, Shadow Resist gear and druids with good healing gear. Shadow priest + UA warlocks do an absolutely ridiculous amount of damage over time and with a full line up of dots easly being able to switch targets and re-DOT another person. Arm that with the shadow priests, vampiric embrace and PW:S it seems almost like the UA warlock just turned into a SL/SL from all the healing he's getting. The healer is replaceable to me from a shaman to a druid because each healer adds something different, yet still accomplishing the same goal. The shaman brings totems which can give an extra 101 spell damage, fear breaks, earth shield, a 3rd ranged interrupt and bloodlust. On the other hand a druid brings more healing over time and tons of control so it matters on the teams playstyle.

Double melee + Resto Druid (Rogue / Warrior / Ret pally / Enhancement shaman): The double melee train teams became extremely popular during S3 with armor penetration and warglave rogues. The make-up is very anti warlock friendly and almost a "free win" if a warlock even zones into the same arena, its pretty terribad. Now double melee can come in many different combinations using either the warrior or rogue as primary, so it can be warrior + rogue, warrior + enhancement shaman, warrior + ret pally or rogue + rogue, rogue +... you get the idea. Generally you want a rogue and/ or warrior because of the 50% healing debuff that the shaman and pally lack. The hybrid melee classes bring tons of burst and extra support that a warrior / rogue do not. Topping that off with the CC healing class, druid, this team can make peoples lives hell. I personally don't see it doing to well because of the amount of RMPs that will be there and RMP pretty much locks down double melee pretty bad... maybe someone could prove me wrong though :)

Marksman Hunter + Sl/Sl lock + Resto Druid: The RPM killer. This team has an obvious disadvantage to double melee teams with the warlock being on the team, but at the cost of losing to double melee teams you have the stronger advantage at the RMP that will swarm the tournament. The control from all 3 classes, with 2 mana draining classes can and will control the RMPs mage burst and drain mana from both the mage and priest with keeping constant pressure from pets and dots... damn that makes my head hurt even thinking about it. One of the most skilled compositions to master, but when it is... its a very entertaining make up to watch.

Sublety Rogue / Warrior, Warlock, Druid: The second version of 3v3 classic balance team. The druid countering the priest and warlock countering the druid make this fight a slight advantage against RMP but once again weak to any double melee teams.

Now these teams aren't the end all be all and I'm sure theres probably some godlike players that can play different comps, but for now these are the cookie cutter make-ups I expect to see at the tournament. Really looking forward to seeing all the big named guys and some tough competition.

6 more DAYS hope yall gettin ready!

Thats a good question... Many people think that going from console gaming to PC gaming is taking a step backwards considering the complete lack of PC games now. I mean really, go to your nearest Gamestop, Mom & Pop game store, or K-mart and look at the PC section. Its like looking at Ken Shamrock trying to make a comeback in the MMA when you can go to the console section and watch Chuck Liddel beat the hell out of someone (If you don't know who Chuck Liddel is you should go to www.youtube.com and type in his name in a search).

The reality is though for professional gaming, PC gaming has been the most successful over the decade of Esports. Now don't get me wrong, when Team Supremacy (My crew which has a WoW and SSBB devision) is getting in some good training for a tournament I'll go to show my support, but WoW is where my heart's at. I made a previous thread talking about how I quit... I didn't. Its clear and obvious. Spending the last 3 years playing my priest made it a really hard decision to actually let go and with all the tournaments coming around and arena pvp being the most fun thing IMO about WoW (I love PvE too though) to be able to compete in something that I love and possibly get some cash at the same time? Why the hell not.

So this brings me to talk about why I'm competing in WoW over SSBB right now? Well I'll be honest, the SSBB tournament scene isn't as big as I expected it to be. When SSBM got into its prime years of 2004-06, it was amazing. I played some of the best from ALL over the world, guys from France, other sections of Europe and even as far as Japan. All for the love of the game and there was so much respect. Nowadays everyone's all about money and that friendly aspect has gone out the window IMO with the online component. Now we have kids who will never go to a live event talking trash online as with every other game except they can kinda back it up, back during my time they only way to get some respect was going to a big tournament and placing well... I missed that. I also don't see it happening as much now unless MLG picks it up *wink wink*.

All in all though WoW arena is a very competitive and indepth chess game I think in the higher brackets where a single miss used GCD could lose a match. Let me talk about GCD for a second, that is called Global Cooldown. Its what prevents someone from playing a mage and having a turbo controller that can hit icelance 500x a second and just holding the button down. So a GCD lasts for 1.5 seconds basically allowing only one move per 1.5 seconds. Great players manage GCD very carefully using the most effective abilities for that exact moment. An example of a miss used GCD, you're a rogue and you're hitting a priest he's getting close to dead and you can smell it so you go for the kill using a hemorrhage while the priest is casting a flash heal, you can no longer interrupt that heal because a flash heal is 1.5 seconds and you will still be on GCD while he's casting that heal and it now goes off and you have to work twice as hard to kill him now when you could of waited for the heal because he was low and interrupted it with a kick. Thats just a small example, but it gets far more deep than that. I really like the slow pace of the game, but yet fast twitch reaction elements of it like dispelling a druids nature swiftness or vanishing a kidney shot.

Now a few aspects I don't like about competitive WoW and I think many of you will agree... RNG. RNG stands for Random Number Generator. This RNG is WoWs bread and butter and a few classes, I.E. Warriors, are built solely around it. This is WoWs biggest flaw as it can mean the difference in a win and a lose if you get "RNG'D". Examples of RNGs go from, resists, misses, mace stuns, improve hamstrings and many many more that can turn the tide of a match if you get some good / bad RNGs. If they took RNG out of the game I don't know how it would run because maybe 50% of the abilities in this game, including resilience which is what the PvP armors are decked out in, are based off RNG to begin with. So its a double edged sword, it could be your saving grace or your bane you just have to wait on the games lucky roll of the dice.

Peace out til later, next I'll talk abit about my team and a short BIO of them and strengths and weakness of some make ups.

So with MLG picking up World of Warcraft and me never being one to back down to competition me and my 3s team are coming to San Diego to compete.

I'm glad it was picked up because I'm sure plenty of people spent tons of time in this game and would love to make some money off of it. There's gonna be some good competition here from some of the best teams from the online arena ranking system and Blizzard own held WoW 3v3 Tournament.

Teams like Duelest going for Glad, MoB gaming and Team Pandemic I've heard are going to be there so to play the guys from BG9 that has been so heavily hyped in the past will be fun. We're running RPM and ... I'm not telling for the 3s tournament. RPM stands for Rogue / Frost Mage / Discipline priest and it's probably the most balanced team. Its debatable as far as the strat for the team but it has weakness to highly DoT teams like UA lock / Shadow priest / Healer and really good double melee teams like Warrior / Ret Paladin / Druid.

I'm looking forward to playing in a LAN where it will supposedly be a lag free environment.... on BLACKBIRDS. Of course after the tournament as always KillaOR and friends are gonna hang out and enjoy the new area since I've never been to San Diego. I've heard its like being in SoHo in NYC so I probably wont like it too much lmao, but we'll see.

Oh and as a cheap way to advertise my crew, Team Supremacy we're currently doing the best out of all the crews on the East Coast in our Super Smash Brothers Melee / Brawl devision of the team, we're trying to expand that same success to WoW and I've started a new guild on the server - Uther - guild named Team Supremacy. Once we get the numbers we're going to become a Raiding guild as well as the best PvP guild on the server.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Traicedus

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Killaor

The name KillaOR originates from back during Dreamcast Online when I played Bomberman Online. My tag at the time was Lil Killa, and there was 2 groups of elitist bombermen one named: LoL! and the other named: O.R. (Outlaw Riderz). I obviously eventually joined OR and they told me I should drop the Lil in my name so I did. The game isn't played online anymore since they turn away from the dreamcast, but out of respect I kept the OR tag and its grown with me. So when everyone asks me "Where is your name from?" Its from loyalty which I very much am to people that wouldn't stab me in the back.

Well to start off I'm a modest type of dude. Lately I've been feeling myself which is never wrong for a person to do, just means your confident in yourself.

Somethings people may or may not have known about me::

I was born in Brooklyn Hospital. I lived in Queens after being born in BKH for 3 years. I moveD to BK for 8 years before moving to the Bronx. I then finally moved to Harlem when I was 9, haven't moved since. I love my girl Shana Marie Green. I'm very loyal to the people I care about. <-- Weakness? Blue's my favorite color. BMCC is aight. My little brother is the most arrogant person I know. (Thanks to his big bro :..) My pops is the most amazing father on the planet. I love the Super Smash Brothers series. I am really really good at Guitar Hero 2/3 and Rockband (5 star on most songs on expert). I play World of Warcraft is the most addicting program of all internet. (I think theres crack dust on the CDs before you install it or something) You can check my Armory, just look up the name KillaOR. I'm seriously competitive. Kind of a gym head.

Myspace has been out well over ~3 years I think? I've kinda procrastinated making one, but I fell for the hype now I'm hooked lol. Just tryin to meet people that are interesting catch up with old friends, meet new ones and to get money $_$.

TL:DR version. (And I just learned what the fuck that means. TL:DR = Too long: Didn't Read.) I'm a cool a dude, respect me and I'll respect you back cause at the end of the day thats all that really ever matters. Get at me.

I had a gun put to my head, knife to the throat, acid bucket over my head and a igniting indian skinburn to right this blog. HAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEELLLLPPPPP!

Nah but on a serious note I got my new bed this morning(upgrade from the full size to a Queen size) and I'm about to go sleep in it. This Saturday (March 1 I'm headed to the Harlem VS gamer joint gonna play some H2 and SSB:M.

I'll be back with blogs once I got something to talk about.