Originally Posted by Basil

the difference between cod/cs and toribash is that toribash is a genuinely solved game, you can literally do the same shit over and over and just win games, and since both duelers know about that it just becomes literal coinflips. most duelers active rn are equally skilled because they just know the same things that the other players do, the game has been out for 19 years, everyone knows how to play boxshu, everyone knows every abd opener you can possibly use and how to play against it, if you pick the wrong one you just lose and move on to the next game. its literally coinflipping on openers every time. i am not talking about little timmy streaking people who actually play the game, i am talking about real duelers who have real time put into the game. it is not a skill gap between them, its literally winning based on who picked the right opener that game. not a single player who is active rn is better than any other dueler from like 5+ years ago, they simply know the new meta openers that beat the previous meta openers. and quite frankly i dont think there has been a single new meta opener made in the past 5 years anyway they're all still using shit from the mesozoic period spamming camp openers in boxshu and then picking a random frame to launch hoping they don't die. IMO legend status is reserved for people who went above and beyond their peers, and not a single dueler actually has done that in recent memory.