Kniraven vs BigSnipez

Zanryu - Lothranis wrote: »

Indulging a buffed 1v1 is laughable on its own, but let's do this. I may have the odd **** up when it comes to skills being weird but you.. your whole playstyle is one big mistake.

I didn't have a choice, I'm on a pvp server. It wasn't a pre-arranged 1v1 and i cant magically turn blue and beg for better conditions.
You have no room to give me any advice because anyone can watch any individual video of yours and see you have no idea what you are doing.

Don't respect my opinion? How about Adroit's? He's called you out in several threads for being incompetent at pretty much everything.

4:08 Opening with Smack. This is a skill you save to either continue a lock or to prevent the Archer from attacking you after a Purge. You waste it at the very start for no reason.

Opening with smack vs an archer or a wizard is intelligent. If you cloudsprint + smack you can seal them before their opener which is usually a stun from an archer. This allows you to move in fast during that seal time to open up offensively.
Try it some time.

4:13 Using a Vacuity Powder for no reason. When it comes to fighting an Archer that 20 seconds of cc immunity isn't helping much. The issue isn't their ability to stun or freeze, it's their movement. It would have been far better to use a chi pot or to conserve your cooldown for an Ironguard or Sutra Power Orb. Speaking of chi, you wasted apothecary when you had none to work with.

Having no chi is exactly why I used the apoth. an ironguard or sutra would have given me 6 or 12 seconds to regain chi and keep up with him. The 20 sec vacuity was indeed wasted, and i would have been better off not using it there because i managed to catch up and stun him immediately.

4:39 Wasting Will of the Bodhisattva when you, again, have no chi to work with. I'm all for anti stunning to get in close but your genie and apothecary are both on cooldown and you have well under a spark going in. There's no point wasting a whole spark on something to get in close when there's nothing you can actually do to your opponent.

You don't seem to understand the importance of keeping in close range of him so he deals half damage. I keep him from making more than 1 attack at a time usually so the damage he is dealing to me is 1/2 x 1/3 because of 66% def charm. Those low hits he does to me are 1/6 a hit.

4:47 Smack+Reckless Rush can be a good combo to keep the opponent in place if you lack Whirlwind, or want to use your genie on something else. However, you didn't have the chi to continue the lock and your opponent escapes. You wasted Smack and Reckless, both of which could have been used far better.


Again, I am doing this for defense not offense.

4:53 Random Buddha's Guard is random. There's literally nothing to be gained in using it the way you did. You already have enough pdef to tank the physical hits coming your way. That buff is best saved for right after a purge in order to combo with Magic Marrow to survive until you can put up Bell. I personally don't have it, and I've never been in a situation where I need it, but you used the skill pitifully.

Totally wrong, you sir are an idiot.
My apoth is in cd, my genie doesnt have the fuel for ToP or Domain, i have less than 1 spark, and a +12 archer just got a significant distance away from me. That is a GREAT time to use Buddha's Guard.

Idk if you noticed but he is dealing 2k+ crits through defense charms & buddhas guard

5:07 You used Absolute Domain when you were in absolutely no danger of dying. You had a fresh charm tick that was recovering nicely. You blew a large portion of genie energy, as well as putting AD into cooldown for no reason. That energy was better used on Cloud Eruption given your immense lack of chi. At the very least you could have just not used your genie there if you were concerned about apothecary being on cooldown if you were to be purged soon after.

Charm has just ticked. Snipez has crit me over 20k with metal attacks before. I switched to a +25 defense level sword causing him to do minimal damage on top of the defense charms and trying to stay in range.

5:37-:5:47 You waste a lot of chi locking down your opponent when you have no actual chance of killing them in that situation. Locking your opponent down is necessary to land kills, but wasting your chi on something that will only end up fruitless is an easy way to lose. Chi management is one of the most important aspects of BM PvP and you clearly lack an understanding of the concept. At least you used Cloud Eruption I guess.

Locking down my opponent to attempt to make them waste genie so I can try for a kill, keeps them on defense using their chi to get away instead of to attack. Idk if you noticed throughout the entire fight but I regain chi very quickly.
Sage Dragons gives me back 75 chi.
Sage Ferocious Leap gives me 20 chi w/ 3 sec cd.
Start Smite gives me 50 chi every 6 seconds (and while wielding a +25 defense level sword)
Sage Roar costs 15 less chi than demon.
Sage Chi Skill, free 50 chi a minute
& when necessary, my genie gives me 104 chi every 43 seconds.


5:50 Mistimed your Blade Hurl. Though the more serious mistake is that you used it for seemingly no other reason than to use it.

Yes mistimed. No not used without reason.
He was antistunning, I didn't want him to attack when he was antistunned.

5:55 You tried to stun a clearly antistunned target. (Which is very amusing, as you commented on my having used Roar on a caster who's Purify Spell ticked mid-channel. Very amusing indeed)

That was actually to try and help RaydenRyu.
AfterMathz was in range and i didnt want to switch targets and lose sight of Snipez's buff bar.
I commonly will not change targets if the target i already have is in range.

5:58 You then proceed to waste Reckless Rush, yet again I might add, on a target who is still clearly immune to crowd control. This is immediately followed by wasting a Vacuity.

Reckless Rush was a mistake on my part here I agree. I anticipated being frozen and it never happened. Was just plain dumb. The vacuity again though, is defensive. If I can stay on top of him he wont kill me, and 20 seconds is longer than 6 or 12 by a long shot.

6:08 You Reel In your opponent, but yet again you have NOTHING to do. Do you not grasp the concept that you actually need chi to win a fight? Without chi you're basically just going to tickle your opponent. You need chi to lock them down long enough to do the damage needed to kill them. With chi management like yours I'm amazed you get anywhere. I'd pay to watch you PvP on a Demon BM.

I reeled him in because archers hit very hard when they are far away. You severely underestimate his damage. I am using defense charms and keeping him at 1/2 damage distance throughout the fight.
And DURRR thats why i'm not demon. you have no chi.

6:45 Smack followed immediately by Reel In. If you can't understand why this is wrong without me explaining there really is no saving you.

I don't use reel in...
Do you mean bladehurl? If you mean bladehurl, I used it when smack ended to continue keeping him unable to attack. Genie & Apoth are both on cd at this point.

6:58 An opportunity to use Reckless Rush to prevent the opponent from moving and go for a kill with your faster channeling skills. An opportunity you never got to take advantage due to wasting Reckless Rush earlier in the fight.

Actually a good call. You are 100% correct here.

7:31 Yet again trying to stun a target that has obvious immunity.

Negative. Watch again. His immunity ends as I cast roar but he manages to distance himself from it. That was timed. Notice I stand there and use Sage Chi skill timing his antistun to end. He used a leap which got him away in time.

7:45 Blade Hurl when you're in no danger of dying.

Bladehurl used when the archer is at a distance, preventing him from attacking while i close the gap.

7:59 Almost immediately using Dragon Rising after Roar of the Pride rather than using damaging skills to damage your opponent first.

bad timing. I agree with you here. I missed an extra skill I could have gotten in and an extra second he could have been stunned.

8:03 Yet ANOTHER wasted Reckless Rush.

Nope, I wouldn't have had him in distance still to use roar when it came off cd if I hadn't used reckless.

8:32 Another wasted Smack.
Archer is antistunned. Using smack prevents him from attacking.
Much like stunning usually prevents him from attacking.

8:36 ...followed by another wasted Blade Hurl.

Smack ended, he is still antistunned, bladehurl means he still can't attack.

9:21 Why do you insist on wasting Reckless Rush so... recklessly?

closing distance, keeping on top of the enemy.

Zheii - Archosaur wrote: »

Okay, I usually don't watch many PK videos, but my interest was raised after Zan told me about you commenting on some of his vids.

I don't know all that much about playing BM but I do know about PK and fighting Archers.
First off:
Wtf is with your leaps man!? they're all over the place, I'm not sure if you're trying to leap forward, or backwards or up!

you're an idiot. I leap forward when paralyzed and close enough to get in range to stun, i leap backwards when doing so will take me outside the archer's range. Blademaster leaps also give us momentary sin buffs to avoid damage or debuffs.

But seriously, leaps are something you should work on.
Also... Vacs? Against an Archer? I don't think anything could be more pointless. Use Fortify to get past that first stun, and if you don't trust you can lock them down for the duration of the mag debuff then just tank the stun out, I mean you are vit stone, you've got plenty of hp for the archer to burn through. And another thing, BMs are so highly reliant on chi, why on earth have you started a 1v1 with no chi? Oh c'mon that's like beginner stuff man, you get chi then you fight, not the other way around! Your apoth would have been much better spent giving you chi, ijs.
1.) This is a pvp server. This was not a choreographed "oh hey dude wanna 1v1?" "Okay brah get chi!" This was him coming out of sz to kill me.
2.) I didn't have any chi pots.
3.) Vacuitys are amazing when you are more concerned about not being stunned than you are about being immune to damage. They last longer.
4.) fortify would have been difficult to time, and may have wasted it and lowered my mdef for no reason making me more susceptible to metal attacks. I don't have a permanent defense level buff like you and magic marrowing would have made his phy attacks destroy me.

There are alot of other things I'd like to comment on but won't, I understand that we can't be perfect 100% of the time and we have good and bad fights, oh trust me I do.
But your playing style is so skew-whiff I'm not sure if it's based off sheer confusion or skill spam.

Honestly, I think you could actually learn a lot from Zans vids instead of pointlessly over criticizing them.
And I'm not saying that because I'm his friend, I'm saying that because after watching both him and now you PvP I can see that his playing style and knowledge on how to act in any given PvP situation is far superior.

Anyone anywhere can watch any of his videos and see he has no idea wtf he is doing.

(To anyone who doesn't understand why I am comparing Kniraven and Zan, just don't worry your little heads about it, they both understand where it is coming from, Kniraven basically begged for it.)

Vedovis - Lost City wrote: »

Kni got a "bug report" after being double purged [which isnt shown at the end ofc]

Cute.
My criticism comes from :
1.) a well known forum troll i often report for being a nuisance.
2.) his buddy.
3.) some chick in the same guild as Snipez who hates me, harasses me, and insults me daily.

Interestingly enough the trio are even 3 friends over the forum. fancy that.