How Did You Break Past 1K?
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I’ve been fluctuating between 950 and 1k for a while now.
Can you share what you did to increase your score to 1k1?
After 10 matches, I was placed 1245 (1v1, 8W2L).
Ranked game is tiring and I want to enjoy game instead of being pushed by ranking so I stopped here.
In these 10 games, I encountered scout rush few times and this is just lame to let your scout roaming without doing micro.
I usually train some archers to rush and leave few spearmen at base.
I think a smoothly-run build order should be fine to reach 1k+?
For my experience I started PvP one-two months ago and played 26 games online untill now.
I split my placement games 5W /5L.
I won my 11th game, lost my 12th then won 4 in a row after that getting my rating to 1128.
I thought I’m the beeez kneez but I got humbled as I lost 7 out of my next 10 games and now I sit at 1053 (havent played in 3 weeks 😔 ).
I spectated all of my games in capture age which helps a lot to identify mistakes and work on them.
Many may relate to my inefficiencies
– keep scout on the move all the time
– keep making vills (especially avoid idle time in Dark/Feudal)
– stop units running in to TCs (stand ground is your friend here)
– better resource management ( 🧐 looking at you floating 🪵 )
– better decision making before and after engaging in a fight
– check economy buildings periodically to pick up upgrades.
– units before upgrades (archery range with fletching and no archers is a no go)The most important advice u gave myself is that you have to be adaptable.
The game doesn’t stop at the end of a build order.
You have to justify your actions and decisions.
You have to figure out what is your army compositions resource cost and set your eco up to sustain production.
Example.
Why am I trying to make knights if i don’t have 30 farms and 14 on gold to sustain 2 Stable and 3 TC vill production?
I have to move my woodcutters to farms ASAP so my buildings don’t idle.
IMHO idle buildings loose me games.
Idle units loose me games.
And most importantly have fun.
If I stress to much I loose cohesion and my actions don’t add up anymore.
Elo is just a number!
The improvement curve is yours only.
This game has so many creases, nooks and crannies that even if you know about them all you still have to implement them during game play and therein lies the fun.
That is why people still enjoy this game after years of playing it.
And the true beauty is that you play it however you want!
I’ve been at ~1000 for years and don’t really care.
If you want to advance, by all means go for it — I’m simply saying it’s not really important as long as you have fun.
I have time for a game or two each few days, there’s always players to match with and games are good and challenging.
I’m happy to be 1000-er forever.
Inca maa, malay elephants and lots of playing.
Things I need to work on are:
– Speed, I feel like I’m a bit slow
– Idle time
– Floating resources
The main things I’ve worked on is stomping out ALL idle time and spending resources I’m floating.
I also started resource/small walling, doing the boar luring tc trick and the villager garrison thing where you avoid walking time by garrisoning a vill then ungarrisoning quickly.
Very simple.
I didn’t 11
Just broke 1k this week.
For me it was focusing on walling against knight play and i had HUGE idle tc and idle eco numbers.And i assume you have a build order you are following 🙂
1k elo is such a crazy mix of skill levels, you might not feel like you’re really making progress even if you are improving.
Don’t get discouraged.
Make the game more comfortable with settings and mods.
Learn hotkeys, use control groups.
Learning about the “go to” hotkeys and implementing particularly the go to selection hotkey was a big one for me.
Been a minute since I played.
For me it was one step at a time, Develop a killer opener or two you can become proficient in and enjoy doing.
Really focus on this.
When you get to the stage where this is no longer winning you games and your losing in the Mid game Practice your mid game and focus on this.
I would just work on constantly refining these 2 things, yes late game is important, but most games won’t stretch on into late game (this could’ve changed).
this helped me get ~1300, having a deadly opening was the thing that transformed my game most, theres obviously many awesome guides out there at any one time, mine always came from Hera
and most importantly just make sure you’re enjoying playing, if the grind is forcing you into playstyles that are boring you and sapping your enjoyment, switch to some new tatics that you think you might enjoy more
Join a Discord.
There are a lot of people that just play thousands of 1v1s completely alone.
Find someone better than you.
Show them replays, stream yourself playing.
Tell them what hotkeys you use.
Just talking through your build with someone or having them watch you can go a long way.
That’s the neat part.
You don’t
I practiced 1 build order against AI.
Then went into ranked and climbed to 1200 easy
Cube mod.
Apart from what everyone is saying, learning that you don’t need more than 10 vils on wood for pretty much the whole game changed my whole gameplay at that level
Won 5 of my 10 placement matches and got placed at 1050
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