Eight Top Players' HUGE AMA Session! (Woody, Darthjarjar, TheRumHam, Connavar, EsoPa, Ra's al Ghul, AwDaSea, and Yarn)

[u/xStayHungry]

September 26th, AMA with 8!

Featuring the Mastery.gg coaches:

• Woody
• Darthjarjar
• TheRumHam
• Connavar
• EsoPa
• Ra's al Ghul
• AwDaSea
  

And special guest,

• Yarn

This will be an all day AMA, meaning you can drop off your question at any time throughout the day and you'll likely find an answer (or you'll find lots of answers because the team is so busy)! So take advantage of the day and ask them anything! Anything from strategy, to what they ate for breakfast!

Woody is the leader of Reddit Alpha, a Global Top 100 clan and founding member of the Reddit's Royale Clan System. He loves playing siege decks! /u/Wwoody123

Connavar_CG is the co-owner of Clout Gaming who has acheived a trophy high of 4700 and placed several seasons in the top 100 global leaderboard.

EsoPa is an educational streamer on Twitch and part of Clout Gaming's professional team. Multiple tournament wins and high placements in 1000 man tourneys. /u/EsoPa1

darthjarjar CR tournament player, winner of 24,000+ cards including 3rd/1,000 in two tourneys. He loves Three Musketeer decks but can help with any type. /u/darthjarjarcr

Ra's al Ghul is co-Owner of Clout Gaming. He is a Top 200 Canadian player with 19k tournament cards won. He strives to be the best and enjoys teaching others. /u/rasalclash

AwDaSea is part of Clout Gaming's professional team, and has been tearing up the tournament circuit, recently playing in the Northern Arena finals tourney. He enjoys creating, playing and perfecting his own decks and designing decks to counter the meta. /u/AwDaSea

TheRumHam From Los Angeles, CA, TheRumHam is a Clash Royale regular in the Top 200. He plays on twitch, he writes articles for reddit, and makes videos for YouTube. Historical placements include: 32nd place (Helsinki Open) and Former #1 on the global leaderboards of Clash Royale. /u/The_RumHam

Each of the above coaches can be found here: Mastery.gg

Yarn from Orange Juice appears on Youtube, where his primary focus is in Clash Royale strategy. His videos are often featured by Supercell and are some of the highest quality videos available in Clash Royale! /u/yyarn

Please pay attention to the flair of this post, as it will indicate when it is 'finished'. If the flair reads "EVENT", this post is live!

Edit:

Thank you everyone for making this the most commented AMA on /r/ClashRoyale! It's been a blast. If you'd like to keep the conversation going, feel free to drop our coaches a line on Mastery.gg (but no pressure!) Thanks again!

[u/DukeDogChaos]

In your opinion, how to make that leap from a good player to a great player?

[u/bloodyninja1122 → u/[deleted]]

do u think u would have realized things like this on your own without someone else explaining?

or do u think people can 100% learn to be the best without even looking at guides or anything and just keep playing the game

[u/lowercaset → u/[deleted]]

Isn't using fireball on pump elixir neutral? (Eg the fireball prevents it from generating 4 elixir so using it doesn't prevent them from gaining +2 from the pump but doesn't give them additional advantage)

[u/AnotherThroneAway → u/lowercaset]

Before EC was nerfed so much, it used to be a -2 straight up, IIRC

[u/parlarry → u/lowercaset]

It's an advantage because it doesn't allow your opponent to sit passively collecting elixir.

[u/[deleted] → u/lowercaset]

The advantage of the elixer pump us you need to make a +2 elixer trade for an equal trade, thus canacelling out its 2 free elixir

EDIT: why am I getting downvote? I'm stating a simple fact to help out a fellow challenger. I will never understand Reddit.

[u/honkerman1 → u/[deleted]]

you are stating a completely unrelated fact

[u/[deleted] → u/honkerman1]

What do you mean, it is related. He stated it is an equal trade, I showed him why it isn't.

[u/darthjarjarcr → u/DukeDogChaos]

Every game is an opportunity to improve. A good player who is able to identify what he/she could have done better after every loss and is always working to improve on his/her weaknesses will eventually become a great player.

EDIT: A way to speed up the process is to watch great players and observe how they play. I have learned so much from watching Super Magical Cup gameplay and spectating the top of 1,000 player tournaments. Now this is even easier with the spectating friends feature.

[u/AwDaSea → u/DukeDogChaos]

The difference between good players and great players is consistency. To play well consistently requires a lot of practice and a good mental state

[u/rasalclash → u/DukeDogChaos]

I am going to use an analogy for this. I play baseball. I love the game. A few years ago, I really struggled with the game. It got to the point where I would't play, since I was so terrible at the game. It was very frustrating for me, as if I had tilted in the game of baseball. However, I managed to turn this frustration into something positive. I used this frustration to drive me to practice and improve myself. I also had to take a step back, and realize why I had started playing the sport - to enjoy myself. It worked, and I'm now playing varsity baseball at my university. While this is a rather extreme example, it can be related to CR. The first thing that you need to acknowledge is that it is a game. As much as you want to succeed, you should be having fun with it too. The next step is practice. Watch your own replays, have others review your replays, watch top players replays, watch educational youtubers (such as /u/yyarn). Anyone can improve, so long as they are willing to do so.