At what point do you consider someone to be "crutched" by a build

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recently got into a war which was fucking horrible, i wont name any of the people that were involved but i’ll tell you the builds of the people that were in it

1 ash conjurer
2 size fighting styles
1 glass/acid mage

im thinking to myself as im swapping out fighting them “these guys honestly suck” since their all using very meta builds, not the ash conjurer though honest to god nobody uses that

which leads me to think at what point is someone crutched by a build and what is considered a crutch build, im not gonna poll this i just want people to reply.

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I don’t. If the reason I lose is because they are playing a more efficient build than me, that’s on me. If the reason I lose is because they are playing better than me, that’s on me. If the reason I lose is because they have better gear than me, that’s on me.

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when they couldn’t beat you if they swapped to something else

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if you lost to somebody who had this build would you say they are good at the game

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I play metal conjurer everyone is crutched relative to me and my meme build

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block me please

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I can see you’re threatened by my inherent superiority…

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0/10 ragebait

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sorry i cant hear the opinions of people whove never played a REAL build in their life mind speaking up

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I don’t think that matters. If I wasn’t using the right tools to win, that’s the reason I lost, I’m not going to blame the other guy for making better equipment choices.

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If they beat me then they’re crutched

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What’s that I hear?

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“If you didn’t win, then everyone who beat you is a cheater”

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idk but whenever i used to 1v1 someone running obnoxious amounts of attack speed on their equipment i immediately think its a crutch. I have a hate boner for the stat its so toxic, i find it magnitudes harder to deal with than a person running high attack size.

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Anyone with sunken armors and/or insanity.

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having actually played it I must say that metal conjuror peaks and metal mages cheat

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If they can’t beat you in gearless pvp.

AO is a game, not an excel spreadsheet to minmax stats.

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everyone is build carried :person_shrugging:

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yeah we hate progression, delete all armor and stats

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If they can beat me at all as inferior lifeforms and gamers, it means they’re obviously being hard-carried by completely broken and badly designed gameplay mechanics and items. We all know I’m the greatest PVP player to ever live, so if you’re doing better than me, it means you have to have some kind of crutch.

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