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Your Mafia Idol(s)

deletedover 8 years

ITT give the person/people who you admire the most and whose gameplay you tend to emulate.

When I first started playing comp my first idol was turquoise. I thought she was absolutely incredible and I would sheep her every game.

Obviously, turq left after some time. I think I tried to pick up some of Shivv's game play but failed miserably. But I really did admire Shivv even though he was kind of a douche.

While Anthony was banned I would occasionally play games with him and his friends. I admired his love for the game and when he came back to main lobby, I picked up some of his scum-hunting techniques. I think Anthony was the one who inspired me to be less of a troll player. I think these days I'm like 10% troll and 90% serious in ranked mafia games.

One final idol I have from this site is none other than pranay. Everyone questions this player quite a bit. If a player like Anthony stuffs a game, everyone just goes "man Anthony you stuffed it but good try" mainly because he's less aggressive than pranay. When pranay loses a game everyone bashes him and makes fun of him. We're not all perfect, we're all gonna have bad games. Due to pranay's aggressive attitude in all games, his games where he absolutely dominates the game are undermined due to it being popular to bash him when he loses as opposed to applaud him when he wins. Regardless, over the years, I've acknowledged that pranay knows the game like the back of his hand. He knows how to adapt to every situation. He knows all the techniques. I noticed that when I played with him he was very smart about the game like me. And I highly respected that. So I emulated his game play quite a bit as well. Hence why I'm super aggressive in about 80% of my games. Players like turquoise and Sarah who played with me when I first started comp would say I was an easygoing player. Players today would say I'm a manipulative aggressive dominating player in most games I play. And that's because I've emulated pranay's playstyle because I mad respect him.

Also as of recently, I re-joined mafiascum which was the mafia site I used briefly before joining epicmafia. As of recently I've definitely emulated some of the playstyles of people there. It's irrelevant who though since most of you aren't on that site.

TL;DR: turquoise, Shivv, Anthony, pranay7744, various MSers

deletedover 8 years

Tatami says

Retti says

turq was purely emotional much like junter, neither had the chops to properly articulate their thoughts

She normally just doesn't bother, it's not that she can't. She also realized that normally explaining your reads simply isn't worth the time.

You get a lot farther by just not explaining your reads until you have to (ie. three way with a clear like me/gira). You either get virtually 0 payout or people tend to scumread it. Turq has some of the more insightful reads I've seen-she just doesn't verbalize them often because she knows it doesn't help.

Retti says

believe me i know, she's a different beast when she loses postgame

This is my point-postgame.

i inherently disagree but that's because i favor conventional scumhunting instead of the type tailored towards EM

Giga13

over 8 years

Retti says

turquoise is massively overrated lmao

i wouldn't say massively. in my opinion, she was good, but i don't remember her being as good as people here are saying she was. she was definitely overly emotional much of the time (from when i played with her anyway) and because of that it allowed small(er) less important sh*t to affect her as well

doesn't mean she was bad though; she's in my top 5 all time female players

Tatami

over 8 years

Retti says

turq was purely emotional much like junter, neither had the chops to properly articulate their thoughts

She normally just doesn't bother, it's not that she can't. She also realized that normally explaining your reads simply isn't worth the time.

You get a lot farther by just not explaining your reads until you have to (ie. three way with a clear like me/gira). You either get virtually 0 payout or people tend to scumread it. Turq has some of the more insightful reads I've seen-she just doesn't verbalize them often because she knows it doesn't help.

Retti says

believe me i know, she's a different beast when she loses postgame

This is my point-postgame.

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turq was purely emotional much like junter, neither had the chops to properly articulate their thoughts

believe me i know, she's a different beast when she loses postgame

Tatami

over 8 years

Retti says

turq is like a female junter imo

Turq doesn't pick names out of a hat and is capable of doing more than spamming.

deletedover 8 years

turq is like a female junter imo

Tatami

over 8 years

Giga13 says

But we learn from everyone we play with, wherher we know it or not, even if it was something we saw that we didn't like because it taught it what not to do. On the conscious and subconscious levels we pick up more infomation than we can fathom

I can't remember the last time I learned anything from someone generally considered a "good" player.

I learn the most from "bad" players.

deletedover 8 years

turquoise is massively overrated lmao

Lumos

over 8 years

And beercan wherever you are

Lumos

over 8 years

Shouts to Gerry Mori Solace Cody

dazeldafreak

over 8 years

Venus says

Jeff sucks tho

Assuming that's ghost then I disagree. lol

deletedover 8 years

Jeff sucks tho

dazeldafreak

over 8 years

Machivillianghost and maxwell. Everyone else in the history of the site has sucked. lol

mandevian

over 8 years

I've already said that bacde is worthy of being compared with any legend on this site. He has the skills. He has executed it many times. When I am his maf partner, he understands all my tricks without me having to explain it to him and he supports in a way much better than needed or expected. Learnt many ideas from him as well.

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mist says

Venus says

mist says

hedger

you want to be bad at Mafia ??

i hope one day for the masses to chant "mist suck" just as loud as they do for hedger.

I hope your hopes and dreams come true. https://epicmafia.com/topic/79172

deletedover 8 years

Venus says

mist says

hedger

you want to be bad at Mafia ??

i hope one day for the masses to chant "mist suck" just as loud as they do for hedger.

Giga13

over 8 years

Venus says

mist says

hedger

you want to be bad at Mafia ??

that's the callout lmfao

deletedover 8 years

Oh I add vile to my list

deletedover 8 years

mist says

hedger

you want to be bad at Mafia ??

Giga13

over 8 years

When I was new I learned a fuckton by observing: LetzShake Strider SGR brown Atikur crypto Kyle Erica Iphigenia EvaGreen Hurricane13 LaurieRose (yes, LaurieRose) projectmatt Moxie Riotkiller and probably many others, especially lesser known players when I was still learning how to play the game, including many of my irl friends who taught me how to play irl and then introduced me to the website

But we learn from everyone we play with, wherher we know it or not, even if it was something we saw that we didn't like because it taught it what not to do. On the conscious and subconscious levels we pick up more infomation than we can fathom

deletedover 8 years

TenshiiBeats, hedger, Calvin, eritas, ImperialUnits

Sims

over 8 years

Wait this thread is a month old

Sims

over 8 years

Blister says

fronz, mood, peta, konrad, KHNM, troll

i don't think you were around when any of those players aside from troll played

JM123

over 8 years

TheGameGuy is my biggest idol. Golbolco and error are also good

Shrub

over 8 years

Pranay - he knows exactly what tactic to employ in every situation and when I'm not trolling around I aspire to understand the game in the same way he does.

Tatami - the Mafia God. Undoubtedly has the strongest scum game out of anyone I've ever seen.

I don't really have a reads idol because they tend to be so subjective.
Town play
Might honestly be thirdAug because of how good they are at appearing genuine despite not being genuine