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Your Mafia Idol(s)

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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

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fronz, mood, peta, konrad, KHNM, troll

Edark

over 8 years

Kidpoker was the player I looked up to back in the day, he was good. Then I kinda just did my own thing.

Tatami

over 8 years

Veiexku was my first, Fading my second. Both proved to be lackluster to me quickly as I rapidly came to be one of the top players on the site.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been looking at Max. He set the standard.

For 5 years, I plateaued and never got any better. I didn't care enough, and I didn't know what it meant to be better. It took me a very long time to step out of his shadow and make something of my own, but my style, from how I play to how I speak, unmistakably has Maxwell's footprint.

Now that I've finally fulfilled some of the potential I had those 5 years, now that I've finally grown as a player, it is a great pain to me to be unable to play with him. All of the benchmarks I set for myself, becoming better than Veiex, becoming better than Fading, then finally becoming better than Connor. Gira is still too close to call. But the one I will possibly never know is Max, and his is the most important, not only because he is the consensus GOAT, but because he made me.

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I didn't really look up to anyone. I just wanted to be good. Now, anything I say is a scum line :doge:

blank

over 8 years

systemoverload, anthony, keri, roshiez, hedger, turquoise, and tatami (in order)

when i first started playing anthony and abe were the people i looked up to the most.

edit: I forgot Connor. he's pretty good too

zambi

over 8 years

myself

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can't edit my first comment anymore, but i'd like to add brownpimp007 to my list.

ive heard a lot of people say 'he ran with 5 accounts every round dude'

but I feel like his reads had a lot of depth and he was also really good at being mafia

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i'm talking about when he got it on whoever

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are you talking about when gerksterr got a trophy like 5 years ago or when he got a random silver trophy on whoever about 2 months ago

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one is calvin obviously, he literally taught me how to play. speaking objectively here also because yeah he's my bf but he's also literally one of the best players i've ever played with. I think it's his confidence when he plays which is what i've tried to adapt most from him because when i first started i wasn't confident at all in anything mafia related.

uhm gerksterr, first time i ever attempted running he trophied that round and i played a lot of games with him. i think what made me like the way he plays is how he manages to find mafia just by logically looking into people's lines and actions. he's also just a super nice dude tbh.

and ian.

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foxie shygriff lastprophet chaoticdoom admin sl0nderman nikki keri arcbell

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I learned from Ethereal that no matter how many people hate me, I can still get the job done

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ImperialUnits runwithfire antidote kylehlp123

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I'm an Ethereal admirer fellas

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When I first started getting into comp I played mostly with Gerry and learned from him. He was essentially my mentor.

Shoutout to Gerry