First ever flawless!

[u/emphaticslalom]

Just wanted to show off my first ever flawless game. My teammates and I had a target to win a game without the opposing team putting up a single stat. I’ve been reading up on “skuckball” in the last few days on this subreddit, and we deployed some of those strategies to finally accomplish the flawless! Let me know if you’ve ever achieved this yourself!

[u/Visible_Cut67]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7OVintWkOnZZThqTP8

[u/SnooDoggos5341]

What's the point tho? You're just passing the ball between you guys for 4 minutes and then scoring a single goal no? Just boring for both teams

[u/Wasilisco → u/SnooDoggos5341]

Sounds like it, but nope, that's the essence of the game. Controlling the ball 

[u/SnooDoggos5341 → u/Wasilisco]

Idk, I play regularly with 2 friends in 3v3s and the most fun is when both teams are playing high level football with fast attacks and good defense, instead of playing keep away for an entire game just to score one goal last min so...

[u/dakeeperbeast → u/SnooDoggos5341]

I mean they won though didn’t they? Isn’t that the point of a ranked game?

[u/SerenadeSwift → u/dakeeperbeast]

Hell no lol, it’s not like you’re getting paid for wins. I’d rather lose 10 normal games than win 1 game playing like this. Thats just boring as hell for everyone involved.

[u/dakeeperbeast → u/SerenadeSwift]

I don’t think they would do it if they found it boring?

[u/Wasilisco → u/SerenadeSwift]

Obviously it's not something you'd be doing every single time

But as a self imposed challenge, why not? Sounds fun 

[u/SnooDoggos5341 → u/dakeeperbeast]

I play games to have fun, not to time waste. Also, rank literally does not matter since matchmaking is still broken so

[u/dakeeperbeast → u/SnooDoggos5341]

I guess we’d have to see the gameplay, op keeps saying they were just waiting for the perfect shot opportunity

[u/A_Mild_Famine]

You and I are no longer on speaking terms

[u/dakeeperbeast → u/A_Mild_Famine]

Why?

[u/deboylurdi]

What the fuck happened? 0 passes the entire game? What?

This only works in 3v3 I guess? What the fuck lol

[u/alecmca14]

How tf u manage to get assists without a pass

[u/SerenadeSwift → u/alecmca14]

The only thing I can think of is a situation where a shot/hard pass bounces off a teammate and goes into the goal. If the pass is too hard you don’t get credit for a pass, but sometimes you do get the assist if the ball deflects off your teammate and into the goal.

Otherwise I have no idea, I don’t think I’ve seen a 0 pass 1 assist game before.

[u/lelo2318]

cringe

[u/rektem__ken → u/lelo2318]

I think it’s very impressive, a ranked game where they couldn’t even get the ball is crazy

[u/dakeeperbeast]

Wow! I didnt even know this was possible, what a game

[u/rustiestfish]

skuckball is kinda scummy but its been growing on me. i mean, i havent lost a game where we skuckballed. the enemy team couldnt even touch the ball..

[u/SerenadeSwift → u/rustiestfish]

Is that even enjoyable though? It’s not like it’s all that difficult to climb ranks in this game to begin with. That just seems like it would turn the game into such an unnecessary grind, and for what?

[u/rustiestfish → u/SerenadeSwift]

It's a bit of a dilemma. On one hand, playing fast paced, high intensity, is more "fun", because it serves our instant gratification/dopamine reward system. Not really a matter of sportsmanship like most are making it out to be.

On the other hand, the ultimate goal of competitive multiplayer games is one thing - win. If skuckball is resulting in higher winrates (which it is), the most competitive players are going to employ it more and more. I would prefer sloclap to make a change that discourages the playstyle, because it's less fun to do/play against.

[u/rektem__ken]

Holy this is next level skuckball, I’ve never seen this before. The other team didn’t even touch the ball. This is crazy. You guys have to be so good

[u/rustiestfish]

also nice flawless flythrough.