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General Guide playing smarter: a guide to improving tactical thinking

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Putting this here because this is honestly where it always belonged. Grateful for any feedback, questions, or follow-up discussion—hopefully people actually read it/found it useful, but posting it into the void of twitter doesn't exactly give me a good idea of how it was received or used or understood.
I assume most ppl here have already seen it cuz it kinda blew up a bit.

tl;dr: It's an in-depth guide on how to think during a splatoon match and learn from your gameplay/other VODs. I wrote it from the fundamentals up, but i think it has use for anyone from around S rank to high-level competitive (and above, for those of you who get lots of questions from random people asking you how to get good).

Anyway ya hope we can get a good discussion going
I'm hoping someday to write a different one about combat and mechanics and micro decisionmaking during fights and stuff bc fortunately I have always sucked at that so I've got a good idea of how I got better at everything, some of you were just born gifted i swear
 

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I haven't even been on here for a day and I already gained more knowledge than I ever did on twitter in over 3 years of playing comp
 

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One of my favorite guides that I've been recommending to all of my friends that are trying to improve at the game! Has helped me a ton and I keep referring back to it, thanks for making again. <3
 

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I read a bit of this while it was still being written, and even that has informed my thinking about the game in a positive way. Finding it again was difficult, so I'm excited to finish it now that it's in a more accessible location.
 

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SUPER VOUCH super amazing helpful guide that forced me to stop and think abt the game properly!!

I do think at some points its hard to just sit down and read but tbh thats just a me myself and I problem, I've taken to trying to rewrite parts myself to digest it properly and it helps a lot.
 

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