genuinely. i have no idea where the anon you replied to gets their definition of "ass kicked" from; if anything's ass got kicked, it was water's treasury.
they're right in that earth isn't undefeatable, WvE 2021 remains THE biggest OOF participation post hibden release, and that fight had water needing 62% (~490k levels) of OOF support to earn that victory over earth's 38% (a smidge over 300k levels). even still, that fight had flips! earth fought really hard, and water had to seriously claw their way to victory.
also, there's obvious reasons why earth might not have battled these last few years. people are there to profit from dom benefits (which they can get by placing in top 3 virtually every week by just existing- they had 49 top 3 finishes this year out of 52 weeks!) while fights require losses to be competitive, and other flights know they'd have to pay out the ass to remain in contention with earth OR have heavy battle rules to keep costs low while risking sucking the fun out of the fight. they'd need to be absolutely blind to even slightly imply that earth isn't fighting because of losing WvE 2021.
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Re: thinking of moving to earth
(Anonymous) 2024-12-30 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)genuinely. i have no idea where the anon you replied to gets their definition of "ass kicked" from; if anything's ass got kicked, it was water's treasury.
they're right in that earth isn't undefeatable, WvE 2021 remains THE biggest OOF participation post hibden release, and that fight had water needing 62% (~490k levels) of OOF support to earn that victory over earth's 38% (a smidge over 300k levels). even still, that fight had flips! earth fought really hard, and water had to seriously claw their way to victory.
also, there's obvious reasons why earth might not have battled these last few years. people are there to profit from dom benefits (which they can get by placing in top 3 virtually every week by just existing- they had 49 top 3 finishes this year out of 52 weeks!) while fights require losses to be competitive, and other flights know they'd have to pay out the ass to remain in contention with earth OR have heavy battle rules to keep costs low while risking sucking the fun out of the fight. they'd need to be absolutely blind to even slightly imply that earth isn't fighting because of losing WvE 2021.