General rules to be successful?

Does anyone have any rules of thumb to improve at the game? I have heard "don't cast spells unless it will kill something or prevent one of your units from dying" and "always deploy a champion if you can" is there any other general rules anyone can provide? Maybe some advice on when to play equips or anything else you can think of

 

https://verumvenari.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/zen-rules-of-playing-poxnora/

Here is a short list I put together a while back.

 

Friendly Quit The Savage Tundra Player

 

Live every day as if it was your last.

Never take no for an answer

 

dodge ballballer

 

Ah, no ones afraid of that scrub

 

but no means no

 

workout everyday
workhard everyday except the weekend
go to church on sunday
follow traditional values
own a gun and protect what you want
bully others around you
hit your gf if she is disrepsectful, but only in a loving way.
learn as many languages as possible

~

Pox: Only play for fun, and do not play frequently
Enjoy the game, do not let the game enjoy you.

 

Positioning is the biggest thing to learn in pox.

not spamming spells is a nice bit of advice but until you learn a single ap spent the wrong way can mean the difference between winning a font and losing a champion, and more importantly all the ways your opponent can kill you so that you can recognize when to avoid those moves no tid bit odd advice will really make much difference.

You learn this stuff by playing hundreds to thousands of games

 

I've always said positioning is thing that separates the good players from the great ones and that it's the most important thing.

Kthx disagrees

Don't be like Kthx kids

 

I mean, if you can be as good as Kthx, be as good as Kthx. But ya I think positioning is the thing that separates me from being the best player I can be.

 

I remember when kthx told us this in that guild we had quiet a while ago.

To be fair he had a good argument, for people who have no idea, he argued that positioning is trivial. As in past the very basic stuff (basic to top players.) such as avoiding double tap and not grouping AOE 2 etc. It wasn't that big of a factor.

He's not wrong, the problem is he referred to it as trivial positioning, so most people would simply assume he ment positioning didn't matter at all.
I don't fully agree with him, but he definitely had a some points I agreed with.

 

most games tend to have that issue. People focus so hard on one point and everything else in someones game lacks. On the flip side some people trivialize something so much that it gets lost and people never reach there potential because of it. I play pool on a league and this happens constantly. Just the nature of learning games I suppose

 

I miss that guild

 

If you did watch your game after, where did you win/lose the game, what did you do right/wrong...
Tweak your bg alot, copy it and remove what you didnt use and try out other runes.
learn the abilities of your enemy, check his units when he deployes them/when its his turn, dont waste time doing it when you should be moving.
if you are going to put down runes and move this turn, do it in the right order

i miss Kthx, he was a super fs player that killed everything and not afraid to use odd runes that others thought where shoebox

 

you can often see during a game exactly what could of been different. keep in mind the 5 tile spell range and the 7 tile spell range for flyers. the next time a champ is killed from a spell ask yourself would this of played out nay differently had I been standing in X tile, sure my champ would of likely still died but where would his champ need to be to do it, did it force him to over extend allowing you to counter attack easily, maybe he spent too much ap to reach spell presence to cast that spell nd now he can no longer double attack on a back swing, maybe the spell would not of worked at all.

for me very often I can see my mistakes immediately after I make them and if you see me surrender early it's often out of frustration with my own positioning mistakes, or I consider my experiment a failure.

I often experiment with different tactics to test my boundaries against different bg's and players. for example how much nora i can afford to spend on spell against sl, or more importantly against "insert popular sl players name here"does he typically run cancel magic, is he the type of player that stores nora for power turns or leaves it all on the board, what tactics does he use for his power turns, and how good is his positioning game. If i stall the game how likely is he to be aggressive and walk into traps, if i'm aggressive how good is he and his deck at handling that scenario, is he the type of player and bg that can handle having his forces split.

to be honest I often lose against new decks and new players I face because I simply don't know enough about how they play to adapt my style to them

 

lol

 

Sad but true, I honestly sucks against new things, I play defensively which requires you to know what they can do

As a player I really am not that good I've just played so many games so few things are new

It's why I don't disagree with players that say I suck