Hey! First post here.
Since I started playing back in March 2020, I've always struggled to climb up the ELO ladder. I only played 1v1 land maps. For months, my 1v1 matchups were extremely difficult for me, the rivals always seemed to have great build orders and were always able to come up with counters to my strategies, even being able to predict whatever I was going to do based on my civ. After playing about 400 matches, I never could make it past 900 ELO and barely got a .500 record even though I spent hours and hours watching tutorials and reading up. Whenever someone mentioned what players in my ELO were supposed to do, I was flabbergasted (ie, no walls, no counterunits, no quickwalling, bad scouting, etc).
A few days ago I decided that I could benefit from playing team games, so as to mix it up a bit I guess. Lo and behold, I've won almost every game easily with a simple 21p archer rush, and after playing 3 or 4 2v2 games my 1v1 situation also improved drastically, or actually, my opponents suddenly got much, much worse. I mean, unscouted sheep, 9 vils on berries, no Blacksmith upgrades worse.
What happened? Can anyone explain this to me?
Since I started playing back in March 2020, I've always struggled to climb up the ELO ladder. I only played 1v1 land maps. For months, my 1v1 matchups were extremely difficult for me, the rivals always seemed to have great build orders and were always able to come up with counters to my strategies, even being able to predict whatever I was going to do based on my civ. After playing about 400 matches, I never could make it past 900 ELO and barely got a .500 record even though I spent hours and hours watching tutorials and reading up. Whenever someone mentioned what players in my ELO were supposed to do, I was flabbergasted (ie, no walls, no counterunits, no quickwalling, bad scouting, etc).
A few days ago I decided that I could benefit from playing team games, so as to mix it up a bit I guess. Lo and behold, I've won almost every game easily with a simple 21p archer rush, and after playing 3 or 4 2v2 games my 1v1 situation also improved drastically, or actually, my opponents suddenly got much, much worse. I mean, unscouted sheep, 9 vils on berries, no Blacksmith upgrades worse.
What happened? Can anyone explain this to me?