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“No Nubs Land”

Sometime in March 2018, a good friend of mine finally got me to download and play the game. Imagine, he kept pestering me eversince it was available in the apps store. My sorry excuse was that I have retired from online gaming (the original Ragnarok Ph, Iris Server, MacWorld Clan guild) and I am done with playing among kiddie trashtalkers plus my introvert self is quite content with self-paced playing on the PS4 - no human interaction needed: just me, my tv, the PS4, and well…because I am quite “senti” and perhaps “kuripot”, reruns of Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Persona 5.

Anyway!

As soon as the Mobile Legends icon appeared on my phone, he and his sister (we were together the night) gave me a quick run down of how things work and I kid you not…it was so fast that I don’t even remember taking the tutorial, hahaha! This was then followed by tons of brawling (dayum, click everything! swear like a sailor in real life! Run away!) until they decided we can play Classic. I don’t remember much about my first game but since I used to play a priest, I had my first noob experience: Rafaela (for some stupid reason, I keep calling her Angela…must be the wings, dammit) was my thing. Stupidly. Yes, good thing there is healing for everyone. I’d eventually graduate loving Estes but that is another story.

…even before 24 hours that I had been introduced, I forgot I own a PS4.

So it has been almost 2 months now since I started and so far, depending on how a game goes, I am a noob/nub or just that ordinary player who randomly joined a game of brawl or classic…and occassionally rank. From my experience, people are so critical of new players during the game itself but when you have a friend who also plays, they tell you that it is fine to play even if you know nothing (then go berserk when they have a noob/nub on their team in a non-rank game) and even recommend not to read the chat. Just play, they said. But the again, the chat drama can sometimes be entertaining though I don’t get the point of trashtalking your own team mate/s. For me, it’s a sign that that asshole doesn’t have any leadership skills or is having a bad day and decided to pour it out on some poor soul having a bad play day (it could be lag, a newbie, a new hero, etc).

Oh, one time, a tank dude tried to tell me I was being a noob for staying in the mid lane because I wasn’t helping out at a heavily ganked area (I was Lesley). Politely, he told me (towards the end) that he wasn’t just saying it to sound like a dick. Hey, happy to learn mehn, I actually thanked him and experienced my other noob/nub thing: chatting while playing. It kills.

On the other hand, sometimes some things can just be annoying regardless of gamer status. I once played a classic game and our Estes would not actually heal anyone…if he ever did, it was as if he accidently clicked on the first skill. I jokingly asked if he has no heal but he just stood there silent and casted his 2nd skill for the nth time. Healing for everyone mehn! I played Estes in my first rank season and the problem of being him or Rafaela is, players tend to depend on you heavily, forgetting that they have great heroes who can actually survive/hack/slash/kill/magic their way to the enemy base/throne. I mean, people…support characters have cool down time too. Don’t trashtalk them if you died because of your own miscalculation or if the support chose to preserve him/herself. They aren’t exactly tanks (though let’s not count Minotaur or Angela here).

Speaking of ill manners ingame, while jesting and jeering may be part of the game, sometimes it is just too much but the report button does not have an option to choose “person is a being jerk” or “harassment/bullying” or “unruly behavior” - the nearest choice would be “using profanity” which they aren’t really doing. It is easy to say it can be ignored but I guess, being old and all, it just kills the mood and group dynamics.

Which brings me to the last thingy on my first Mobile Legends post in this really old and neglected acct (I was on Tumlr when tumblarity was a thing) - so just last night I learned I can buy heroes using the BP card. I have 3k of it and a friend helped me buy heroes as he showed me how to use them, hahaha. Before that, I was telling him how fascinating Alucard was because it was the recurring hero that loves to kill me (not sure if he is just commonly used) to the point I used his trial card in AI play. Poor noob/nub me, thinking life was that simple played one classic game using him. It was my shortest classic game ever; my team mates called me names and conceded defeat before 5 minutes. I would learn some hours later that he was actually pretty tricky to play, much to my embarassment. Oh well, I told my friend, I would have to content myself with using him only on AI play and trial cards. In jest, he converted some of my BP points to buy Alucard then accidentally shared it on my FB on “friends only” post. So now the image above is the horrifying truth that I have a hero I am afraid to use (I don’t like frontline heroes) and omg, an image visible among my fb friends.

..on the other hand, they say that he ranks as #1 on a list of 10 handsome heroes in the game. Whoopie. For me, the most handsome hero is Guisson (?) and Alucard would probably come 3rd but then again, I can’t think of a 2nd. Lancelot has lotsa haters but then being an Odette player, I actually ship them…for as long as I don’t hear “Experience the handsome” (I pray he gets an image makeover or a really normal, long haired man skin), he can probably be the 3rd…but summer skin Clint is handsome so dammit, rank down.

I am noob/nub is realz.