>>58668636In a game that's as much about playing your opponent as it is about reading the game state, it can be both very difficult to differentiate between a bold read and a poor missplay and very easy to trip over yourself while trying to play mindgames on multiple levels
What makes staying in on a mon that can very clearly OHKO you if it clicks stab a good or a bad play is very context dependent, you need to take into consideration both players gameplans, wincons, what mons are progress makers in both team and a nice sparkle of simply reading your opponent which is inherently chance based if you're not a literal mind-reader.
That's why a 1000 elo shitter can feasibly take a game from a multiple times world champion but the same players keep getting to the top of the ladder reset after reset. (That and haxx, obviously)
If you have ever played poker with a friend that doesn't take the game very seriously while you do, you might know the feeling.
One of my mates had the habit of going in all-in randomly on pretty crappy hands, hoping his bold play would allow him to buy the pot hand after hand.
He kept winning for a while and thus looked like a winner until his obviously shit-tier play pattern bit him in the ass a couple times and he never played again.
