If you can't do well without using meta weapons, they are a crutch, extra support for a lacking ability. Does this mean that everyone that uses meta is crutching? No. Example, alot of people in D1 would crutch on a shotty or sniper the whole match, once bungie nerfed special ammo drops, the ones who were crutching complained, those who used diversity just adapted without complaint. This is the difference between crutching and simply using the meta.

I made a post about this back in D1 about how you're getting out-played. It was not well received because people can't handle the truth.

Accusing people of using a "crutch" weapon is a "crutch" argument constructed by those with fragile egos and no personal accountability.

[quote]Introducing...the Scrub The derogatory term “scrub” means several different things. One definition is someone (especially a game player) who is not good at something (especially a game). By this definition, we all start out as scrubs, and there is certainly no shame in that. I mean the term differently, though. [i]A scrub is a player who is handicapped by self-imposed rules that the game knows nothing about. [b]A scrub does not play to win. [/b][/i]Now, everyone begins as a poor player—it takes time to learn a game to get to a point where you know what you’re doing. There is the mistaken notion, though, that by merely continuing to play or “learn” the game, one can become a top player. In reality, the “scrub” has many more mental obstacles to overcome than anything actually going on during the game. The scrub has lost the game even before it starts. He’s lost the game even before deciding which game to play. His problem? He does not play to win. [i]The scrub would take great issue with this statement for he usually believes that he is playing to win, but he is bound up by an intricate construct of fictitious rules that prevents him from ever truly competing. These made-up rules vary from game to game, of course, but their character remains constant. [/i] [i]A common call of the scrub is to cry that the kind of play in which one tries to win at all costs is “boring” or “not fun.” [b]Who knows what objective the scrub has, but we know his objective is not truly to win.[u] Yours is[/u].[/b][/i] Your objective is good and right and true, and let no one tell you otherwise. You have the power to dispatch those who would tell you otherwise, anyway. Simply beat them. Let’s consider two groups of players: a group of good players and a group of scrubs. The scrubs will play “for fun” and not explore the extremities of the game[i]. They won’t find the most effective tactics and abuse them mercilessly. The good players will.[/i] [i]The good players will find incredibly overpowering tactics and patterns. As they play the game more, [b]they’ll be forced to find counters to those tactics[/b].[/i] The vast majority of tactics that at first appear unbeatable end up having counters, though they are often quite subtle and difficult to discover. Knowing the counter tactic prevents the other player from using his tactic, but he can then use a counter to your counter. You are now afraid to use your counter and the opponent can go back to sneaking in the original overpowering tactic. This concept will be covered in much more detail later. [i]The good players are reaching higher and higher levels of play.[b] They found the “cheap stuff” and abused it. [u]They know how to stop the cheap stuff.[/u][/b][/i] They know how to stop the other guy from stopping it so they can keep doing it. And as is quite common in competitive games, many new tactics will later be discovered that make the original cheap tactic look wholesome and fair. [/quote] http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/introducingthe-scrub

OP is a trash scrub Meta Crutch Kid DOWN VOTE HIM

Just as I assumed. All your characters are hunters. All of them have mida/last hope. You sir are a crutch kid👍🏼

People will bash the gun instead of using it themselves, most of the “good” weapons are easy to get.

Same thing with spam in fighting games [spoiler]I miss felwinters [/spoiler]

PvP would be better with fixed load outs. Everyone using the same guns but with different skins so they don’t look the same. Don’t argue. You have 3 toons with the exact same guns.

Bad players use crutch weapons, that is the very definition. Auto rifles, mida tool etc are not crutch weapons, you need to do more research on the definition. a crutch weapon is when you can't shoot a gun so you run around to all the heavy and kill with a rocket launcher at 5 feet away. where is the skill in that ?

There are about 7 good PVP weapons in D2. No, I don't think I will be using any none meta weapons; so I can be Bukkakeed in the face by a 13 year old with an Uriel's Gift. No. No thank you.

There are no crutch shotguns, handcannons, snipers, fusion rifles, grenades or swords but there is crutch scout rifles, assault rifles, sub machine guns, rocket launchers and sidearms. And they are Mida (with or without teamshot), Uriel's gift, Positive outlook, last hope, antiope and sins of the past hence why that's what nearly everyone uses. As for classes the hunter tether gemini jester characters are the crutch in crucible hence why you come up against full teams of them all the time. You don't come up against teams just full of titans all day in trials. Exactly what game have you been playing since September?

Unless you're talking about the Colony, in which case it's kinda true. Avoidable, but still true.

Such a crutch post