He's definitely good at the game though.

Someone is salty. Yeah. Luck matters. Sometimes you do everything right and still get in a bad spot. You just last longer than others. Sometimes you need that mid-air no scope to be a headshot, simply because even though you did everything right beforehand, it was the only option you had left. People can't see the future. People can plan a few steps ahead. They can't plan the entire match. To assume otherwise is ridiculous.

That's my point, though. He'll "dodge" a rocket that would have killed him had the guy dumb-fired it instead of scoping for tracking, then he'll proclaim that he "juked" the explosion even though he lived only because the tracking caused the rocket to hit the pillar instead of him. It's not about salt, it's about being good enough to understand and recognize that luck is as much a factor in your survival as anything else and he hates people who point that out to him.

Well explain how he could control the actions of that rocket guy? He can't. So whether he tracked and fire or dumb fired, TV's [i]only[/i] option was to dodge it. And who is to say if the rocket man had dumb fired it instead of tracking TV wouldn't have just dodged in another direction? You can't see into that future and I can't either. So while luck may be important, it does not devalue skill.

You pointed out the problem yourself. He took the *only* option available and then proceeded to declare his survival was due to his skill. If executing the sole exit maneuver was skillful, like jumping off the map and using a bunch of mobility options to escape otherwise certain death, then sure, but this was literally jumping behind a pillar and praying it worked. It's about as skillful as hiding behind cover to avoid a Cyclops blast. I'm not even speaking of a hypothetical here: this event actually occurred and he got exceptionally upset when it was pointed out that he only lived due to the rocket having tracking. Had it been dumbfired, it would have gone past the pillar and hit the wall/ground directly behind him, blowing him up, and it wouldn't have been cherry-picked for his "survival tips" montage video. I'm not doubting TV is a skilled player. I'm just saying that he'll often declare his actions the result of "skillful" play and misdirection when it was really a simple flip of a coin that landed in his favor.

Just because you take the only option available and it works doesn't mean it was luck. You still have to survive that long in the first place. You still have to recognize that that is the only option. You still have to actually execute that only option. You still have to followup. For someone to do all of that and then people call it luck is downright ignorant. I'd be upset too honestly. Yeah. Some luck [i]may[/i] have been involved (There's no way to say he wouldn't have dodged a different direction if the rocket was dumbfired.), but that luck doesn't devalue the skill it took to get there and execute in the first place. And if people are trying to take away something cool he did striaght out from under him under the guise of "luck", devaluing his skill, from a view of ignorance, I can't blame him for getting upset. Streamers are human.

If "recognizing" that hiding behind cover is how you avoid fire is what you consider a skillful decision, then we're clearly done here. It's obvious you idolize this streamer for some reason to be so utterly dismissive of everyone saying anything negative about him. Hiding behind a wall is never skillful. End.