Giving up battles

Flareen

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    Heya :3

    Hope there wasn't a topic like this already D:

    Anyways - I was doing some random online battles yesterday and started thinking of this x.x

    What do you guys think about giving up on battles?
    Sometimes I see people who think its "noobish" when someone gives up. Some said they don't.
    Reasons please? :3
     
    Even when I am losing I dont give up on any battling whatsoever because you never know if your luck can gradually turn around. I've been in so many situations like that before where I came out the victor


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    I guess it sort of depends on why they chose to give up the match in the first place. If they knew they were going to lose and the match was almost over, but they didn't want a losing record on their trainer card, then I can see why they'd give up. Personally, I find that to show poor sportsmanship if one can't handle the mark of a loss though. If their connection was moving horribly slow or they were already getting DC'd numerous times before, then I can understand why they'd give up and ask to try again later.

    There could also be reasons like making a mistake in their team choice and needing to quit to change it. Or maybe they suddenly had to leave with no reason to say why.

    I don't really consider it anything "nooby." It just depends on how good their reason is for deciding to quit.
     
    Don't quit a match. If you're disconnected, that's alright, but quitting is pretty bad. Not only are you dishonoring yourself, but you're robbing another person of a win that they worked to earn, or (in the case of a team mishap) you're losing the experience of dealing with diversity.


    However, I might quit if I knew the other guy was using hacked 'Mons.
     
    Don't run! Don't quit! Fight that battle! Try your hardest! Generic encouraging words! But no really, I don't run from anyone. If I'm gonna lose, I'm gonna lose. That person likely deserves that win, unless they're using Wondertomb with Horn Drill and Treecko with Judgement. Or something like that. But yeah. I don't think it's nooby, just more cowardly. Now, if they have a reason to leave, like a family emergency or something, that's understandable, but just leaving because the battle didn't make the turn you wanted, nah. Don't do that.
     
    It's rather noobish and disrespectful for someone to quit a battle or disconnect from it. When I'm about to lose, I simply stick it out till the end.
     
    Hm o.o
    Actually I was talking about the option "run". Not disconnecting or anything. And as far as I know.. if you "run" it still counts as a win for the other and doesn't change anything about their win score etc? o.o
     
    Running from a battle in the wild is stupid. Most of the time, it's just a matter of one move to squish a Pokemon for some experience.. I can understand if your Pokemon are wounded and you need to make a quick getaway to a Pokemon Center, but otherwise, there's no reason to run when you can get some free exp.

    In competitive battling, and indeed, anything in real life, to quit, give up or surrender, is a show of your own mental weakness. I don't lose too much, but nor do I win all the time, and when I am losing, I take the loss gladly as it means that I've battled someone who has outplayed me and it gives me an objective to strive for- as in, to defeat my defeater. To give up on them before their victory is the same as taking away my own victory. Dishonourable!
     
    Aerilyn said:
    I guess it sort of depends on why they chose to give up the match in the first place. If they knew they were going to lose and the match was almost over, but they didn't want a losing record on their trainer card, then I can see why they'd give up. Personally, I find that to show poor sportsmanship if one can't handle the mark of a loss though. If their connection was moving horribly slow or they were already getting DC'd numerous times before, then I can understand why they'd give up and ask to try again later.

    There could also be reasons like making a mistake in their team choice and needing to quit to change it. Or maybe they suddenly had to leave with no reason to say why.

    I don't really consider it anything "nooby." It just depends on how good their reason is for deciding to quit.
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    This pretty much exactly sums up my thoughts.
     
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