2 Yoink or not to Yoink, that is the question

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So I always see people complaining that somebody took their assassination. At first I felt sympathy with them, then over the course of a few games I started running into a scenario…

I’m in a 1v1 fight with an opponent.
My teammate is behind him.
My teammate doesn’t shoot them at all.
I get my 4 shots in.
My teammate goes for the assassination.

So here’s my question to you guys…am I justified in yoinking my teammate?

You could say that by yoinking I am not being a good team player, but I would suggest that my teammate is actually the one not being a team player.

What if my opponent happens to outshoot me and I die? Well the entire time my teammate COULD have been throwing shots onto them, allowing my teammate to save me.

So if my teammate helps, the team nets 1 kill. If my teammate refuses to help, it creates the RISK that rather than the team netting 1 kill, the team nets 0 (I die, then my opponent gets assassinated). In other words my teammate is being selfish.

Secondly, if I’m taking the risk of being killed, and I’ve put in the majority of the work by shooting my opponent, why should I just hand that kill off to my teammate who hid around the corner?

Third, by going for the long assassination, rather than helping me shoot, or even doing a simple backsmack, my teammate is deliberately slowing down combat, and exposing themselves to risk.

Fourth, if I allow them to assassinate, they’ll continue being selfish players who continue to handicapp the team.

So now that I’ve presented why I would PERSONALLY yoink them, what do you guys think?
To yoink, or not to yoink?

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We assassinate enemies because it’s a way to humiliate them. The fact that they were oblivious to those surrounding them is quite entertaining. Or the fact that when you were in a one vs one combat and actually got around the enemy and assassinated them. And the fact that it looks awesome.

I don’t yoink people because it ruins the fun. I absolutely despise yoinking because that person who did yoink did absolutely nothing to deserve the kill.

In my opinion, 343 shouldn’t have added yoinking and I hope it’s taken out in the future.

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> We assassinate enemies because it’s a way to humiliate them. The fact that they were oblivious to those surrounding them is quite entertaining. Or the fact that when you were in a one vs one combat and actually got around the enemy and assassinated them. And the fact that it looks awesome.
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> I don’t yoink people because it ruins the fun. I absolutely despise yoinking because that person who did yoink did absolutely nothing to deserve the kill.
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> In my opinion, 343 shouldn’t have added yoinking and I hope it’s taken out in the future.

But if I’ve already dropped my opponent’s shields, how have I done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to deserve that kill? I would argue that the person camping the corner just to assassinate is doing far less than I am.

Also 343 didn’t add yoinking, they just left it in.

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We’re both talking about different situations. If one is taking your kill by assassinating, then perhaps I understand the yoinking. But have you ever thought the guy doing to assassinating could be saving you from getting killed? If I were in alone with the enemy and actually got around them to assassinate them, and some random teammate comes and takes the kill when he did nothing at all, then I believe that is unfair.

I assassinate a lot. Do I need to camp around corners to do so? No. I use Active Camo and I am always around corners a lot surprising and assassinating my enemies. This usually gets me a high amount of kills and very little deaths. That is assisting the team enough, as its working better than running into battle and getting killed instantly.

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I would say that yoink is fair only when someone it’s stealing the kill with the assassination. If you are fighting and while you are winning someone assassinates him (thanks to you as you was distracting the enemy) then yoink is ok. Assassination should be something that you do without stealing kill to a teammate that is fighting to get the kill.

So yes, go for yoink!

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> We’re both talking about different situations. If one is taking your kill by assassinating, then perhaps I understand the yoinking. But if I were in alone with the enemy and actually got around them to assassinate them, and some random teammate comes and takes the kill when he did nothing at all, then I believe that is unfair.
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> I assassinate a lot. Do I need to camp around corners to do so? No. I use Active Camo and I am always around corners a lot surprising and assassinating my enemies. This usually gets me a high amount of kills and very little deaths. That is assisting the team enough, as its working better than running into battle and getting killed instantly.

Alright, just to clear up any confusion though, I am NOT advocating entering a scenario where your teammate is assassinating, then attempting to yoink.

I am specifically refering to when the player is in mid combat, then the assassinator enters the fray to (Steal?) get the kill. I’ve yoinked people who try to get my kill at the last possible second rather than help, and they send me angry messages for doing so, so I was curious how this board felt about that.

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I always joink unless it is a friend or a clan mate to me making the assassination.

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In my mind, people who yoink me are up there with team mates who steal my personal ordnance as the worst kind of human being.

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I can sympathise with your argument for sure but in a team game a kill is a kill. Whether you shot him or he assassinates him isnt actually that important in the big picture.

Normally I would say not yoink and start shooting at something else. I would also be there begging my team mate to do some shooting also, but either way so long as we both come out of it alive and get a kill it’s no biggie.

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Me personally, I’m mostly against Assassinations altogether. It opens up the person doing the assassinating to enemy fire, and more often than not the person dies very soon after the assassination.

I will say though, with Halo 4, it’s about the only way to add insult to injury, so I do it more than I ever did in Reach. People have yoinked me, and I have yoinked poeple, so it evens itself out for the most part. The only thing I don’t like is they took away the yoink medal and the announcer calling it out. I don’t care about the medal, but I at least want to hear yoink said by the announcer. It’s hilarious, IMO to hear, especially while buzzed.

I noticed that while playing Arena in Reach, that my teammates wouldn’t yoink and I didn’t yoink. While playing the regular or “social” playlists yoinks were an every game occurrence.

Whenver 343 releases the Ranking system and ranked playlist, I know I for one won’t be doing much Assassinating at all, and if my teammate is, I won’t yoink. With all these social playlists we have now, have at it, because winning and losing doesn’t even matter.

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Yoinking because you already dropped shields is fine. I’d personally stop shooting if someone is assassinating, but I understand if you want to finish your kill. Yoinking for the sake of yoinking is just stealing kills and is not okay.

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I was assassinating an enemy Spartan and my -Yoink- head teammate splattered both of us.

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I bet that 3/4 of the persons here didn’t read the full post before voting. We all agree that Yoink is -Yoink!- when you are assassinating. The real question was if yoink is legittimate when you was close to get a kill and someone assassinates your enemy.

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I just yoinked a kid’s king assasination, and boy was he pissed. Made my day. I’m for it, makes the rewards for getting mastery in it that much sweeter. Plus when someone a fraction of your age sends you verbally abusive barbs its always good for a laugh.

As for the question about you’re team mate being a -Yoink- and you being justified? Yeah for sure you are, it isn’t very team like at all.

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> I just yoinked a kid’s king assasination, and boy was he pissed. Made my day. I’m for it, makes the rewards for getting mastery in it that much sweeter. Plus when someone a fraction of your age sends you verbally abusive barbs its always good for a laugh.
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> As for the question about you’re team mate being a -Yoink!- and you being justified? Yeah for sure you are, it isn’t very team like at all.

I think it is widely understood that yoinking is 100% acceptable in FFA.

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I play with a full group and we all have the same ideology. As long as they die we dont care. If I’ve got a guy one shot I’ll probably take it but if its close to half shields I dont care I’ll shoot someone else. In team based games I dont care about losing the kill but losing the match. If everyone played like this the game would be a lot more fun.

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I yoink people because it’s funny.

Just because you’re stupid enough to go for a second long animation instead of a backsmack, doesn’t mean I am automatically not allowed to kill the guy.

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depends, I situations like that yes that is your kill. if you didn’t do anything in the fight and you do it out of spite, no. I try to assassinate much, so when half of mine are taken it gets annoying.

I don’t steal my friend’s, that’s about it.