new respect for mlg pro ninja.....

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New Respect for MLG Pro Ninja!

Did any one see the Reach MLG events this weekend? Cause you missed a very important Pro on the booth with Gandhi. Ninja who is known as an awesome Reach Pro and many regard him as a 1v1 Master, but also known as a Cocky, arrogant, reckless, but very funny and extremely talented newcomer to the Halo circuit.

Ninja climbed up to the booth with former H2 National Champ Gandhi while Reach was starting a game on stage. When Gandhi asked him “Ok man so what do you prefer Bloom or No-Bloom?” and to my shocking yet refreshing surprise Ninja said “oh man No-Bloom, yeah gimmie that NO-Bloom all day man!” To me that was shocking cause I see Ninja as the “New Reach generation” Pros, looking like he knows exactly how to pace shots and use the Bloom properly and killing a lot of top Pros 1v1, I figured he would prefer the Bloom to stay.

Ninja then explained! “Ok look here man in Reach you cant really flank people cause if you spot 2 or 3 guys the moment you shoot one your bloom is fully expand and you can’t kill everyone cause your left with like no shields after taking one out and it pretty much alerts the others that your there, kinda like in Metal Gear Solid “BRIEEE”(!) and in Halo2 and Halo3 you could take’em out!”

Gandhi said that Snipedown has been playing more and more NO-Bloom and says that it makes Reach more interesting and exciting, and with Bloom many players dont die when they should and makes it random, and with ZERO-Bloom players die when they should and a lot faster making it more like the previous Halos! Same for BestMan, Pistola, Fearitself, Hysteria, ROY, OGRE2, APG, FlameSword, ENABLE, NEIGHBOR, T-Square, Victory-X, Gandhi, ShockWave, Walshy, Tizoxic, Heinz, Ninja, and many more but cant list them all…

I know you all have heard this before about a million times and I know that “The Defense of Reach” kids will never accept Reach as a terrible Halo in fact many of them see it as the best Halo, but how can they say that the Reach haters hate it cause their noobs at it when almost all the best players in the world (MLG PROS, including the back2back and National Champions INSTINCT) hate it or consider it a pretty good Halo but the weakest compared to H1/2/3.
btw OGRE2 couldn’t keep his Final Boss team name thanks to MLG, but I guess it was payback for saying that Reach wasn’t going to be better than Halo3 right after he won the final Halo3 Nationals. Julie interviews him on stage saying “So what do you guys think of Reach being the new Halo for 2011, is it going to be better than Halo3?” OGRE2 responded “Its NOT going to be better but I guess you can’t play the same game for ever so…” its a shame cause ROY and LunchBox wanted to join FB, but they were forced to use INSTINCT.

Ninja surprised me by even mentioning Halo2, Halo3 and how he would flank and act in that situation. This shows that he was a H2 and H3 player and prefers it more like the them without the Bloom. If our vote as normal gamers mean nothing to The Defense of Reach kids then take in consideration the Professionals who play it a the best it can be played. And they vote ZERO-BLOOM and its the worst Halo ever made.

Thanks for taking the time and your thoughts. PS Ninja I just became a fan of yours!
and Congratulations INSTINCT as the 2011 National Champions/…when it should have been Final Boss but oh well CEO Sundance you did nothing to prevent it.

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I given the quiet achiever types like Strongside more credit, Ninja’s a decent player but he he doesn’t think his sentences through. I’m amazed Turning point save Best Man managed to stay together.

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Um, if you ask any of us from the Halo 2 days from competitive gaming, I’ve been to quite a few MLG events and have placed as high as Top 64 in a few, NO Bloom in Reach is probably the best way to play this game.

With 85% bloom there is still the chance of being out shot by a spammer even if you pace your shots.

With ZERO bloom, you can really see who is the better player because it now relies on how well the player can AIM at the opposition.

Example : played a game of double team yesterday with a friend. the other team would spam their DMR’s against us and we would be down to 1 shot while we were pacing our shots. this is at about a 10-15 meter battle. We won the game 25-10, I only managed to get 11 kills in that game and go +7. Next, we went into TU Beta playlist, we got Zero Bloom, my friend an I dominated and carried our team to a 50-19, I had 20 kills and went +16.

So you can see, a player like me prefers NO BLOOM because I know ALL my shots that are aimed at an opponent’s head will register as a head shot and not hit their shoulder.

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Ninja was supporting bloom at one point, I know that for a fact. That said, he shouldn’t be lumped with clowns like Crimsix, Totz, and Ryanoob.

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Ryanoob’s a tool, it’s fortunate more games don’t require blind aggressiveness to be effective.