high level meta · other expressions

Counter cycles

Rock, paper, scissors hides inside RTS openings, fighting game mix-ups and MOBA team comps. Each of the next slides draws one as a wheel.

Arrows point from the winner to what it beats. Hover anything; click a node to pin it.

RTS openings

Rush · Turtle · Expand

Each opening is a bet on what the opponent is doing. Green arrows: what it beats. Red: what beats it.

fighting game mix-ups

Attack · Block · Grab

The same triangle at a scale of fractions of a second. Green: beats. Red: loses to.

MOBA roles

A five-role cycle

why two stages?

No even matchups

drill

Counter-pick0 / 0

summary

Same shape, three genres

RTS

Decided over a whole match

Fighting

Decided every few seconds

MOBA

Decided in the draft; 5 roles need 2 stages