..... Except they apply their knowledge and persepective of how the game is and should be played, and are succesful with it. Your diatribe here is basicaly giving credence to the scrubs on this sub (such as 95% of it, including me) to be woefully ignorant of valuable opinions from community members. Are you actually putting yourself on a pedestal and claiming you have successfully applied your knowledge into tournament and have placed and performed better than these top players? By dismissing the opinions of pro players with that post you just made, you are implying that you know better than them about subject material that they are infinitely more well versed in. You and I both know that TLOC youtube and Challonge keep your opinions honest through your recorded gmae-play and results. At least I know my place as a scrub that is unaware of how the game works at higher levels.

You basically are saying that pro players just play and win with absolutely no thought process involving the meta and character strengths.

More comparisons just cuz: People can self diagnose themselves and/or be an antivaxxer, because certified medical professionals' opinions arent ironclad just because they did better on some dumb fuckin' tests, amirite?

A guy can look up something on wikipedia in a certain subject of academia, and have a more qualified opinion over someone who got an education of said subject from post secondary education. Being educated and having the knowledge to correctly apply what you have learned about something isn't what makes someone more knowledgable at all.

If you really can't grasp a single concept of what I am saying, then I really don't know what to say.