T29 stats comparison

TheRealSerapth, on Feb 11 2022 - 18:07, said: For the record, with your performance in the tank I would roughly expect you to be about a 48%ish winrate, which is about a 50/50 coin toss rate once you factor in ties.  The T29 is a pretty critical tank for anchoring a flank when top tier and if you're basically dishing out less damage than you take, you're somewhat (but not massively) a liability to your team, especially if the opposing team gets a good T29 player.  It's the kind of tank that is a difference maker.   If you are seeking advice into how to improve in that tank, you've got some great advice already.  I can chime in personally too, as I had really overwhelmingly meh stats over all in the T29 (just slightly better then you, maybe 300dpg more, and just slightly higher winrate at 50%), but my recents are more inline with where I expect to play these days, pushing closer to 2k DPG and a much higher winrate.   First, positioning is everything.  Your Hull is butter, but your turret is god tier.  You're not really fast enough to change flanks, so make sure you choose well initially.     If you can't hull down, you can somewhat side scrape, but hull down would be preferred.  If you don't know good hull down positions on maps, that is certainly where I would start.  If you don't know how to side scrape well, that's definitely another area I would work on.   When you are top tier in the t29 YOU NEED to be on the front line.  You need to be holding a flank, if you sit back and leave it to others, you are failing your team, hard.  This is an anchor tank top tier if there ever was one.  If you aren't closest to the enemy, you're probably playing it wrong.  That said, if you are closest to the enemy AND are alone, you're also playing it wrong.   Then you are bottom tier, while you still have decent armor, you can't rely on it.  So be sure to play less aggressively.  It's ok to play on the medium flank when bottom tier if needed.  It's actually useful to have a bottom tier equipment load out with say Turbo instead of say, hardening, that makes you more flexible.  Once you can't rely on your armor anymore, you are no longer your teams anchor.  That said, the gun and ok turret armor (at tier 9 that is), means the T29 is still a very useful tank when bottom tier, just it's up to others on your team to do the heavy lifting.     -------------- The other aspect here is the other play you've linked the stats of.  This person is MASSIVELY over performing their actual performance level when it comes to winrate.  There are a few reasons this can happen... one is luck.  Even over a 1000 games, some people have a giant horseshoe up their arses.  Just as many of us have a cursed tank where no matter how well we perform, we lose (hello Progetto).  More likely though there is something else to it.  This person may routinely platoon with a Unicum who is basically carrying them.  They may also harvest bots on SA server, but I would really expect higher DPG results if so.  So my money is on platooning.     -----  So basically TL;DR, you are performing about where I would expect in a WR capacity, based on how you are using the tank. The person you are linking is massively overperforming.  Basically they are the outlier, not you.  If you want to improve yourself, there's great advice in this thread.  If you want to know why others win more, welcome to one of life's great mysteries...