So...what would be your suggestion? What can be done to make this less frustrating for you? Random teams is just that, absolutely random. If you really want to, maybe try a LD-focused guild and form your own teams that way.

Just because we're losing or that the teams are totally stacked and unfair doesn't mean we can't have fun! Heheh.

Heck, I had a 20K+ damage game that I lost.
Damage won't make a difference if you and your team can't hold points effectively. Clever players can run around the enemy and capture tons of points without dealing much damage. Their damage score will be pathetic, but they'll have lots of captures.

@Angelgod

Wrong. Capture>Defend.

If you can't defend a base, then you can recapture it. If you can't capture a base period, then you can't defend it.

Also, it's just a game. People don't want to ear people saying "2! go to 2 u noob! come on, I dont want 2 lose! if u dont cap that base then we lose!! Knight 2: Why can't you capture the base? Knight 1: becuz im defending 1 u noob, great, now we lose becuz of u. noob"

Not trying to pic on you in specific, but every single match I've played with you on my team, you always go saying "capture 3 and 2 u noob!" and stuff like that. Every.

It's just a game... Not a matter of life and death... I hope. o.o People can't go cap other bases and such when they are fighting or dead. I have won many games when we lost one player or more. If you want to cap faster and stuff, stop defending. You defend most of the time anyway, even with striker and recon by killing someone trying to take over a base of yours.

Now please, stop complaining and deal with it.

/graveyard

It's kind of pointless to argue about which is more important. They're all needed to effectively win a game and all have different benefits.

If a team isolates captures or defends, their team will have a lower chance of winning. Damage also serves its own purpose by slowing the other team down.

While it sucks to be on teams that aren't even remotely close to balance, it happens. Frequently. Oh well, it's just a game. I do feel bad for people who constantly get stuck with players who cannot match up with their opponents, but these instances are not frequent.

Also, keep in mind these stats are really not good indicators of skill in any sense. Win/loss is the closest one can get to a skill indication. For instance:

Damage - Anyone can run striker/skolver/toothpick and score high damage numbers. Are they capturing and defending points? Are they taking out targets like the straggler headed for health or the guardian shielding a point? You could only care for damage and score really high, thus appearing to be 'really good' while in fact you are essentially giving your team one less player for the objective, both offensively and defensively. There is a skill in this, and having a 'team slayer' or two can help if used effectively and smartly, but this stat is not even close to an indication of skill. That guardian with the shiver was probably more helpful than that striker with a barb.

Captures - Capturing is the goal of the game right? So people with large capture counts did a lot for the team right? Yes and no. Obviously capturing contributes to winning, but blind rushes on the opposing team's back cap are usually really temporary captures and result in death over and over. People who play like this don't actually score many points for the team, as they rarely participate in defensive action or strategic captures that last, but they get high capture numbers in the stats.

Defends - Keeping a point under your control is a very big part of winning the game. However, the way defends are counted leaves the point for defending to be very arbitrary. If I'm not mistaken, a defend is given when a player kills an opponent on a point they are attempting to capture. Off the point, no point. In many instances, a team will simply drive off the attacker from the point and force a retreat. In essence, the same thing, but this is not tracked. As such, people with less defends may actually have staved off more attackers.

So yeah, these stats are pretty arbitrary. Don't complain about teammates because they don't have 5k damage or more, or because they only have 3 captures, because the stats are not good indicators of how good your teammates are.

That being said, I hope you get matched up with your ideal teammates in the future, but keep this in mind before blaming teammates...

I'm tier 2, and teams usually turn out very unbalanced. I once faced a team of 4 duskers and various people (6 per team) and my team had me (2* :( a proto nub, a wolver, 2 cobalts, and 1 magic hood person. We lost.