The Eldar faction is plagued with rerollers sporting stupid names/exploiting and flaming, it's awful.
I used the term palladin problem in reference to Warcraft where for years retribution paladins were absolutely awful. It was a very weak spec doing less damage than the tanking spec. But, a whole lot of young players wanted to be a paladin and they picked retribution (and equipped a shield no less when the spec was meant for a two hander). And their whining on the forums was legendary. Even the head of the blizzard made fun of them at blizzcon. So bring that back to EC, you can be forgiven for hypothesizing that that same mentality infecting LSM faction dragging down the factions average. But as I said, my prediction on the data was wrong.
Oh I'm not questioning you, just when people think that think that they win cause their faction is better organised and the opposing one lacks teamplay when both sides tend to have the same level of teamplay unless a group of friends are together etc.
I find that this is not true, both in EC and other online games. Take Warcraft, for example. On the majority of servers, the Horde will beat the pants off the Alliance in instanced PvP - even if the population balance is heavily in the Alliance' favor. One might expect that having a higher population would mean that there would a greater number of competent PvPers (total, not as a percentage of the whole), but that's not accounting for other details: such as the fact that the Horde is more appealing to the sorts of players who play the game specifically for PvP. It's well documented that PvPers overwhelmingly prefer to play as Horde. Consequently the Horde kicks ass at PvP nearly (but not entirely) without regard for what server you're on. This is supported by stats that people have collected over the years. Sortof the same thing has happened in EC. The people who're into ganking and competition and winning at all costs have mostly gone for Chaos (as expected). I suspect, although I couldn't prove, that the Eldar population has a higher percentage of founders (aka people who've been playing this game a lot). It's a small, tighter-knit faction. I dunno about Orks. They're a weird mix of RP and raw crazy.
Well I as an Eldar main got downed FROM FULL HEALTH TO ZERO by an asshole striking scorpion, just because I shot a marine he was executing, which cancelled his execution. What is funnier is that he was part of a freaking clan. MsK or something I think, and his name was Akennov. That might be why we are the best at TKing...
Everything you said about WoW PvP is false and not a good game to use as a comparison for your argument. Horde and Alliance PvP winrate is close to 50% pre-MoP. Once MoP came out all the top PvP'er switch to one faction (Alliance/Horde > Horde > Alliance) and then stayed Alliance for all of Warlords due to the Human racial being the best for PvP in-game. Now with Legion out it might be a lot more balanced, idk haven't touched Legion. (2300 exp warrior here)
It's funny because in WoW PvPers overwhelmingly play Alliance since humans and night elves have oppressively powerful PvP racials. The current win-rate is somewhere around 70-30 in the Alliance's favour and the Horde has made up less than 3% of the top of the arena ladder for three expansions. Meanwhile the Horde generally has better PvE progression because of their stronger PvE racials.
