Top 10 most disrespectful plays in esports

Welcome back to another Top 10 article from us! We all know it from our everyday gaming life: You’ve screwed up on a play for once and that gives our opponents the feeling that they are the gods of the world, and they let us know that directly with a disrespect.

Whether it’s an “EZ” in the chat that wasn’t EZ at all and drives us up the wall, or a teabagging opponent who’s happy because he waited in the same corner for 5 minutes, was finally able to kill us and has to demonstrate his joy right away by demoting us to a teacup. Unfortunately, there are many ways to disrespect your opponent in games, but at least some of them are funny for the community. Here are our top 10 disrespectful plays in esports history! Have fun, but please don’t copy them.

10. Minecraft Steve (Smash)

The first play could cause frustration just watching it. Minecraft Steve is fairly new to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and already a gem among all the characters. But his unique playstyle gave all the trolls a creative new way to disrespect and disrespect. In this match of Rockman, you can see how he just stopped before killing M Marco at Mega Smash Mondays to bury an F in the middle of the stage. This guy memorialised his opponent’s failure before he was dead himself. Fortunately, it was just an F and nothing else that sprang from his creative pen. Bottom line, it’s his opponent’s own fault if he gives him enough time to do it.

9. Marlin Pie (Marvel vs. Capcom 3)

Let’s move on to a player known for his style combos: Marlin Pie in Marvel vs Capcom 3. In fighting games, you can always finish off your opponents with a boring combo. But why do that when you can kill him with an unnecessary finisher instead? Marvel players have always been known for flashy combos, but none were more infamous than Marlin Pie, who showed the world his incredible talent with Dr. Doom at CEO 2012. And that wasn’t the only time either. Marlin Pie made a name for himself by disrespecting and demoralising players who dared to challenge him.

8. Daigo Umehara (Streetfighter 4)

It’s clear that combo spamming in fighting games can get frustrating. Especially with this ridiculous play by Daigo Umehara. And when it comes to Street Fighter 4, Daigo Umehara is not an unknown name. However, it’s not just his playing talents that stand out, but also some bad manners from the Fighting Legend. At the Dreamhack Winter 2013 Grand Final, Daigo had his opponent Gamerbee caught in a combo-chain and we all know how stressful that is because there’s nothing you can do about it. When your opponent is so brazen, spamming the same move over and over again, you just want to throw the controller in the corner.

7. Broky (CS:GO)

Broky is not to be missed at Dreamhack open fall 2020 with his cheeky team kill. Instead of being disrespectful to his opponents, Broky was disrespectful to his teammates, which is actually worse. Even though his play helped the team in the end, that may not be the way you want to win a round in CS:GO. He and his team were down 4-9 and they couldn’t lose another round. Broky must have had that in mind when he saw his teammate Coldzera having a gunfight with an opponent. Without further ado, he shoots through his mate at the opponent regardless. Win or lose, this is definitely beneath contempt.

6. OG (Dota 2)

After winning TI 8 and immortalising themselves in Dota 2 Esports history, OG’s players came back the next year with a few disrespects in their hand luggage. Dripping with confidence, they demonstrated their newly learned tricks, but one play was like a fat middle finger in the face of their opponents. Whether in League or Dota, there are few things worse than being dived when opponents can tank the Fountain for seconds without dying and your team isn’t even allowed off the platform because opponents intercept you right after respawn. How ridiculously fed can you actually be? Topson’s answer: YES!

5. Showmaker (LoL)

The Korean League of Legends pro Showmaker has often proven how good he is at the game. But unfortunately he has also shown more often that he can be a little poison dwarf, just like in the semi-finals of the Worlds 2020, when he played against G2 with his team. In a quote that has been translated, he makes a fighting statement to his opponents: “I want to smash G2 to pieces as fast as I can.” Damwon is admittedly known for displaying bad manners, such as farming their opponents when they respawn in Fountain as if they were just a couple of Super Minions. But Showmaker was spamming emotes all the time in this game from the teams that had shown off Europe at Worlds in previous years. Best to mute such annoyances if you don’t want to be upset.

4. Logix (Overwatch)

While we were just talking about spawn camping here, we definitely have to mention Logix, who was able to turn the tables in the Overwatch League. He showed us why it can quickly backfire when players want to make an easy game for themselves. After a tough defence against The Justice on Havana, it became increasingly difficult for The Defiant to defy the odds. They made little progress with the cart protected and dominated by Stratus and Ark. But then justice came from above in the form of Logix. He was really beaten up by Stratus and was trapped in his spawn. It was thought at first that he had been trapped, but it was the other way around. No one knew that was his nasty plan all along. He switched to Cassidy and managed to land a clean flashbang on Phara before taking him down. Well, karma doesn’t forget.

3. Electronic (CS:GO)

This play by Electronic certainly took a lot of self-control and it definitely made the jaws of the audience drop. The ideas the pros sometimes come up with are crazy and here too everything could have gone terribly wrong. During the group stage of the ESL Pro League Season 7 finals against FaZe, Electronic went all Assassins Creed and snuck onto the B Site behind his opponents. Unfortunately, Karrigan was too busy looking ahead and never expected an opponent to sneak up behind him. Electronic showed incredible discipline on the trigger and waited for the right moment, but what happened next was simply disrespectful. He took up a position just behind Karrigan and first tried to eliminate the mate Karrigan had covered. That didn’t work out as intended, but he quickly switched to Karrigan and still managed to take out both targets in the end. Just cheeky the play, but it reminds you that sometimes you should turn around.

2. Dapr (VALORANT)

In second place we have the first international knife kill and also the second teabag in VALORANT Esports history. When it comes to trolling, Dapr is undoubtedly one of NA’s prodigies. He has proven many times that he is willing to sacrifice his life for a few troll actions and to show disrespect to his opponent. When Australian team Soniqs played in NA, they did not expect a play like this. Dapr had his back to the wall and couldn’t get out of the corner. Then when Dizzylife tried to take him down, he took the knife and made short work of it. Maybe Teabag could have been spared in the end, but the first international knife kill definitely makes him a legend. Sometimes the answer to a disrespect is another disrespect.

1. S1mple (CS:GO)

The trophy for the most disrespectful play in Esports history goes to CS:GO legend S1mple. And how could it be otherwise? During the IEM Global Challenge Group Stage 2020, it was close for his team NaVi when they were 8:7 against FURIA. True to the motto “nothing ventured, nothing gained”, S1mple opted for an absolutely risky play. He hid in the shaft on Nuke and pulled out his knife. Then a Smoke ensured that the unsuspecting opponents easily panicked and used the ladder where S1mple was already waiting for them. It could almost be described as pure disrespect the way he sliced one by one with the knife. The genius’s plan was nasty but worked and such plays also made the legend what he is today.