I don't believe I claimed to be an expert on Dandare, but I do have extensive knowledge on TribalWars, which you do not. You were a student in a failed teaching tribe and have since developed an ego due to co-playing one of the teachers from said failed tribe. Amusingly the teacher in question learned more that world than most of the students did though.
OD ranks do not equate to skill, no matter how much Adellion might try and claim otherwise.
There's strategic playing an there's reckless playing. The latter tends to lead to rank 1 OD, the former typically does not.
Even more amusingly you're piping up to defend someone who just stated, "An example would be learning when not to argue with one that outclasses you.", yet you're very much doing just that.
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It's nothing to do with "believing". Success is doing what one sought out to do. He seeks rank 1, and he gets it, therefore he is successful, and in fact the most successful when it comes to that particular goal. Most successful does not necessarily mean best but what success is is a clear-cut definition. Whether you think his successes mean much are up for debate, but not whether they are successes since by definition they are.