How to throw games without looking like you threw the game?

If people are familiar with you, your play style and your skill level, then its pretty much impossible.

So i can only suggest you stop playing for a year or two so people forget about you and your skill level. And then come back and start using troll(ish) strats, and lose games.

quote: Use priority-toggles to mismanage your eco.

Good one.

Put fac on high priority, make lots of cons. When sombody asks why your expansion is so slow you can tell them "What are you talking about, look at all the cons I'm expanding with" and then hope they won't notice that 5 minutes later you are still "trying" to finish the same mexes.

Or just put mex priority on low by default. Obviously you can be much more subtle with this if you want to since people will probably realise what you are doing once they see your mexes are stuck building at 0 speed for minutes.

produce glass cannon units like moderator/recluse/wolverine then over-extend as if being aggressive and allow them to be over-run.

play spider

pylon wall of solars

on topic: why does this topic exist?

quote: Spiders are top-tier in big teams.

Most spider lineup is junk tier, but flea & Crabbe are top tier.

- Make mex till 99% it looks almost the same but does not make any metal

- Make mex as usual(in the beginning the highest elo player normally checks how expansion goes) but then at 5th min or so reclaim all ur mexes to 99%
When someones ask wtf is it pretend you have a connection problem(to avoid any explanation)

- make frontline singu/moho because your team needs E and this is the best place to make this E

- morph troll com and suicide it on overexpanded frontline in 5v1, then say "noob team", start to make fusions and athenas just to res your worthless lvl5 troll com
by the time u finish it will be lost

- try to "over-res" your unit with athenas while enemy reclaims it, because you are the boss and have more metal!

- go sea on a land map, if there is no sea it's no problem - use terraform

- spend 30 min trying to make cloaked jinn in the back of the enemy base, plop the entrance and wait for some noob to send 100 fleas here which immediately reveal your troll invention

FirePluk is not subtle, that would be the most obvious way to look like you threw the game.

Weaver, flea, venom, infiltrator, and crabe are all top tier.

Weaver: You need the AT, efficient mobile BP, and build range for winning the frontline.

Flea: You need the scout, screeener, passive LOS, and early harrass.

Venom: You need a small mobile means of dealing with cheese and aggression. One venom stops the com drop you scout with your fleas, or the jack rush, or any number of raiders.

Infiltrator: You need to stop very specific large threats.

Crabe: Midgame porc dominator with riot sidearm.

It's really a very good factory for big teams, allowing you the ability to decisively slam particular opposing plays, then transitioning into a solid push once the gamestate has settled. If you keep your army of noobs safe they are far more likely to do something productive. The only thing I miss when playing spiders in big teams is they don't have a good mobile AA, but you have the mobile BP to make static AA wherever you need it.

Very agree. No need to purposefully throw the game if you can try your hardest at something you're less good at. This saves you time that would be wasted throwing games, is less malicious, is genuinely interesting, and is more productive.

In fact, a lot of people on the ladder do just this - I know I do. It's not that I'm purposefully lowering my elo, but if I'm not close to my top elo I may as well put the gap to use and experiment a little. When I start approaching my max I start playing more seriously, but even after this many games, there are plenty of units I still basically haven't touched.

quote: - go sea on a land map, if there is no sea it's no problem - use terraform

Bu- but... Warolrd on CCR is a 100% win tactic.