Soon as people catch up to them in SP and are able to fit the gear that they currently do, they will fall as well.

Skill is 5% of what matters in this game. The rest is SP and gear. If you work together as a squad and one team is militia and the other is proto, the proto wins. More damage and tank on the battlefield. Skills do not factor into a number based game.

No, he's saying that he only has 5% of the skill needed to play this game and is blaming is losses on the fact that he lacks the SP required to be effective in Dust, which is just another way of saying he fails and is unable to compete in a competitive environment such as Dust.

I've been around long enough to see what NF can do. Yeah they have skills, but when you see them on the field, you'll see it's not their gear or SP that wins them matches. They move together like a well choreographed dance troupe. Every movement looks like it has intent and purpose. They don't seem to have any doubt as to what their next objective is. They hit the ground running and they simply don't stop until the end of the match. Even if the match is a lose, where most players just give up, they keep pushing and pushing until the match ends.

They aren't the only corp or alliance that are like that, but they tend to be the most notable because a few of their members chest pound whenever they win matches and many in the community don't care for it.

You say that now, wait until you are being rolled by them and sending them hate mail, posting Anti-NF/Anti-Imp/Anti-IE threads, or calling their members names because they chest pound about how they turned you inside out.....it happens to the best of us....lol.

I never said they were 5% better skill wise, I said Shalac17 only had 5% of the skill needed to compete in Dust and that he is justifying his comments by saying that only 5% of the game is about skills. He lacks that 5%, but blames his lack of SP and proto gear (which he implies is 95% of the ability to win a match) on not being an able and skilled player.

NF has a lot of skill, but players confuse skill and ability with tactical and situational awareness. They are not the same thing and I propose that it's not NF's skills that allow them to win so much, it's their tactical and situational awareness as well as their team play that wins them matches.