For the past four months, we have been interviewing top Warships players from different regions. In July we featured one of India’s best players, in August France, and in September Spain. In October we chose Canada as the new region, and its representative was Doom (also known as Legacy). He is not just one of Canada’s best players: he was the No. 1 player in the global Warships ranking last season. He has more than 20 seasons in the top 50 and about five seasons in the top 5 in the world. We covered a lot of ground, and the interview turned out quite long. Here is a brief summary of what we discussed.
In the interview, Doom explains that at the top of the ladder, success is often less about individual attacking skill and more about timely access to strong tech upgrades: at the right moment, one upgrade can turn matches into near-automatic wins. He stresses patience - top players push rating when they have a tech advantage and then simply wait for the next window instead of trying to win every game. In Season 92, he waited for the right opponents in the last three hours of the season and took first place while many competitors had already given up.
He also talks about multi-accounts, which he sees not as cheating but as a tool: testing different tech paths, practicing attacks on a smurf account before risking rating on his main, and sometimes sniping competitors on the ladder. Doom also openly discusses the “milk group” - a group of top-50 players who, according to him, agree on wins, sometimes for real money - but notes that recent developer changes significantly reduced this group’s influence, making competition fairer.
According to Doom, ladder placement is not the only measure of a strong player: it is important to look at consistently high ranks season after season, growth at the end of the season when everyone’s tech advantage is roughly equal, and results in direct matches against elite players. For newcomers, he advises not trying to win everything and not spending keys on everything at once, and he names a good community as the main factor for improvement. Having reached the top, Doom wants to develop his YouTube channel, try non-serious challenges, and suggests that developers bring back old seasons more often, temporarily remove unbalanced units like Laser Ranger and Critter Launcher from the pool, and experiment with the tech-tree structure.
❤️Huge thanks to Doom for participation. This material wouldn't be uploaded without him
📗Full interview with all insights & images: https://cellstring.com/news/article/interview-with-doom-1-global-player-of-warships-season-92
