> hop on Dandy’s World to have fun > join a run (in public or over discord or something) > you play as any toon that has at least 4 stars in movement speed (your team tells you must go distract because of this) > you proceed to make your play through the most mind-numbing, soul sucking, and sometimes stressful experience by running around in a circle with the twisteds constantly chasing you for a few minutes that feel like forever because you have to wait for your “brain dead” teammates to finish the floor > your run (inevitably) ends and you are rewarded with a measly 100-300 ichor (your, again, “brain dead” teammates are getting rich off of your struggles) > you never want to distract again
I can't be the only one who actually enjoys distracting, right? Please. It hurts me, it makes me so sad to realize people hate this stuff. I thought it was enjoyable 😢
@@Y01kVR I love distracting but sometimes it gets so boring, most of the time I wish to actually be my favorite toon and not distract(Goob). But if something interesting happens and the team is actually pretty good, then that's when things get interesting
as a distractor myself IT is one of the hardest jobs it can get annoying when all you do IS run in a loop and some of your teammates come to close and get hit then blame you.😭😭😭😭🙏🙏
Fr, like, tf do they even expect to happen!?? 💀 It's simple to understand when playing the game 1. Know your stealth 2. Don't get into distractors way (unless you're higher than 3 star stealth) 3. Beware of your surrounds
This distraction meta is making more players worse on average, because they think kiters are vital Though, if we're looking at the toons at base, IF you're not using the distractors just to survive/extract, then they're easier to use, since their stats and abilities are suited to do so. This is the reason why I consider Vee one of the hardest main to use- you have to be a good player if you're going to use her without a kiter, you actually have to be good at the game and know your surroundings.
I do main Vee a lot, but I do agree she has very bad survival when it comes to her speed and stealth But, I *don't* consider her to be a bad toon to use. She is useful in her own ways.
Ngl for me, Pebble is the hardest main to main- I'm saying this as a distractor Sprout main and Vee main, but I understand that some people aren't too good with slow character
As an Ex-Distractor, It requires a LOT of Skill, Map Coordination and Time. Distractors make the Least amount of Rewards (Ichor) but also have to be Actively doing their Job the Whole Game.. Distractors became so Vast in Majority; To where Basic Players no longer know HOW to hide or HOW to evade Twisteds, Thus making Distractors a necessity for most Players. I am now a Proud Extraction Pebble Main, Regarding the Hate. I play how I want.
I swear to god, Distractors actually made players have less awareness and survival instinct. It is ridiculous. Players either camp elevator or are SO glued to the machine they extract that they dont see BRIGHTNEY coming their way. Brightney! Of all twisteds!
FOR REAL, LIKE, HOW ARE THEY GOING RIGHT INTO TWISTEDS, HOW THEY NOT SEE THEM Then I plays as any toon my camera going all 360, because FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, I DONT WANT TO GO STRAIGHT INTO FCKN BOXTEN
Bro I saw people die to SHRIMPO(I only understand if you couldn't see them in time because NGL them Slow ones do just randomly appear in blackout), but it's like floor one and you're telling me you all died to a dang Shrimp😭
I was distracting as goob, i looked for the twisteds since there was no vee and people kept taking hits so i thought there was a main or something but it was just SHRIMPO AND BOXTEN. And they were taking hits as soon as the elevator opened?? What was i supposed to do oh my-
I like to have a "savior" instead of a distractor when i play with my friends. They dont lead all the twisted in circles forever, but extract as normal. However, when someone else is being chased and is cornered/out of stamina, the savior comes in and pulls the twisteds off them. Then they just safely lead them away, lose agro, and go back to extracting. Its way more fun and feels like youre contributing more. Edit: It appears I'm not the only one. I say we make this role the new meta!
THIS IS THE PLAYSTYLE EVER!!! i do this shi as ANY toon i can!! so many times i have saved someone from certain death with airhorn or just my stealth being lower-
I do this all the time as long as I know how to escape I used to main brightney and loved doing this when there wasn’t as much people left, I still usually play toons with lower stealth so I can still do it but it’s not as easy for me compared to brightney
People need to appreciate good distractors. It's easily the most important role in any given team. Distracting requires a certain level of skill and focus, while also rewarding a *lot* less ichor compared to any other role 😭
I literally have huge respect for my friend who got me into dandy's as a whole anytime he was playing he carried entire teams on his back through blackouts and main toons, and was still so kindhearted even if he ended up dying early.
The thing about distractors is that they have A LOT of power. If they wanted to, they could let the twisteds roam if the extractors are pissing them off (or even them trolling but that's just a different breed of distractor and I personally haven't came across that type of distractor since all I've met were super understanding and kind). Another thing is that distractors are becoming a more recognized thing in Dandy's world, this means that newer players will practically rely on distractors to get far. And when the distractor dies, the extractors won't get far. And many more of the experienced players of dw are shifting to solos or playing with friends because of how toxic the players are getting in public runs.
On that first one, yeah had a run where everyone except 2 people were being rude or not being team players so I just stopped distracting the second we got mains cause I didn't wanna keep helping and the second I stopped distracting everyone died (it was just astro, shelly and like Boxten or smn so I coulda but I just didn't)
I haven't been playing for long, but I play solo purely due to the whole distractor situation..if you can't make it to floor 15 without a distractor idk what to tell you dude..
The most toxics distractor story i remember is: 2 goobs were fighting over who’s gonna distract which resulted in 1 killing the other. Somehow they attention shifted onto ME because i was trying to stop the fight. He ended up dying because he tried leading toodles to me with 2 star stealth (I was rnd with 3)
3:29 You were not harsh You were REASONABLE Everyone seems to rely on a distractor every run! I swear i had to distract so many times, i can distract as Shelly or Rudie even. Every run I come into, the distractor dies, suddenly EVERYONE dies! I become the distractor as shelly when the distractor dies just to atleast reach a few more floors
I mean, to be fair, the distractor will of course be the most skilled role in the game if every twisted is on them because all the *other* roles don't have to deal with the twisteds. If there is no distractor, then the slow toons / lone wolves are probably the most skilled. Slow characters have to focus on their surroundings, and know where to move and when. If they are extracting in a corner, and they see a Finn walk dangerously close to them, they have to find out where to run off to before its too late. You also should probably plan out your escape, since there is a strict time limit once you complete all the machines. If you are Vee or something and complete a machine on the far side of the map, you may not have enough time to make it back to the elevator. Lone wolves are the same, but considerably more difficult because there is nobody else to be chased or help you do the machines, everything has to be done by you. The more time spent being chased is less time extracting, so you gotta keep an eye out for when a twisted gets close and start hiding behind a shelf or something. When you ARE being chased, you have to figure out where to go in order to get the twisted off your tail while not running into MORE twisteds.
Also I just thought of something. I don't want to offend anyone, but let's be honest here... Doesn't having a distractor make the game boring at some point? (4:06) Being a distractor is boring because every single floor involves you doing donuts around the broken elevator until 15 seconds remain on the panic mode clock, then you book it towards the elevator. Being an extractor WITH a distractor, logically, should also be boring because all you have to do is find the machines and extract them with no threats because they are too busy chasing some pet rock or noodle-arms-McGee who loves doing donuts. If I were to describe this game's goal to someone, in simplest terms, I'd say "Your goal is to make it to the highest floor possible while avoiding monsters." Distractors remove the monster part of that equation, so it's literally just "Your goal is to make it to the highest floor possible." A part of the fun is that, while you are busy extracting, you have to keep an eye out for any twisteds coming towards you. The game even rewards you for getting chased by giving you research towards that twisted, which eventually lets you unlock some things such as toons and trinkets. Don't get me wrong though, having someone get the twisteds off you is pretty good since they can get annoying on later floors. It's a part of the reason why I love the Vee remote trinket since, at least in solo runs, there is always that ONE machine in the middle of the map which takes several minutes to finish because Ginger seems to have set up camp nearby. But having a distractor *all the time* has to get somewhat monotonous eventually, right?
Welp this is a regular public run...so distracter take the most skilled job...and when there is non or they can't distracted some of the special one...low speed enter in as the second mose skilled character in the game because you have to play stealthy...you can tell i main everything so i know what you saying right now...but mostly the biggest challenge for low speed toon it to stay away from other players... like they are the mostly reason that you take damage because they keep lead anything to you 🙏
@@shibainu2528 i completely agree... distracter only need able if that a long run or a hunt run... because those run can take more than just 20 floor...so more twisted can make so much problem... other than that...i agree distracter it no necessary in every run...but let be honest in public run... everyone so suck and idiot they die before floor 5 without someone carry them
@@shibainu2528 i try doing no distractor runs in public to have more fun (i dont have discord) and they died before floor 5. Thinking of trying again but having a pro limit to it.
I used to be a distractor. I stopped being a distractor bc I didn't get paid, and my teammates mostly rely on me the entire game. At the end, I'm the only one left surviving.
Sigh that time when i was distracting twisted pebble and almost all my team figure out for die for a twisted flutter and cosmo xd,imagine how bad Player have to be for die wich a living distractor lol
So many instances that I’d like to play as a support/extractor instead of a distractor but I know damn well my teammates aren’t gonna last 5 floors without one and I don’t feel like doing a solo run
I had runs where as pebble, I just said I CAN'T distract Twisted Pebble on the christmas map (floor 10 I belive) and whoever other 2 toons there were. I remember there was no Astro. you know what me and the other 2 players did that remained in the run? COMMUNICATED where PEBBLE is moving so HARD.....NONE of us got hit. One of the best runs I had, my fingers were spamming where he was going by stalking Twisted Pebble and the other 2 players extracted(I also extracted a machine, but my goal was to check on pebble). They also typed while I was on machine. Best and funniest experiences I have had. I love communicating.
@justshoestestuserlol4112 for real. It was just funny walking like 5 meters(figuratively) speaking behind Twisted pebble and then looping around the common twisteds and calling it a day
My opinion(s) on distracting: (this will be long, so if you don’t want a wall of text jumpscare, this is your warning) Distractors started as simply “survivor” roles, that were designed to survive longer on average at the cost of extraction for the most part, but once people realized that you could walk around in a circle while safely keeping Twisteds behind you as most Survivors, that’s when Distractors came into existence. You know Avatar? The Distractor Role is the Fire Nation of Dandy’s World. Sure it may be “good” for long runs, but it’s so boring to play as, yet most of the team absolutely NEEDS a Distractor because they’ll die on Floor 1 or close to that otherwise! I know in this video they already explained that Distracting gives barely any rewards while your teammates mindlessly work on their Machines, which they don’t even DESERVE to have because they’ll die because they have BABY TO NO SKILL when going against ANY NON-TRAP TWISTED! I played as Shrimpo in a Solo run for the funny, and I made it to floor 13! And yet these people with way better stats, heck, even 4 star speed Toons can BARELY manage to reach MAYBE Floor 3 without the help of a Distractor. Excuse me for being a Shrimpo but here’s a message for all those people who “need Distractors”: WAKE TF UP!!!! *Train+Truck scream sfx*
As a goob distracter main myself, distracting is no joke especially in when i'm the solo distracter, twisteds such as finn and toodles have extremely different speeds which can make it hard to consistently distract all of them as i'll probably lose the slower toons.
Distractor is a really odd role in this game. It's the hardest role, very reliant on ping, but is also the least rewarding and most boring role in the game. There's an insane skill and attentiveness difference between a floor that's all commons, and a blackout floor with Pebble and (during the Christmas season) Coal. The amount of time you spend distracting is dependent on extractors doing machines quickly, if there's not enough extractors or they're mostly running around like headless chickens, the time you spend distracting the current combo increases exponentially. I don't really know how to go about fixing this other than just not playing as a distractor, and maps being designed to actually allow players to play without a distractor (the new maps in Connie's update are AWFUL without a distractor, and even then, you might get a combo where everyone has to hide while the distractors extract). Blackout is another can of worms that needs to be addressed but whatever.
Healers can also be kind of skill based. Think about it. You have to tell yourself "is this player really worth it to waste my tapes/heart on? Will they not just lose that heart i gave them the second they get out of the elevator?" So you have to see who is worth healing and who isn't.
Sprout is like 2nd toon i use the most, and I gotta say that if you have good teammates it is really easy, since the only one who is getting hit most of the time is the distractor. (and if someone else gets hit it's not that important to heal them quick since they are not being chased constantly by the twisteds). But they take some skill more than the extractors, probably
oh don’t get me started on my experience as Sprout 😭 I was playing in a run type that is typically the most toxic: MAIN ONLY RUNS. Someone asked me if I needed glasses when I didn’t notice that our distractor got hit. Also, They blamed me when the run ended in a blackout because I couldn’t heal Pebble (they ran too far away from me as soon as the elevator opened).
I do this but then give it away anyways bc i thought my judgmental ahh was just being mean (they did in fact lose the heart the moment they left that elevator.)
4:33 so real, when I can tell a team isn’t gonna last long because we don’t have a distractor i have to change toons just so I can actually get to floor 10 without losing 6 players in the process - (and they still die to Rnd Rodger and Connie bc of how brain dead they are)
RIGHT?? Oh my god they always do that.. Something I don’t understand about players is that they sometimes don’t use their brains. Many people activate RnD/Rodger SO MANY times, even if they already got hurt from them. I barely distract, though on certain times if my team is really good, and that there’s a dangerous Twisted on the floor I usually distract to keep my teammates alive for just a few more floors.
I had a Flutter who was probably new to distracting and there was a Rodger insulting them for it. I respect the hell out of Distractors since it can be boring or/and dangerous with a fast twisted on the floor.
I've been playing as Astro for a few days and OMG the amount of times I have to DISTRACT as A SUPPORT is really sad. And as soon as our distractor dies everyone else dies and I'm the last one left like we all don't know how to be stealthy for some reason.
I feel like some new players don't know how to stay alive without a distractor. I have my friend that started Dandy's World one or two months ago,and he has two mains (Shelly and Sprout). Whenever we play together,I always become the distractor because I already know damn well that he won't be able to survive a single floor without a distractor!I even use Vee (I'm a HARD Vee main btw!) so he can stay out of Twisteds sight,but he dies on floor 1 when we are doing DUO!I feel like people should do more solo runs. I got to floor 25 with Vee on solo on mobile,and I think that he can too. I don't If I should tell him though. He kind of sucks without a distractor.
I'm glad my friends actually survive pretty well without a distractor (I play as extractor Pebs and Goob with them), but it sucks knowing you need to distract for a friend because ya know they suck at surviving on their own😭
@weebe_evee_geebe7027 Plus I have a friend that started WAY later and she plays so much better HELP?? I carried her to floor 15 and she has only a few toons yet she can still survive on her own a little
As someone who has distracted before, I actually prefer extracting (because I can get rich 🤑). But when I do have a distractor, I try to be nice to them because they *are* doing it for me and the team.
all distractors should collectively stop distracting so the players of dw can actually survive a twisted tisha and tisha shrimpo for more then 2 minutes
Honestly people rely on distracters too much because I was playing pebble distracting on floor 18 right I was in a pro run and I got every twisted except looey because I couldn’t find him and then everyone in chat was spamming me to get looey and they were also talking hits, like it’s a common twisted that you can out run easily it’s not that hard but they specifically need me to get him when you can just keep your distance or lead him to me instead of spamming me to go get him when I’m clearly busy, like seriously it’s not that hard to our run a common twisted dude
Honestly i dont even need to watch the full video to agree. All you have to say to a person “Just hold the button and let go when the skill check pops up” and boom 🤯. But with distractors, you have to know.. PROPER stealth, how to distract fast twisted , slow twisted , MAINS, BLACKOUTS, ppl being stupid and getting in the way AND BLAMING YOU. In all I AGREE
i thought this was gonna be ragebait but every point here is very correct, infact what even is the point in banning toons if there is atleast one good pebble? besides stealth they all can extract (not as fast but you get the point)
@@aartist_is_cool well when you get to a certain point (15+ floors) you kinda... can't half the time, because you're making sure your teammates don't get hit, and that you don't run into sprout's tar, or that you shut all the vee ads, or that you're hitting shift fast enough so you don't get hit when you turn a corner, etc
I use public lobbies because they get me to floor 4 quickly then die, it basically turns the game into a solo run but with a bit of a headstart. I realised over time that public lobbies rely HEAVILY on distractors, and those who survive without them are actually good players. I usually like doing solo rodger runs, but having a 4 floor headstart and slim chance of a good player duo leads me to public runs. (Its often solo) My honest opinion is if you wanna do a solo run but want to quickly run through early floors then just join a public lobby and turn off chat 💀
I do the same thing because I honestly get so bored the first few floors when I’m alone and later floors are so fun imo, people die early anyways but at least I get more motivation. A few times I actually found amazing players though
Everytime I play public runs, I ended up the last player standing 💀 (Sometimes I died but those were some mistakes but mostly I'm the last man standing somehow)
Boxten is one of those toons that are rage-inducing and is stressful to use during general runs. He is one of the easy toons to use and his passive makes him broken but his passive is often overlooked by new players or other players in general and is often underestimated just because he's a "starter toon", if you think about it; his passive isn't really starter friendly as it takes knowledge and also good communication to maintain your extraction speed. Boxten's Extraction Speed increases per teammates who are alive in the run by 6% maximum 48%. He is a 3-star extractor at 1-2 people. (1.06/1.12) He is on par with 4-star extractors at 3 people. (1.18) vs (1.20 for 4-star extractors) He is above 4-star extractors at 4-6 people. (1.24/1.30/1.36 respectively) vs (1.20 for 4-star extractors) He is on par with 5-star extractors at 7-8 people. (1.42/1.48 respectively) vs (1.50 for 5-star extractors). He is the only extractor that gets punished with stat changes if a teammate dies, so for general runs attempting a long run, it can be very stressful as you're ALWAYS paying attention to your extraction speed stats while looking out for your teammate. However, for pre-made/VC runs that are attempting to do a long run; Boxten is a SOLID UNIT due to his Extraction Speed. For base stats he's balanced and doesn't get punished for his high extraction speed; For an example: Glisten with 5-star ext speed suffers from 2-star stealth and skill check. Vee with 5-star ext speed suffers from slow MS and Stealth. Dazzle with 5-star ext speed with lowest MS. Brightney with 4-star ext speed with lowest stealth. Connie with 4-star ext speed with low MS, same with Rodger. However, the challenge isn't Boxten himself, again, it's your teammates and you DEPEND on their lives to extract faster because the more teammates die the more his ext speed dwindles and would have to rely on Mag and Participation Award to make up for it or Shelly.
@@raridino600 I play sproot often and as long as your team isnt taking tapes its not rlly hard also if dandys shop is a problem you can always use dandy plush
I started out playing Dandy’s World with a distracter, she would sometimes distract, sometimes not, but often she would do a bit of distracting. It was good to teach me the core mechanics of the game, then my brother helped wean me off of distractors, which I’m very grateful for! Recently, however, I was playing as Astro, we got a floor with Shelly and Toodles, a few of my teammates died, and suddenly I was the only one of 4 left who was doing anything! People are way too reliant on distractors, I’ve seen mains die to toons like Poppy and Cosmo and even Tisha on floor one! It’s crazy.
I was forced to take the role of distractor pebble for a long time because its rare to find a team with a reliable distractor for me. I just got vintage pebble a couple of days ago (it took months). distracting was simple till like beyond floor 16 where I struggle alot. I was lucky to have sprout help me out and contain most of the twisted the best we could till floor 20. I miss being extractor but its hard times that forced me to become distractor. I feel your pain
EXACTLY, i used to be a distractor as flutter, then goob, then pebble, but when i stopped i couodnt get anywhere far bc distractors couldnt do em all, which is okay if ur new but of you are experienced and its a low floor you should really think about changing roles.
Shelly distracting core (I took over once the distractors all died out, I distracted Astro like 4 different floors and we got to floor 17 before we all died.)
I had an awesome pebble distractor, I was ginger and it was only us 2 and I made it to floor 24 after they died on floor 19 which I’m lowk proud of myself
by the way the title should be "Why the Distractors are the ONLY SKILLED ROLE" considering grammar rules (not to be 🤓) also side note goob being not braindead is the most crazy plot twist ever
Well distractors are upper case because in a title all the words are capitalized except: articles, conjunctions, helping verbs and most linking verbs. Distractors are the main noun of the sentence so in a title OFC ITS GONNA BE CAPITALIZED
@Tired_Rodger possibly, but onetime i got cornered by astro and 2 other twisted and let me tell you their ankles got obliterated, cooked, roasted, deepfried and served
You're the exception. Same goes for me. We're both SKILLED extractors. But go in any game with no distractor, and see how many people make it to floor 3. The number will typically be very depressing... even in "good" games, the team will typically drop by half _at best._
4:57 yesterday i was pebble and obviously distracting, i was accidentally leading twisteds to shelly bc we were in that claustrophobic warehouse map with sprout, so i had to move all over the map, also there was a goob that was hiding in the elevator and a machine was right to him, like why wouldn't you prime that machine so we could all leave safely? I was asking to a scraps why she had fancy and coin purse, so i think that's where everyone started hating on me, i decided to die so i wouldn't fight with them anymore, they got to floor 17 thanks to me
As an ex-distractor, this is relatable. I used to distract every single team i was in if i was playing goob, and i barely had any floors off when distracting due to there being almost no blackouts/dangerous twisteds. And sometimes, i had to distract during blackouts (which mind you, is a death sentence). If i was caught doing anything other than distracting OR even if i got hurt, i was griefed for it, goes to show how hostile these public creatures are. And i hope this changes in the future
Sorry for not being a member I don't really think my family would approve of me paying it. But I would like to share a story on extractor toxicity. I was a disyractor coal and our main distractor (pebble) died. I distracted and on the next floor we got twisted pebble twisted vee and a Blackout floor 11. I was about to distract vee but I heard pebble and said to myself "hell nah" and I didn't distract. Then a rodger blamed my for his death because I didn't distract. His exact words were "COAL WHY DIDNT YOU DISTRACT I DIED BECAUSE OF YOU"
I honestly don’t blame you for not distracting pebble😭 he’s terrifying to me especially on blackouts. T. Vee okay to distract but T. pebble…. I can distract him he’s the only twisted that scares me though😭😭
There is one thing you forgot, people who only do solo runs, their role has been turned from anything to survivalist, survivalist is a role to well. SURVIVE and solo runs take up a lot of time and skill and distractors jobs are easy if their teammates know stealth values and it’s just running in circles for the distractor unless it’s a really hard twisted
I understand this but at the same time. I find distracting really fun! I use it to explore corners of the map and just kinda spectate. I distracted subconsciously really. I still get good ichor with V-mote and it honestly makes the game more fun for me! I find extracting to be braindead of just tapping the spacebar on a machine. I have a need for speed >:3. But yeah, I prefer distracting over extracting and tbh I kinda have no skill in it tho, learned the term sprint-tapping yesterday lol. All-n-all tho, I love distracting, and while I can see why others find it boring and extracting fun, it just doesn't work like that for me mentally>
for the extractor toxcity, I'm a distractor and its SO annoying when someone lower than my stealth goes where I'm distracting, and then says "YOU GREIFER!!!!" for example (based off a true thing that happened to me): a gigi called out a band and I was gonna get it, but they were still there with twisteds coming, and since gigi has lower stealth than me the twisteds went to her, and then an astro in our run called me and assumed I was a griefer, I tried to prove it I wasnt but just left the run because I didnt want to get reported for being a "greifer", sometimes people are just really mad and annoying when we made a LITTLE tiny mistake
What makes me rly pissed, is that for you to Distract, it's needes to understand machenics of the game and have awareness, WHILE EXTRACT REQUIRES NOTHING, in which i play with a friend group that i repeat every run how Stealth works, but they still forget and try to evade where i'm passing by (Looey) or pass by where i'm at (Pebble), with both cases leading them to taking free damage (leading to death sometimes) or wasting time.
I mean, that's pretty obvious. The only thing extractors do is literally pressing one button. And it's usually very easy since the best extractors like Shelly usually have high skill check:)
@@Animation_labwork that's what most new distractors think honestly. you need to know how stealth works (which a lot of players do not know how it works if i'm kept up with speed), and have good knowledge on the map layouts for blackouts. it also DOES require some skill as on later floors you'll likely have really bad twisted/map combos (shelly's atom sized room with all those mains and dead ends)
@@Animation_labwork Not even that hard? What about hard floors with pebble or bobette, or even more mains? you call that easy? it's even worse when you are the only distractor.
US DISTRACTORS NEED MORE LOVE LIKE CMON DUDE WE DO ALL THIS AND U JUST SAY "omg bro the distractor lead a twisted to me" LIKE U DIDNT RUN INTO THEIR DISTRACTING SPACE
I was a Pebble and distracting, I accidentally got a Rodger hit like I didn't know he was at the corner as I turn around there. He then accused me of griefing him when I carried the whole team to Floor 15. This just shows how unappreciated Distractor is since amount of appreciation I mostly seen is for healers, which is a bit unfair
me who started as a boxten soloing 💀💀💀 distracting is kinda boring and fun at the same time when theres a distractor i usually equip extracting trinkets but when the distractor dies im forced to distract (im a goob for fair enough ig 😐)
Then there are those people who run around during blackouts, useing up all their stamina, and have no idea about the layout of the map then gets hit and then blames you because you couldn't get there fast enough. Or those people who try to tell you how to distract Don't even get me started on those people who gets too scared during blackouts and no one moves from elevator and then your left to do all the machines after realizing no one else is doing them And they still get mad at you for not distracting.
Now distractors can also be toxic I was in a run with an okay team as bobette and the coal was distracting but they had to move around the map to do so and they and others got hit a lot because of this and they blamed us for “getting in their way” when they literally kept getting in OUR WAY😭
I started playing the game not long ago (like 8 days ago) and when I got rodger after many hours of playing and was finally able to join a main hunt (there were like 3 mains in the run, including a distractor pebble) We managed to get to the 10th floor But when Pebble died, everyone died except me (I had to learn to play with poppy alone so I knew how to survive more or less) and I was able to get to the 20th floor surprisingly (I died) but that made me see that many "experienced" players actually don't know how to survive if there is no distractors (I'm sorry if there is any grammatical error, I don't speak much English but I hope it is understood)
Question, what about Astros and sprouts(or any healers)? Support roles also keeps the distractor and other characters in your runs alive. Astro: Provides stamina to distractors mainly (if not In a public run heh…” Gets risky machines done so the distractor can have a safe distraction spot Sprout: Backup kiter incase of pebble Bobette or coal (blackout) shows up or if main distractor dies Can heal other toons (such as distractors or any other important toons) Can be the fastest to tell distractors that everyone is in the elevator Healers in general: Usually having high stealth so they can do risky machines near distractor (teagean and sprout don’t count, maybe sprout if main distractor is good or looey) Heals others in your team setup to last longer Could be backup kiters (I have distracted pebble as Cosmo so it’s definitely possible you cant just run half the map though)
This. I hate when people rely on distractors and have NO survival instincts whatsoever! My friend begs me to be goob everytime we play together and i give them the silent treatment. Then they die floor 2. (Btw as a vee main i am nice and pretty chill i understand how hard it is to distract 😊)
As a sprout main who dosent distract you have no idea how many times i have saved my teammates from dying when the distractor dies not only because of heals but because i have 4 star speed so i lead the twisteds away from other toons and if their is a distractor left then i usually lead the twisteds to them once the floor starts. I do ALOT of solo runs (i solo as gigi tho) so i know how to survive without a distractor so i would say im decently skilled.
“Distrscting is easy, it’s just walking in circles” For no rewards, for hours in a run, and usually with occasional sprinting. Compared to tapping space when the red is in the yellow.
Tbh the ONLY reason i distract is to get research. You can get so much research by just distracting for a few rounds and after i have all research i go right back to extracting
Epic Funfact: Every run I join with no distractor everyone else dies in early floors unless I decide to lead the twisteds away from them or they lead twisteds to me I always end up in Solo Runs afterwards since I actually learned how the twisteds work- and my teammates die in like floor 5 or something Another funfact: once I was a distractor Coal and as soon as I die they died on the next floor almost instantly [to be fair it was a black out?]
Ok, so I see a lot of distractors here but not a lot of extractors so as a Vee main I would like to clarify a few things, 1) before we start. Yes the Vids got some valid points 2) On the point that the runs end when distractors die it’s really more because if u don’t have a Distractor on like floor 50 your just cooked, like 8 twisteds, is already a lot, then u need 2 do 20 machines, and main toons are quite a bit more likey, Vee will just die, in fact most extractors would die 3) the “toxic” extractors is a interesting point, as when is it considered toxic tho. Cuz if my distractor gets me hit on floor 1 ima be pretty upset but if they been solid for like 10 floors then I get hit then it’s not really a big deal 4) I think that especially on the later floors you do need to have skill with extractors, As any extractor toon( I’m counting an extractor toon as a toon with 4+ stars in extraction) excluding Rodger and Connie, will need to know how not to take agro from the distractor. 5)On the point of distractors being in the line of danger, is what I would consider wrong, as if u don’t have a healer like spourt in ur team or sprout does, your probably good reset anyways. And with someone like pebble there’s no to many ways ur gonna instantly die and also distractors get priority med/bands on the floor 6) sorry for the wall of text, hope y’all have a good day, feel free to respond if u think I was unfair or missed something important
Hi sproutah in my opinion i think looey rnd and pebble are a great choice for a distractor beacuase they all have the same speed like rnd is fast in odd floors or if looey has 1 hp
I agree with everything in this video, but imo. Being a skilled distractor pays off if you have a few twisted mains still not completed and you and your team (if they're a coordinated team, preferably friends who got on to dandy's world and grinded enough) manage to get to higher floors than floor 10
I normally just play with my one friend and we don't really have a distractor One time they joined a public run and people kept getting in the way of them distracting and there was a Coal that was constantly trying to "save" them I was sitting next to them while they were playing and the amount of rage that was emanating from her had me concerned Yet another reason I won't distract, not because I can't run around for ages but because I have no patience to deal with other people
Im an extractor and no wonder why my team keeps dying everytime the distractors die, extractor toxicity is REAL and thats why i hate being a distractor, plus being an extractor or survivalist is more fun
4:28 I also don’t understand how they don’t get dizzy too? Running in a circle for like 9 hours? With no backup? No breaks? I would be so tired and dizzy😭-
Distracting does require skill, saying its the only role that requires skill is a bit off a crazy claim... but yeah, distracters are amazing. They don't get enough credit. I have distracted a few times, and I'm not the best, and its hard, but the people that are good at it can literally make a run 1000x easier, and praise them. I remember once, I was in a dandy run as rodger, the distracter was at 1 heart, and so I distracted dandy and tisha, as rodger. That was the only time I've seen someone in a game thank the person distractng, because it was a slow toon....
As an ex-distractor (I now main support/healers), I can confirm that when the run gets a hard floor it only ends in two scenarios: > You die, and everyone else dies. The run ends there. (which may or may not earn you hate comments in chat) or > Everyone else dies (probably within the first few minutes, especially if twisteds are left to roam for too long) and you end up having to do every machine with distraction trinkets. And it baffles me that most of the time, the first people to die when I take a break are either mains or toons with good stats. This one time an ASTRO ran out of stamina and screamed at me to do my job when I needed to go afk for chores. Distracting feels like being paid minimum wage for a life-threatening job that basically CARRIES the team, and personally I think it has ruined the meta of the game because people don't have basic preservation instincts and rely too heavily on one skilled player to carry for them.
I swear I wish most just did a solo so they can survive by themselves and not a distractor, and in my experience some people that did a solo STILL NEED A DISTRACTOR?? like what..
as a distractor ive had a toxic extractor (public run btw) he got mad because i was *leading* twisteds to him KEEP IN MIND I WAS TISHA HE WAS SPROUT WE HAVE THE SAME STEALTH "bro tisha stop leading twisteds to me" but every time i was distracting he'd get so close to me just for a item? like Go The Other WAY.
as an all rounded player, I absolutely HATE distracting. its so boring or WAY to stressful. and the worst part is THE TOONS WITH LESS STEALTH THAN ME KEEP STEALING THE TWISTEDS. i once played a shrimpo only run and WE HAD MORE COORDINATION THAT A AVARAGE NORMAL RUN.
I absolutely love distracting more than anything. But what really annoys me is when I am distracting on floor 30+ and people are just chatting. Like bro DO THE MACHINES BRUH. I can’t distract pebble forever yk what I mean 😂
I mean, i personally think support healers also take skill because you're either ginger and suffer from the 2 movement speed struggle, cosmo who has terrible extraction or sprout, who doubles as a distractor, often you'll end up at 1 health even though you've never been hit or have made yourself dandys arch nemesis
4:05 Yes, I 100% agree distracting is really boring, and that's mostly why people don't want to distract. But what I like to do is have a friend join in a run with me while we're on discord, so when I'm distracting, I have someone to talk to.
I literally saw a Shrimpo main with Brick and Coal trinkets on and bro survived up to 12 floors, he is THE PRO Shrimpo😭(I haven't seen anyone last longer with that build on him yet but ya know)
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Huh i dont have
I’m getting robux today!
what
I dis shelly today
> hop on Dandy’s World to have fun
> join a run (in public or over discord or something)
> you play as any toon that has at least 4 stars in movement speed (your team tells you must go distract because of this)
> you proceed to make your play through the most mind-numbing, soul sucking, and sometimes stressful experience by running around in a circle with the twisteds constantly chasing you for a few minutes that feel like forever because you have to wait for your “brain dead” teammates to finish the floor
> your run (inevitably) ends and you are rewarded with a measly 100-300 ichor
(your, again, “brain dead” teammates are getting rich off of your struggles)
> you never want to distract again
and yes, I do agree that the worst part of this “role” is how boring it is 😭
I can't be the only one who actually enjoys distracting, right? Please. It hurts me, it makes me so sad to realize people hate this stuff. I thought it was enjoyable 😢
@@Y01kVR I love distracting but sometimes it gets so boring, most of the time I wish to actually be my favorite toon and not distract(Goob). But if something interesting happens and the team is actually pretty good, then that's when things get interesting
In my opinion pebble should have nearby allies highlighted so that they know which area to control
That always happens
as a distractor myself IT is one of the hardest jobs it can get annoying when all you do IS run in a loop and some of your teammates come to close and get hit then blame you.😭😭😭😭🙏🙏
FR
REAL!!!!!!!!!
or if they stand in your way with lower stealth ,,,,,,,
W booga booga fire ant pfp
Fr, like, tf do they even expect to happen!?? 💀
It's simple to understand when playing the game
1. Know your stealth
2. Don't get into distractors way (unless you're higher than 3 star stealth)
3. Beware of your surrounds
FR
This distraction meta is making more players worse on average, because they think kiters are vital
Though, if we're looking at the toons at base, IF you're not using the distractors just to survive/extract, then they're easier to use, since their stats and abilities are suited to do so.
This is the reason why I consider Vee one of the hardest main to use- you have to be a good player if you're going to use her without a kiter, you actually have to be good at the game and know your surroundings.
This is why I kinda like solo runs. Makes me a bit more skilled anyway and I can get rich dude
This is why I kinda like solo runs. Makes me a bit more skilled anyway and I can get rich dude
I do main Vee a lot, but I do agree she has very bad survival when it comes to her speed and stealth
But, I *don't* consider her to be a bad toon to use. She is useful in her own ways.
Ngl for me, Pebble is the hardest main to main-
I'm saying this as a distractor Sprout main and Vee main, but I understand that some people aren't too good with slow character
That’s actually a fair point
As an Ex-Distractor, It requires a LOT of Skill, Map Coordination and Time. Distractors make the Least amount of Rewards (Ichor) but also have to be Actively doing their Job the Whole Game.. Distractors became so Vast in Majority; To where Basic Players no longer know HOW to hide or HOW to evade Twisteds, Thus making Distractors a necessity for most Players.
I am now a Proud Extraction Pebble Main, Regarding the Hate. I play how I want.
good for you (im an extractor pebble too)
Out of all characters you chose Pebble as an extractor
@@Kozzzhe omg!! It’s the fun police!! dont play extractor pebble or they will crash out!!
to be completely honest, people who cant survive without a distractor needs some survival skills
I do extractor goob because i’d rather his abi:3
I swear to god, Distractors actually made players have less awareness and survival instinct. It is ridiculous. Players either camp elevator or are SO glued to the machine they extract that they dont see BRIGHTNEY coming their way. Brightney! Of all twisteds!
FOR REAL, LIKE, HOW ARE THEY GOING RIGHT INTO TWISTEDS, HOW THEY NOT SEE THEM
Then I plays as any toon my camera going all 360, because FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, I DONT WANT TO GO STRAIGHT INTO FCKN BOXTEN
Bro I saw people die to SHRIMPO(I only understand if you couldn't see them in time because NGL them Slow ones do just randomly appear in blackout), but it's like floor one and you're telling me you all died to a dang Shrimp😭
And then get mad at the extractor pebbles or the actual distract or pebbles that WAS distracting and they got too close
I was distracting as goob, i looked for the twisteds since there was no vee and people kept taking hits so i thought there was a main or something but it was just SHRIMPO AND BOXTEN. And they were taking hits as soon as the elevator opened?? What was i supposed to do oh my-
I. Use pebble and distract
I like to have a "savior" instead of a distractor when i play with my friends. They dont lead all the twisted in circles forever, but extract as normal. However, when someone else is being chased and is cornered/out of stamina, the savior comes in and pulls the twisteds off them. Then they just safely lead them away, lose agro, and go back to extracting. Its way more fun and feels like youre contributing more.
Edit: It appears I'm not the only one. I say we make this role the new meta!
THIS IS THE PLAYSTYLE EVER!!! i do this shi as ANY toon i can!! so many times i have saved someone from certain death with airhorn or just my stealth being lower-
I do this with Looey whenever I have 2 or more air horns. (And also being a back up when the main distractor is at one)
i do this as sprout SO much
Oml I’m like a guardian angel in runs as Goob I saved this Teagan atleast 20 times lol I love doing that
I do this all the time as long as I know how to escape
I used to main brightney and loved doing this when there wasn’t as much people left, I still usually play toons with lower stealth so I can still do it but it’s not as easy for me compared to brightney
People need to appreciate good distractors. It's easily the most important role in any given team. Distracting requires a certain level of skill and focus, while also rewarding a *lot* less ichor compared to any other role 😭
Real, sometimes ppl its rude wich you BC you struggle a bit or don’t find twisteds fast or basically don’t be perfect and save them all time…
@@A-lucky-rabbit bruh once I literally distracted pretty well for a goob, and TWO brightneys were upset at me despite me saving them like 9/10 times
I literally have huge respect for my friend who got me into dandy's as a whole anytime he was playing he carried entire teams on his back through blackouts and main toons, and was still so kindhearted even if he ended up dying early.
The thing about distractors is that they have A LOT of power. If they wanted to, they could let the twisteds roam if the extractors are pissing them off (or even them trolling but that's just a different breed of distractor and I personally haven't came across that type of distractor since all I've met were super understanding and kind).
Another thing is that distractors are becoming a more recognized thing in Dandy's world, this means that newer players will practically rely on distractors to get far.
And when the distractor dies, the extractors won't get far. And many more of the experienced players of dw are shifting to solos or playing with friends because of how toxic the players are getting in public runs.
On that first one, yeah had a run where everyone except 2 people were being rude or not being team players so I just stopped distracting the second we got mains cause I didn't wanna keep helping and the second I stopped distracting everyone died (it was just astro, shelly and like Boxten or smn so I coulda but I just didn't)
Yeah, a distracter could kill their entire team if they want to
I haven't been playing for long, but I play solo purely due to the whole distractor situation..if you can't make it to floor 15 without a distractor idk what to tell you dude..
The most toxics distractor story i remember is:
2 goobs were fighting over who’s gonna distract which resulted in 1 killing the other.
Somehow they attention shifted onto ME because i was trying to stop the fight.
He ended up dying because he tried leading toodles to me with 2 star stealth
(I was rnd with 3)
3:29
You were not harsh
You were REASONABLE
Everyone seems to rely on a distractor every run!
I swear i had to distract so many times, i can distract as Shelly or Rudie even.
Every run I come into, the distractor dies, suddenly EVERYONE dies!
I become the distractor as shelly when the distractor dies just to atleast reach a few more floors
yo i met a distractor shelly once!! our flutter died and then they had to take over for a bit lol😹
I mean, to be fair, the distractor will of course be the most skilled role in the game if every twisted is on them because all the *other* roles don't have to deal with the twisteds. If there is no distractor, then the slow toons / lone wolves are probably the most skilled.
Slow characters have to focus on their surroundings, and know where to move and when. If they are extracting in a corner, and they see a Finn walk dangerously close to them, they have to find out where to run off to before its too late. You also should probably plan out your escape, since there is a strict time limit once you complete all the machines. If you are Vee or something and complete a machine on the far side of the map, you may not have enough time to make it back to the elevator.
Lone wolves are the same, but considerably more difficult because there is nobody else to be chased or help you do the machines, everything has to be done by you. The more time spent being chased is less time extracting, so you gotta keep an eye out for when a twisted gets close and start hiding behind a shelf or something. When you ARE being chased, you have to figure out where to go in order to get the twisted off your tail while not running into MORE twisteds.
Also I just thought of something. I don't want to offend anyone, but let's be honest here... Doesn't having a distractor make the game boring at some point? (4:06) Being a distractor is boring because every single floor involves you doing donuts around the broken elevator until 15 seconds remain on the panic mode clock, then you book it towards the elevator. Being an extractor WITH a distractor, logically, should also be boring because all you have to do is find the machines and extract them with no threats because they are too busy chasing some pet rock or noodle-arms-McGee who loves doing donuts.
If I were to describe this game's goal to someone, in simplest terms, I'd say "Your goal is to make it to the highest floor possible while avoiding monsters." Distractors remove the monster part of that equation, so it's literally just "Your goal is to make it to the highest floor possible." A part of the fun is that, while you are busy extracting, you have to keep an eye out for any twisteds coming towards you. The game even rewards you for getting chased by giving you research towards that twisted, which eventually lets you unlock some things such as toons and trinkets.
Don't get me wrong though, having someone get the twisteds off you is pretty good since they can get annoying on later floors. It's a part of the reason why I love the Vee remote trinket since, at least in solo runs, there is always that ONE machine in the middle of the map which takes several minutes to finish because Ginger seems to have set up camp nearby. But having a distractor *all the time* has to get somewhat monotonous eventually, right?
Welp this is a regular public run...so distracter take the most skilled job...and when there is non or they can't distracted some of the special one...low speed enter in as the second mose skilled character in the game because you have to play stealthy...you can tell i main everything so i know what you saying right now...but mostly the biggest challenge for low speed toon it to stay away from other players... like they are the mostly reason that you take damage because they keep lead anything to you 🙏
@@shibainu2528 i completely agree... distracter only need able if that a long run or a hunt run... because those run can take more than just 20 floor...so more twisted can make so much problem... other than that...i agree distracter it no necessary in every run...but let be honest in public run... everyone so suck and idiot they die before floor 5 without someone carry them
Thank you
@@shibainu2528 i try doing no distractor runs in public to have more fun (i dont have discord) and they died before floor 5. Thinking of trying again but having a pro limit to it.
I used to be a distractor. I stopped being a distractor bc I didn't get paid, and my teammates mostly rely on me the entire game. At the end, I'm the only one left surviving.
Sigh that time when i was distracting twisted pebble and almost all my team figure out for die for a twisted flutter and cosmo xd,imagine how bad Player have to be for die wich a living distractor lol
So many instances that I’d like to play as a support/extractor instead of a distractor but I know damn well my teammates aren’t gonna last 5 floors without one and I don’t feel like doing a solo run
@@LumTarusame
dude I was playing as shrimpo and everyone else died besides me, rodger, gigi (kinda she was just hiding I'm pretty sure).
I had runs where as pebble, I just said I CAN'T distract Twisted Pebble on the christmas map (floor 10 I belive) and whoever other 2 toons there were. I remember there was no Astro. you know what me and the other 2 players did that remained in the run? COMMUNICATED where PEBBLE is moving so HARD.....NONE of us got hit. One of the best runs I had, my fingers were spamming where he was going by stalking Twisted Pebble and the other 2 players extracted(I also extracted a machine, but my goal was to check on pebble). They also typed while I was on machine. Best and funniest experiences I have had. I love communicating.
Should've made a new role called "Stalker" eh?
@justshoestestuserlol4112 for real. It was just funny walking like 5 meters(figuratively) speaking behind Twisted pebble and then looping around the common twisteds and calling it a day
Bro predicted my new video (it's about communication) 😭
My opinion(s) on distracting: (this will be long, so if you don’t want a wall of text jumpscare, this is your warning)
Distractors started as simply “survivor” roles, that were designed to survive longer on average at the cost of extraction for the most part, but once people realized that you could walk around in a circle while safely keeping Twisteds behind you as most Survivors, that’s when Distractors came into existence. You know Avatar? The Distractor Role is the Fire Nation of Dandy’s World. Sure it may be “good” for long runs, but it’s so boring to play as, yet most of the team absolutely NEEDS a Distractor because they’ll die on Floor 1 or close to that otherwise! I know in this video they already explained that Distracting gives barely any rewards while your teammates mindlessly work on their Machines, which they don’t even DESERVE to have because they’ll die because they have BABY TO NO SKILL when going against ANY NON-TRAP TWISTED! I played as Shrimpo in a Solo run for the funny, and I made it to floor 13! And yet these people with way better stats, heck, even 4 star speed Toons can BARELY manage to reach MAYBE Floor 3 without the help of a Distractor. Excuse me for being a Shrimpo but here’s a message for all those people who “need Distractors”: WAKE TF UP!!!! *Train+Truck scream sfx*
real af
fr i went to floor 20 as looey while the rest of the team died to twisted astro on floor 6
As a goob distracter main myself, distracting is no joke especially in when i'm the solo distracter, twisteds such as finn and toodles have extremely different speeds which can make it hard to consistently distract all of them as i'll probably lose the slower toons.
Oh! I developed a Strat so this isn’t annoying! Run in a semicircle around the twisteds and they will reach an equal level
Distractor is a really odd role in this game. It's the hardest role, very reliant on ping, but is also the least rewarding and most boring role in the game. There's an insane skill and attentiveness difference between a floor that's all commons, and a blackout floor with Pebble and (during the Christmas season) Coal. The amount of time you spend distracting is dependent on extractors doing machines quickly, if there's not enough extractors or they're mostly running around like headless chickens, the time you spend distracting the current combo increases exponentially.
I don't really know how to go about fixing this other than just not playing as a distractor, and maps being designed to actually allow players to play without a distractor (the new maps in Connie's update are AWFUL without a distractor, and even then, you might get a combo where everyone has to hide while the distractors extract). Blackout is another can of worms that needs to be addressed but whatever.
5:10 I am a Vee main, but I PROMISE I aint toxic, im normally the one that ends up apologizing when I accidentaly get in the distractors way.
Healers can also be kind of skill based. Think about it. You have to tell yourself "is this player really worth it to waste my tapes/heart on? Will they not just lose that heart i gave them the second they get out of the elevator?" So you have to see who is worth healing and who isn't.
Sprout is like 2nd toon i use the most, and I gotta say that if you have good teammates it is really easy, since the only one who is getting hit most of the time is the distractor. (and if someone else gets hit it's not that important to heal them quick since they are not being chased constantly by the twisteds). But they take some skill more than the extractors, probably
oh don’t get me started on my experience as Sprout 😭
I was playing in a run type that is typically the most toxic: MAIN ONLY RUNS. Someone asked me if I needed glasses when I didn’t notice that our distractor got hit. Also, They blamed me when the run ended in a blackout because I couldn’t heal Pebble (they ran too far away from me as soon as the elevator opened).
Also I absolutely detest when your teammates call on you to heal them when they will likely die the next floor…
@JD.ThatGuy people who blame others are the worst. Unlesss the person is greifing then why dont they do it themself?
I do this but then give it away anyways bc i thought my judgmental ahh was just being mean (they did in fact lose the heart the moment they left that elevator.)
4:33 so real, when I can tell a team isn’t gonna last long because we don’t have a distractor i have to change toons just so I can actually get to floor 10 without losing 6 players in the process - (and they still die to Rnd Rodger and Connie bc of how brain dead they are)
RIGHT?? Oh my god they always do that..
Something I don’t understand about players is that they sometimes don’t use their brains. Many people activate RnD/Rodger SO MANY times, even if they already got hurt from them.
I barely distract, though on certain times if my team is really good, and that there’s a dangerous Twisted on the floor I usually distract to keep my teammates alive for just a few more floors.
@@Pixelriftemfs always manage to get themselves killed in the most dumb way
I had a Flutter who was probably new to distracting and there was a Rodger insulting them for it.
I respect the hell out of Distractors since it can be boring or/and dangerous with a fast twisted on the floor.
I've been playing as Astro for a few days and OMG the amount of times I have to DISTRACT as A SUPPORT is really sad. And as soon as our distractor dies everyone else dies and I'm the last one left like we all don't know how to be stealthy for some reason.
I was in a main run and everybody but me and another Astro died by floor 6 so I had to do this with scraps and goob
toons like rodger, connie, vee, and ESPECIALLY shrimpo require carefulness and precision when youre doing anything
I don't know abt Connie in this list,yea she's slow but she has 5 star stealth and can go invisible
@ you really gotta plan how you use it though
I've been maining rodger for a while now and the rabies child keeps appearing
@@mrteddy718yeah but ghost snakes in a can
True I play as VEE and I conserve stamina and ONLY run when a twisted chasing me although I do play recklessly sometimes
My stance on roles: Play what makes you happy, but PLEASE. PLEASE. Practice when you can.
I feel like some new players don't know how to stay alive without a distractor.
I have my friend that started Dandy's World one or two months ago,and he has two mains (Shelly and Sprout).
Whenever we play together,I always become the distractor because I already know damn well that he won't be able to survive a single floor without a distractor!I even use Vee (I'm a HARD Vee main btw!) so he can stay out of Twisteds sight,but he dies on floor 1 when we are doing DUO!I feel like people should do more solo runs.
I got to floor 25 with Vee on solo on mobile,and I think that he can too.
I don't If I should tell him though. He kind of sucks without a distractor.
I'm glad my friends actually survive pretty well without a distractor (I play as extractor Pebs and Goob with them), but it sucks knowing you need to distract for a friend because ya know they suck at surviving on their own😭
@weebe_evee_geebe7027 Plus I have a friend that started WAY later and she plays so much better HELP?? I carried her to floor 15 and she has only a few toons yet she can still survive on her own a little
I think you should tbh, maybe in a nicer way, or give tips on how to avoid twisteds, stamina tap, and/or know about blind spots.
I think the people who say things like " distracting is not that hard, u just run in circles " have never reached floor 20 lol
I reached floor 21 to prove this comment wrong i used rodger while a dumb dumb goob and looey distract for me
They did not met expendable Bobette at door 20
@@sand3000
They said they THINK.
As someone who has distracted before, I actually prefer extracting (because I can get rich 🤑). But when I do have a distractor, I try to be nice to them because they *are* doing it for me and the team.
When youre in a run and the distractor die:
¨NOOOO!! OUR DISTRACTOR IS DEAD!!!!¨
when another person who isnt distracting die:
¨Oh, ok¨
all distractors should collectively stop distracting so the players of dw can actually survive a twisted tisha and tisha shrimpo for more then 2 minutes
im just sitting here listening to maple treeway at the end of the video
Honestly people rely on distracters too much because I was playing pebble distracting on floor 18 right I was in a pro run and I got every twisted except looey because I couldn’t find him and then everyone in chat was spamming me to get looey and they were also talking hits, like it’s a common twisted that you can out run easily it’s not that hard but they specifically need me to get him when you can just keep your distance or lead him to me instead of spamming me to go get him when I’m clearly busy, like seriously it’s not that hard to our run a common twisted dude
Honestly i dont even need to watch the full video to agree. All you have to say to a person “Just hold the button and let go when the skill check pops up” and boom 🤯. But with distractors, you have to know.. PROPER stealth, how to distract fast twisted , slow twisted , MAINS, BLACKOUTS, ppl being stupid and getting in the way AND BLAMING YOU. In all I AGREE
The fact that this guy had to explain what skill was is insane
There's always some kid who says: "but skill doesn't exist" or something like that
i thought this was gonna be ragebait but every point here is very correct, infact what even is the point in banning toons if there is atleast one good pebble? besides stealth they all can extract (not as fast but you get the point)
Real xd
ok but pebble + part. award + magnifying glass is a big w for me
as a distractor, i commonly sit and watch youtube shorts or tiktoks while distracting to prevent boredom LOL
LITERALLY SAME IDK WHY OTHER PEOPLE DONT DO THAT
Same I watch Kubz Scouts while distracting
@@aartist_is_cool well when you get to a certain point (15+ floors) you kinda... can't half the time, because you're making sure your teammates don't get hit, and that you don't run into sprout's tar, or that you shut all the vee ads, or that you're hitting shift fast enough so you don't get hit when you turn a corner, etc
3:20 nah cause thats so true, i played as cosmo with the shelly set and i kept hearing my other teammates miss their 4* skill checks, like..
I also had Shelly who kept on failing skill checks but she was not laggy
Xd that sound absurd, but its more absurd see almost all your team die for 2 common twisted while ur distract twisted pebble
that is bc lag lol idk why but lag makes the skill check teleport and not process
I use public lobbies because they get me to floor 4 quickly then die, it basically turns the game into a solo run but with a bit of a headstart.
I realised over time that public lobbies rely HEAVILY on distractors, and those who survive without them are actually good players. I usually like doing solo rodger runs, but having a 4 floor headstart and slim chance of a good player duo leads me to public runs. (Its often solo)
My honest opinion is if you wanna do a solo run but want to quickly run through early floors then just join a public lobby and turn off chat 💀
I do the same thing because I honestly get so bored the first few floors when I’m alone and later floors are so fun imo, people die early anyways but at least I get more motivation. A few times I actually found amazing players though
when i had to do brightney's mastery i did that
Everytime I play public runs, I ended up the last player standing 💀
(Sometimes I died but those were some mistakes but mostly I'm the last man standing somehow)
Boxten is one of those toons that are rage-inducing and is stressful to use during general runs. He is one of the easy toons to use and his passive makes him broken but his passive is often overlooked by new players or other players in general and is often underestimated just because he's a "starter toon", if you think about it; his passive isn't really starter friendly as it takes knowledge and also good communication to maintain your extraction speed.
Boxten's Extraction Speed increases per teammates who are alive in the run by 6% maximum 48%.
He is a 3-star extractor at 1-2 people. (1.06/1.12)
He is on par with 4-star extractors at 3 people. (1.18) vs (1.20 for 4-star extractors)
He is above 4-star extractors at 4-6 people. (1.24/1.30/1.36 respectively) vs (1.20 for 4-star extractors)
He is on par with 5-star extractors at 7-8 people. (1.42/1.48 respectively) vs (1.50 for 5-star extractors).
He is the only extractor that gets punished with stat changes if a teammate dies, so for general runs attempting a long run, it can be very stressful as you're ALWAYS paying attention to your extraction speed stats while looking out for your teammate. However, for pre-made/VC runs that are attempting to do a long run; Boxten is a SOLID UNIT due to his Extraction Speed. For base stats he's balanced and doesn't get punished for his high extraction speed;
For an example:
Glisten with 5-star ext speed suffers from 2-star stealth and skill check.
Vee with 5-star ext speed suffers from slow MS and Stealth.
Dazzle with 5-star ext speed with lowest MS.
Brightney with 4-star ext speed with lowest stealth.
Connie with 4-star ext speed with low MS, same with Rodger.
However, the challenge isn't Boxten himself, again, it's your teammates and you DEPEND on their lives to extract faster because the more teammates die the more his ext speed dwindles and would have to rely on Mag and Participation Award to make up for it or Shelly.
Honestly boxten is just an insane extractor with at least two other players and it’s sad that many don’t realize it
Healers give their heart to heal you/they have less chance of surviving and have to play really good
Real play as cosmo or ginger its always risky BC you have low health for heal ur teamates xd
sprout doesnt tho. hes still a healer
@@Cerial_K1ller a healer who can’t really rely on the dandy shop for good items/heals. Also he has 2 hearts lol
@@raridino600 I play sproot often and as long as your team isnt taking tapes its not rlly hard
also if dandys shop is a problem you can always use dandy plush
@ yeahh fair enough
in my eyes, Distractors are kinda like the "tank" of the team while the Extractors are like the "dps".
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as a shrimpo main i do my best to not ruin the distractor's distraction
I started out playing Dandy’s World with a distracter, she would sometimes distract, sometimes not, but often she would do a bit of distracting. It was good to teach me the core mechanics of the game, then my brother helped wean me off of distractors, which I’m very grateful for!
Recently, however, I was playing as Astro, we got a floor with Shelly and Toodles, a few of my teammates died, and suddenly I was the only one of 4 left who was doing anything! People are way too reliant on distractors, I’ve seen mains die to toons like Poppy and Cosmo and even Tisha on floor one! It’s crazy.
I was forced to take the role of distractor pebble for a long time because its rare to find a team with a reliable distractor for me. I just got vintage pebble a couple of days ago (it took months). distracting was simple till like beyond floor 16 where I struggle alot. I was lucky to have sprout help me out and contain most of the twisted the best we could till floor 20. I miss being extractor but its hard times that forced me to become distractor. I feel your pain
EXACTLY, i used to be a distractor as flutter, then goob, then pebble, but when i stopped i couodnt get anywhere far bc distractors couldnt do em all, which is okay if ur new but of you are experienced and its a low floor you should really think about changing roles.
I joined a pro run and literally the first message was "who distract"
Always
I feel like you are forgetting that one survivalist that appears out of nowhere when the distracter dies and takes over the job.
That one survivalist has no distraction trinkets but still last longer than the person who said they were going to distract.
@@Brooklyn_has_idea that's a SKILL ISSUE!!1!!1
Shelly distracting core (I took over once the distractors all died out, I distracted Astro like 4 different floors and we got to floor 17 before we all died.)
@Sproutah or maybe 400 ping?...im a mobile distracter...this stuff usually happens
I am a mobile survivalist and often take over when the distracter dies.
I had an awesome pebble distractor, I was ginger and it was only us 2 and I made it to floor 24 after they died on floor 19 which I’m lowk proud of myself
by the way the title should be "Why the Distractors are the ONLY SKILLED ROLE" considering grammar rules (not to be 🤓)
also side note goob being not braindead is the most crazy plot twist ever
Shouldn't distractors be lowercase as it isn't a proper noun?
Well distractors are upper case because in a title all the words are capitalized except: articles, conjunctions, helping verbs and most linking verbs. Distractors are the main noun of the sentence so in a title OFC ITS GONNA BE CAPITALIZED
edit: wow I got a heart!!! also, thx for changing the title, @Sproutah you are the most underrated TH-camr imo. ima join its only £1.99
Dawg as a distractor i be hitting the nastiest jukes
Relatable
You have a giga ping...can guess it 0.1
thisssssssssssssssssssssssssssss i scrape past a twisted BARELY and go ' .. that was sick i hope someone saw that-'
@Tired_Rodger possibly, but onetime i got cornered by astro and 2 other twisted and let me tell you their ankles got obliterated, cooked, roasted, deepfried and served
gave my Astro several heart attacks in a row while distracting a goob lol
as an extractor i can say that i made it to floor 28 with vee solo. its not just distractors that are skilled, its extractors too.
Every role is skilled so long as you play it right
You're the exception. Same goes for me. We're both SKILLED extractors. But go in any game with no distractor, and see how many people make it to floor 3. The number will typically be very depressing... even in "good" games, the team will typically drop by half _at best._
This was a really awesome vid. I usually watch your videos but never really comment.
I don't usually watch live content though, but maybe I will.
For distracting, i usually play music or a video in the background, so i dont get bored!
I often play without distractors so the game actually takes skill and is fun
me too, but i also play solo runs
Ngl without extracters distracters wouldn’t exist and without distracters extracters would not exist
4:57 yesterday i was pebble and obviously distracting, i was accidentally leading twisteds to shelly bc we were in that claustrophobic warehouse map with sprout, so i had to move all over the map, also there was a goob that was hiding in the elevator and a machine was right to him, like why wouldn't you prime that machine so we could all leave safely?
I was asking to a scraps why she had fancy and coin purse, so i think that's where everyone started hating on me, i decided to die so i wouldn't fight with them anymore, they got to floor 17 thanks to me
As a pebble main/distractor main myself, this whole video is true. Im one of those people who enjoy it and rather it over anything else, lol.
As an ex-distractor, this is relatable. I used to distract every single team i was in if i was playing goob, and i barely had any floors off when distracting due to there being almost no blackouts/dangerous twisteds. And sometimes, i had to distract during blackouts (which mind you, is a death sentence). If i was caught doing anything other than distracting OR even if i got hurt, i was griefed for it, goes to show how hostile these public creatures are. And i hope this changes in the future
Sorry for not being a member I don't really think my family would approve of me paying it. But I would like to share a story on extractor toxicity. I was a disyractor coal and our main distractor (pebble) died. I distracted and on the next floor we got twisted pebble twisted vee and a Blackout floor 11. I was about to distract vee but I heard pebble and said to myself "hell nah" and I didn't distract. Then a rodger blamed my for his death because I didn't distract. His exact words were "COAL WHY DIDNT YOU DISTRACT I DIED BECAUSE OF YOU"
Extractor lore:
I honestly don’t blame you for not distracting pebble😭 he’s terrifying to me especially on blackouts.
T. Vee okay to distract but T. pebble….
I can distract him he’s the only twisted that scares me though😭😭
Back in my day people asked you not to distract for yout saftey👴 Now they demand you distract for their saftey. Youngins these days👴👴
There is one thing you forgot, people who only do solo runs, their role has been turned from anything to survivalist, survivalist is a role to well. SURVIVE and solo runs take up a lot of time and skill and distractors jobs are easy if their teammates know stealth values and it’s just running in circles for the distractor unless it’s a really hard twisted
I understand this but at the same time. I find distracting really fun! I use it to explore corners of the map and just kinda spectate. I distracted subconsciously really. I still get good ichor with V-mote and it honestly makes the game more fun for me! I find extracting to be braindead of just tapping the spacebar on a machine. I have a need for speed >:3. But yeah, I prefer distracting over extracting and tbh I kinda have no skill in it tho, learned the term sprint-tapping yesterday lol. All-n-all tho, I love distracting, and while I can see why others find it boring and extracting fun, it just doesn't work like that for me mentally>
for the extractor toxcity, I'm a distractor and its SO annoying when someone lower than my stealth goes where I'm distracting, and then says "YOU GREIFER!!!!" for example (based off a true thing that happened to me): a gigi called out a band and I was gonna get it, but they were still there with twisteds coming, and since gigi has lower stealth than me the twisteds went to her, and then an astro in our run called me and assumed I was a griefer, I tried to prove it I wasnt but just left the run because I didnt want to get reported for being a "greifer", sometimes people are just really mad and annoying when we made a LITTLE tiny mistake
What makes me rly pissed, is that for you to Distract, it's needes to understand machenics of the game and have awareness, WHILE EXTRACT REQUIRES NOTHING, in which i play with a friend group that i repeat every run how Stealth works, but they still forget and try to evade where i'm passing by (Looey) or pass by where i'm at (Pebble), with both cases leading them to taking free damage (leading to death sometimes) or wasting time.
I mean, that's pretty obvious. The only thing extractors do is literally pressing one button. And it's usually very easy since the best extractors like Shelly usually have high skill check:)
extraction so easy you can probably make a ai do it for you
Bruh you only run in a circle as a distracter both jobs are easy the game not even that hard
@@dacghgethere is a script that does skill check perfect always
@@Animation_labwork that's what most new distractors think honestly. you need to know how stealth works (which a lot of players do not know how it works if i'm kept up with speed), and have good knowledge on the map layouts for blackouts. it also DOES require some skill as on later floors you'll likely have really bad twisted/map combos (shelly's atom sized room with all those mains and dead ends)
@@Animation_labwork Not even that hard? What about hard floors with pebble or bobette, or even more mains? you call that easy? it's even worse when you are the only distractor.
Other people: you can distract or extract with any toon! 😊
Sproutah: only skilled people can distract💀🔥
welp, if you wanna get to a high floor, you need to be good in order to distract. (if you are bad like a random goob you ain't passing floor 10)
I mean you can't distract with Connie so not every toon 😂
it’s true if you ignore how long they can distract!
And then the "distractor" EXTRACTS in a full team of EXTRACTORS.
US DISTRACTORS NEED MORE LOVE LIKE CMON DUDE WE DO ALL THIS AND U JUST SAY "omg bro the distractor lead a twisted to me" LIKE U DIDNT RUN INTO THEIR DISTRACTING SPACE
I was a Pebble and distracting, I accidentally got a Rodger hit like I didn't know he was at the corner as I turn around there. He then accused me of griefing him when I carried the whole team to Floor 15. This just shows how unappreciated Distractor is since amount of appreciation I mostly seen is for healers, which is a bit unfair
me who started as a boxten soloing 💀💀💀
distracting is kinda boring and fun at the same time
when theres a distractor i usually equip extracting trinkets but when the distractor dies im forced to distract (im a goob for fair enough ig 😐)
Then there are those people who run around during blackouts, useing up all their stamina, and have no idea about the layout of the map then gets hit and then blames you because you couldn't get there fast enough.
Or those people who try to tell you how to distract
Don't even get me started on those people who gets too scared during blackouts and no one moves from elevator and then your left to do all the machines after realizing no one else is doing them
And they still get mad at you for not distracting.
Now distractors can also be toxic I was in a run with an okay team as bobette and the coal was distracting but they had to move around the map to do so and they and others got hit a lot because of this and they blamed us for “getting in their way” when they literally kept getting in OUR WAY😭
when i distract I'm nice on game but I sometimes rage a lot irl because of my teammates tbh
when i distract i just watch youtube i am distracting rn!
Bro is watching a video about distractors with distracting footage while he's distracting D:
I started playing the game not long ago (like 8 days ago) and when I got rodger after many hours of playing and was finally able to join a main hunt (there were like 3 mains in the run, including a distractor pebble) We managed to get to the 10th floor But when Pebble died, everyone died except me (I had to learn to play with poppy alone so I knew how to survive more or less) and I was able to get to the 20th floor surprisingly (I died) but that made me see that many "experienced" players actually don't know how to survive if there is no distractors
(I'm sorry if there is any grammatical error, I don't speak much English but I hope it is understood)
4:05 THAT IS A CHEFS KISS CIRCLE
Question, what about Astros and sprouts(or any healers)? Support roles also keeps the distractor and other characters in your runs alive.
Astro:
Provides stamina to distractors mainly (if not In a public run heh…”
Gets risky machines done so the distractor can have a safe distraction spot
Sprout:
Backup kiter incase of pebble Bobette or coal (blackout) shows up or if main distractor dies
Can heal other toons (such as distractors or any other important toons)
Can be the fastest to tell distractors that everyone is in the elevator
Healers in general:
Usually having high stealth so they can do risky machines near distractor (teagean and sprout don’t count, maybe sprout if main distractor is good or looey)
Heals others in your team setup to last longer
Could be backup kiters (I have distracted pebble as Cosmo so it’s definitely possible you cant just run half the map though)
“Distracting is more difficult than extracting when there’s a good distractor” oh gee I wonder why
This. I hate when people rely on distractors and have NO survival instincts whatsoever! My friend begs me to be goob everytime we play together and i give them the silent treatment. Then they die floor 2. (Btw as a vee main i am nice and pretty chill i understand how hard it is to distract 😊)
As a sprout main who dosent distract you have no idea how many times i have saved my teammates from dying when the distractor dies not only because of heals but because i have 4 star speed so i lead the twisteds away from other toons and if their is a distractor left then i usually lead the twisteds to them once the floor starts. I do ALOT of solo runs (i solo as gigi tho) so i know how to survive without a distractor so i would say im decently skilled.
“Distrscting is easy, it’s just walking in circles”
For no rewards, for hours in a run, and usually with occasional sprinting.
Compared to tapping space when the red is in the yellow.
Tbh the ONLY reason i distract is to get research. You can get so much research by just distracting for a few rounds and after i have all research i go right back to extracting
It dont even matter if you distract in public runs. When you distract pebble, i assure you the entire team will probably die to shrimpo or looey😭
Epic Funfact:
Every run I join with no distractor everyone else dies in early floors unless I decide to lead the twisteds away from them or they lead twisteds to me
I always end up in Solo Runs afterwards since I actually learned how the twisteds work- and my teammates die in like floor 5 or something
Another funfact:
once I was a distractor Coal and as soon as I die they died on the next floor almost instantly [to be fair it was a black out?]
Ok, so I see a lot of distractors here but not a lot of extractors so as a Vee main I would like to clarify a few things,
1) before we start. Yes the Vids got some valid points
2) On the point that the runs end when distractors die it’s really more because if u don’t have a Distractor on like floor 50 your just cooked, like 8 twisteds, is already a lot, then u need 2 do 20 machines, and main toons are quite a bit more likey, Vee will just die, in fact most extractors would die
3) the “toxic” extractors is a interesting point, as when is it considered toxic tho. Cuz if my distractor gets me hit on floor 1 ima be pretty upset but if they been solid for like 10 floors then I get hit then it’s not really a big deal
4) I think that especially on the later floors you do need to have skill with extractors, As any extractor toon( I’m counting an extractor toon as a toon with 4+ stars in extraction) excluding Rodger and Connie, will need to know how not to take agro from the distractor.
5)On the point of distractors being in the line of danger, is what I would consider wrong, as if u don’t have a healer like spourt in ur team or sprout does, your probably good reset anyways. And with someone like pebble there’s no to many ways ur gonna instantly die and also distractors get priority med/bands on the floor
6) sorry for the wall of text, hope y’all have a good day, feel free to respond if u think I was unfair or missed something important
Hi sproutah in my opinion i think looey rnd and pebble are a great choice for a distractor beacuase they all have the same speed like rnd is fast in odd floors or if looey has 1 hp
Tbh. This is why i tell distractors not to distract. Because i actually want to learn the game + i want them to rest.
I agree with everything in this video, but imo. Being a skilled distractor pays off if you have a few twisted mains still not completed and you and your team (if they're a coordinated team, preferably friends who got on to dandy's world and grinded enough) manage to get to higher floors than floor 10
5:07 THIS IS TRUE, I ONCE TRIED DISTRACTING AND THEY SAID BRIGHTNEY WAS BETTER DISTRACTOR
(ur lucky to even have a distractor)
I normally just play with my one friend and we don't really have a distractor
One time they joined a public run and people kept getting in the way of them distracting and there was a Coal that was constantly trying to "save" them
I was sitting next to them while they were playing and the amount of rage that was emanating from her had me concerned
Yet another reason I won't distract, not because I can't run around for ages but because I have no patience to deal with other people
Im an extractor and no wonder why my team keeps dying everytime the distractors die, extractor toxicity is REAL and thats why i hate being a distractor, plus being an extractor or survivalist is more fun
4:28 I also don’t understand how they don’t get dizzy too?
Running in a circle for like 9 hours? With no backup? No breaks?
I would be so tired and dizzy😭-
Distracting does require skill, saying its the only role that requires skill is a bit off a crazy claim... but yeah, distracters are amazing. They don't get enough credit. I have distracted a few times, and I'm not the best, and its hard, but the people that are good at it can literally make a run 1000x easier, and praise them. I remember once, I was in a dandy run as rodger, the distracter was at 1 heart, and so I distracted dandy and tisha, as rodger. That was the only time I've seen someone in a game thank the person distractng, because it was a slow toon....
One time I was distracting sprout and 2 more twisteds while my team took SO long to do machines but hey, atleast they were nice
As an ex-distractor (I now main support/healers), I can confirm that when the run gets a hard floor it only ends in two scenarios:
> You die, and everyone else dies. The run ends there. (which may or may not earn you hate comments in chat)
or
> Everyone else dies (probably within the first few minutes, especially if twisteds are left to roam for too long) and you end up having to do every machine with distraction trinkets.
And it baffles me that most of the time, the first people to die when I take a break are either mains or toons with good stats. This one time an ASTRO ran out of stamina and screamed at me to do my job when I needed to go afk for chores.
Distracting feels like being paid minimum wage for a life-threatening job that basically CARRIES the team, and personally I think it has ruined the meta of the game because people don't have basic preservation instincts and rely too heavily on one skilled player to carry for them.
I swear I wish most just did a solo so they can survive by themselves and not a distractor, and in my experience some people that did a solo STILL NEED A DISTRACTOR?? like what..
as a distractor ive had a toxic extractor (public run btw) he got mad because i was *leading* twisteds to him KEEP IN MIND I WAS TISHA HE WAS SPROUT WE HAVE THE SAME STEALTH "bro tisha stop leading twisteds to me" but every time i was distracting he'd get so close to me just for a item? like Go The Other WAY.
as an all rounded player, I absolutely HATE distracting. its so boring or WAY to stressful. and the worst part is THE TOONS WITH LESS STEALTH THAN ME KEEP STEALING THE TWISTEDS.
i once played a shrimpo only run and WE HAD MORE COORDINATION THAT A AVARAGE NORMAL RUN.
I absolutely love distracting more than anything. But what really annoys me is when I am distracting on floor 30+ and people are just chatting. Like bro DO THE MACHINES BRUH. I can’t distract pebble forever yk what I mean 😂
I mean, i personally think support healers also take skill because you're either ginger and suffer from the 2 movement speed struggle, cosmo who has terrible extraction or sprout, who doubles as a distractor, often you'll end up at 1 health even though you've never been hit or have made yourself dandys arch nemesis
4:05 Yes, I 100% agree distracting is really boring, and that's mostly why people don't want to distract. But what I like to do is have a friend join in a run with me while we're on discord, so when I'm distracting, I have someone to talk to.
All rounder toons laughing in the corner :
Supports especially Astro and sprout can also be hard sometimes
Shrimpo mains
I literally saw a Shrimpo main with Brick and Coal trinkets on and bro survived up to 12 floors, he is THE PRO Shrimpo😭(I haven't seen anyone last longer with that build on him yet but ya know)
I got to floor 20 without getting hit as shrimpo. Yeah.