Originally Posted by deadlights
The RNG certainly has a place in Arena. But FT% explained as dumb luck is a horrible analogy. It has nothing to do with luck. It would be based on lucky if 15% the time a cover appeared over the hoop preventing the shot to go in. Whether or not a FT goes in is in your sphere of control.
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No, what percentage over an infinite series of free throws go in is under your control. You can become a X% free throw shooter through practice. But if you're a 50% free throw shooter, whether a particular free throw goes in is indistinguishable from flipping a coin.
Originally Posted by Davidson
That isn't random though, he hit the ball too hard, but on the correct line. Since it was still on the right line it hit the pin, and went in.
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Well, by that standard WoW isn't random either: if you hit your spell key slightly later, the RNG generator would have produced a different number and it wouldn't have been resisted.
Technically both events aren't truly random and are under the player's control, in practice you can't reliably hit a shot to do what Tiger did any more than you can reliably hit a spell at the right time to get the desired RNG result.