Elon Musk in the top 20 best Diablo 4 players? So yes, but it's nowhere near as impressive as it sounds.

Game news Elon Musk in the top 20 best Diablo 4 players? So yes, but it's nowhere near as impressive as it sounds

In the top 20, yes, but…

Elon Musk is known for his bold, even downright controversial, statements in quite a few sectors and it turns out that the richest man in the world loves video games. For example, he went out of his way to appear in Cyberpunk 2077, confirmed to be a big fan of Quake before and even shares his games and video clips on his second X account, soberly called cyb3rgam3r420. In the recent Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the eponymous presenter asked him if he was in the world's top 20 players of Diablo IV, a game that Elon Musk is particularly playing these days.

After a brief moment of hesitation, imagine that Musk responded in the positive: he would be in the top 20 of Blizzard's best hack'n slash players and even one of only two Americans in this rankingthe other bearing the pseudonym Resistance and placing itself in the very first place on the podium. In reality, it turns out that he is actually in the top 20, but the top 20 of a very specific challenge and only in the scores hosted on Helltides. Which changes the situation.

We need to rework the formula

Helltides is an unofficial website listing player performances on Diablo IV: however, for these to appear, players must submit their results themselves. We are therefore not on an official scoreboard where the scores of all players in the world of Diablo IV could be automatically counted.

And for now, Elon Musk also talks about a very specific challenge: that of going as quickly as possible into the Pita particularly difficult challenge reserved for high-level players where we follow a series of increasingly difficult dungeons. So of course, it is a challenge taken up and Elon Musk, who appears in 19th place with a time of 2 min and 45 seconds at the maximum level, has therefore demonstrated a certain skill… but which nevertheless requires d be reconsidered: first of all, because there are “only” 697″ scores registered for this challenge on Helltides and we are therefore very, very far from all the Diablo IV players who tried to tame the Pit. in question

Moreover, because Musk was playing a Spiritborn, a class considered by many to be the most overpowered in the game right nowalthough the top 400 players in the Pit on Helltides also used the same character type. After all, it always seems good to put things in context!

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