OSCP does more than just teach you how to hack . It matures you into thinking like an attacker and how to spot things that are out of the ordinary on boxes , misconfigurations etc . That will help in defense too . Can ' t be a good defender if you have no idea of the attack path . I ' ve learned more about Windows and Linux in the last 180 days than I ever did being a sysadmin . <| sep |> Four butt ugly women . <| sep |> While we ' re at it , we should rename the perk . How about Decisive Slip ? <| sep |> This is it docks <| sep |> Yep , I ' m plat 1 was plat last season too and my points per match have gone from roughly 110 to 50 in just a few days from the patch release . I imagine this will halve 23 more times throughout season . So I ' ll earnlose 612 points per fair game . That being said , if I get fucked by a team of silvers I will lose a ton of experience . Maybe 1224 . If I rail a team of diamonds I ' ll probably go up 1224 . Both are incredibly unlikely , but if it happens , it says a lot about where I should theoretically stand , and where the other team should theoretically stand .