NICKMERCS explains how playing claw could be bad for your health Epic GamesIn a video on December 9, Nick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff has explained how playing \u2018claw\u2019 could be bad for your health \u2013 and even cut your playing career short. Many players at all levels have adopted the claw technique when using a controller \u2013 notable names such as Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner and Issa \u2018Issa\u2019 Rahim from Call of Duty and Fortnite respectively have been playing claw their entire lives. Claw players use their index finger to touch the face buttons on a controller as opposed to leaving it on the bumpers or triggers atop the device, and for years many have debated its potential for causing harm to a player\u2019s hand. NICKMERCS, who has been a controller player in his entire life, has now spoken out to his viewers to explain why playing claw is potentially harmful and not worth making a change to. \u201cGuys, I\u2019ve said it a million times, but claw is bad for your health,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s not horrible, but I have a lot of friends that have stopped playing claw because they developed these huge pains in their forearms and wrists.\u201d Continuing, Nick says: \u201cI also have friends that have been doing it their whole lives. Scump is an example of someone who\u2019s been clawing their whole life and there\u2019s no pain. But I\u2019ve got friends like Issa and they can\u2019t play anymore. They had to switch to a keyboard and mouse.\u201d Nick does later explain that claw could be better because it\u2019s \u201cmore efficient,\u201d due to the ability to cover all buttons at once, and says that with paddles (such as on a SCUF controller), you need a four-paddle controller to be able to access all buttons as easily. Most of all, though, the debate may never have a concrete conclusion as there are so many claw players who do not suffer from any subsequent health defects. It seems to be entirely based on the player themselves and how their hands adapt to playing in different styles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NICKMERCS explains how playing claw could be bad for your health Epic GamesIn a video on December 9, Nick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff has explained how playing \u2018claw\u2019 could be bad for your health \u2013 and even cut your playing career short. Many players at all levels have adopted the claw technique when using a controller \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}