Welcome to Gears of War. How would you like your chainsaw?

I'm here to report a problem with the structure of many online games. If you are a n00b in lets say, Dawn of War Dark Crusade, odds are you will be put off by a brutal Space Sarine rush ( I'm talking about the video game, not the tabletop game) and be killed in the first ten minutes. Same thing for GoW with chainsaws and snipers. Same thing for Unreal Tournament 2004 with flak cannons. Almost every game will have some weakness like this and only the hardest of the hardcore will stick with it. Even I have fallen victim to this, when I played SvW 2007 for the first time I felt like the entire game was a cutscene where my character always got owned.

However there may be a solution. Send a friend request to that n00b you just owned and make a private game with him. Then own him to get your wins up!!! No, just kidding. Teach him how to play, then help him out in a game or two. Once he gets good, tell him to do the same thing you did to him with some other n00bs. Then, with any luck everybody will get better( or it could backfire and result with certain people getting owned every time).