What Is Hard Carry?
5.0BRAINROT SCOREHard Carry An intensified version of "carry," describing a single player forcibly winning a match almost entirely through their own performance despite a struggling or underperforming team.
Origin:Grew directly out of "carry" within competitive gaming vocabulary, adding the "hard" intensifier to distinguish an especially dominant, single-handed win from a more modest team-assisted carry.
First Seen:2010
Peak Era:Not established
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (A Genuine Hard Carry Against All Odds) / -1 Aura (Claiming a Hard Carry When the Team Actually Helped a Lot)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"He hard carried that entire match, the rest of the team barely contributed."
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