In first-person shooter video games, a potato is a person, normally a "
noob", who gets on your team and has absolutely no skill at playing the game. Therefore, they get taken down very quickly when the match starts. A potato is only useful for those brief moments when they are being relentlessly gunned down by the enemy by providing a distraction so that the more skilled players on the team can counterattack or sneak up behind the enemy. A potato is
useless in any other scenario that requires not dying and they
will likely drag the rest of a
player'
s team down with them when they beg for a revive. This potato revive scenario is also a countertactic used by highly skilled and experienced competitors who
will camp out to shoot at anyone who comes near the downed potato. A potato'
s treachery, while unintentional, knows no bounds.
Player 1: "Hey
don't revive BigfootsMilf69, he
will only get you
killed alongside him!"
Player 2: "Yeah, what a potato!"