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[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

In principle yes it does - in case of TCP based protocols, without forwarded ports incoming connections aren't possible. In the context of the main Torrent protocol this means you can only connect to peers that have ports forwarded. This is largely solved by uTP protocol that uses UDP hole punching method to circumvent this.

So the sort answer is no this doesn't matter unless you're using very feature poor torrent client.