@OP<div><br></div><div>don’t take it personal when people here let you know you’re weak. you can only measure skill relatively, and everyone here generally measures their skill relative to the Japanese big boys, and compared to them, we are all trash panpi scrubs! it may be a hard pill to swallow, but at least know you’re in familiar company. imagine playing for 7 years and knowing you’re still weak :/</div><div><br></div><div>you should feel good that you’re willing to improve! this is the most important strength a player can have!</div>
@ yuuki<br>I consider the advise, I wish there was more of a local 3s scene in my area but sadly all I have is online :(, but I definitely hit the danger room <br><br>@Pherai<br>I understand what your saying, maybe it’s my personality in general, I usually never compare myself to anyone because my mid set is not to be like anyone else but to improve myself constantly. I always look to other skilled players to learn from them. secondly I always keep positive mindset on myself on anything I do, I alwasy admit my flaws because that’s the only way we can grow to get better. but even if I am truly trash I can never come to tell myself that.because I feel having a mindset like that won’t humble you but it will hold you back from improving and getting better. <br>
<div><div>you just need to be realistic. XBL and PSN ranked are the bottom rung of the 3s totem pole. I’d estimate that 95% of OE online players have no idea what they are doing. so while winning a good amount online might make you think “I’m not so bad” the truth is there is still a huge gap between real strong players and the rest of us. IMO the first goal of every 3s person who came in with OE should be “I want to get good enough to hang with the strong people who were playing before.” to do this, you have to be straight up with yourself and admit you don’t know anything. this was brought back home to me recently actually when I played Dr Sub Zero a few games. I’ve been improving constantly since starting, and have improved tremendously since last time you and I played. it didn’t matter, he still destroyed me. the gap is sizable. these guys have been playing for years longer than us against way higher quality competition. it’s gonna take us using every resource available if we ever want to catch up.</div></div><div><br></div><div>IMO getting wins on XBL should not be satisfactory. they don’t matter and they don’t help you improve. the real journey is self improvement using strong players as your yardstick. you already came to the right place, there are some strong players offering you advice. so take them at their word!</div><div><br></div><div>post here regularly, watch every high level match footage you can, try to apply anything you see or read to your own game. that is a good place to start.</div>
And move to Japan.<br>
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<div class=“QuoteAuthor”><a href="/profile/64093/geni">geni</a> said:</div>
<div class=“QuoteText”>I know the game is going on 13 years but as for being a year in i don’t consider myself “New”.<br></div>
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<div>The only person in this world who can say that they became good after only a year is Rikimaru. Even then, he had MOV and various other top players teach him(he put in a LOT of effort on his part as well, though).<br></div><div><br></div>The first two years or so of playing 3rd Strike, I thought I was pretty good too. Then I played against ramza/Eric Kim, and he bodied me 50 games in a row. Halfway through he wasn’t even using Makoto: he switched to others like Akuma, Necro, Ken etc. That experience opened my eyes and made me realize “Man, I actually suck at this game”. Only then did I strive to get better. I didn’t actually see drastic improvements in my game until maybe 2009, and in 2013, ten years after I started playing 3S, could I say I might have a chance at making Top 8 around here(I almost did in fact, at one tournament last year). And I’m STILL a while away from being able to go up against SoCal’s best players.
Go in with the knowledge that there’s always something new to learn. Consider that in 2007 we had no idea about Keeper-Jin. Consider that just recently, we discovered that you could 100% stun Chun-Li. True knowledge in this game is knowing that you know absolutely nothing. And from there, you remove your preconceived notions and can fight.
Wins against even the few strong players online mean very little. <br>Much of the subtleties that make high level play what it is just aren’t reliably possible with the variable audio/visual experience that different connections bring. <br><br>Played a few strong yangs online but it wasn’t till I faced ROM in person that I started to understand how bad the Yang vs Gouki match is.<br>