I use to do this up until like 2 weeks ago. If you try to keep the game as perfect as possible and as technical as hell, you’re going to miss opportunities that most don’t see. Took me a while to learn that. But then I started playing with a few risks based on situation and i play 100x better and I feel sooo much more relaxed.
You guys should be a man like Daigo and walk up half screen and DP against a full meter Bison… thats how he rolls.
and loses
I dunno 9th place at Evo is higher than you or I… and it was a joke. Most people on SRK seem to get too much into a mindset of playing like a robot. “If he does this, I shall only react and do this, if he does that, I shall only react and do such and such.” Go watch all the top players… Choi does psychic DPs, Buktooth does random DPs after low jump early MP w/ Iori, Mago does roll DP/super/RC, Combofiend lives off of random activate, Dan throws fireballs despite them being risky as hell, Bas does one hit scissor kick w/ Bison and then rolls and does random walkup activate, RF lives off of roll CC and dash CC… if you notice… most top players do take risks. Most people on SRK seem to want to play how Ricky and Justin seem to play… which is safe and never taking risks. It seems like the most successful players take risks and know the right time to take them. The only way to learn the right time is actually going for them yourself.
you guys got a good point. recently i too fall in the pattern of playing like a robot. next time, i’m gonna do more psychic activations.
I’m aware of that. But I doubt that those guys would do random DP’s on a full meter unless they were like two characters ahead and the opponents character was damn near dead.
But if you watch Daigo play, he’s good no doubt about it, but he does stuff at the worst times.
Yo, what the hell… Stop arguing or take it to the PM’s. Daigo is better than anybody here, that’s that, and I don’t want to read where this conversation is leading to, so cram it already. Thanks.
Shut up.
Playing like a robot doesn’t work. Like any game in existence there is a gambling aspect of it, and a robotic aspect of it (i.e. execution, timing, etc)since we cannot know for certain what another opponent is doing/thinking of doing/etc. It just seems that certain players appear “psychic” because they have more experience in particular circumstances. The more you are fimiliar with what normally happens in a circumstance the more you can apply chance to the situation, kind of like an educated guess, since you get used to a more probable outcome. The more you know about characters normals/specials/etc you can apply a more probable move to the situation which covers more options.
any chance you’ll finish up the cvs2 evo top 8 log?
peace
I do it a tiny bit different.
I kind of make situations, calculated situations. Then I play based on that. It mostly revolves around damage output comparison between the 2 characters. Then I factor in character weakness(ex. no anticrossup etc.)
I’ll give a basic situation, A Blanka vs. C Cammy.
Blanka can take more risks when Cammy doesn’t have meter because she can’t do any serious damage outside of like a cannon spike.
So I take some chances to get in and RC Elec. If I miss, I get hit once. If I land it, then she gets hit and I build meter. I would back off a bit in the begining to build enough meter. Then when I land it activate, dead Cammy. At best she could keep me out. But, I can cr. Rh just outside of her RH range and trip her then go for a RC Elec setup. If she AC’s, her guard meter goes down, which just makes it worse because not only would I be giving her more options of getting hurt but she’s losing meter and risking getting hit with CC.
Yeah I do this type of stuff in every match.
K-Geese is the fanboy bandwagon
? Since when?
Ever since kcxj started using him.
Haha, I’d use Geese if I could do the raging storm. Well, I guess I just hafta practice if I have time. Then actually doing it when someone jumps, thats another thing.
On the topic of risk taking. Everyone has to take risks when playing the game, you can be as technical as you want but when it comes down to the line, you have to be able to read your opponent and be like “Ok, hes gonna mash on some random normal so I’ll super/DP/Activate” Being the robot (execution, timing, etc.) is something you work on at home, learning to be psychic is what you do at the Arcade.
man kim…thats the best advice ive heard in a WHILE. …shit. i really need to apply this in cvs2 and 3s too. thanks alot man.
Can someone explain how all the comboes in the cvs2.lzh was done? Like that athena one…or the Ken one ( I think it’s something with f + RH, dp + Fp).
On the opposite end of the coin, I think playing like a robot can reap benefits at times. A lot of it is just situational(character mathups, player archetypes).
I’ve watched some Dan vids and it seems like sometimes he plays really technical and at others I can’t tell if I’m watching him or Daigo play.
It seems that playing really unorthodox or playing robotically is secondary to being able to adjust to what your opponent is doing. This only comes with loads of experience however…
P.S. Shit look at Justin Wong. That dude makes computer A.I. Ryo look like a freak of nature and he wins/does well in hella tournaments.
C Blanka vid up o_O.
haha, awesome links in that vid man, and the hop super after the lvl 2 shout of the earth was sexy.
It looks like the Ken combo in cvs2.lzh was done like this:
{dp hk, lp (a kara cancel of f hk) dp + hp]*N
As for the Athena one, since the a groove bar wasn’t flashing, I just assumed that it was on training mode infinite 