I’ve definitely been the guy who went to low forward ex fireball when I ran out of ideas! when you think it through it doesn’t make much sense - best case scenario you spend meter for a knockdown, most of the time you spend meter for nothing, worst case scenario they red parry and punish you hard. I think if you find yourself going to low forward EX fireball a bunch, you are saying 'I am not comfortable in the ground game versus you" to your opponent. there’s better things to do.
This is not a 3s specific answer, just fighting games in general.
Anybody can lose the first match to a fundamentally weaker player, if that player is very awkward. Don’t force adaptation too much because it will make you start to focus on that “one or two stupid things” the opponent does and your game will start to revolve around trying to find away around those things, which will take you out of your game cause you are no longer playing your natural game. The smarter idiots will notice you trying to hard to counter their stupidity and stop doing it and do some other dumb crap which will further drive you nuts.
The Retired Bronx Chess Champ Denjizz once told me something about chess, which resonated to me as, in chess you have to enforce YOUR game. Well to me in fighting games I think it may be similar. Everyone has their way of playing, but once you “force” yourself out of your element to adapt to some jabroni, you will become miserable. You have to “naturally play unlike yourself”
The best thing you can do is learn to play at a higher level ( try to really focus, really ask yourself after each round, was I really focused every moment of the game? Or did I let his idiocy mess with my head? ) so that even if you have not yet adapted to the bullshit, at least you are focused enough so that your reactions are high enough so that you can “see” the bullshit fast enough or know when it may be coming, and not get caught by it too much. Depending on your experience you will naturally adapt to the opponents bullshit, his bullshit will be naturally integrated into your game and you will become one with his crap. Hopefully that natural adaptation happens in the second or third round.
Respect every player even if they are very bad or stupid, play them seriously and focus and you will naturally adapt to their nonsense without having to force it, then your game will change to adapt to that idiot, but it will be a natural change.
I’m sharing what works for me, and it always helped nomatter what fighter I play. It may not be the answer you need or may not do jack for you but hey I’m just trying to help a brutha out.
This guy let Ghandi take him out of his element. He could of adapted if he would stop complaining and just play.
. how can I improve adaptation speed? Thanks