So, here’s what your joystick looks like on the inside:
When you press left or right, you activate one of those switches, same with up and down. When you’re pressing diagonally, you’re activating two switches at the same time. You basically need to calibrate your hand to automatically activate the inputs you want, without thinking about that. The neutral position of the joystick makes this much easier; by letting go temporarily you center the joystick automatically, allowing you to hit the single switch commands (up, down, left, right) easily. You’ll have to learn how to use neutral to your own benefit though, just me telling you about it won’t help you much besides giving you pointers. Anyway, you’re just starting out, so I suggest just walking forwards and backwards in practice mode until you don’t accidentally hit diagonals anymore. For quarter circle motions, remember that you’re trying to hit down (one switch), downforward (you activate both switches) and forward (one switch again). For dragon punches, try hitting forward, neutral, down, downforward. With a square gate, this basically amounts to inputting forward, down, and then jamming the joystick in the corner (of the square gate).
The most important thing about learning stick is developing the muscle memory, i did the following drills day in day out until I was failing no more than 5 per exercise
200 FB each side
200 DP each
200 cr.MK FB each side
100 jp.HK cr.MK FB each side
100 jp.HK cr.Mk H Tatsu
After that your next challenge becomes staying calm and pulling these off in a match.
I’m a bit late to the topic; it took me over 30 days to become comfortable with a fightstick. Now, approximately 60 days in my execution of combos are coming together. Also, I’ve started winning matches in casual and battle lounge. Though, I have yet to win a ranked match yet. I have a long way to go, but loving the challenge.
If you can’t be fucked with grinding your brains out with pad, what makes you think that’s gonna get better when you learn stick?
The whole fightsick business is just there to take money out of your pockets so you can feel like a “pro”.
If you grew up playing in the arcades and learned gaming using a stick, then buying a stick is useful for you.
If you spent years and years playing video games on a pad, why the fuck would you think that that is gonna help you play better?
It’s like switching from guitar to piano in order to play the same fucking song.
Of course it’s gonna take you years to achieve the same proficiency with the new instrument.
On pad you had problems playing on P2 side, now you have problems playing on P1 side just that everything else is shittier too.
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