Well, after spending a few months playing offline, I went back in last night and went from 1400pp to 3126pp. With Ken and Fei. I lost one time to a Gen. It was great. It’ll probably go back down, but I doubt it. It’ll most likely keep going up. I feel like I went from Saiyan to super saiyan.
Weirdly enough it was like that for me. I was doing some characters for C to Shining C, and had like 1,300pp, then went back to Fei and went on like a rampage of wins and went right up to about 3,000pp before losing, and kept going to about 3,300pp. Boosted my BP by like 1,500 in the process to 8,200.
Now it’s back to normal though. Guess I should lose all my PP again if I want higher BP? Maybe it took the pressure off? I did beat a few people in the 3,800-5,000pp and 10,000 to 15,000bp ranges with a lot more ease than I do right now.
Yeah bro. I tried the c to shining c. I’m like 20 percent done… haha. Have you seen those “Street Fighter is Hard” videos? There this guy who makes really good videos for characters you may know nothing about and shows what worked best for him. haha. Plus they’re pretty funny. I like them. I know they’re on youtube.
Oh, and I went back into ranked today and went down to 3023pp.
I may look those up, because frankly, I suck with Akuma way too hard, and I’m weird enough that I don’t want to start another character until I’ve finished him, but I can’t be arsed starting playing with him again. Dan was easy wins, but Akuma, with all of his tools and easily performed knockdown combos, is like torture for me. He loses so hard to random stuff IMO, and it seems like even complete noobs can avoid your fireball zoning by holding forward jump… Yeah, I’m gonna give these vids a looking into 
5000 ish BP, 1000 ish PP because I like to fuck around with other characters a lot.
I’m starting to think I suck at this game. Maybe it’s just time for me to head to the arcades instead of XBL. Totally stuck in a rut–can’t seem to beat any 4500+ PP players consistently. Got bumped down from 4760PP (max was 4860 at one point) to 4100 in a day playing 2 guys over and over again. Played a few scrubs when I couldn’t find a match–lost to a couple too. Dropped points like a bitch.
Bad day? Maybe.
… But fuck the points, I need to learn to play better and I can’t seem to find a reliable green-bar group to do that with. XBL is starting to piss me off.
Wow, I’m back down to 2105pp… I suck. err, My connection sucks.
Hey I’m on PSN now hit me up! Also PSN is terrible, takes me 2 mins at most on xbl to find a match, my record on PSN so far is 10 mins, and had to settle for a yellow bar… blah. Anywho we can finally play one another if ya want, hit me up
Sweet! Well, I only play online on the weekends. I spend weekdays at my apartment down in commerce Tx, which happens to have the slowest internet ever. It feels like I’m in Europe. So… the weekend it is!
Been playing more with Fei again after spending a good amount of time learning Sagat, and it’s just silly how much work you have to put in again to get your combos back up to scratch.
Been experimenting with normals for anti-air, which I’ve never done before. Flame Kick’s been my only AA up until now, but this is only my first fighting game, so I don’t have the experience of all that yet 
I’ve been worrying too, about how good I really am. I’ve been losing to a lot of good players recently, both with their mains and their alts. One guy beat my Fei with almost every character he picked, including Fei. It’s disheartening, but I’ve noticed that the characters I lose to the most right now I still haven’t had enough exp to figure out how to beat. The matchups I know are great, and I can really get into a flow, but I get thrown off against characters like Boxer, Gen, Adon, Chun-Li, Honda… Hmmm charge characters mostly? Meh, just gotta play more I guess.
Anyway, after playing Sagat, I’m climbing my way back up and I’m on like 2,800 PP and I thought it was a good time to take a break from ranked last night once I reached 8,888 BP. I’m still looking for a good opportunity to get out to some local meets and what not and play for something other than just points…
Don’t get discouraged man, its all a learning process! After a while though I find myself falling for similar things, or having the same approach to things. It can be a wall that I sometimes can’t get over, when this happens I usually take a step back and think about what I’m doing and how to fix it. (replays are a huge help here). But keep your head up, and try to stay positive. Getting down on yourself can have such a negative affect on your play.
Spartan, as you know I’ve picked up the Gat as well, but I tell you what, with Fei, you never really feel your at a disadvantage. I can’t say the same about Sagat.
Last night I played this guy who i shit you not was “Diago” with every character he picked. I even saved his replay’s just so i could look at his inputs. Guile, Gen, Viper, Blanka…It did not matter.
Some guy’s are just freakish at inputs, some guy’s struggle. It’s the game.
Last night was the first time I thought, If this guy is that good, how good is Mago?
It’s scary how much you would have to put into Street Fighter to be on that level and 99% of us just don’t have that.
yay finally got over 4k PP. I still find myself over using CW though it’s not as bad as what it used to be. Gotta improve my ground game.
dont take it too personal. while there are some really good players above 4500, a lot of players are just really good at fighting online. meaning they do some things that would only net wins in that enviornment. just use it as a training aide, and dont concentrate on the wins as much
like you said, fuck the points
Though points aren’t really all that big of a deal, I still find myself worrying about losing them, which I guess is good, because a similar pressure would be on me in a tournament match. Steadily rising my BP, think I’m on like 9,150bp now, with my PP rising again up to about 3,100pp after my Sagat escapade 
I think I’m gonna make a goal of trying to reach 4,000 PP in the next month or so, or at least above 3,700, because I think I peaked at 3,600 last time… So I think that points have two influences; If you care about them, it’s an added pressure to your game, which helps you get past it in the long run; and you can set goals based around them, which will allow you to focus on progressing as a player, and learning new things.
Any of you guys have any personal goals based on points?
Goal: 5000 PP. I think it’s reasonable considering where I’ve been in the past. I haven’t had any sort of regularity in my play schedule though so I’m not getting enough experience for many match-ups.
I understand the number means nothing compared to actual, offline results, but at the same time there’s a logic behind why only top players and (a handful of) boosters get that high–can’t just scrub to the top. If that logic has application, being stuck in the rut that I am shows some lack of skill or patience somewhere, and that’s what frustrates me. I can see mistakes when I fight sometimes, but other times I just don’t know what to do to beat the other guy.
Know exactly what you mean man. I’ve was up to about 4000PP and dropped down to 2980 trying to run online with my alternate. lol Now trying to get back to the top is frustrating as hell win about 20 or so in a row, to lose to someone scrubbing it out and bam, back where i started. Like you said i can see my mistakes sometimes but its hard realizing were your faults are at times when your only critiquing yourself.
2500 pp 6800pp…down to around 2000 pp and 6380 pp been on a loosing streak sooo takin a break from ranked i hate grabbers im the worst techer u kan ever find 
i suck
I find the biggest problem with me gaining points is that I don’t play my highest game at all times. I love nothing more than coming up against (like the other night) a high level Sagat (or any high level player) who’s zoning the shit out of me and I’ve really got to figure a way round it, and I’m not happy until I have, I’ll happily piss 300 worth of points away in my quest to get better.
On the other hand getting gambled out with a Fierce DP (ala ken) or a wake Ultra really chaps my ass off, It’s like my brain forgets that people are entirely capable of this at lower levels online.
I think I’m going to play best of 5 from now on in ranked. It gives you that extra piece of analysis, plus I enjoy the games going to 2 rounds all and it’s all on the 5th. I’m hovering around 2500-3000pp, that’s probably a fair indication of my skill.
Hi there! New feilong player reporting in^^
I got xbox liverecently so i’m starting to play SSF4.
I tried the characters i main in CVS2 but neither guile cammy gouki or sagat fit to my style.
So i tried fei long and i have to say i really like it’s poke and spacing game.
So far my Bp are around 3000 and my PP are oscillating beetwen 800-1400 as i have to learn the game’s mechanics, every matchups and often, people catch me with random crap you never see in high rank match; because it doesn’t work on good players 
Hopefully i could read a lot of useful information here, so i’ll get alot better
See you online maybe!