I’m semi-decent at this game placing perenially one away from the spotlight at every major, and doing decently at weeklies and such.
I wanted to make a thread for general questions you might have of a “top” player, or how to improve your mindset to match your team/matchups/game mechanics and what have you.
I do not own a ps3, nor do I have an account on psn
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edit: I want to open the thread back up, post up your questions!!!
You should throw out projectiles when you want to control space or apply pressure from any distance. Sometimes you don’t throw out projectiles for pressure reasons but rather controlling space (trish’s trap). Now you have to remember that even though this isn’t street fighter projectiles are still pokes, and can even be hit confirms (see wesker). If you want specfics on a char ask em.
While generally calling a (I assume) zoning assist you have many options. You can call assist then dash forward/teleport forward so the assist is off screen, since very little supers can punish off screen assists effectively. You can call an assist as a bait, and dash back and wait for them to punish then punish their punish, since most people won’t just raw launch an assist they will M H Launch so if you can time it right you can actually punish the M H, but be careful bc they can always happy birthday you. If you want specifics on an assist ask em.
ground throws: just do a wave dash after an M or H and usually you can wait a split second then throw, since the block stun is gone. The only way to consistently get ground throws is to understand blockstun and when it ends, this is char specfic but wave dashing once or twice is pretty universal. Unless your ammy then just mash forawrd and H ARFARFARARFARFARFARF
air throw: Honestly you just have to practice and start becoming comfortable with the anticipation and timing of it. You have to understand where there going to be in order to air throw effectively. Also, using one frame air throws (essentially instant off the ground air throws) is a really good punisher and shuts down a lot of setups (i.e dante or wesker).
In general wesker, spiderman, modok, ammy, and task seem to have the best options when attempting to throw.
I know I played you a bit [online, where my punishes were rather lacking] with spiderman/x23/doom missiles [and i got wrecked]. I figured that your team shut down my assists at full screen [called doom once, he got diagonal arrow supered] and I couldn’t get your doom missiles. so I decided to develop different teams LOL
I’m of the persuasion that you should play one team, and just try and tough out the bad matchups. For instance with my team, phoenix beats me free, I should never win a match against a phoenix player. But I have played that matchup enough to feel comfortable in it, even though still I should never win it. Think of it like how dieminion is still reallly good with guile even though he got nerfed, just because theoretically its bad doesn’t mean it has to be.
But we live in america, so if you want to make an anti zoning team go for it, just be good with it.
Yeah you have a lot of random tricks to random out phoenix, but they’re just random
I was thinking that at that point, I didn’t even have any random shenanigans to go for. Obviously you’re great at your team and that was the point of the team, I just felt like while I was being super outplayed, it was made worse by my own lack of options. I know what you mean though. thanks for the opinions.
Honzo, what’s a good way to keep up corner (and midscreen) pressure in general? Block strings and teleports? For reference, I’m running Wesker/Dante/Doom.
Honzo, what’s the best way to keep long lasting assists that don’t protect themselves safe?
You often do an exceptional job with keeping Doom from being blown up and just wanted to hear what your thought process normally is in order to do this.
Also, how do you resist the siren call of buttons? Pressing them is just so enticing! D:
I was messing around with a combo that involved tagging out at a precise time in the combo. As I needed to precharge while doing the combo, I attempted to hold assist two ( button 6 ) with my pinky while doing the combo with my other three fingers and thumb. However, doing this caused my entire hand to start twitching and slowly go numb. Is this normal?
