Lately, I’ve been playing CvS2 and I realized…that I don’t FEEL as if I’m improving anyway. I don’t understand. I play compeition all around me…but I ever can’t improve. How do you think you would go about playing at higher level and eventually to top player status? This is something I’m seriously having trouble improving. I have the basic fundamentals and a good understanding of the game. Hell I even have good execution when linking stuff. But everything still feels the same…like nothing is ever changing. Help? :sad:
PLAY ME CONSTANTLY! :devil:
I would but I don’t live in Miami
Heh.
just play against different ppl, and if you don’t have a team ur fully comfortable with, switch some characters… forces a different style of play, which may improve ur overall gameplay
smoke some weed
Seek out good competition. I get lucky 'cause good players live around me, but when I lived in SF, I’d go to SVGL randomly just to play good players.
You don’t always have to play people to become good. The competition here in Seattle is really not to good, however LTB is an extremely good player. He always complains to me about not having good competition here in Seattle, however he still does all that he can in training mode.
Training mode is an excellent way to boost skills like: execution, hit confirming, punishing attacks, anti airing, learning matchups, and other various things.
Training mode is probably your best bet for now. First of all, you need to be patient in your play styles. Not “turtle” patient, but patient in that your not jumping in blindly to get in on your opponent. Secondarily, with a good ground game, almost anyone in this game can beast.
Most importantly understand why you lost. Many players lose and get pissed about it. To become a truly good player, you will have to understand why you lose in your matches. Is it because you were anti aired to much? Because you whiffed a move and got punished hard? Maybe you didn’t hit Sagat’s c.lkx2 tiger raid in a critical moment (I’ve done this NUMEROUS times, danm you james austin!).
Anyways, playing people would be your best way of practicing. However triaing mode is also an efficient way of learning Cvs2. Lastly, if you can understand why you lose in matches, you can train yourself for that not to happen again, allowing you to become a better player.
Shut up carlos, you don’t even have the drive to become good in cvs2 :mad:
Seriously me and smooth practice everyday. Goto ECC this year with us.
Top 3 things to practice:
Execution, RC/parry/jd, Ground & counter hit game.
carlos, all you need is a better ground game and you’ll be fine. play k or p groove for a while where you’ll be more limited and you won’t roll or rc as much as you do now when you play a.
and remember, turtling in cvs2 is kind of mandatory. just be patient and wait for an opening. i hope that helps a little.
I got the execution, ground and RC game somewhat down but it’s still not enough sometimes. I don’t play P or K. So process of elimination leaves counter hit. I already scoped out tickets for ECC and they are mad cheap! :wow: I think I’m gonna opt for ECC instead of Texas Showdown because the tickets are too expensive now (Shouldn’t have waited so late…!) Oh and I’m gonna start playing CvS2 again, 3s is fun but the character selection is quite limited and gets pretty boring
Random (Ozzie)
I generally don’t roll much (those were missed RCs :lol:) or jump that much. I have always turtled in CvS2 but it wasn’t “skilled” turtling. Heh
Glory you and smooth practice every day? I dunno why but I’m kinda surprised to read that, mainly because I’ve always wanted to practice with someone daily, but never could :sad:
When you two play are you two just playin around? Or are you goin hardcore? I think that if people are playin around while playing, they’re not really learning as much as they would be when they play really seriously. Anyways, what has playing smooth taught you? Were they really important things? Or where they just in general stuff?
I think whats important is to not Xcopy everything you see. A lot of people just watch match videos and get strats from there. While its nice to know what to expect, if you just imitate what you see you start to lose what made you different from everyone else.
Being creative is always important. Know what your losing to and run options through your mind to counter it.
We play online because of our distance. Either way I still rc online and when I do get hit he knows and I know that it would have missed offline. We try different teams all the time but when we want to get serious we both get serious to see how we do. We are currently practicing for ECC and we will meet up a day or two before it starts. I’m waiting for my custom sanwa to see how well I execute on it. Going from p360 to sanwa is completely different. We have a fairly good connection thats almost comparable to offline at times. Both me and him have a good grasp of the game. Playing someone good will strengthen your ground game alot and also both of us are reluctant to do anything random because we both know how to punish.
I easily rack up 2-3 hours per day or more in training mode just practicing my execution on this old DC agetec preparing for my sanwa.
Stop mashing
your only as good as the ppl you train with…
Either Roll super…Convert to S-groove…fight with your might…train hard…enter tourneys…training room…watch match videos…and just put your best into it…find good characters and dont take shit from no one…
-B.generally true, but not always. i’ve progressed greatly and i have like 1 guy who lives an hour away who i beat pretty bad, and i only play him MAYBE once a month. and he’s who i consider “consistent” competition.
entering tournies and losing is a good way to get better because if you’re like me and don’t like to lose, then that’ll inspire you to get better. i got destroyed at my first evo in 2k3, trained by watching match vids and practicing execution, and have won all the recent local tournies (which don’t happen often at all) and do well at bigger nationals also.
peace
just find out where all the good player go to play and practice with them. And always keep up with ur game or you’ll lose it
I use to feel just like you. You feel like you’re missing something but you don’t know what it is and you have no idea how to figure out what it is.
Couple of solutions:
Change grooves for a short period of time. This’ll give you ideas on how to change strategy.
Work on more character specific stuff. Setups, guard strings, etc.
Use different characters for a short period of time.
play the top tier teams…honestly, I I always play low tier crap but when I top whore out it jus makes you 10x better