Blake helped me alot with tick throws at the beginning when I told him how it feels like I’m to slow. I got better, but there are still times, quite abit sadly, where he will be watching me in HDR and tell me I need to tick more. I go back to thinking “too slow” but say fuck it and do it anyways, then lo and behold it works and the match was alot easier.
I have to piano my throw buttons or people always throw me.
I 100% agree with the sandbagging post, this is fucking gross and does nothing but hold your scene back, especially when your scene is made up of less than 8 people…
You can’t tech throws while crouching? That explains a LOT. Gameplay up 10%!!!
AFAIK for SFIV, but I’ve had ppl say you can tech throws while crouching…honestly in my opinion, it just seems that everytime i’ve tried to break a grab ducking it won’t come out. But everytime I’ve tried to break a grab while standing…well i’d have about a 60% success rate.
I thought I’d teched throws crouching, but I really started to wonder when I was playing against adam at GW, where he was repeating the same tick throw pattern against every player the whole day, and it irritated the hell out of me that I double-tapped the tech when I see him approach for his ever predictable tick throw (or sometimes I’ll just mash throw in defensive crouch after the first blocked low jab), and I still get thrown.
Another problem I’ve had with throw battles is pre-emptive throwing. Where you try and throw someone just outside your throw range and give them a free throw on the return. Is there a difference in throw ranges between characters the way it is in ST, or is the throw range the same for two characters in a matchup?
Best advice I can give is if you know of your faults, to just sit down and focus on them. I remember for marvel Mandel and Sean would get hella mad because I would always do stomp unfly fierce with sentintel then try to do mouth beam super?? Mandel would constantly yell at me about how not to do that. To the point that I went home and forced myself to not do that combo by just doing the right way to do it for 30 min, at least.
Same with AHVB’s when that shit was released, I would sit there and practice that until I got 999hits on Sentinel, mainly because I wanted to be positive that if I needed to do that to win, I’d have no doubt in my mind that it would work.
some greats posts from everyone here. I want to echo what Frank said about resetting yourself. For me this really happened in VF5. I got to a pont in VF5 where I got really frustrated just playing the game, because I kept losing to people “mashing on P”. Really annoying. I stopped playing the game for about 9 months, and then got back into it this winter, before HDR came out.
the break was long enough that I had forgotten everything I learned. Only the moveset remained, but I had unlearned all of my basic patterns. I had to rebuild everything from scratch. But it made a huuuge difference.
Before my break, I don’t think I ever beat Sorias once. It was just asswhipping after asswhipping from him. But after my break, we were going back and forth with great matches. I’m not saying I’m anywhere as good as him, but I could tell my game had really improved.
Same thing happened to me in Japan with ST, actually. When I first moved to Japan I played ST every day. Then I took I a break for a couple of years (here is where you can insult me for taking a ST break when living in Japan – yes I know I’m a fool). But when I got back into the game I was better than I had been before!
I want to get back into VF5 again now, actually – this might be a good time to take a break from HDR and get back into VF5 – this could help my HDR game!
I’ve thought the same thing as well. And have played a little VF earlier last week, we should try to get some online matches in at some point.
That’s another great thing to do in trying to improve your game, venture out and learn a different game, especially something that doesn’t fit the mold of what you’re trying to play (like a 3d fighter), although at first you don’t think at all that there’s any simliarities because of the games, but you’d be surprise at just how much stuff you can implement from one to another and vice versa.
I know for me, playing Tekken and Virtua Fighter has greatly improved my abilities on reading players and paying attention to their patterns and habits.
I definitely agree to this. I was thinking myself crazy for wanting to learn a host of fighters at once… and maybe that isn’t the best idea ever… but I, too, find that bouncing back and forth between HDR, VF5, 3S, SCIV, GG#R, and CvS2… actually is playing out to my advantage. True, :dp: doesn’t always get me far in VF5, but learning to play more effective defense in VF5 does help in 3S… and so on.
If that makes any sense.
On a side note, I’d love to get going with some VF5 since it seems to be having a resurgence in the community right now.
Offtopic: I’m down for VF as well until I get the box to send my 360 to ms. If I drop it’s because the game froze.
On Topic: I don’t know what else to add since it seems like everything has been covered that needs to be covered. The rest is up to the person. Here’s to a beast of a year for the NW!
Situational awareness. Being aware of your surroundings. In all aspects of life.
Speaking from probably the oldest life-wisdom here, and not being a part o the scene in its heyday…
The lack of recruiting young blood from the UW or any surrounding paid institution of learning led to what is happening to the scene. Learn from it. Get flyers up at physical message boards at all the CC, Unis, or Colleges advertising tourneys or at the very least this site.
Resting on laurels leads to stagnation. As we all age, we have to focus on making ends meet. Keeping an eye out for potential talent should be paramount.
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Coming from a background of absolutely zero scene in regards to fighters…I can tell you it is a tough nut to crack on your own and easily discarded. Espicially in our locale. The trick is to socialize.
I’ve come to the conclusion that fighters are near the top of the list of my gaming endeavors.
Now that I (seemingly) don’t have the time nor resources to dedicate to them to be deemed a ‘competitive’ player, I play to have fun and improve at my own speed.
Hence the ‘casually competitive’ option I chose on the Sea/Tac thread. Learn from my failings.
For what it is worth.
Wow. This thread is like a dream. Seriously. You guys are thinking on a different level than most do. I feel lucky to know that I said some ish that helped.
I have a lot to do but I’m about to enter this thread on the real. Right now let me add that once you understand how you get affected and how to restructure yourself, it may be a good time to know how to win the game before you sit down. There are many ways to do this. Also, faking frustration does things too. Feigning(sp?) weakness when you are strong is hella fun. You can even diagnose a player type and base your emotional “acting” on it. I’ve had a long day so I’ll get back to this after I read thoroughly through the thread. This is definately a thinking man’s thread. That alone puts you all on another level. There is the game and the game off of the game and put together, there’s a complete player.
I’m pretty brain-drained at the moment so I don’t want to leave a pile of mush in an otherwise great thread.
Damn, you guys are lucky to have eachother!
Apoc.
Whoever the fuck ever said “There’s no way I can beat” followed by “Axel” should probably go walk in front of a bus, you just son’d yourself. 
Nice. More of the psych-out mind games akin to what I was saying about leading your opponent to thinking you’re a one-trick pony only to hit 'em where they aren’t looking. I like it. I look forward to a fuller/more-detailed post. :tup:
We are blessed to have a treasure trove of great players.
I find it easier just to pokerface it, but I’ve never been a very good actor.
jealous much? lol
way to go shitting up a good thread btw
I was kidding, relax. Much love to my fellow Kenter. :tup:
i know brah, i know how we get down
something on topic:
I don’t play at 100% in casuals, because I find it too mentally draining. Someone once accused me of sandbagging because of this, which I thought was pretty funny.
You guys wouldn’t consider this sandbagging, would you? I figure most of you do the same