geesecougar, you got to witness my horrible losing streak first hand today. gg lol.
Yea, I agree with you guys when it comes to adjusting in skill level, but that hasn’t been a problem for me in a long time. I can dumb it down pretty well.
My problem currently is my horrible fundamentals. I’m starting to think this is because Makoto is the only character I’ve ever tried with in any street fighter I’ve played…although in 3S I didn’t have nearly as much of a problem. I feel like my blocking and footsies are just plain terrible. My execution is suffering, but that’s probably from being out of practice.
Long story short, I feel like there are certain types of players that I can just dominate…but ones who legitly have those basics down are a struggle.
Just… don’t do it again. Last thing I want is to scream out someone’s ears out 'cause of a piss poor attempt at comedy. But yea, I could use some pointers and matches. Just reading matchup infos is going to be just noise and words if they can’t be do into practice or timed in on the right situation.
Got my B rank for the 6th time (since super)… Swearing to myself I’d keep it this time. For the first 3 days, I’d kept my player points in the 1000-1200 range. Last night I decided to play late, after a late dinner… because I thought I was “awake” enough to play at my best…
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Lost once…
Lost twice…
Lost like twenty more times…
Points are now 3100 BP and 576 PP…
… gotta plow through a buncha Ds just to get back to where I can fight people to gain on my BP.
YAY!
Only solace I can REALLY take is that as soon as I lose my B, I’ll be able to get it back fairly quickly.
Been through it many times myself with Ken and Makoto. I finally got securely over 5000 BP (7000 BP and change) with Ken just before AE came out, and had to start over and readjust. I’m happy to say that with Ken so far in AE, I’ve never actually been downranked from a B; got down to about 2700 BP and clawed my way back up to around 5200 BP currently, so I have no doubt I can keep climbing, at least until I hit B+. And I do this without ever refusing a challenge.
With Makoto though, I don’t know. I’ve gotten my B rank twice now in AE, and been stuck at around 5000 BP for weeks. I know I’m good enough to not go down, but maybe I just don’t have enough tools to move up with her. Plus, I just figured out Kara Karakusa and have been working to apply it correctly and execute it consistently, and screwing it up can lead to some serious punishment. But like you said, I do take solace in the fact that if I lose it, I can get it back quickly!
KSR, I don’t remember playing you…I’m on PSN, and the past few days my connection has been going bananas for no good reason and I’ve tried to block out the trauma from my memory. What is your handle on PSN?
Yeah I know I don’t even want to think about how tough it would be at B+ to move up. I fear that getting to B+ and dropping down once the point system readjusts would be frustrating enough to make me stop playing…
Depending on who you lose to after 10k BP, you can lose close to 50 points in a single loss. I imagine it gets even worse at 15k. Also, whereas you would be gaining around 20 points for beating C rank players at B rank, you gain about 5 points at B+.
You’re basically not allowed to lose anymore if you wanna keep going up, lol.
If I had to venture a guess, I image Capcom designed their ranking system with the idea that more players would be reaching the higher ranks than what wound up happening. The thought was, I think, that with more high level people playing each other that there would be more even rates of gain/loss for the higher ranked players and not so many people would win up losing their ranks as easily.
Though I’d be happy myself if they were to either A) ditch points completely and just do straight Win/Loss records or B) Adopted the Arcade ranks.
Interesting theory, you may be right. I also imagine that Capcom did not anticipate how discouraging it is to get to a certain rank and then hit a wall; a lot of people just stop playing ranked matches because they want to maintain a vanity point level. Or they refuse to play people who consistently beat them, preferring to beat up on the easy money.
Very few actually put in the effort to get good enough to move past the purgatory of C+/B, and when they keep hitting 5k but just proceed to fall off the cliff time and time again, a lot of people just quit. Not that I blame them, there are other games they could be playing instead.
It’s a tough thing to get a ranking system perfectly right, and if people are to take this seriously like a sport, we can see that there is no single metric in any major sport that perfectly reflects your competitive standing. Hence the birth of sabermetrics in baseball to paint more nuanced pictures of ability. I do think though that they should readjust the point scale so that it’s easier to keep your B+ or A rank once you get there.
I go by a few, but you played URPunished. I’m fairly sure it was you since I only remembered the name from this thread.
I feel your pain. Since Super my Makoto has dropped from B about 4 times lol. I always get to around 5200 then run out of steam. I always try to tell myself online doesn’t matter…but how can you say that when you lose THAT much? There is clearly a problem.
I basically stopped caring about BP. I got my B rank, since then been floating about 4000BP having in the past fallen from grace to about 2700BP. Those were dark times. These days, I prefer the feeling of substantial PP than BP
Not that I can hold 2K PP for long either, heh.
Ranked is like being in an abusive relationship…all it gives me is heartache and misery, yet I keep coming back for more because those few times it is actually working out feel so amazing.
I remember ranked matches. I’m currently at 37XXBP cause I don’t play ranked too often (I never find someone, I wanna actually play). Before AE I had over 10k BP with my Abel though.
So… Usually i don’t play bad players in endless. I just… its not helping me. I understand that everyone wants to get better, and i dont’ mean to feel superior to some but you just can’t help it sometimes. Its a bad feeling, but whatever, i’m not here to make them better. I want to get my ass whooped so I can get better.
With that being said, I think I played THE WORST street fighter player EVER in history. I’m serious. Now, i’m not talking about knowledge wise, he knew all the basic stuff like how to jump and press buttons. However he got on the mic and was talking mad shit to my seth (to whom he lost 2x) and then to my cammy (lost 2x) then viper (lost 2x) then Dudley (you guessed it), then Rufus and about 3 other characters. Then this dude starts talking about how i’m beating him with characters i have 0 BP with and he has like 6K. So i’m like, i don’t think you want to play my main… its not worth it really. Wasted effort. I can’t learn anything from you. And he says he’ll blast my makoto with juri. Really nigga. Me? Fuck outta here lets do this.
So he loses 20 games straight right, and this dude had ME raging out. He didn’t block ONCE. not once. I’m serious. It was always something. and what did I do. that’s right, keep trying to put the pressure on. What did he do. All EX spin kicks. Oh and we were playing on Best of 7. all goddam night i’m like “ok he’s gonna block this time!” NOPE. gave me the Price Is Right You just lost music. WTF. so the last two games i told him i could beat him with one hand. all i did was dash with my right hand and plink sMP all day. he had nothing. was stunned in 10 seconds all 6 rounds. why the fuck do people like this play the game? Isn’t there something else they could be doing with their time? This is why i can’t learn shit, becasue everyone on ranked sucks, everyone in endless sucks, and everyone else is in the tournaments. WTF. FML.
I’m not gonna win evo playing these motherfuckers. FML FML.
I would have stopped playing him and left the endless after the first few games. You know it’s not helping anyone when they’re trying to reversal against safejump every damn time.
lmao i’m not gdlk but i have an idea of how to play, you know? i mean, there were times where i would stand across the screen and he was mashing s.lk. all i could hear, over the music, over the announcer, over my son, over my girl is that fucking LK whiff noise. Fuck that dude lol i raged too hard
God I have been so bad lately. Ever since I went to a tournament a while back and went 1-2 my confidence has been totally shot. Down to like 2200 PP (was at about 3400 before).
