It’s okay to not be good yet at a game that came out a couple days ago.
Don’t get why people care about ranks and badges myself.
I only got some ranked points in Vanilla SFIV on PS3 but then i started going to tournaments and since every tourney in my country was on xbox360 and there was a slight difference between them i switched to x360, then all the versions came out, Super, AE, etc. i never bothered with ranked and just had 0PP 0BP, which is fun when everyone thinks you’re a scrub and you kick their ass.
(not saying i’m awesome, there’s heaps of players better than me…funnily enough, though, the players that think their points mean they are good are often not among them)
I don’t play competitively. I’m not even remotely close to FGC material. That being said don’t let things like “ranks” etc intimidate you. Just have fun and enjoy learning the nuances of your chosen fighter. Lumps come just like eventual wins.
I’ve played SF for years but I’m maining Rashid who I’m just starting to get the hang of so basically I’m starting from the ground up. I’d like to learn dreadlock rasta next and right now I’m terrible with that dude. Will I get washed using him? Yes. Will I continue to practice and get better? Yes.
My advice is slow down. don’t press the buttons so fast
Learn combos for different situations, such as Your opponent messes up and you know you can hit him…Is he standing do this combo or is he crouching then do this combo…
Watch your replays and try to figure out what you did wrong and how you can improve.
When you are trying to get a combo down. I make sure i do it 10 times in a row on each side. if you mess up start all over again.
Did someone say suck? zip
Blame Capcom for their false “we want to make this game more accessible to all players” marketing.
They release a game so barebones with no tutorial whatsoever to help newcomers.
Fuck them.
Fighting games take time and commitment. Thats why a lot of players run away from this genre. Just keep at it, watch videos, play vs friends, ask questions and keep practicing.
slow down dont mash buttons and dont jump.
I’m struggling as well. Keep telling myself to stick with it. Changes will happen.
It’s a new game, I used to be able to handle myself pretty well against scrubs in ranked mode who play really stupid and confuse the hell out of me in SF4.
But now I am fumbling and getting frustrated, due to my lack of time and understanding of SFV’s rhythm and mechanics, since it’s so early on.
Just keep trying and realize no matter who you are if you put enough time and effort into something you care about you will be good at it.
Darteiga… I do the same thing. While I would say I’m relatively new to really diving into playing SF seriously, I watch videos, tournaments, etc. and just absorb all that knowledge. When I play there is just a loss of translation between my brain and hands, most probably because I’m just not that experienced… I don’t have years of playing SF in a serious manner so I don’t have the muscle memory and the knowledge of various situations and being able to just react and keep pressure on, etc… and it really gets frustrating after a while because I lose to people that I know I should be beating by making stupid mistakes. This morning I threw away a game to a good Gief by second guessing myself and backing off when he needed like 1 more hit to kill and I had half my life bar and I let him make the comeback.
At the risk of maybe sounding like a jackass… I know there are some shades of brilliance in my playing sometimes with being able to recognize what they are doing and adapt and I know I just need to keep playing everyday as much as possible and it will come but sometimes it’s just hard. I have my days… my moments… where my playing is on and I keep saying I just gotta’ play my game and not let them throw me off kilter. Right now I’m maining Ken, who arguably is one of the weakest in the cast because of his nerfs between betas and after today I am really thinking about switching characters.
If you wanna play and train together I’d be more than happy to help each other out. I’m trying to find some training partners in addition to trying to find a really experienced sf player to help me out a bit. Sorry for the long post but just keep at it man… it will pay off if you stick with it.
My goal is to hopefully start competing in tournaments and see how far I can take it. What I’ve been doing is making a point to play at the same time everyday and I play for as long as I can until I start getting really aggrevated and start getting angry at losses then I will take a break. Sometimes I’ll play something different for a while and then go back later and sometimes I’ll just call it quits for the day.
I took a few years off fighting games, came back and I’m pretty bad too. Not only that, having some bad luck with laggy matches and people rage quitting at the last moment before they lose.
Just keep playing, you will get good at dealing with bullshit and you will think faster. Find people to play with offline for extended sets (like 100 games in a row) and seek out local tourneys. Get crushed until you get better.
This is all super helpful guys 
Im consistently bronze but still throwing away some matches and facepalming hard, I am having more fun now just sticking to casual matches trying out new fighters rather than just maining camy 24/7 on ranked. Also I KNOW that my rank means nothing to ANYONE at all like who cares, but the problem is I care for some reason and if I keep seeing rookie that puts me off, having my points between 700-1000 now though puts me at ease xD I just play and play till I get mad then i back off and play something else. All the above posts are helpful and make sense if you’re in the same boat as me
Try playing when drunk.
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Not too drunk though, but when I’m buzzed, I can hit confirm like no one’s business off one hit with like 99% success rate.
Your not alone @Darteiga i find a good sfv session quite depressing too. Iv found sf5 to reward defense alot more than im used to in 4. The player on the attack performing block strings have pretty much all the advantage - dont even think of hitting a button its frame trap city thats a sure way of getting blown up. On wakeup my gosh dont even think of hitting a button either. From my perspective i nearly think that the wakeup options for the defending player are way too limited. Im a low level player and this is what iv learnt after the first few days.
#1 defense.
#2 get a safe combo sorted out from the ground and cross up.
#3 work out a good frame trap
#4 anti air
#5 combo into ur c.a
I think once i can do all this i should be randomly competative lol!
If it makes you feel any better, I have been playing street fighter for a long time and I can honestly say that I am not doing so hot in this game.
I went on a 30 win streak in the beta (its not much compared to others) but now that the main game is out I went on a 9 win streak at 1st, then I lost, 11 win streak after that then I havent won since LOL I am probably on a 20+ losing streak now. I am freakin tired and I am still playing, I am hella on tilt but I keep going. I kicked my desk 20 times earlier coz I was so pissed off. I should probably stop and go to bed already.
On top of all this I spent so much on this game. I bought a TE2, Collectors edition, another copy coz amazon didn’t ship my collectors edition in time, strategy guide and the season pass. I aint stopping until I am where I was in USF4, but it’s looking pretty grim for me LOL I really need to sleep. I am hella scrubbin it out sigh
Yeah, I am just at the point where:
A: I Barely win
or
B: I get bodied.
30… 30 losing streak. I am not this bad really LOL What sucks too is I’ve been a stick player since SF2 and now for SFV i freakin prefer pad. What a waste of $250 on the TE2
=(