Hi everyone. I’m pretty new to USFIV but not new to fighting games in general. I’m a fairly scrubby player who understands how to do specials and stuff like that but executing them in-game is a problem. I mash out combo’s relatively easily in training but when it comes to online play, it ends up me just spamming lk, hoping that something amazing comes out.
I started playing a bit more serious with Adon and was doing okay but now I’m trying Yun and its just soooo frustrating playing others when they are like leagues ahead of you in terms of skill. How do I improve if everyone around me is already so much better than me? Training mode can only help for so much.
Keep playing those better players. Sure, it’ll be frustrating, but it’ll be much better for you in the long run. There’s nothing wrong with playing people you’d consider around your level, either. That’s what I started out doing before challenging players that were much more skilled than myself. Also, try to focus on not spamming and hoping for a good outcome. It might be okay every now and then, but it’s a bad habit to have.
I always made it a point to play players much better than myself. It’d often allow me to see when I was doing unsafe nonsense and other areas that I had to make adjustments in. I know the feeling of thinking everyone else is several levels above you. Just stay at it. You’ll get better.
When you find people that are on your level or better yet, slightly above, add them to your friend list and play long sets against them.
Socializing is imperative for fighting games .
I thought it was just me. I’ve had my butt kicked so many times in this last fortnight it’s a joke. As frustrating as it is, it’s actually made me more determined to get better. Won’t be a noob forever!
Just keep playing. Most people you meet online had years of a headstart, so keep that in mind. Best thing you can do is to just play it out, make learning your goal above all. Spamming stupid attacks against live opponents is totally normal. It’s just your brain, while having the combos stored in your memory, it doesn’t have a list of situations when you should actually do said combos. You have to slowly move from “he missed…omg, what do I do?”, through “oh crap, I should’ve punished here!”, along “damn it, not with a throw!”, all the way to “lol noob, murder time!”.
Be humble, be honest to yourself and be prepared to accept the fact, that you might not see real results until SF5 is out. Unless Ultra is around to stay for at least 2+ years. Get hundreds of hours in the game.
Play a lot. Play to understand your opponents’ tendencies, get character setups in your head. When you stop reacting and start predicting, it all gets easier. Take breaks if getting burned out.
Watch your replays. Find your mistakes. Fix those mistakes. Watch again.
For combo practice, I recommend playing Arcade Mode on Easiest and ONLY do the combo’s you’ve been working on. This will give you a chance to figure out how to do combos on a training dummy that moves around occasionally. After that, increase the difficulty so the computer blocks a little bit and then increase it a little more.
I’d also recommend playing Endless mode instead of Ranked. You’ll learn more by playing the same person(s) a few times rather than playing a few matches against all different people. Look for a lobby that says “Beginners Welcome” or “Less Than 1000 PP”. You’re more likely to find people your level here. If there isn’t a lobby, make one yourself.
there is a world of difference in doing a combo in training mode and doing it on a real person. To get over these nerves just play matches online and instead of focusing on winning, focus on landing the combo. After a while and many losses you will start hitting the combos with regularity. How long? depends on how much match nerves you have to work thru. Some people are more nervous than others and thats ok
Try to play against the same person as much as you can, even if they’re miles ahead of you.
My friend that comes over to play beats me every time when he plays with characters he’s familiar with, but I can learn something from each match and carry it on to the next match. Even if he doesn’t use the same character, I’m still learning his playstyle and getting better at playing against him.
When I played online against some many different players and characters, it was hard to remember what I had learned from previous matches. For instance, I can play against an Ibuki online and learn some things about playing against her, but then I’ll play 20 other characters before I see another Ibuki and by then I’ve forgotten whatever I had learned in the first place.
