Basically, the point of this thread is to ask you guys how do you handle situations in which certain actions in game, must be performed by pressing two or more buttons simultaneously? Are you right/left handed? Do you use a stick/gamepad/keyboard? Which fingers do you use to perform action X? Do/did you have any problems with it in your learning process, or did it come naturally?
I’m asking for all this for two reasons:
1.) Nobody ever really talked about this (at least that’s what uncle Google told me)
2.) For the life of me, I can’t perform a damn throw EVEN IN THE LAB.
But first things first, I’m still a scrub, but an open-minded one. I want to learn, I understand the importance of spacing, I’m able to utilise footsies, read my opponents, so on and so forth… Yet, countless times I’ve read my opponent going for a throw, and I’ve eaten it, because I CAN’T TECH.
Have you ever been suprised by a low PP dude, who forced you into playing footsies and even did some crispy links here and there, but you’ve never seen him go for a throw, EX attack, FA or Ultra, even once?
To speed things up: I’m right-handed, play USF4 via Steam, AE was my first fighter I took seriously, played on Keyboard and XBOX controller. Atm I’m using the latter because I find QCFs and all that stuff easier with stick. I binded throw and FA to the additional buttons, but I don’t want to learn it that way. I use the default bind scheme.
Now, the vital part, so you guys can grasp what I’m talking about here:
To perform a throw you need to press A+X - most naturally you’d use your thumb, as it lies right over them. But I know that many people can’t do that, including me, and found different tricks or binding schemes to do so. What’s my trick? I need to change my grip to keyboard, and rotate my hand 90 degrees counterclockwise so that index and middle finger rest on A & X.
OH MY G… Hey,wait. It’s not that terrible really, many new players ha-
… Then I have to look at my hand
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… Ignoring completely what happens on screen, and transfer my whole willpower, my identity, my hopes and dreams, and carbs from dinner, into the middle finger, to boost its might to be on par with index’s fabled power level; then thrust both into the depths of destiny.
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… So that I have a 70% chance a LK does not come out.
Yeah, I really went out of my way to describe such a trivial problem, but I wanted you to have an uderstanding of the scale. Of course this transfers to every duo (or trio) of fingers, every combination of buttons, every controller.
If anything, Street Fighter taught me I will never need to buy a piano.