Silly Habits?

Funny you mention that, one session online, I decided that I was just going to stop jumping in. I must’ve jab->Hammer at least 10 times. It felt amazing.

Old habits seem to die hard, although I did make an honest attempt to cut down on my jump-ins on specific characters.

MUST STOP MY 2 in 1 Canon Drills w/ my Cammy… Sometimes I do drill w/out even thinking straight into wake up DP/upticks/supers/what have yous. Such a bad habit of mine:arazz:

  • I always do the Fei overhead kick as meaty if the opponent will die from it. I rarely do it when he has a lot of life, and I rarely just alternatively chip away life at the end of the round.
    Guess it worked a few times too many so I kept doing it.

  • When me and my opponent end up face to face, crouching defensively, although you can smell each other breath, I sometimes stay locked. Because I decided I wanted to defend, so I just wait until he does attack. I can see him thinking the exact same thing just sitting there. It’s as if we both just saw a ghost, with blank stares in out eyes.
    I know I should just throw the damn guy, but the fear of doing just as he whips out any quick move makes that impossible for me. The lockdown can last up to 5 seconds :slight_smile:

When I want to do Claw’s super from my opponent’s wall, I always end up doing the Scarlet Terror instead. :confused:

I main Cammy, So I’m very inclined to blindly and predictably jump in with her MP too often when things aren’t going my way.

I also miss opportunities for tick throws more often than I would like.

Sometimes overall, I just don’t use enough variety in my attacks.

This.

My Dee Jay is so pedictable on knockdown, I’ve been trying to nail j.mk cross-up, into 3 x jab, into kicks, with no luck mind you - but I do it on every knockdown anyway.

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long list

-spamming DP’s on wake-up

-spamming whiff DP’s trying to bait them to try to poke and get hit.

-being obsessed with landing Ochio/SPD/Storm Hammer

-basically wanting to do the move that I think is cool instead of the move that needs to be done.

-Still jump too much after all these years. :frowning:

  • Trying to finish a dizzied opponent with 1% vitality with a super when I could just standing fierce. I often fuck up and get killed.

-hold back on using cheap tactics or top tier characters. Years of forcing myself to hold back so my friends wouldn’t get bored and give up have given me a permanent mental block against using the best strategies and made me complacent in my own skills. I actually used to be good with O. Sagat years ago in ST, but I gave him up for the sake of my friends. Now I can’t play him for shit. I am slowly reversing this with HDR and it’s constant supply of incredible players who kick my ass every night.

-Walk forward, sweep. Or trying punish a whiffed DP with a sweep.

-Superitis

  • Trying stupid shit that I know I have no chance of hitting. Sure, I can do short short short super!

  • even attempting FAB/Mexican Typhoon to finish a match.

-Charging all the way FINAL! when I could have just killed my opponent.

  • CW’ing against grapplers
  • CW’ing at medium distance through fireballs
  • CW’ing at screen length to close in

Any half decent player either grabs or scoops me.

  • Jumping over of a fireball zone as soon as my opponent allows me, DP’ing me.
  • Trying to grab cross-up attempts because it ‘looks close’
  • Trying to counter a jumping Akuma, just to get hit by an Air FB the whole damn time
  • Trying to tech-throw people with holds throws

Sometimes, I jump at Guile. :frowning:

I don’t know if I’m to blame, or the controller. The most annoying habit thus far has been pressing the start button in the middle of an online match. It happens quite frequently. I’m using the standard 360 controller, by the way.

The other is jumping when I really call myself only moving forward or backwards. Meh. I’m going to call Best Buy in a few to see if they got those pads in yet.

Old Habits:

I tried to anticipate jump ins with Ken’s FDP and Super way too much.

Current Habits:

I use the jump in fierce/low sweep combo excessively. It takes me about a round before I realize that I should mix it up.

I also walk into Hadokens like it’s my job.

3s is the worst for this, trying to parry fireballs in ST is a pretty poor idea.

#1 silly that I do that pisses me off: I try to throw Cammy out of her hooligan. I have no clue why I always try this.

Yep, took a bit to get use to for me too. And then after playing STHD for so long, i went back to 3s and was fireballing and shoryuing like crazy. Not good.

A lot of guys have that problem, especially if the person they’re playing with is really good. It goes away with more experience. You might want to try focusing on other things, to take your mind off your super.

Sometimes, when I play with Blanka (or other non-fireballers) I start a round against Ryu/Ken/Sagat/Guile retreating, like I had a fireball…

thiissss

Sometimes I’ll jump in and know it’s gonna happen. I even say aloud “Damn, gonna get flashed”

crossup mk FDP…only works on scrubs.

reversals…

one fireball too many and getting kicked in the teeth

trying to do anything right after tatsu except block/throw

I do long ToD-like safe combos on blocking opponents waay too often…even when I can plainly see that they’re blocking. :slight_smile: I guess I figure it’s not like they can counter me anyway…but when I lose by less than a throw’s worth of damage, I realize that I should’ve stuck a throw in there somewhere.

Or play someone with a difficult to spam super.

I HATE when Honda gets a super meter. We both just end up sitting in the d/b position for 10 seconds waiting for the other to attack. I can’t jump or throw a projectile without getting nailed. He doens’t want to lose charge because he’s been spamming jab headbutts just to build that super. Eventually I walk foward all teh way and throw heh.

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