Problem with online is that inputs may work one day and the next day something will make them less responsive.
so except developing your own strategy and judge the opponents, you also have to worry about lag and inputs.
Unless you play the same people with good connections.
99% of the time, if a veteran is still bad at fighting games, it’s because of limitations they’ve chosen to put on themselves. They don’t want to “cheat” and use top characters or use internet resources to study. They don’t like training mode and would prefer to play ranked, making excuses and focusing on the one positive thing they’ve done rather than shining a spotlight on the negatives.
I should know, my natural reaction times and relative skill in fighting games is pretty average, but through hard work I’ve gotten top 16 at a few majors and win most of my locals. Unless you have an actual physical or mental condition in your way, there is no excuse not to succeed.
People who want to play games where you don’t have to make an effort will never find fighting games appealing, and thus it might look like they will never be good, but that’s only because of the lack of interest.
- Have a Celestial Being pointing an Assualt Rifle at a new player’s head every second of the day.
- That new player will shot repeatedly, revived, and then shot repeatedly for an infinite amount of times if he does not become competent at the game within a few years or so.
- That new players has the Internet, his fighter of choice, and SRK/Dustloop/Whatever at his fingertips. Youtube, too, of course.
- That new player WILL improve.
My point is, really any typical person can become a force to be reckoned with at fighters… If they have the drive to bust their ass and go for it. With the myriads of information available online, all it’d take is some dedication and good all hard-work for anyone to get good. A lot of us are just terribly lazy and/or little bitches. We want to bust ass and body people all day, but sitting in the Lab, mashing out BnBs, doing some research on SRK, learning/adapting, asking questions, or applying anything sounds like “mad work”. And that mindset is the lack of drive or motivation personified.
imo the only way to get better is to fight somebody better then you.
if you play somebody better then you they will expose you on your bad habits and teach you not to do them.