Got back from the team tournament now. Went 0-2 in teams, largely due to matchup-inexperience against one of the best Eddy players and one of the best Yoshi players in Norway. The casuals afterwards were really fun though, and I managed to take games off of people I previously have had no chance against. Nice to see progress.
Learning the matchups against Eddy, Xiaoyu and Yoshi are definitely one of my biggest priorities going forward. All those three are pretty popular here, so it’s going to be a roadblock unless I understand how to beat them.
Good stuff! Quite the blessing too; being exposed to good Eddy/Yoshi players. With how free they make me look, I’d certainly welcome it myself, lol.
Still pissed at a friend of mine, who wanted to main Xiaoyu, played the game once, against me, then proceeded to never bother again. Not someone who’s scared of fighting games either, not at all. Just got too comfy with not sucking in those games, not wanting to be a newbie in yet another franchise. Sigh, there goes that matchup gold mine.
hey thats interesting and im thinking
we should all list the most popular characters in our area the ones you gotta learn the matchup for. or the ones that you will see in tournament
I know for me its jack and our best player uses mishimas so you have to learn those matchups.
law is another one i gotta sit down with
made savior with akuma
now just devil jin left and then onto overlord
We have a lot of Eddy (unsurprising), Xiaoyu (not all that surprising) and Yoshimitsu (surprising), so I need to be prepared for those. Dragunov, Feng and the Mishimas all have several good players behind them too, but I do a lot better against those than against the more unorthodox characters. Dragunov is pretty straightforward, and I’ve played Feng and Mishimas enough to know how to deal with them.
There’s also players with one character that are likely to give me trouble, in particular Lee, Miguel, Law and Hwoarang, but that’s just one player each. Furthermore, those guys aren’t beating me mainly because I don’t know the matchup, they’re just better players than me currently, so learning the MU isn’t quite as high a priority yet.
I still think it’s a pretty huge advantage for me that nobody else plays Leo around here, even though everyone acknowledges that she’s incredibly strong. I don’t feel I mostly win based on people being inexperienced against her, but the rounds where I get the wall against someone who doesn’t know how to deal with her wall game often end in fireworks, which can very easily make the difference in a tournament.
i had a xiaoyu player who unfortunately didnt sticked to the game even tho he said he likes it. learned to play very patient against her and to hopkick her backturn stand…thats it…
Man, I’m bad against lows. Had a friend play Kazuya, ate every single hellsweep. So we focused on that a little more, but despite him spamming it half the time for the sake of practice, for like 10 matches straight, I still couldn’t predict or react to a single one. Sure, he’s pretty good with hiding the dash beforehand, but…
…is there any rule of thumb I’m not getting? Some secret Discord tech? Or do I just have the reactions of a sloth zombie? :lol:
You can’t react to hell sweeps generally when facing a Mishima you have to predict humans don’t react you have to follow his movements…And pick up on habits.
You can react to the crouch dash motion but they have so many options like instant while standing moves, Electrics, command grabs, hellsweep and ff moves. If they hit the brakes they can cancel into other moves.
Yeah, that’s what he told me too. I can’t imagine tackling all those options anytime soon, when the hellsweep alone gives me so much trouble. Will be a rough learning experience for sure.
If he’s going in at predictable timings you can often just snipe him on the way in with a mid-hitting keepout-move (mid-hitting to ensure he doesn’t crush your high with a hellsweep or something). This does mean pre-empting them entirely, so you might get whiff punished if they wavedash forward and then backdash/sidestep to bait out your move, but it means you avoid the mixup entirely if it works, and get rewarded with some (often decent) damage.
You can also sidewalk to your left in anticipation to avoid most of the wavedash-options, which also gives you a whiff punish.
This Weekend 10/7-8 TWFighter Major Schedule & Brackets ft JDCR Saint Knee qudans NOROMA AK & more
10/7-8 TaiwanFighter Major 2017 http://twfmajor.com/
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/tekken
Bracket CST UTC+8 UTC PDT UTC-7
Pools Sat 1200-1400 Sat 0400-0600 10/6 Fri 9p-11p
Top8 Sat 1400-1500 Sat 0600-0700 10/6 Fri 11p-12a
Top4 Sun 1400-1600 Sun 0600-0800 10/7 Sat 11p-1a
Brackets & Notables:
Group A
Saint, Jeondding, OKAY, Pekos, Doujin
Group B
NOROMA, Tsubumi, Dimeback, OKATY, kkokkoma
Group C
JDCR, Lili Man, qudans, Book
Group D
Knee, AK, Chanel, Kurokuro
Accidentally found out that Xiaoyu can combo So Shoe Me (f2+3) into another throw when the opponent’s back is against the wall, thus giving me 65 damage as a result. I wouldn’t expect that to even work.
With how free they make me look, I’d certainly welcome it myself, lol.