Well I hate to say this but you’ve been wasting your time. You say you have trouble pressuring while thinking, but you instead spend your time practicing a very situational, high-execution reset? That cr.HP stuff is only something you should be doing towards the end of your training, and there’s a lot of things you should practice before you even think about learning resets.
Just read the Ibuki Training Regimen. It should explain everything (or most things).
okay : (
I don’t know where you live, but like I said if you really, really want to learn about advanced pressure, baiting, etc those do come out naturally, but to learn really good footsies then what you have now, is to do them offline. You can only do so much online before you realize these thing’s are hard to pull off offline in a match. Offline really gives you the experience you need to prepare against much tougher opponents offline if you really wish to learn. Because if you start to feel more pressured, less confident and drop combo’s, it WILL prevent you to learn what you’ve done before.
By all means, I don’t speak for you and you can do whatever you want with Ibuki. You can remain online forever and terrorize people with your excellent execution skills and be proud of it. But if you want to be great and not some ‘person’ that nobody knows you, then listen to what other people are telling you: practice those simple combo’s, BnB’s and later on it’ll be much easier to style on somebody once you slowly use them offline and get used to it.
Since you don’t have an offline scene around you, online is still a great place to practice and fix that “getting destroyed by retarded people” problem of yours, as long as it doesn’t lag. When you play a lot with those types of players, it will get easier to know how to bait unsafe moves and when to expect it. Another thing is, just go for basic stuff. You can pretty much beat a lot of people online with basics. Try to work on fundamentals first before trying to go fancy with combos. There’s not much point on practicing long combos when you don’t know how to apply it in a real match except for honing your execution.
One very important thing to practice is your punishes. At some point online stops to be really productive because you can just stick to retarded vortex and beat the crap out of 90% of XBL players.
I’m assuming you already know how to anti air (if you don’t, go straight to it. One of the most important things to know ^^ )
Go to training mode. Set Akuma, Ryu doing a sweep. Punish it with U2. Get that reaction all the time.
Practice all of those very important situational punishes (U1 vs Fei Long’s rekkas or Balrog’s TAP, U2 vs sweeps or EX Psycho crusher, neckbreaker vs Cammy’s whiffed DP…) and you’ll see how amazingly you’re gonna improve, because you won’t allow your opponent to do any kind of unsafe move (even those hardly unsafe like Fei Long’s 2nd EX Rekka)
This is my personal opinion, but I know that one thing I’ve been missing for a loooong time is, being good at punishes. Playing a lot of Aquasilk and failing at punishing a whiffed SPD all the time made me realize how bad I was at punishes. Time to get those punishes ready for NEC.
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Welcome to offline play #1 Ibuki.
Damn… That’s gotta hurt his pride.
Actually he used to boost with Nazghoul according to xWAx members. Dunno if that’s true or not.
According to his performance in that matchup, it would certainly seem true, LOL.
I don’t get the purpose of whiffing those normals in the beginning.
It’s often a good way to pretend as if you’re going to attack, force proximity block, or shift timing of your attacks in order to bait a poke. Basically it keeps your opponent off guard, but that guy just did it randomly while ignoring the fact that he has to pay attention to what his opponent is doing.
Top tier tactic online, but not something that’s going to work offline, where your reactions play a much bigger role in your gameplay.
I think he was just doing it at a habit. lol. It really didn’t serve a purpose other than feeling each other out. Kinda reminds me of Third Strike, although that built meter at the same time.
In SC we spam in the beginning of the game at hundreds of actions per minute, while most of it gets wasted - it does get your fingers “warmed up” and u get “into the rhythm”. I think it was more to keep his mental state alert than anything else.
^ yep lol his mental state of “The more buttons I push, the better my chances of winning!”
It also stemmed in part to the WC3 glitch where it actually made your buildings construct half a second faster.
Also, that’s at a point where you KNOW your opponent cannot threaten you in anyway, so there isn’t much else to do. In fighting games, the second the announce says, “FIGHT”, you should be on guard at all times, since the enemy can attack at the start.
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Also I’m pretty sure it originated in SC1 (before WC3).
AFAIK it helped glitch out the progress bar and made buildings build a split second faster. Probably just a myth, but there wasn’t much else to do in the first minute, so people did that.
But yeah, people also did it in SC1. Heck, it was being done in WC2 as well. I was just talking about other factors that kind of help contributed to its popularity prior to SC2.
I can’t find out anything Google. But either way, I don’t think a split second difference was that huge.
I know for a fact that if you were Orc or Human (Undead and Night Elf cannot do this, obviously), and if your town hall was like diagonal from the goldmine, then you can “micro” your workers to make them harvest just as fast with 4 workers or something like that.
Found video proof here:
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Sorry, this discussion has nothing to do with Ibuki lol. Just reminiscing about my WC3 past I guess.
Yeah, I remember that little trick when my friends were big into WC3 back in the day. Personally, I couldn’t be bothered to learn that, it was far more important for me, at that time, to just play CS. lol.
And the split second difference thing wasn’t that huge, but fuck it, not much else to do, why not spam clicks and raise APM like mad. Could’ve been a local rumor, I don’t know.
