In general, I just use whichever character I enjoy playing as. however, I do tend to gravitate towards lesser used characters, simply because I enjoy variety. Playing against the Shotos, Chun-Li, and Yun all day can get really, REALLY boring.
Lilica says Hard Work = no payoff :arazz:
Which GG? Cause in the last two installments, Anji’s been pretty high.
I’ve read each up to this point. Lots of good shit posted. A lot share similar points but some stand out with stuff.
I’m all for sticking with one character to really get the most out of them, and potentially your own skill. But I have to agree with the entry on the front page of SRK, the Evolution Tips and Tricks written by Alex Wolfe. Where he recomends you play other characters to better prepare for competetive play. I use to think forcing myself to play characters I normally wouldn’t choose wouldn’t help my game much. However now? I think it’s essential. I just find that I not only learn character weaknesses and strengths more, I feel them and truly understand them more.
While the tiers don’t automatically dictate who I play, it’s certainly a part of my consideration.
I play Bison in ST and Chun Li in 3s, even though I like Guile and Alex’s movesets and mechanics more, respectively. However, after a certain number of defeats, I decided I didn’t like losing much, and switched to better characters.
I play to win. If that means picking a low tier character because they’re my best character, then cool.
It depends on the game, really. In 3s, I’ll pcik whoever. (It’s not blanaced, but it is to the point in which most characters are useful imo.) But in MvC2, If I want to win, I pick Cable.
again, i really don’t feel i need to play another character to understand situations like this
unless a player uses their character incorrectly/in a highly unorthodox fashion …
RAHHHH FIGHTING GAMES WHY MUST YOU BE COMPLICATED LIKE MATH EQUATION
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I usually just pick characters that I like. In SF, I go for the simplicity of shotos, and I’ve even seriously used Sean before. I do switch up with Hugo and Alex on occassion, so I cover the entire tier range here. In Tekken, however, I play as Lei Wulong, by no means a simple character, and he’s bottom in T5, and high in DR. In KOF, Terry and Iori are usually staples of mine, but I’ve started using Ash and Eiji in KOF XI, so you have low-to-high there. In Soul Calibur, I use Siegfried/Nigthmare, who was mid-high in SC2 (iirc) and mid in SC3. So,yeah, what fits me doesn’t seem to even have a pattern at all!
I pick a character that “feels” right. Sometimes it’s a top tier character, other times it isn’t.
I usually will choose the top or higher tiered characters first because I feel like I have a better chance to win with them. But eventually I realize that I am more comfortable with other characters and have a better chance of winning with them even if they are low or mid tier. Tiers do effect my initial judgment on how I want to play as but eventually it changes and I don’t care anymore.
Picking “bottom tier” characters can be fun and beastly(gief sucks but 2 solid set-ups ggpo)
that extra work you put into developing solid setups and executing perfectly is part of picking a char with less advantage, some players are into that concept of more work for the same goal.
low tier marvel can be pretty hilarious too, shitty characters running around doing unblockables + dhcs for 100% life:smokin:
anyone ever been amused by watching somone do a “new” set-up with a lower tier character? Working with the engine and finding new ways to fight is always good stuff.
I find that I pick characters based on how interesting and fun their gameplay mechanics are, and how well they can mix up those options in a viable manner. Of course, more often than not, these characters end up being high tier simply because they have options that the rest of the cast lacks; for example top tiers + second tier in marvel have crazy stuff that’s fun to learn like airdash mixups, fly/unfly, neat guardbreaks and infinites.
Similarly, I enjoy playing a2 Rolento and Gief as they’re strong characters that have a variety of fun ways of working to control the match; no one else in A2 has as fun a runaway/lockdown game as Rolento, or tick throw / jump spam mixup like Gief.
To me it’s not really a big coincidence that most top tiers are fun to play because more often than not they have really cool or ‘broken’ stuff that people are forced to deal with in different ways. On the other hand though, there is a contingent of top tiers that I don’t enjoy playing as much since they win due to having a single overpowering option / style of play. While I still enjoy using those top tiers in the Sirlin ‘play to win’ sense, it can get a bit mind numbing at times if I don’t need to bother exploring any of their other options.
for example, 98 ralf can be pretty boring to play at times, but then again i still use him regularly since it’s just so satisfying to land hcf+k. BAM
I choose regardless of tier listing. Then again I don’t really “play to win at any cost”. I play to win, I just don’t care about it so much that I only play top tier characters, which 95% of the time I find them boring because they’re usually strong but really 1 dimensional. Not being bored>winning in my book.
But I don’t have a problem with other people only using top tier. I just tend to pick mid/low tier characters who have solid and interesting gameplay. I won’t touch garbage tier for the same reason I don’t touch top tier usually: too one dimensional and boring.
i’m not really particular about tiers because when a new game comes, it doesn’t really matter what you choose because you’re still learning every character, same with everybodyelse, and as times goes by, that’s when you get to choose what character you really like to play and that gives you a better chance to win too. ex in SF EX, i really love dhalsim and zangief in that game, even though the top tier is guile, i can still beat all top guile players, and it was fun beating them with that chars too.
but in my case with mvc2, it was late 2004 when i started playing it because i semi retired in playing games to focus on my studies around 2001, so when i got back to the fighting game scene, most people already know the best characters to play, so i have no time to play and learn with low tiers because they would own me if i did and the only way too learn here in our place is to play in the arcade. so, i have no choice but to play top tiers. but now, i’m the top dog in mvc2 here, i can now afford to learn low tiers and as of the moment is learning low tiers because it’s fun and i can also win with them which is much more fun.
so overall, i want to win with every character if possible.
While tiers are a good tool i pick characters i understand, it doesnt matter whether they are top or low. Playing to win isn’t black and white in my opinion. You can win with all characters its just how much effort you want put in to make them work.
I’m pretty sure he was low in #r, maybe I’m wrong, not a huge GG player.
Anji was bottom in #R, high in Slash and pretty low in AC.
I play fucking White Len in MBAC, that should fucking explain it.
That explains nothing to most of the people on SRK. :arazz:
I think I have a natural attraction to characters with shitty defense.
Other than that, I just play whoever I think looks cool or whatever and eventually (if the character happens to kind of suck) I’ll either decide the character is fucking worthless or I’ll try to make it work for the hell of it (CVS2 Ryo).
I don’t have anything against top tier, though (except Chun-Li in just about every game she’s in because I just have grown to hate that character so much regardless of how good or bad she is in that respective game).
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