I’m garbage tier at all fighting games, just good enough to make me feel awkward and bad when I crush true casuals, but fighting games have lent a kind of precision to my mentality in all areas of life. Something about pressing advantage, the importance of timing, and dissecting the situation. I’ve learned to have an inner focus when facing difficulties (school tests, trying to talk to a hot girl) because the most important thing at any time is to REMEMBER YOUR OPTIONS.
How to correctly ‘Kongou Kokuretsu Zan’ an arcade stick in frustration.
Street Fighter has taught me what it means to be salty, mad, mad salty and free.
Fighting games are in the process of teaching me not to respect my opponent unless they give me a reason to. I have a habit of being too cautious and safe, but you should be able to feel the right time to take a risk. I often lose to players who are below my level because I give them too much credit. If something works, I’ll think “better switch it up before they catch on” when I should be thinking “do this(xN) until they figure it out”.
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Stop. Fucking. Jumping.
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Throws piss off scrubs
Among teaching me to be patient, the competitive mindset, and the art of adaptation, fighting games have improved my decision making skills. Risk and reward mean so much more to me now than it did before.
Street Fighter taught me to think of money, not in terms of nickels, dimes and cents, but in quarters.
lots of em.
Street Fighter taught me that its not easy to wake up
British boxers have terrible uppercut’s.
Also if you knock someone down in a real fight. Be prepared for them to back dash. When then do you RTSD and get in there!
Taught me how to keep calm during competitive gaming. I was at a small tourni the other week. I could see the guys sitting next to me, getting all panicky. I was about to say chill it’s just a game, but then I remembered I used to be like that. So I just said, the day you sat down and picked up your stick to play me, may be the greatest day of your life, but for me it’s Saturday and I’m missing the footy so hurry up.
SF4 taught me I should stick to FPS games.
Just learning a bit of SF3 has taught me
- Learn my normals. This helps with pokes, crossups, mixups, and can sometimes be used to AA.
- Knowing when to grab so Im not mashing grab like 80% of players on MvC3.
C. Reading my opponent and/or predicting them.
Real men don’t have nipples.
Street Fighter taught me how to sexually harass people
It taught me that I’ll be crushed if I dare attack anyone. When I’m in action, people look at me like I’m a joke, but that’s because I’m not a warrior–I’m a beginner. So I was advised to go home and become a family man.
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it taught me how to get into fighting games and look into more games like this 
Have confidence
Commit to things 100%
It taught me a lot of basic fighting mechanics that I can now widely apply to dozens of other fighters I love, and also was the first fighter in which showed me the true feeling of competitiveness within a video game.
Hong Kong is op.
Fighters have taught me that creativity, unconventional tactics, and sheer willpower, can still win the day even against seemingly insurmountable odds. A lot of this comes from maining characters i liked over the years that happened to be low-tier, and working to make them viable.
Hate to sound like a low-tier whore but…i believe playing them teaches more discipline, patience, and better long term fighting game fundamentals than high-tiers do.