Why learning fighting game through match videos are not good?

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i had a friend who is good in 3rd strike , well he advices me not to learn stuff from the match video so much …

and yeah , he told me to play against some good and intermidate players more , then rather staying home seating down infront of a PC and watch those match vids …

( yagami , if you read this thread . IOY advices me that :stuck_out_tongue: )

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because you won’t understand what’s going on until you’ve become a lot better yourself.

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You don’t want to learn the advanced straegies before the basic ones.

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Well it’s like any other sport. You don’t get good by watching matches. Some kid might watch basketball games 10 hours a day and learn advanced shit some pros use. But if there’s another kid out there playing for 10 hours a day, he’s going to kill the kid who watches games in a real game. Don’t get me wrong, watching other people play is important. You can pick stuff up you might not of known and use it yourself. But don’t spend the majority of your time watching. Spend 99% of your time playing and 1% watching vids. Just to pick up new strats.

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Watching video have a few advantages:

  • If you are really a professional/hardcore player, you can learn the pattern of your opponent in advance.
  • If you know the basic, you can start to understand what’s really going on.
  • You maybe able to pick up some unexpected combo and the overall strategy used by other players.
  • It is entertaining.

However, I am learning 100 times more by writing faqs about SF3 than watching Daigo parrying some Chun-Li player. For example, I don’t fear anymore the unusual characters like Q because I know his limitations.

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u cant beat gill…stfu already

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experience > learning through footage in the long run.
you can watch 3324324 vids but if you don’t truly understand whats going on and why, it won’t help you.
it’d help more if you actually went out and get experience while also going home and watching some match vids.

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videos are best for learnin advanced tricks that you havent seen/tried for yourself.

become intermediate and then u can get something from the match vids

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IMO if u watch match videos 2things u can learn

Skills that u should abuse
How to defend that move when someone else uses

Also u get to start using other characters u never thought of
i never used sagat in CVS2 but after watching Vids i found out Sagat is good for almost all the grooves and also his
d+MK, HCBx2 HP :clap:

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Watching vids is ok but you have to teach your hands to execute u know? It’s all about muscle memory.

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I have a friend and all he does is watch vids and mimics what other players do. I told him to just to experiment on your own and play other people but he doesn’t do it. He’ll beat all the scrubs with combos from the combo videos he sees but he still can’t beat me and I hardly watch videos cuz I still have a 56K modem.

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i use match vids to possibly learn a new trick or see if they react to something differently than i do, but i dont let it change my game. ill take something i read in a thread, or watched and see if it applies to my matches.i keep the stuff that works for and ill usually ditch those that dont. plus sometimes its nice to see if some of my tricks are being used by higher level players. so i reccomend playing alot matches but dont forget to play a variety of people. take me in third strike for example, i can deal with ken and chun alright, but fighting yun and twelve(yes, yes, proceed to laugh me out the building) gives me a hard time. sure ive seen what they can do but you need to play them to be able to counter and react.

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Theres a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path. :tup:

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i watch videos all the time because yes i know the combos, but videos help me know when to do them and which ones to do with who but i’m always in training mode and playing anyone i can i don’t care if they’re scrubs

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I just like watching match videos, not really to study or anything although sometimes I do pick up something. I just like watching them period.

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I learned so many possibilities from watching the vids. But I couldn’t of put it into a real combo unless I practiced. In another words, the vids let me know what is possible, but practice is the only way to get “the wheel rolling”.

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I’ve learned a couple things from match videos at my skill level, but I watch them mostly for enjoyment, because I don’t have the free time or the means to seek out real competition.

Besides which, most of the useful stuff I’ve learned from match videos hasn’t been fancy combos or unblockables or other fancy stuff that I can’t hope to pull off consistently at my level, but little stuff.

Stuff like what pokes will snuff what and when, what to do in the awkward quiet moments trying to provoke a response from an opponent, easy ways to punish huge whiffs or blocked moves with terrible recovery, that kind of thing. THAT’S the kind of stuff I’ve attempted to use against my friends and found success with in low-level casual play, rather than fucking up Ken’s b + MK -> SA3 or Remy Light of Virtue traps until I’m blue in the face.

But make no mistake, I do play the game most of all in order to improve my game. It’s just that my game can’t go much of anywhere anyway, considering I only fuck around with my friends, who are sub-par players like myself.

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This is aimed at ANYONE who will mention this to me again:

  1. Your comment is bringing nothing worth to the thread.
  2. What the fuck does that has to do with anything?
  3. Do I know you? Who the hell are you? You want me to go through your old posts and prove your IQ is quite low? DONE!! http://shoryuken.com/forums/search.php?searchid=97664 well you are quite a flamer. You have obviously no life.

“well im mexican and i just eat my toilet paper after im done wiping my ass…”

And even if this was supposed to be a joke, you are racist and your joke sucks.

  1. Try to beat Gill with Twelve in the arcade. Then we talk anything you want.
  2. Not being able to beat a game doesn’t mean you suck in a game. If I recall correctly, Justin Wong finally beat MvC2 a few months ago.
  3. Being able to beat a game like SF3 means that you know the pattern of the computer. I try to challenge myself into NOT following the winning pattern anymore. I am usually playing the computer like I play any player. That’s why I can rarely ever beat that game.

Your post was useless. You’re a waste of my time. Now I think about it, I want my minute back!

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Took the words right out of my mouth :wow: expecially watching japanase players in videos they are the best and most exicting to watch IMO :karate:

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I can beat Gill with almost any character and I suck. =]