Then you will have a hard time with my Bison.
Well I haven’t really played SF seriously in a hot minute. I get used to it with characters I have experience against. So Bison isn’t that much of a problem but I’m still really cautious because his block strings are weird to me lol.
Nova and Spencer are a good example of characters that confuse me with block stun. I’m just kinda there like "is it safe now? Are you gonna cancel into something? "
i play with reflexes and unorthodox simple low damage comboes… sometime my reflexes is used against me and the liltle comboes i make up on the go just wont work in real time events…
i used to have a better defensive game… now i just try to please the crowd with crazy stunts and lucky cross counters… that kind of behaviour tend to cost me matches that i coulda shoulda would have won…
I tend to be a bit spammy with “safe” moves. which makes me predictable, though still decently strong at the intermediate level… I also have stupid character loyalty… but that’s what makes the game fun so whatever.
Why are they weird? I have never canceled into anything.
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Switching characters in the middle of a tournament. Only game that worked in is Injustice, and that’s because I switched to Superman.
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Respecting casual players. No offense to people who play casually, but when there’s nothing at stake and no incentive to get good/better, there’s no reason not to do stupid stuff. I use tricks and setups to get in their head when they aren’t using it. I try to analyze what they’re planning to do when they don’t even know themselves. If they win, great, if not, doesn’t matter.
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Not being aggressive enough and sensing when the opponent is intimidated.
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Cracking under pressure when I’m one match away from being eliminated.
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Getting too comfortable when I’m about to win the set.
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Finding additional fightpads in case the ones I have stop working.
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Severing my options. sometimes I won’t use moves/strats cause I either don’t favor them or they don’t work in most situations. I find myself in that position a lot when I play Ryu in SF4. You get to a point where you can’t throw plasma, the opponent won’t jump to get DPed, and tatsu can be punished on reaction. They’re playing defensive, and you’re not sure how to open them up. I can use throw, but throws can be teched so I won’t use it when in hindsight, they probably wouldn’t have seen it coming.
Regarding SF4…
For a year I took things seriously, meaning:
-I tried to get focused for many matches, straining myself
-I tried to adapt to ranked matches
-I trained 1 hour a day even though I couldnt accomplish much
-I was really angry when I lost and humiliated when I got double perfected
-tried to play defensively with some success
-I could beat people who hadnt touched that specific game before, if I was serious.
-I focused only on SF4
But I picked the worst and most difficult genre to get good at…
so with very few improvement and a hurt ego, I play now just for fun:
-dont take things seriously or even if I do I get tired after 2-3 matches.
-dropped ranked, moved to endless to play against the same opponents.
-avoid training. that thing is not for me! playing games since the 80s is enough already…
-dont care if I get double perfected or lose 20 games in a row, even against new players.
-no defence. hate to play that way! then I wonder why opponents hit my hits!
-even a kid who hasnt touched the game before can beat me with mashing…
-play other FG games and am demolished even more.
I keep my cool most of the time when I have a decent gameplan and strategy working, but if that falls through, I’m pretty impatient, and prone to mash and try risky/stupid shit when I’m being smacked hard…Which in turn gets me smacked even harder. It’s a nasty habit I got myself into, although I’ve managed to quell it somewhat over the years.
Hmm…those old games ST, 3s, VS, etc. are absolute masterpieces, I’ve avoided playing them for several years though. I’m trying really hard to stick with present games. Anyways to the topic!
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I NEVER hit training room, I work on combos/techs in matches. Cause damn it, I bought the game to have fun not for tedious practice on a training dummy!
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I am NOT a tier whore. Usually naturally I end up picking a decent or even strong character, however sometimes my love goes to a weakling.
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Especially in casual matches, I sometimes feel sympathy for my opponent if I have a big life lead. I’d like to beat them in close matches so they can feel good about themselves, rather than double perfect.
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Tunnel-vision. Sometimes I get too fixated on punishing a certain move or landing something in a certain way or even avoiding making a certain mistake. That fixation can lead to me getting killed in another area that I wasn’t paying attention to.
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Sometimes I’m too eager/impatient and try to chase and chip out the opponent when he has a sliver of life (because I honestly don’t want the round to go on any longer if it was a grind or don’t want their character to be alive because I fucking HATE them), but they’ll somehow enter the matrix and avoid everything and I’ll end up giving up the match that way.
-I don’t counter-pick. I play who I like and if that happens to give your character a harder time or my character a harder time then them’s the breaks.
-My hatred is my biggest strength and my biggest weakness. I feel like I play so much worse if a character or playstyle pissed me off, but you better believe if it pisses me off enough that I’ll be in the lab for hours on end optimizing my shit and making sure that you can get away with as little bullshit as possible.
Sometimes…
I take online seriously…
Just noticed my counter grabbing is terrible.
Learning stuff then forgetting to apply it to a match.
- I’m too rush down happy
- Takes me one round or character lost to understand opponent
- Not braking grabs
Surprise that people put character loyalty as a weakness.
I would say my biggest setback is reading my opponents. I fail to grasp simple opponent tendencies according to their character or their mindset after a round. Basically, I’m playing my own game instead of playing THE game. I do what I want with no regard of what the opponent will answer back with and it’s throwing my game off completely.
Another thing is my mindset. When I am playing a match, my mind is like NASCAR, racing everywhere and due to that I cannot make clutch decisions.
im terrible at fighting against zoning type characters.
this is exactly what I’m dealing with
Not respecting wake ups is a big one for me. Also being liberal with meter.
-having no interest/drive to actually play FGs
and instead read sites/forums and watch streams.
These for me EXACTLY