Thread 724211230

How does one go from average to above average in fighting games?

Learn advanced offense (50/50s, throw loops in games that have them, safe jumps, safe pressure tools, etc) and defense (learning to block highs, fuzzy guarding, parry in games that have them, etc)

>>724211230 (OP)
genuinely do NOT bother
fighting games are a timesink genre with no real payoff

>>724211494
Also after that comes matchups and knowledge checks and finally player behaviors and adaptation.

>>724211230 (OP)
By playing a wide range of 1v1 games, many of which aren't fighting games, and learning how to download people. Fighting games on the surface appear to be technical games. "I muscle memorize my training room combos and then I win." And that will help you beat novice players, but you'll never get past intermediate players that way. This is because Fighting games are actually turn based games, just the turns are very fast. What you're doing is seeing how your opponent plays. What choices does he make. What mistakes does he make. You then chose the counter to it. Sometimes you even predict and chose to the counter to the move you think they'll pick. The key thing, though, is to slow down, not worry about the technical side, and focus on the mental side. Learn to download and you can pick up an fighting game and excel at it quickly.

>>724211564
This. Honestly this. I can see and respect it as like a high paced virtual form of chess with both players taking losses until one is declared a decisive victor. But if don't have someone you live with or who comes over whom you play with regularly and your whole thing is to just try to best each other then you're actively wasting your time. Playing online indiscriminately otherwise feels like laggy cope. And then I have to sit there practicing to get good with a character but like I'll never go into a tournament because I don't like feeling pressure around something I'm not fully committed to. Like I have to get good or otherwise why have I sat around playing this forever for?

Anyway I figured out that I'm more so into Street Fighter and Vidya in general because I'm literally jacking off to it. It's like I'm married to it because I'm having sex with myself to the thought and image of these fictional characters. So they're built up as something bigger than they should be in my mind and in my heart and in my soul and spirit. Like I legit want to play as Terry Bogard but so don't want to clackan games all by myself for no reward beating up faceless nobodies.

And the having to keep it up. At the end of the day you're just executing off of muscle memory. Like hey you got some chunky consecutive correct guesses off and got a perfect. Wow you "read" your opponent. Yomi you guys. It's all nonsense. If you're not making money off of this then there's real things we can be doing with our lives that doesn't involve constantly playing with toys. Losing hours of your life drilling a combo that your reflexes will either pick up or fail you randomly and all to get good in a fighting game of all things...

Could be out learning an instrument or getting into shape or learning how to train animals or something. But no. Wanna fake fight. Would never fight IRL. Wanna take aggression out on the sticks only. Rela productive that

>>724211230 (OP)
Simply not quitting will take you to above average.

>>724211494
Before this, just solid fundamentals of movement. Approach. Retreat. Poke. Anti projectile. Ranges. High and low blocking.

You can be average with gaping holes in your fundamentlas.

>>724211230 (OP)

I forget: Is Dan considered in the canon a truly terrible martial artist, or is it a Mr. Satan deal that he’s a legitimate fighter, but the rest of the Street Fighters are just freaks he just can’t compete with?

>>724215271
I think he's really gifted, but taught himself wrong