aedanwolfe
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ty for the explanation critical limit! it makes sense now, ill have to experiment with that.
how do you get better?
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aedanwolfe
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been practicing more with noob. its paying off. doing the bnb combos and wall combos until my thumbs hurt. fighting ai on expert in practice mode with my tough matchups.
went online and really wrecked a few people
wasnt able to pull off the 40%+ wall combos but got about 34% before i wiffed it, and made people rage.
I gave one round to someone whie i just poked him from afar until he did me in. next round i actually zoned him out doing most of th damage from afar, then the fight after taht i completly changed it up, went offensive and pushed him into hte corner where i made sure to keep him there.
his midfield game may be kinda wimpy with only 20-26% combos but his B+1,2,1,4 creates a LOT of room, and if you knock someone down...it might seem like your too far away, but the B+1 has enough reach it will nail them on wakeup if they try to immediatly wakeup giving you a full combo. you don even need to try and get closer even though it looks like you should.
went online and really wrecked a few people
wasnt able to pull off the 40%+ wall combos but got about 34% before i wiffed it, and made people rage.
I gave one round to someone whie i just poked him from afar until he did me in. next round i actually zoned him out doing most of th damage from afar, then the fight after taht i completly changed it up, went offensive and pushed him into hte corner where i made sure to keep him there.
his midfield game may be kinda wimpy with only 20-26% combos but his B+1,2,1,4 creates a LOT of room, and if you knock someone down...it might seem like your too far away, but the B+1 has enough reach it will nail them on wakeup if they try to immediatly wakeup giving you a full combo. you don even need to try and get closer even though it looks like you should.
My suggestion would be like others said is to play defensive at first to see how your opponent is going to play. That is my personal problem. Adjusting from one opponent to the next. I may be killing a dude over and over again because he/she fails to utilize the block button or the person who allows me to do Mileena's wake-up teleport drop everytime I get knocked down. Then I fight someone who does utilize the block button and anticipates my wake-up moves. That equals I lose. I tend to get into patterns which is a bad thing on this game. I mean I will do Milenna's wake-up move and my opponent blocks it and then drops a combo on me. What do I do the next time. The same wake-up move which in turn gets blocked again and I get smashed by another combo or uppercut. Sounds like a no brainer, but sometimes when you get a pattern ingrained it's very hard to stop even though it isn't working. Beating yourself is a crappy way to lose, but a good way to learn.
By the way this is my first post. This seems like a pretty cool site. You people seem to really know what your talking about. I would like to play against some of you. My PSN is X_Kingleonidas_X
By the way this is my first post. This seems like a pretty cool site. You people seem to really know what your talking about. I would like to play against some of you. My PSN is X_Kingleonidas_X
aedanwolfe
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it is indeed a nice group of people here. my psn id is in my sig. ill spar you sometime gladly, just keep in mind any bit of information i put on this site, doesnt seem to directly translate to how good i am at this game, im intermediate at best i think. but improving.
Critical-Limit
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good to know aedan
i play noob saibot as well he's my secondary. Expect ALOT of rage and people calling you newb for Zoning... the way noob saibot was designed to play.
think about mixing the shadow clone slide move in with ur BnB combos that hit over head like <1,2,1,4 or <2, 1, 4. when you hit overhead.. instead special cancel into slide if they stand block you too much to trick them to block low so your overhead hits. it's a good mix up
only do this though if they are thinking hard and are good at defense this mind game only works on people who you know adapt lol
i play noob saibot as well he's my secondary. Expect ALOT of rage and people calling you newb for Zoning... the way noob saibot was designed to play.
think about mixing the shadow clone slide move in with ur BnB combos that hit over head like <1,2,1,4 or <2, 1, 4. when you hit overhead.. instead special cancel into slide if they stand block you too much to trick them to block low so your overhead hits. it's a good mix up
only do this though if they are thinking hard and are good at defense this mind game only works on people who you know adapt lol
No worries dude. I'm 70-40 in player matches 1vs1. Ok, but not great. I don't get to worked up about it. I'm just looking for good solid games against people that are good sports win or lose.
SaibotMK
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I use to have that similar problem, it's being predictable and you eventually get out of that pattern & start mixing it up more.
aedanwolfe
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that probably woulda helped me last night vs a ermac player. they were close fights and i nailed that combo a good number of times, didnt think about putting slide in though.
Immortal Reaver
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The best tip I could give you is a habit that I'm also trying to break. Never punish with an uppercut. I've been punishing with uppercuts since the early 90's so it's a habit and a bad one at that. Always punish with at least a small combo. I think uppercuts do like 10-11% damage so if you can get at least a 3 hit combo it would do more damage.
Critical-Limit
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If your character has a fast uppercut there are a few times where coming out of crouch that's the fastest option you have to punish when they whiff a move. otherwise you have to wait for yourself to stand back up with is just a few frames but you end up wasting just enough time that they can block again. But I completely agree with the slow uppercutters. Theirs seem to only really be useful if they area a zoner, and you want them knocked away after they jump in and use it as an anti-air.
DarkSideOfTheMoon
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how do you get better? Practice. How do you think everybody else does it? I didnt get this get this good K/D with cyrax until I put in some decent hours in practice mode.
Critical-Limit
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Well there is practicing correctly and just practicing lol.
someone could practice ALL the time but never get better if they don't know how to properly practice.
I was a victim of this in my early competitive gaming career(if you can call it that most I've won over these past 7 years is probably 9,000 dollars. hardly a career lol). Where I didn't know how to play against a human being... I was practicing my "character" and how it's theorized to be played. I finally learned to practice correctly by playing on my opponents THOUGHTS and emotions(if it was the case.)
You have to look at why your losing correctly, and know EVERYTHING.
different levels of skill call for different barriers.
My current barrier I need to break is just INFORMATION. I lack too much of it too many times I got hit low by strings that i didn't even know hits low. ect.
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aedanwolfe
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i think i might finally have to take noob online more. im thought id have a hard time if i fought against noobs counter smoke on expert in practice mode. im man handling the guy all over the place though.
