yea i do actually, Because idk what u talking about
Ok,
I'm not trying to toot my own horn here but I'm a tournament player, I play in tournaments around the world. I have never won a NATIONAL tournament, but I have tango'd with some of the best in the world.
My MK9 achievements are Taking Pig of the Hut(who's been top 3 at EVO), and Tyrant(top Jax player) to last game last hit. I beat Chris G online 3-0.
Just to put some scope on my ability.
Now.
Yes TIME is a factor, but it's not the only factor.
You could spend 5 years, 14 hours a day playing, and still lose a guy who only played 3 hours a day 4 days a week.
Why? some factors include: Previous fighting game experience, High level experience, how far ahead you can think, how you approach your losses, and much much more.
So lets say you want to be BEST on your server RADEC.
You fight some dude who kicks your ass, yet you only main 1 character. You've played more than him how is this possible?
When you lose do you investigate your losses? the guy you're fighting might take EVERY MATCH, and EVERY hit that he takes. and formulates a strategy to prevent that from happening again, or at the very least reducing the problem. You might just pass by the match, thinking, "I'll do better this time" w/o analyzing every aspect of why you lost.
THIS type of stuff is what made that dude you fought on the ps3 kick your ass, with multiple characters despite you only having 1.
If you had approached the game with the SAME mindset as that dude, and the same experience. You would've destroyed him.
You playing more characters this time around is actually going to hurt you. Yes that dude beat you with multiple characters, he learns faster than you, because he approaches the game with the correct mindset for self-improvement.
So he was able to learn like 8 characters in the same time it took you to learn 1. And your 1 isn't even on his 8's level. But I promise you, that guy if he went to a national tournament would get bodied by the worlds best players who happen to play only 1-2 characters.
I listed this in another thread but I'll do it again.
Top tournament players no specific order.
Perfect Legend: 2 time EVO champion, Kung lao - Kabal
Tom Brady: Subzero - Raiden
Pig of the Hut: Kenshi - Mileena
CDJR: Jax - Kabal
MITT: Cyrax
Tyrant: Jax
Dizzy: Cage
16Bit: Kitana
DR: Noob
Ketchup: Sektor
Chris G: Reptile
REO: Kabal
do you notice a trend with the best players in the world? because sticking to 1-2 characters gets you better faster. It's not the only factor, but it's definitely a large contributing one.
If you learn 8 characters this time RADEC, you'll have to learn every string, frame advantage, negative on blocks, options after a block stun hit, options after a confirm hit, what's reactable what's not reactable. Ways to punish jump ins.
All these little things you'll need to learn it with all your characters. And let me tell you this.
I played MK9 for 3 years, Even after 3 years, I had things to learn about my 2 mains. Ermac/Noob, and I STILL do. There is so much information out there.
I'm going to add one more point. Being the best you can be is all about win%.
If you beat the best guy in the world 1% of the time. 1 out of 100 matches. That's not good odds right? you'll be seen as a fraud.
Every tiny miniscule thing you learn about your character increases the odds.
You might think "Critical learning this 1 tiny things only increases my chances of beating best man in the world by .5%"
The difference between the best guy in the world and you. Is that he learned ALL of these tiny % increasers, so that he can remain consistent in beating everyone. They add up.
And spreading out that knowledge to multiple characters decreases the % chance you could've had for 1 character.
