Ninequads93
Beware your Fears
I've been pondering this for a while everytime I've run out of ideas in training room or feel down on my performance after a tourney etc. I ask myself:
How Complete am I really with my character???
If you could put it in percentage what would it be ? 80% , 50%, 25% :0
Ofcourse at first glance we all feel pretty complete with our mains. But when you start to think about it and looking deeper you’ll start to realize how much more there is to learn. How many situational combos have you put off learning? How many set-ups? Match-ups and techniques.
This is a good question to ask seeing as how MKX is right around the corner. It will help us realize just how much more injustice has left to grow.
Please be completely honest because after all this is most importantly for yourself, to see what else you can do to really be playing your character at 100%
Ofcourse there are people who can get really intricate with this and that is fine but If you just want to make a guess or estimate that is completely fine too.
Categories can be stuff life ;
Combos – ?/100%
Matchups - ?/100%
Conversions
Techniques (Instant Air Fire Balls) other
Mixups
Corner Pressure
Adaptation
Im sure there is much much more, I wanted to make a real mathematical version for myself but I’ll make an estimated one for now just to show an example. And if anyone can find a formula that would also be great.
Combos (50%) (There are some combos like wake up arachnid trait shot schackles, some swag combos and more that I still don’t feel comfortable using in tourney but am working on it.)
Matchups (20%) I used to think I had a grasp on match-ups but after finally playing online recently and attending my first major I realized how little match-up knowledge I have. Going to my local definitely helped but you may be used to playing against a character at your local but then when facing another person using the same character they can have a completely different style with that character so please take this into account. This also pertains to adaptation but we’ll talk about that more.
Conversions (65%) Im pretty good at converting when I can but there are those akward moments or situations where you must be very well prepared to take advantage.
Corner Pressure (65%) I PRIDE MYSELF on my corner control. I play with Sinestro and he can literally lock you down in the corner and put you into an endless vortex, I feel this is really underrated with Sinestro, but I am still pushing the limits with this as it’s my favorite thing to do in the gameJ
Mix-Ups (?) I have recently been a victim of using a lot of shenanigans lately but its sort of an experiment Im having so Im not to sure what my percent is at the moment. You have to test out what shenanigans works and what characters it works against . Some characters like Sinestro don’t have real mixups but sometimes u just have to make stuff happen lol. I’ve been doing a lot of things lately like F2d13 after a J.3 after a vortex Instead of d2 because d2 leaves you negative and can be punished. You can convert with F2d1schackles also D2,trait charge Option Selects(because you can combo with d1, or b1 if they jump) just funky stuff ive been working on that I can discuss further if anyone is interested.
Adaptation (10%) I feel like my adaptation is not very good in this game. I mostly adapt after the match is over or after when I can go check out the footage and see what I did wrong. My adaptation used to be good in Street Fighter and MVC idk if its just me but Injustice just seems different, again this might just be for myself.
So Im kind of tired after typing all this but I know you guys can make better analyses for yourselves and better formats and calculations so please feel free
Looking forward to seeing your replies
How Complete am I really with my character???
If you could put it in percentage what would it be ? 80% , 50%, 25% :0
Ofcourse at first glance we all feel pretty complete with our mains. But when you start to think about it and looking deeper you’ll start to realize how much more there is to learn. How many situational combos have you put off learning? How many set-ups? Match-ups and techniques.
This is a good question to ask seeing as how MKX is right around the corner. It will help us realize just how much more injustice has left to grow.
Please be completely honest because after all this is most importantly for yourself, to see what else you can do to really be playing your character at 100%
Ofcourse there are people who can get really intricate with this and that is fine but If you just want to make a guess or estimate that is completely fine too.
Categories can be stuff life ;
Combos – ?/100%
Matchups - ?/100%
Conversions
Techniques (Instant Air Fire Balls) other
Mixups
Corner Pressure
Adaptation
Im sure there is much much more, I wanted to make a real mathematical version for myself but I’ll make an estimated one for now just to show an example. And if anyone can find a formula that would also be great.
Combos (50%) (There are some combos like wake up arachnid trait shot schackles, some swag combos and more that I still don’t feel comfortable using in tourney but am working on it.)
Matchups (20%) I used to think I had a grasp on match-ups but after finally playing online recently and attending my first major I realized how little match-up knowledge I have. Going to my local definitely helped but you may be used to playing against a character at your local but then when facing another person using the same character they can have a completely different style with that character so please take this into account. This also pertains to adaptation but we’ll talk about that more.
Conversions (65%) Im pretty good at converting when I can but there are those akward moments or situations where you must be very well prepared to take advantage.
Corner Pressure (65%) I PRIDE MYSELF on my corner control. I play with Sinestro and he can literally lock you down in the corner and put you into an endless vortex, I feel this is really underrated with Sinestro, but I am still pushing the limits with this as it’s my favorite thing to do in the gameJ
Mix-Ups (?) I have recently been a victim of using a lot of shenanigans lately but its sort of an experiment Im having so Im not to sure what my percent is at the moment. You have to test out what shenanigans works and what characters it works against . Some characters like Sinestro don’t have real mixups but sometimes u just have to make stuff happen lol. I’ve been doing a lot of things lately like F2d13 after a J.3 after a vortex Instead of d2 because d2 leaves you negative and can be punished. You can convert with F2d1schackles also D2,trait charge Option Selects(because you can combo with d1, or b1 if they jump) just funky stuff ive been working on that I can discuss further if anyone is interested.
Adaptation (10%) I feel like my adaptation is not very good in this game. I mostly adapt after the match is over or after when I can go check out the footage and see what I did wrong. My adaptation used to be good in Street Fighter and MVC idk if its just me but Injustice just seems different, again this might just be for myself.
So Im kind of tired after typing all this but I know you guys can make better analyses for yourselves and better formats and calculations so please feel free
Looking forward to seeing your replies
