Gamer68
Fujin!
So I decided to make this thread to admit a time when I got really salty... Like Really salty. And maybe this thread will allow someone else to admit a time when they got salty as well...
About 2 years ago I was playing Injustice: Gods Among Us. The game had only been out for about a month. I had never really played fighting games competitively before. I normally just played them offline; if I did ever get online it was just to play a couple matches or something. But with Injustice, I wanted to change that. I really wanted to start playing competitively more, so I played online A LOT. Of course, since I never played ANY fighting game competitively before, and Injustice had only been out for like a month; I sucked at the game.
I had more losses than wins. Like WAY more losses that wins... I think my Win-Rate was only like 40% or something. Well anyway; One day I got online, and I fought a bunch of people, but I lost to most of them (if not all). I had like a 10-Match loss streak. And if I remember right, everyone that I had fought was playing as Superman a was going full-zoning on me (remember, I wasn't good at this game really. There was NO WAY I was going to out-zone or rush-down Superman). So I got pretty frustrated, but I kept playing. I came across this one guy who finally didn't play as Superman, but instead, Ares. I remember that the guy's name was "EMPEROR" something.
So I played like 5 matches with him or something; and each match I lost. These boosted my loss-streak to like 15 losses. The guy was REALLY good. He had some crazy set-ups and combos, and he was playing full rush-down. Again he was really, really good (or at least compared to me). So I got even more frustrated than I already was; I felt like I would never win. I think we played another match together, and in that match I noticed something; he had a pattern. He would do something, then afterwards would go into a combo, which would end up being the same combo.
Well, instead of trying to adapt, the frustration got to me and got super annoyed. I rage-quit the match, and claimed that... *sigh*... he was "Spamming combos". The guy pointed out everything wrong that I was doing, but instead of learning, I only got more annoyed. I ignored the facts he pointed out, and challenged him to a re-match. He got pretty upset at me, told me to get the **** off his TV screen, declined the fight, and ignored me (like what any person should do). The salt didn't end there, though. I started training a bunch, and fighting online even more. I started to get good a combos, a finding and punishing patterns (after a few matches), and I was started to learn how to do mix-ups often. That sounds like I got better right? Well, when it came to being good at fighting and learning; yes, I wasn't the best, but yes. But I would get pissed if anyone played zoning. Zoning was one of the things I couldn't beat; I just couldn't get past all the projectiles. I would claim that the reason I hated zoning was because it was "cheap" ("give me a real fight!"), but really, deep-down, it was just because I couldn't beat them. And that would turn into a large loss-streak, which means frustration, and well, you know what that means...
You could say I got pretty salty.... But that only lasted for a while. I stopped that, and I guess "grew up"? I finally got the mindset I needed; play the game, don't get upset. Now I try to play with challenge; both offline and online. Rather it's playing with only high-level players, or playing against the AI on Extreme/Very Hard, etc. With Mortal Kombat X coming out, I can't help but to get excited that it will be my first true step into competitive play. I want to pick apart everything; the characters, the modes. I want to unlock everything, complete everything, I want to earn every trophy, I want to rank-up to the max. I want to get better; and never stop getting better. I want to play with everyone I can... No matter how many losses I get along the way.
Well that's my story. Have you ever gotten really salty?
About 2 years ago I was playing Injustice: Gods Among Us. The game had only been out for about a month. I had never really played fighting games competitively before. I normally just played them offline; if I did ever get online it was just to play a couple matches or something. But with Injustice, I wanted to change that. I really wanted to start playing competitively more, so I played online A LOT. Of course, since I never played ANY fighting game competitively before, and Injustice had only been out for like a month; I sucked at the game.
I had more losses than wins. Like WAY more losses that wins... I think my Win-Rate was only like 40% or something. Well anyway; One day I got online, and I fought a bunch of people, but I lost to most of them (if not all). I had like a 10-Match loss streak. And if I remember right, everyone that I had fought was playing as Superman a was going full-zoning on me (remember, I wasn't good at this game really. There was NO WAY I was going to out-zone or rush-down Superman). So I got pretty frustrated, but I kept playing. I came across this one guy who finally didn't play as Superman, but instead, Ares. I remember that the guy's name was "EMPEROR" something.
So I played like 5 matches with him or something; and each match I lost. These boosted my loss-streak to like 15 losses. The guy was REALLY good. He had some crazy set-ups and combos, and he was playing full rush-down. Again he was really, really good (or at least compared to me). So I got even more frustrated than I already was; I felt like I would never win. I think we played another match together, and in that match I noticed something; he had a pattern. He would do something, then afterwards would go into a combo, which would end up being the same combo.
Well, instead of trying to adapt, the frustration got to me and got super annoyed. I rage-quit the match, and claimed that... *sigh*... he was "Spamming combos". The guy pointed out everything wrong that I was doing, but instead of learning, I only got more annoyed. I ignored the facts he pointed out, and challenged him to a re-match. He got pretty upset at me, told me to get the **** off his TV screen, declined the fight, and ignored me (like what any person should do). The salt didn't end there, though. I started training a bunch, and fighting online even more. I started to get good a combos, a finding and punishing patterns (after a few matches), and I was started to learn how to do mix-ups often. That sounds like I got better right? Well, when it came to being good at fighting and learning; yes, I wasn't the best, but yes. But I would get pissed if anyone played zoning. Zoning was one of the things I couldn't beat; I just couldn't get past all the projectiles. I would claim that the reason I hated zoning was because it was "cheap" ("give me a real fight!"), but really, deep-down, it was just because I couldn't beat them. And that would turn into a large loss-streak, which means frustration, and well, you know what that means...
You could say I got pretty salty.... But that only lasted for a while. I stopped that, and I guess "grew up"? I finally got the mindset I needed; play the game, don't get upset. Now I try to play with challenge; both offline and online. Rather it's playing with only high-level players, or playing against the AI on Extreme/Very Hard, etc. With Mortal Kombat X coming out, I can't help but to get excited that it will be my first true step into competitive play. I want to pick apart everything; the characters, the modes. I want to unlock everything, complete everything, I want to earn every trophy, I want to rank-up to the max. I want to get better; and never stop getting better. I want to play with everyone I can... No matter how many losses I get along the way.
Well that's my story. Have you ever gotten really salty?
