Eddy Wang
Skarlet scientist
I have this friend who enjoys MK a lot, but he is a worker and never before he meets the MK titans community he ever played to a competitive level.
In MK9 i didn't spent much time with him, but he is really willing to learn MKX, so everytime i can use, i use it to spend a time with him trying to find him a character that feels easy to adapt to.
We tried Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Flamefist Liu and everyone who i can think of having an easy execution as a step in stone for him, after completlely failing to all those characters, i gave him bone shaper shinnok and teached him how to zone, and use his 50-50s although he is does alright in the training mode, i recently noticed that his problem is not just execution alone its something else.
When he comes to matches of any kind against a human opponent, i notice that he can't keep himself together, he mashes, he becomes lost in the game, he chokes and the result is a complete disaster.
I honestly dunno what to do with him, but i can see he really wants to learn, i feel like Shinnok is the main for him in this game, as far as the progression goes, he can land the combos and te 50-50 mixups on controled environment 40% of the time, but in matches only 10% off it works, is the far he ever went in this game with any character i've see him picked.
As a person who play fighting games ever since i can remember (maybe 10 or 11) i never got to face this issues before once i mastered my execution to a decent level, my first vs match ever was on the arcades KOF 94 and just by watching other vs matches i established my game pretty well that even persons that were 10 years older than myself back then confessed that they got intimidated by my mexico game (team ryo)
So i'm asking for help because i dunno what to do with him honestly, i keep my teaching plan to keep working on his execution first an get him used to fight other persons, and occasionally as i slowly explain him mechanics of the game and general fighting game strategies, i teach him what punishes are too.
But it pains me to see that his development is being kinda slow, so i'm asking myself if i'm doing something wrong, this is my current challenge, and i've notice that he is not the only one, there are a few more willing to learn that are just raw to the same level, and i dunno what to do with them.
What you guys would advice for my friend?
In MK9 i didn't spent much time with him, but he is really willing to learn MKX, so everytime i can use, i use it to spend a time with him trying to find him a character that feels easy to adapt to.
We tried Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Flamefist Liu and everyone who i can think of having an easy execution as a step in stone for him, after completlely failing to all those characters, i gave him bone shaper shinnok and teached him how to zone, and use his 50-50s although he is does alright in the training mode, i recently noticed that his problem is not just execution alone its something else.
When he comes to matches of any kind against a human opponent, i notice that he can't keep himself together, he mashes, he becomes lost in the game, he chokes and the result is a complete disaster.
I honestly dunno what to do with him, but i can see he really wants to learn, i feel like Shinnok is the main for him in this game, as far as the progression goes, he can land the combos and te 50-50 mixups on controled environment 40% of the time, but in matches only 10% off it works, is the far he ever went in this game with any character i've see him picked.
As a person who play fighting games ever since i can remember (maybe 10 or 11) i never got to face this issues before once i mastered my execution to a decent level, my first vs match ever was on the arcades KOF 94 and just by watching other vs matches i established my game pretty well that even persons that were 10 years older than myself back then confessed that they got intimidated by my mexico game (team ryo)
So i'm asking for help because i dunno what to do with him honestly, i keep my teaching plan to keep working on his execution first an get him used to fight other persons, and occasionally as i slowly explain him mechanics of the game and general fighting game strategies, i teach him what punishes are too.
But it pains me to see that his development is being kinda slow, so i'm asking myself if i'm doing something wrong, this is my current challenge, and i've notice that he is not the only one, there are a few more willing to learn that are just raw to the same level, and i dunno what to do with them.
What you guys would advice for my friend?