The Eternal Character Crisis

[GamerBlake90]

I don't play in tournaments so I regularly change characters. Actually it goes deeper than that. I don't play in tournaments because I switch characters often. Changing play-styles, characters and trying out new stuff is more fun to me than winning. I don't need to win as long as I can have good, interesting and somewhat close matches. However I'd rather drop the game and do something else than commit to a single character or even two.

Some people are just wired that way. Maybe you are one of us and if you are then that is kind of bad news for you if you want to do good in tournaments because you either switch characters often (here called a "character crisis") and therefore don't play at your peak potential or you are sticking to maybe two characters yet don't have as much fun as you could have. Bad luck. There is literally nothing you can do about that choice unless you dedicate your entire life to this game.

No, that isn't the case at all. If it had to come to me just staying with one or two characters, I can do that. Back when I started out as a fighting game player, I stuck with one character for like four months or so, before I began expanding across the roster.

As Cossner correctly explained, there are benefits to doing that. A good answer to overcoming a bad match-up, whether it be a personal one for you or a match-up your character really is disadvantaged in, is understanding how that particular character works. You wouldn't have to "main" him, though...just develop a core understanding of his/her mechanics so you'll be better-prepared for when you fight that character again.

I admit, part of what pushed me to go nuts in learning the roster was all the bullshit hate Sonya got as a character in MK9 (safe abusable armored launchers that cost meter, safe Military Stance offense, long-ass d4, 50%+ meterless damage, etc.)...in other words, the typical top-tier hatred that causes some to think, "If he wasn't using any of that bullshit in the game, he wouldn't be doing as well." Even efforts to help people learn the Sonya match-up were never worthwhile as they preferred to just shake their head and laugh. So I learned many characters to get those complaints off my back. And I'm far from the only one to deal with something like this.

Not my fault if the characters I pick at first sight turn out to be godlike later in the game...it's not like I planned to just whore out top-tiers. They sort of fall right into my lap.

Also, to everyone else posting, I would like to express that this thread wasn't opened with the intention of helping one person. I know there's more than one player who struggle when faced with a character crisis, as some posts in here already reflect, so I wanted to start a discussion that would help such players to figure out what they wanna do. A way to assist the community, in other words. Nevertheless, I appreciate all the answers this thread is getting and I look forward to reading more of them.

 

[Darth Mao]

Character crisis? Welcome to my world.

 

[Laos_boy]

All low tiers are fun.

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[Groove Heaven]

I always try to find one alt that can play against my main's really bad MUs.

 

[Breakin Wordzz]

You should always learn all the characters that doesnt mean you have to play them. If you have no idea what the opponent is doing you most likely wont win. You will probably pick up what the opponent does after many many matches or just going into practice with that character for maybe an hour. I remember in mk i fought a sindel player he kept getting me with stuff i didnt realize was a low or overhead ect. same with harly quin. I go into practice a bit and then i know what to do. so this the poll is pointless.

 

[Breakin Wordzz]

This basically.

Learn as many as you possibly can. The more the better. But as far as maining goes, stick to 1-3 that will really cover all your basis.

Just delete all posts expect for this one.

 

[GamerBlake90]

so this the poll is pointless.

Gathering feedback of any kind is never pointless.

 

[Doombawkz]

I guess you could say when it comes to picking characters, Blake is in a...



Infinite Crisis


YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

 

[dribirut]

imo without a doubt main soley one person. Best results that way. examples: reo kabal, djt cyrax, wound shang, dizzy cage, bit kitana

 

[GLoRToR]

I'll vote for knowing all the cast in a game in which you wish to compete. To defeat an opponent you need to know how they work.

 

[Red Reaper]

I play almost all the villains lol, but three I've put real lab time into is Lobo, Bane, and Doomsday. Though my Doomsday is fraud lmao. I know like one combo lol

Doomsday has kombos???

 

[Red Reaper]

Oh right, I forgot the prissy arrows are obviously more fun than snapping someone's spine.
Tell me when people start caring about your combo damage, meanwhile I'll just be armoring through everything.

P.S. People don't have time to feel stupid, they'll be more concerned about no longer feeling their legs.

Getting hit by a "prissy arrow" into a kombo makes them feel dumb. Expecially if you held it for a few seconds. lol.

Getting your string interrupted after you landed the first hit... Not really..

Bane does get hype though. I just like letting people know that it's yomi and not yolo...

 

[Doombawkz]

Getting hit by a "prissy arrow" into a kombo makes them feel dumb. Expecially if you held it for a few seconds. lol.

Getting your string interrupted after you landed the first hit... Not really..

Bane does get hype though. I just like letting people know that it's yomi and not yolo...

Get command grabbed on wake-up 5 times in a row, yeah you tend to feel pretty dumb.

Oh no, it gets better when it happens over and over again.

 

[Red Reaper]

Get command grabbed on wake-up 5 times in a row, yeah you tend to feel pretty dumb.

Oh no, it gets better when it happens over and over again.

Wouldn't really expect that to happen to good players. If it does, then they deserve to feel dumb.

 

[Doombawkz]

Wouldn't really expect that to happen to good players. If it does, then they deserve to feel dumb.

You'd be surprised. Command grab from Bane beats out backdash frames at the beginning, so unless you know your moves enough to know which are grab immune you can expect to be eating a lot of them.

 

[Red Reaper]

You'd be surprised. Command grab from Bane beats out backdash frames at the beginning, so unless you know your moves enough to know which are grab immune you can expect to be eating a lot of them.

Never saw my Anti-Grundy thread?

I know my anti-grab stuff... lol.

 

[Doombawkz]

Never saw my Anti-Grundy thread?

I know my anti-grab stuff... lol.

I never said I'd be using it on you.

 

[KIllaByte]

Shoutouts to GamerBlake for liking every post in this thread...

 

[Doombawkz]

Shoutouts to GamerBlake for liking every post in this thread...

He has become the new Morbid Alturism

 

[GamerBlake90]

He has become the new Morbid Alturism

At least I don't like every post in every thread. I just like all the ones in here because I always appreciate seeing feedback on a topic I create.