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Okay so this has been kinda bugging me lately. Yesterday I was having some online battles against my cousin. I first started as Aquaman, but wanted to take a shot at my day 1 hawkgirl. So I picked hawkgirl and proceeded to zone the crap out of him. I beat most of his characters but the one I struggled with was batgirl (I wasn't punishing tele 
). But that's besides the point. So when he quit, he sent me a message saying I play hawkgirl like a pussy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but most players don't actually give a shit if they reuse a tactic that works for them, right? Use it until it doesn't work anymore. Isn't that what most players believe? I also was surprised he said I was a pussy for using three moves and running away when his raven does the exact same thing. Difference though is that raven gets a 30% combo after she zones and hawkgirl doesn't. I don't know why he was so mad at me when his characters can do the same thing.
And he went on about me using three moves. I mean come on, doomsday, GL, Supes, KF, etc. they all use very few moves besides combo filler. I asked him if he would rather me play doomsday and rush the shit outta him and not let him do anything and he said he would rather prefer being pounded up close then from far away. And I mean, he doesn't have much hawkgirl experience, so he can't just expect everything to be all fine and dandy if he doesn't know what to expect. Sigh. And then he claimed to know the matchup so well and all that. He said he knew all about the MU and blah blah blah. I was trying to give him advice and such, but he just threw it back in my face, saying I was treating him like he doesn't know anything. That hurt. I was trying to be a good person and try to help him out and he didn't even care. sigh. He told me that all he wanted to do was have a good time and not be zoned on 24/7. Some characters zone. It's their playstyle. What if I wanted to main Sinestro or D-stroke? would he still complain?
He said I zoned a lot with aquaman. While I throw out ground trident a lot, it's to check him on dash or if he's pressing buttons. Aquaman is hardly a zoning character. He has two zoning tools. From the deep and trident throw. They aren't very good. If I zone out a zoning character with him then something is very wrong. He said I zone with every character I get my hands on. If my character has zoning options, and I feel like I'm in a position where zoning would be the best action, I'm going to zone. Doesn't mean I'm going to zone all the time (unless your gonna fall for it over and over again. He asked me if I could call myself a winner if I could only use three moves. I wanted to say: "How can you not call yourself a loser when you can't figure a way around three moves." I refrained from doing so in order to prevent drama over something so trivial. After he left I returned to player matches and got matched with a pretty good deathstroke. We ran a pretty long set. He beat me 54:8. I could have ragequited. I could have given up. I could have called him a zoning pussy and threaten to kill him. But I didn't. I wanted to stick with it and try to learn the MU. You learn much more from your defeats then from your wins. To say that deathstroke is a very frustrating character to fight would be an understatement, but if you give up then you'll never get better at fighting him.
So, what are your thoughts? Is it okay to use a few select moves? Mostly everyone does it. What do you do when you try to give someone advice and they just ignore it? Should you stick to learning MU even though it'll cost you wins? Do you think zoning is a problem? Counterpicking?
). But that's besides the point. So when he quit, he sent me a message saying I play hawkgirl like a pussy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but most players don't actually give a shit if they reuse a tactic that works for them, right? Use it until it doesn't work anymore. Isn't that what most players believe? I also was surprised he said I was a pussy for using three moves and running away when his raven does the exact same thing. Difference though is that raven gets a 30% combo after she zones and hawkgirl doesn't. I don't know why he was so mad at me when his characters can do the same thing.And he went on about me using three moves. I mean come on, doomsday, GL, Supes, KF, etc. they all use very few moves besides combo filler. I asked him if he would rather me play doomsday and rush the shit outta him and not let him do anything and he said he would rather prefer being pounded up close then from far away. And I mean, he doesn't have much hawkgirl experience, so he can't just expect everything to be all fine and dandy if he doesn't know what to expect. Sigh. And then he claimed to know the matchup so well and all that. He said he knew all about the MU and blah blah blah. I was trying to give him advice and such, but he just threw it back in my face, saying I was treating him like he doesn't know anything. That hurt. I was trying to be a good person and try to help him out and he didn't even care. sigh. He told me that all he wanted to do was have a good time and not be zoned on 24/7. Some characters zone. It's their playstyle. What if I wanted to main Sinestro or D-stroke? would he still complain?
He said I zoned a lot with aquaman. While I throw out ground trident a lot, it's to check him on dash or if he's pressing buttons. Aquaman is hardly a zoning character. He has two zoning tools. From the deep and trident throw. They aren't very good. If I zone out a zoning character with him then something is very wrong. He said I zone with every character I get my hands on. If my character has zoning options, and I feel like I'm in a position where zoning would be the best action, I'm going to zone. Doesn't mean I'm going to zone all the time (unless your gonna fall for it over and over again. He asked me if I could call myself a winner if I could only use three moves. I wanted to say: "How can you not call yourself a loser when you can't figure a way around three moves." I refrained from doing so in order to prevent drama over something so trivial. After he left I returned to player matches and got matched with a pretty good deathstroke. We ran a pretty long set. He beat me 54:8. I could have ragequited. I could have given up. I could have called him a zoning pussy and threaten to kill him. But I didn't. I wanted to stick with it and try to learn the MU. You learn much more from your defeats then from your wins. To say that deathstroke is a very frustrating character to fight would be an understatement, but if you give up then you'll never get better at fighting him.
So, what are your thoughts? Is it okay to use a few select moves? Mostly everyone does it. What do you do when you try to give someone advice and they just ignore it? Should you stick to learning MU even though it'll cost you wins? Do you think zoning is a problem? Counterpicking?
