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Charybdis

Charybdis

We are returned! Death to the False Emperor!
@MylesWright_ said:
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Who replaces him? Genuinely curious. Multiple Top 8's, one of the most dominant players in the latter half of both MK9 and IGAU, top 8's in Evo in both MK and IGAU. Tyrant, maybe. ChrisG, possibly. But even then, can you honestly say that there have been ten more successful NRS players than Pig? Leave the order aside because that's subjective and I've probably rated CDJR in particular too low, but I'd struggle to come up with 10 more successful players than Pig across MK9 and IGAU.

And to hark because to what Brady said, not more skilled, but more successful, more accomplished. I'd consider Cowboy, ChrisG and REO the most skilled players in the scene but only one is among the most successful
 
iMileena

iMileena

"I will cut a hole in you"
Imo mileena if she was real :(

But seriously , Bwizz & 16Bit
There the ones that taught me my raiden & kitana in mk9 & they can beat that one guy that can be easily beaten ! But yet he wins all the fucking tounaments?? Guess which animal im talking about:DOGE

Oh and i think tom brady is VERY good
 
Tom Brady

Tom Brady

Champion
FluffyKittenPops said:
What are things I can do to be "tournament ready?" To get out of pools.
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It takes quite a lot to be tournament ready. You need extensive knowledge in your character and what you do and all the ways in which you hope to do it. You also need extensive knowledge in what other characters can do. Then you need to know what are some of the more common player responses with those characters, especially when they are placed in whatever sort of mind game you put them in.

Being educated helps you because you have a better understanding on what to do. That better understanding also helps your comfort level as you are more confident.
 
Pig Of The Hut

Pig Of The Hut

Day 0 Phenomenal Dr. Fate and Darkseid player
Charybdis said:
Who replaces him? Genuinely curious. Multiple Top 8's, one of the most dominant players in the latter half of both MK9 and IGAU, top 8's in Evo in both MK and IGAU. Tyrant, maybe. ChrisG, possibly. But even then, can you honestly say that there have been ten more successful NRS players than Pig? Leave the order aside because that's subjective and I've probably rated CDJR in particular too low, but I'd struggle to come up with 10 more successful players than Pig across MK9 and IGAU.

And to hark because to what Brady said, not more skilled, but more successful, more accomplished. I'd consider Cowboy, ChrisG and REO the most skilled players in the scene but only one is among the most successful
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Ignore that troll

He's just salty no one likes him
 
Shaazzyam

Shaazzyam

undefeated online evo champion
Tom Brady said:
It takes quite a lot to be tournament ready. You need extensive knowledge in your character and what you do and all the ways in which you hope to do it. You also need extensive knowledge in what other characters can do. Then you need to know what are some of the more common player responses with those characters, especially when they are placed in whatever sort of mind game you put them in.

Being educated helps you because you have a better understanding on what to do. That better understanding also helps your comfort level as you are more confident.
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damn nailed it

tom brady must be watching all my tipz&trickz youtube videos lately
 
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Sultani

Warrior
on point execution is obviously key.

Aside from the obvious, being completely comfortable and familiar with your character, and extensive knowledge of what your opponent can do (AKA, knowing the matchups), this means next to nothing if your theoretical knowledge doesn't transfer into actual play because of lack of execution or slower reactions.

Nothing can prepare you better than experience can. The afore mentioned can suffer if you're nervous or jittery. Because of this, those that have more experience in big tournaments will have this become less of an issue. Also, most of the best players have all faced each other at one point or another. You don't play someone that many times without discovering some tendencies. While the best players are relatively unpredictable, everyone has tendencies, and learning what they are will help with making the correct hard reads.

It doesn't hurt to have a flourishing and diverse local scene either. Even though our local scene is highly competitive, with NRS titles we all get familiar with like 5 matchups because it's just too small.

You need to have the drive to grind out stuff that isn't fun.

In short. Play the game. ALOT.

At leastthese are the thing I would do if I had the time.
 
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Sultani

Warrior
Also, it's hard to do, but don't get discourged if you get steam rolled. instead, try to learn things from it.

This game is chocked full of ambigous setups and vortexes. We've all seen it. That said, there aren't any matchups where the characters completely invalidate each other. There are some where it's ridiculously hard based on the characters, but here's the thing.

Against such characters, you get less opportunities to make mistakes. getting stuck in a vortex or standing reset setup sucks. Alot. And while I agree that those things aren't what the developers had in mind, that doesn't mean you aren't allowed to make it hard for your opponent to put you into those kinds of situations in the first place.

Last night I played a set where I used Kung Lao, and for the first 5 or so matches I abused the crap out of B2 low hat and B22 low hat. My opponent started playing better positioning and neutral game, figured out options for armoring through it, wiff punishing, what my tendencies were with the overheads and lows, etc. AS a result, it was MUCH harder to start initiating that sort of pressure.

I'll use MK9 Cyrax as another example. Our scene had a VERY good Cyrax. Against him, you basically got to make one mistake before you lost the round. While the matchup isn't in your favor, it FORCED everyone to make less mistakes. We all got better because of it.

In MKX, fighting really good vortex characters will also force you to make less mistakes.
 
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Vithar

Vithar

Evil but Honest!
I would say REO but i still remember EVO2012 where he go eliminated by using Kung Lao after dominating half year with Kabal , that was a big mistake ...
 
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LEGI0N47

LEGI0N47

I like to play bad characters
Sultani said:
on point execution is obviously key.
Nothing can prepare you better than experience can. The afore mentioned can suffer if you're nervous or jittery. Because of this, those that have more experience in big tournaments will have this become less of an issue. Also, most of the best players have all faced each other at one point or another. You don't play someone that many times without discovering some tendencies. While the best players are relatively unpredictable, everyone has tendencies, and learning what they are will help with making the correct hard reads.

It doesn't hurt to have a flourishing and diverse local scene either. Even though our local scene is highly competitive, with NRS titles we all get familiar with like 5 matchups because it's just too small..
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Personally I think these points are HUGE. It's no coincidence that many of the top players have off-line scenes/games available on a weekly or near weekly basis. Play each other often and have access to other high quality players. And attend tourney's which are often also accessible to their area. That is not to say that you can't be as good as them without those benefits because their are people who are without that, but it appears to me that there are far less of them. I believe that the things I mentioned vastly improve your play as well as give you a large advantage at tourneys.
 
ShArp

ShArp

Dedicated Broly main
For me it's between REO and Perfect Legend. Sonic Fox has a talent and he's very young but I want to see how all of the three will develop in the future of MKX (game is not even month old)
 
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