We Talking About Practice?

[x TeeJay o]

In Mortal Kombat X, practice is a very crucial thing to do. It's pretty much essential to any and all success. My only problem i run into is how to maximize my practice opportunities and how to get the most out of the session each and every time I go into it. Does anyone have any pointers on what I could do to help myself even further ?



-P.S. I also find that I do combos just fine as well as anti air in practice but in games against other players I fail. Halp Plssss

 

[Wemfs]

 

[EMPEROR PRYCE]

Use record ai to practice situations. For example if a certain string or special is giving you trouble, recording the ai to do so and then block afterwards may help you find a punish!

 

[jaythatruth]

Not even the game???

 

[x TeeJay o]

Use record ai to practice situations. For example if a certain string or special is giving you trouble, recording the ai to do so and then block afterwards may help you find a punish!

Yeah I already do all of that good stuff it seems like I get nowhere though. Like I was hoping a pro player could respond with how they practice certain things and their mindset when they hit the lab

 

[Awsumpossm]

Well I'm no pro player, but when I start using a character I spend at least an hour in the training room practicing basic combos and looking over their respective foruma for general tech and neutral game advice.

Then I take said character into player matches and play with others until a glaring weakness in my game comes up, then I replicate the situation in practice mode until I feel as though I've mastered the appropriate response.

There's some things that you just wont predict that you'll need to learn UNTIL it happens to you. Examples include dealing with long range njp from characters like Kung Jin, how to deal with a wakeup teleport from Tanya, or how to maintain safe pressure on Reptile without eating a slide reversal.

Before Kitana had her quick mid starter reduced to 9f startup, I was having alot of trouble dealing with Jax's pressure and felt like I couldn't even press a button. I had to take the situation to the training room, replicate the frame traps, and learn both character's frame data.

Watching replays of lost matches will help alot, as well as tinkering with characters you don't normally play. Picking up Scorpion helped me tremendously in the Kitana-Scorpion matchup.

Hell you can even tackle a tower at the highest difficulty if you want to practice a safe pressure game. There's dozens of ways to up your game.

 

[MrProfDrPepper]

remember that it is also insanely important to play actual matches, practice means nothing if you dont have in game experience, sure you can do fancy set ups against a punching bag in a controlled situations but it is also just as important to get that match exp to make sure you can actually do them viably in kombat.

 

[iamShorteh]

If you're training for an offline tournament, make sure to play against people offline as practice. Playing online is just so different, it's like another game.

Practice mode when used for either Offline or Online training as mentioned by the people above me is a lot different from real game situations.
You need to learn to (1) deal with setting your game up in the heat of the moment, (2) keep an eye on the offense of the other player at the same time, and (3) potential chokes on your combo due to stress. Generally I find that match-up experience is the key to point 1 and 2, and the way to avoid step 3.

 

[x TeeJay o]

Yeah when I practice I usually practice getting the most off of my hit confirms. I found out by playing others online that it was my biggest weakness.

EDIT: Also I practice my punishes a crap ton yet online it's just non existent to punish anything tbh. Everything from everyone feels safe because of the netcode

 

[tatterbug4]

Well unless you wanna drive to everyone's houses for offline matches your gonna need to find players to play against. I have a problem where I play more practice then matches as well.
You'll eventually get used to the terrible online but it does get hard to punish sometimes.

 

[D4G]

Yeah I already do all of that good stuff it seems like I get nowhere though. Like I was hoping a pro player could respond with how they practice certain things and their mindset when they hit the lab

If you're already doing all the above and don't seem to be improving it may mean you are spending too much time in practice mode and not enough playing actual matches. Granted, playing a thousand matches online will yield little if any positive results with the amount of BS you can get away with and bad habits you puck up to compensate.

Don't let that stop you from playing though. If you start winning consistently online then why care how you play offline unless you're planning to play offline?

 

[Terrencify]

My advice find a sparring Buddy to play with online it's like an human ai fight until you can't anymore the more you lose the more you learn.

 

[ColdBoreMK23]

Play to have fun. I've been playing fight games since MK1 and it can be frustrating when you don't see improvement.

Don't be afraid to go online and play. Sometimes you can find equally skilled players and have good sets of the connection is decent.

I think we all lost the idea of playing, and that's to have fun.

At the height of Gears 1 when I was 20, I was all I to slaughtering the opponent team and went to offline tournaments and whatnot. All we had was horrible online to practice and it worked out for us. But we also played to have fun, talk shit, and relax.

Play the game you paid $60 for and have FUN. You'll get to you're goal of skill level easier and ore pleasurable if you just have fun while doing it. Don't look at it like a job or a chore.

 

[Terrencify]

Play to have fun. I've been playing fight games since MK1 and it can be frustrating when you don't see improvement.

Don't be afraid to go online and play. Sometimes you can find equally skilled players and have good sets of the connection is decent.

I think we all lost the idea of playing, and that's to have fun.

At the height

Yo cold I'm not really much a mk usf fighter type person but I have a question does mkx inputs seem delayed to you or is it just me not pressing the buttons fast enough. Never played mk9 or injustice much just watched a lot of the community play

 

[ColdBoreMK23]

Yo cold I'm not really much a mk usf fighter type person but I have a question does mkx inputs seem delayed to you or is it just me not pressing the buttons fast enough. Never played mk9 or injustice much just watched a lot of the community play

It uses a dial a combo system. Some strings like Mileenas F343xxRoll Can be put in almost a second before it finishes everything.

Other strings and combos are really tight with their inputs. It's kind of weird and hard switching characters. Mess with your timing

 

[HGTV Soapboxfan]

One thing that training mode can be good for that I feel is overlooked is practicing spacing. Essentially just set up controlled situations and practice whatever you need to do. Set them on block and do drills on hitting your normals at max range. Then do it by running in from variance distances. Then record the ai running in and practice poking them out of their offense. Get creative to make the situations slightly varied (sometimes I'll literally mash a little on my stick to get a somewhat "random" spacing to have to run in from or be ran in on). A lot of spacing things like this come with time in regular gameplay, but some nice training sessions will help you get more comfortable with using the maximum utility of your moves.

 

[Ryncage]

Yeah when I practice I usually practice getting the most off of my hit confirms. I found out by playing others online that it was my biggest weakness.

EDIT: Also I practice my punishes a crap ton yet online it's just non existent to punish anything tbh. Everything from everyone feels safe because of the netcode

One thing to note is, know what it is you are practicing for.
Practice for online matches is very different from practicing for offline play. Even in a best connection scenario, your alway going to be looking at .3-.8 seconds of input delay. that makes it a lot harder to punish things on reaction, because 9 times out of 10 your delay is the entirety of their recovery frames. Another often neglected aspect is that this means there is a delay on starting your block, as WELL as letting go of block. If you block a string and release the button when the animation stops- your xxframes behind, and have just been standing in place blocking during all that delay. Its very hard to get used too, given all the different pings you can find yourself playing at.
The mindset is totally different and youll only adjust through playing more and more online matches.

If offline practice is what your wanting to improve on, find other people of equal or more skill and just play. Like others have said, its all well and good, easy enough to set up your huge combos on dumb ai or punching bags. But getting used to frameperfect execution and reactions out of other people cant be subsituted or replaced. You just have to play against better people.