Espio
Kokomo
This is a different kind of thread. A lot of the times I see people lose offline and online, lots of excuses for why we lose and the opponent wins, but what about self reflection? I feel this is one of the most lacking attributes in players and in the community in particular. Not dissing anyone or trying to throw shade, but just an observation of mine.
Self reflection and honest criticism of your play, your errors and your reads is paramount in order to engage in productive and sustainable growth as a competitive player. There is nothing wrong with acknowledging we are not as good or as developed as we think or thought we were in the meta/game.
We all have room to grow and improve. A lot of us are guilty of looking at our options, tools etc in a linear and flow chart way that causes us to fail more than we otherwise would.
Many times when someone gets outplayed, they are quick to claim bad match up or that their character sucks or their opponent is merely playing a better character. Own your failures as much as you own your successes, there's nothing like taking responsibility and changing things, taking control is empowering and a huge motivator to me.
There are many instances where people think that because I don't complain about my characters that I am upplaying, but in reality, I am fully aware of my character's flaws, I just prefer to focus on how I can make them work and get better instead of using them as a crutch, which is why I tend to not be salty, frustrated or emo about my characters. Dwelling on things changes nothing or helps you get better.
The goal of this thread is to start a community dialogue where we all actually talk about some of the things we need to work on to improve our games honestly and critically. I'll start with a couple of my current bad habits and sloppy play that costs me matches and rounds that I otherwise could have won.
As a Goro player, there are certain things I need to stop doing that I feel I do too much of currently:
1. Telestomping too much- I use this entirely too much and sometimes I lose a lifelead that I worked hard to build due to impatience and sloppy play.
2. Zoning when I'm not winning the war- The zoner in me sometimes wants to force people to come to me in a zoning war, but then I end up falling behind by a notable margin and it becomes trickier to come back.
3. I don't walk enough, I'm used to high mobility characters so I end up sometimes hanging myself more trying to get where I need to go when walking could have gotten me in while taking minimal chip damage anyway.
Since I'm aware of what I'm doing wrong, I can start to rectify my issues and bad habits so that I can stop losing due to my own bad choices and sloppy play.
What about everyone else? I look forward to hearing the experiences of others
.
Self reflection and honest criticism of your play, your errors and your reads is paramount in order to engage in productive and sustainable growth as a competitive player. There is nothing wrong with acknowledging we are not as good or as developed as we think or thought we were in the meta/game.
We all have room to grow and improve. A lot of us are guilty of looking at our options, tools etc in a linear and flow chart way that causes us to fail more than we otherwise would.
Many times when someone gets outplayed, they are quick to claim bad match up or that their character sucks or their opponent is merely playing a better character. Own your failures as much as you own your successes, there's nothing like taking responsibility and changing things, taking control is empowering and a huge motivator to me.
There are many instances where people think that because I don't complain about my characters that I am upplaying, but in reality, I am fully aware of my character's flaws, I just prefer to focus on how I can make them work and get better instead of using them as a crutch, which is why I tend to not be salty, frustrated or emo about my characters. Dwelling on things changes nothing or helps you get better.
The goal of this thread is to start a community dialogue where we all actually talk about some of the things we need to work on to improve our games honestly and critically. I'll start with a couple of my current bad habits and sloppy play that costs me matches and rounds that I otherwise could have won.
As a Goro player, there are certain things I need to stop doing that I feel I do too much of currently:
1. Telestomping too much- I use this entirely too much and sometimes I lose a lifelead that I worked hard to build due to impatience and sloppy play.
2. Zoning when I'm not winning the war- The zoner in me sometimes wants to force people to come to me in a zoning war, but then I end up falling behind by a notable margin and it becomes trickier to come back.
3. I don't walk enough, I'm used to high mobility characters so I end up sometimes hanging myself more trying to get where I need to go when walking could have gotten me in while taking minimal chip damage anyway.
Since I'm aware of what I'm doing wrong, I can start to rectify my issues and bad habits so that I can stop losing due to my own bad choices and sloppy play.
What about everyone else? I look forward to hearing the experiences of others
.
) or at least getting a guarenteed poke to start my pressure when I should really just be counterpoking with my pressure if I know the opponent is going to respect my counterpoking game.
