Why I suck:
1) I'm impatient/Bored- This is a huge one for me. I just get bored in the middle of a match sometimes and start pushing and pressuring or just being stupid. I dont know what triggers it exactly, but its an issue. I catch myself, but its usually too late and I've already eaten a ton of damage or put myself into a super shitty position. I will just walk-up throw to see if I can. or chain DP over and over, or on every wakeup, and its not some scrub-strat because I dont know any better or cant think of something else, its literally me going "LOL I WONDER IF HE'LL LET ME GET AWAY WITH THIS DUMB SHIT" This also causes me to main-hop like no one else. I just get bored. Quickly. I'm not good enough to Floe the game and main random select, but my constant character swapping and bouncing around is a HUGE hindrance.
2) My execution is awful.- This is an odd one. I just.. Miss things. My hands are awful. I have nerve damage from a raccoon (seriously) and every other kind of damage from a lifetime of breaks and beatings and everything in between. It makes them stiff and I lose some finesse. One of the biggest problems is that, and this sounds odd, but that I requires a different amount of force to do the same task. So making my index finger press down once might me harder, or easier, than it was the time prior or whatever, that sounds like nothing, but it actually adds up. It causes me to hit buttons too early or too late and drop/fuckup otherwise extremely easy combos or sequences. This is NOT an insurmountable issue that is holding me back in some way that I cant overcome, but coupled with my main-changing and my lack of play time in general, and it costs me. Heavily. There is almost never a ROUND that goes by that I dont have some execution problem in.
3) I just dont play enough. - Above and beyond all my issues, this is simply the main one. Add in my impatience and constant character hopping and my shitty execution and you have a recipe for being terrible. Just playing the game more will alleviate a huge number of my problems. I was going to list AAing as a weakness, but it actually falls under this heading, as does proper punishing. I just dont play enough, and as such tend to be slower to react and uncomfortable in my own skin so to speak.
4) I'm EXTREMELY stubborn and I will fixate. This is a weird one and stems from my personality. I will sometimes.. I dont know, I just get stubborn. I jump and get AA'd and my brain just says 'FUCK THAT GUY AND HIS AA ILL JUMP AGAIN AA THIS BITCH'.. then I get AA'd again. And my brain yells even louder this time 'I GOT SOMETHING FOR YOUR AA YOU LITTLE SHIT' and so on. Or a guy will jump in on ME and I wont AA because I see it as a challenge to just block him out. I do it in neutral sometimes as well.. I'll just turtle up just to see if I can block everything. Obviously you cant. This is an odd thing that I do, but I do it and it costs me. I also get mad at myself, and if, say, I screw up my execution on something, sometimes I just see red and forget you're even there. I'll just start mashing out whatever I fucked up to get it to work, regardless of whats happening around and/or to me. I also challenge when I shouldnt. I'll know Im being put in to a setup of some kind and my stubborness has me challenge you instead of just blocking it out. I'll try to do silly shit to get out, or be disrespectful and try to do something unexpected.
Why I rock:
1) General knowledge- Despite how I play, I know a lot about the game. I know a lot of setups and what leads into them and how you get out. I know a lot about frame data and strategy and spacing and just general knowledge. I dont play enough to put it in to use though, I tend to be so uncomfortable that while I know these things, my brain is not relaxed enough to properly react to them and put that knowledge into play. Add in my occasional stubbornness and tendency to fixate.. and so on.
2) Reactions- I have very very good reflexes. When I'm comfortable and cruising along I can react very very quickly. Input errors cost me heavily, but I'm very good at hit confirming and identifying whether a move landed or not and going forward accordingly. Admittedly, it doesnt look like that a lot of the time, as I will land a hit then roll in to a combo, only to drop it and since Im already in 'It landed we're fine' mode, I eat shit. Ive lost count of the times I go to fireball a string and make it safe, only to get DP and look like a fucking idiot.
3)Understanding/Adapting/Planning/Reading. When I'm comfortable and relaxed in a match, I can make pretty good reads on what my opponent is going to do, and I can usually start to get a handle on them pretty quickly. I can put together fair lengthy sequences of cause and effect very quickly and anticipate what my opponent is going to do well enough for them to be very effective. I can read a situation and react, but I play a very fluid game when I'm not obsessively fixating for one reason or another, and adapt and play on the fly, building sequences in my head to inform the next few seconds, but adjusting and tearing them down completely on the fly as needed.
So, to summarize, I need to pick a fucking character, or two at MOST, and just grind the goddamn game.
