Work got me stressing like a bitch on a bitch boat right now. BUT I will say this...NOW that i know how to get Ring Matches working would love to get a TYM thing going possibly later tonight. After playing
@axcelerate last night, that mode gave me another reason on why I love this game. You can train with awesome friends you meet, and man o man you learn SO MUCH MORE and faster than playing with randoms in ranked match.
Here's a question i have tho. Ive heard that if you set the setting to "Friendly match" your win/loss ratio will not count against your square color. Has anybody heard anything of that sort ?Question mark?
I've heard it's supposed to work that way, but can't confirm if it does or not... But that's what it's supposed to do.
Still slowly working on this team, but this is the most focused and comfortable team I've played so far. I feel like it's more than just "I like these three characters" and my team-wide game plan and synergy is more than an assist extending a single combo. I have an over-arching strategy and a gameplan. Team feels solid.
Starting to get a real clear idea on my weaknesses too and some focus to training mode time.
TGohan is like a magnifying glass for flaws as a player.. when you're weak in something and you play him he highlights it effectively. Ultimately I think that's why he beat Kid Buu out for the spot. Kid let's you play sloppy and ham-fisted and get away with a lot, even benefit from it.. but TG has to be played pretty clean. So all in all I think TG will make me a better player in the long run.
My neutral/pressure assist use is absolute garbage.. just garbage. I blow that shit too early trying to get in, like a virgin on his wedding night. Rushing things, not taking my time. Once in i fumble my timing or lose track of my assist calls and call the wrong one, or not realize one is on timer and blah blah. When I am getting my pressure decently right, I tend to be so happy about the fact that I stop mixing things up and become predictable, which leads to getting poo'd on.
I drop combos constantly.. but that's part of my hands and shit, it takes me hundreds of games to get in-match combos down even when I can do them 50/50 in training mode, so Im not worried about it, it's just something I have to deal with and it gets better naturally over time (though it's super super super frustrating to drop ultra basic stuff 30% of the time).. So my training mode focus right now needs to be based around getting my blockstrings and pressure sequences down with assists to cover me or extend pressure or set up mix opportunities, and get the timings of them down, as well as work on proper IAD after assist calls.. Im slow on these, and TG is extra tricky in this regard IMO due to his tiny normals and weird timings though Ive found a kind of mix he gets here*. My in-match focus right now needs to be on maintaining solid but ACTIVE defense (reflect, AA SDs, etc), movement and using my assists to help me get pressure started in neutral - which feeds back in to my training mode focus. And round it goes.
* - It's odd, and its certainly not 'real' in that sense, but after an IAD with TG, you usually go with j.H, his is slow and has kind of weird timing. Better players seem to be able to react to it coming out slowly, meaning if I set the timing up to try and cross-up from semi close, its fairly reactable, both to block or to challenge.. but if they get comfortable with that timing and stopping that normal, I can use his ridiculously fast j.L as I pass over them. It seems to have a small hitbox behind it, acting as a more traditional crossup normal, not requiring him to turn around first. It's been surprisingly useful, though hard for me to time correctly right now because it has to be done so fast. When used right though the normal itself creates a very ambiguous L/R mix after an IAD, and a timing mix when thrown in with j.H.
@Juggs At least my internet isn't jumping around my rectum.
