Spamming a viable way of winning?

[MKF30]

What exactly does playing normally mean? Who decides what is a normal style of play? Do all character's play normally the same way? Is Noob's normal way of playing the same as Liu Kang's?

Yeah, I hear ya....you know last night I played a guy from here named OneManArmy, nice guy but sent me a scrub like message but we're good I think. Initially he said, you're from TYM expected crazy stuff after I beat him with zoning tactics with Ermac and Sektor, so I told him hey dude there's no "set rule" how to play, you play to win, you play for fun and you do what you must to win, everyone has their own style and fighters are about adapting to your opponent and reading them.

He felt certain characters were meant to be "played" a certain way, but I disagree....isn't that up to the player on how they use that character, not the character that must be played a certain way. I like to zone with everyone I use, even characters that may not be "zoning characters" but hey if I can do it, then so be it. It's not always about fancy combos, eye candy and showing off...I think some people have this mind pre-set that "of you must use this character a certain way, not that way" and if you break their rule it's cheesy or spamming but in reality is just a scrubby attitude imo.

 

[BehindTheLight]

This is to funny. I just saw this thread, so I have to post this video of this match I played last night in the TYM room.
Before the video, I just have to say that whatever/however you win is totally fine. It is on your opponent to figure out a way to stop/beat it.

Guy was talking a lot of shit, so I picked Kano against his best character Raiden (I know zero combos with Kano) and beat him with just ball pretty much.

 

[Theme]

This is to funny. I just saw this thread, so I have to post this video of this match I played last night in the TYM room.
Before the video, I just have to say that whatever/however you win is totally fine. It is on your opponent to figure out a way to stop/beat it.

Guy was talking a lot of shit, so I picked Kano against his best character Raiden (I know zero combos with Kano) and beat him with just ball pretty much.

Haha that was entertaining. He isn't reallly good with Raiden anyways.

 

[BadassUkulele]

As I like to say (pretentious self-quote and ego-inflating incoming):

I agree with that!
you do whatever you can to win

 

[Ironsoulsmasher]

Do what you can to win. In laggy situations I'll resort to spamming one combo or a couple of specials because that's about all I'm able to do. In most situations, most people will complain anyways saying you spammed no matter what you did, so in the end it's kind of moot. :/

 

[Gamin_Guru]

On-topic: Spamming will never win you a serious offline tournament. Never. Ever.

I legitimately hate people who play like ass. People who abuse forcelift for instance. I have to spend those two rounds block dash punishing it, it gets old...I don't WANT to do that shit; I'd rather pull off a combo. That is my norm when playing Ermacs, when I fight an actual GOOD Ermac I don't know what to do because 90% of the ones I play suck ass. Stop doing it after like the 12th time I've punished you for doing it...gimme a break.

I'd like to get some actual matchup experience, c'mon now.

THIS so much!!!!

I cant even begin to talk about the countless online baddies I've encountered that screwed me over for future matchups. And it's not like I'm going and challenging them, but rather they come and find me. It's almost getting to the point that I need to stop going in the random rooms and strictly stick to the TYM, MKU and GameFAQs rooms if I want to play any decent players.

For example, take the dozens of Scrub-Zeros who do nothing but iceclones then fullscreen iceballs and random slides that are ALWAYS blocked and punished (take it in that I use Shang most of the time). And if they just so happen to hit me with an iceball, they proceed to do a crappy 4 hit combo or waste the opportunity on an UPPERCUT FFS!

So, all that practice fighting these turds and easily winning does me no good when I actually go up against a good Subzero user who stays in my face and uses iceballs/clones correctly AND even ground freeze.

like IniquityDM said, I'd like to get some actual matchup experience, c'mon now.

 

[Kombo]

On-topic: Spamming will never win you a serious offline tournament. Never. Ever.



THIS so much!!!!

I cant even begin to talk about the countless online baddies I've encountered that screwed me over for future matchups. And it's not like I'm going and challenging them, but rather they come and find me. It's almost getting to the point that I need to stop going in the random rooms and strictly stick to the TYM, MKU and GameFAQs rooms if I want to play any decent players.

For example, take the dozens of Scrub-Zeros who do nothing but iceclones then fullscreen iceballs and random slides that are ALWAYS blocked and punished (take it in that I use Shang most of the time). And if they just so happen to hit me with an iceball, they proceed to do a crappy 4 hit combo or waste the opportunity on an UPPERCUT FFS!

So, all that practice fighting these turds and easily winning does me no good when I actually go up against a good Subzero user who stays in my face and uses iceballs/clones correctly AND even ground freeze.

like IniquityDM said, I'd like to get some actual matchup experience, c'mon now.

What Sub Zero player would even think about playing Shang from full screen? Thats basically saying "Thanks man free fireball."

 

[Kindred]

This is to funny. I just saw this thread, so I have to post this video of this match I played last night in the TYM room.
Before the video, I just have to say that whatever/however you win is totally fine. It is on your opponent to figure out a way to stop/beat it.

Guy was talking a lot of shit, so I picked Kano against his best character Raiden (I know zero combos with Kano) and beat him with just ball pretty much.

Oh how I wouldve loved to be there lol