I voted yes, but for slightly different reasons than some people. My hands suck, and have been beat to shit, making them difficult and stubborn to deal with. I was a boxer then mixed martial artist for over a decade and NUMEROUS breaks , contusions and other hand injuries have made fighting games an interesting challenge.
Interestingly enough though, I don't feel like MK hampers me in any way. Every execution issue I have fun across so far , I have been able to at least partially overcome with stubborn repetition and CORRECT practice.I think a lot of people aren't practicing correctly.
The old adage 'practice makes perfect' comes to mind. Its oft-repeated, and super incorrect. PERFECT PRACTICE makes perfect. If you practice throwing a shitty punch, the most you can hope for is being able to throw a perfectly shitty punch.
I found, when running in to issues (and shit knows Ive had issues) that *every* time, when I stopped, stepped back, and re-approached the combo or whatever it was, I saw improvements. Just recently, I have been struggling with Tremor combos. B2xdb2u. Fucker. So, I blamed the game and Tremor. I bitched on the Tremor forums. I got some advise and it was good, but ultimately, I fixed my own issue by stepping back and learning the combo from the beginning. That helped me identify what I was doing, which was, after hitting B2, I would slide my thumb down, then back, then up for the db2u follow-up, but what I WASNT doing, was fully releasing the original B input from the B2. Once I came to this conclusion, and started building my muscle memory from scratch, *poof*. I'm consistent.
Something I know people are doing, because I do it and Im not a special snowflake by any means, are building incorrect muscle memories. WHen we learn combos we all have different approaches, but by the time we put it all together, if there is some issue, we just keep hammering that issue home. Have you ever, after a long practice set, suddenly become inconsistent? Maybe a combo you normally hit half the time or better, suddenly you are barely hitting at all? Or some little thing has popped up that's just NOT working like usual? If you're like me, you are stubborn and this pisses you off. You start grinding harder and stay at it..
Well, congrats cupcake, you just spent several minutes building incorrect muscle memory. Where-as, had you just stopped and stepped away and come back to it after 15m, an hour, a nights sleep, you would have been back on point.
When I have issues, consistent issues that normal practice over several days and hours do not solve, I start TOTALLY over, right down to the most basic parts, and I start super slow. One input at a time, building on that, cleaning up anything I was muddying up before, and gradually building as close to perfect muscle memory as I can manage.
The result of this self-analysis is that I genuinely believe, given the motivation, there is nothing in the game that's simply beyond me input wise. I dont mean i can sit down and do a 3 FBRC, 3 one frame link, massive juggle combo in no time, but I do mean that if I have the motivation to LEARN that combo, eventually, after much much hard work, I WILL get it.