Phoenix said:
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to help someone who talks shit to me. I didn't have a mic so I couldn't have hinted to him about anything. The best practice you can get is focusing on your opponents tactics, and trying to beat them. Not talking is the firts lesson when in a tournament based fight. Yes this was a casual match, but you need to treat every match like a tournament based match, or you will not get better. I, for a long time, stayed the same skill level b/c I only played randoms on XBL, and never tried my hardest against everyone. I then realized I wasn't being productive, so I tried my best in every fight.
Me picking Reptile is my way of easing up on you. He's my third worst character and I was just playing around. But then I hear you talking shit, so I then go to Ermac and I don't let up. I would have kept playing you but you left. Whats the point if you only want to play people you can beat. There's only a handful of players who can successfully win againnst EVERYONE 90% of the time, and those players are the best in the world.
I would offer advice but this game is a game where you need to learn by experience and not by what you've read, or heard. You can read all the UMK3 strategies you want, but when you go up against a person you should forget all of that. What you read gives you basic instuctions for normal situations. Playing someone who's a good player, you won't be able to beat them by "going by the book". You need to figure out how they play, and react like a cat to there offense, and be deffensive 100% of the time.
First, your right. I wouldn't deal with someone who trash talks either.
But second, you've proved my point about the whole elitist attitude.
Someone who is relatively low-skilled is not going to improve if all they do is play against people of high-level who want to stomp them with endless massive combos, without so much as a generous use of the vaseline. The only way for these guys to improve is to play guys at or slightly above their own level (hard to do as matchmaking seems to fail at pairing up same-skilled players. One minute I'm flawless'ing someone and the next someone is doing the same to me.)
Lastly, I don't remember leaving matches with you after one or two losses, and if I did, I certainly didn't do it because I was losing. I have no problem with losing as my ranked match record will show. If I was only out to play people I could beat, I certainly wouldn't even start matches with people who I know will win(though I have seen several people who do that), and my rank would reflect that. However, there have been times when I've lost to people 10+ times in a row and came back for more. But just the same, these are the people who have a good attitude and are willing to help. If I have left, it's not because I'm tired of losing (When I first started, I once lost 20+ in a row to a top-level player. Sad but true.), it's probably because I have some other responsibility (3 kids, wife, job, yard, dinner,.....) or because I've been invited to play something else. The only time I've ever quit because I'm losing is if the only thing the opponent will do is the same infinites over and over.
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, And you can't say that a person is not going to get better if they talk. That's bull. Most of my improvement, while not necessarily major, has come through helpful pointers I've received talking to people, not by getting my rear-end handed to me.
I'm done arguing about this. It's my point of view, and I know for a fact there are others out there who share it.
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