LawAbidingCitizen
Bomb Setups & Ball Rolls(Mileena/Cyrax)
This topic has been on my mind for quite some time and has become more apparent to me after talking to Sonic in his live stream.
Does the character or the players fundies net that W?
There seems to be an awful lot of players who feel certain characters carry the player to victory and some characters hold you back. I happen to believe otherwise. Like Sonic said "if your footsies is good you can win with almost any character".
He showed this to his viewers and subscribe by playing both low to high level subscribers with multiple characters only using D4. He displayed unreal footsies keeping out several players including PG members that often make top 8's. He spaced so well they couldn't convert his did this with low to Top tier characters and explained for them to beat him they needed to work on their neutral because in a tournament he wouldn't be D4 ing them but converting for full combo and stated they needed to utilize wave dashing to put more fear into him to not allow him to think and move freely.
Sonic isn't the only one to state this. Recently VideoGamesYo well known for his top 4 placement with Shao Kahn said what he needed to do to make that character work was to strip him down to the basics and work on fundies only using his best moves to win neutral like s1/D4/F3/Shoulder and a few projectiles it was proper spacing and high level fundies that got him top 4 not the character.
I know there are some who would like to blame MU's or characters but honestly the majority of your loses are not caused by the character shutting down all of your options. Mostly you get that loss because you made mistakes. Obviously there are bad characters and MU's but we should always try to improve ourselves over writing it off because "That character is OP" or "My Character is Low Tier". If we carry that mentality we won't improve where we need to and will instead make excuses.
I'm sure many will disagree but that's fine. To each there own.
Does the character or the players fundies net that W?
There seems to be an awful lot of players who feel certain characters carry the player to victory and some characters hold you back. I happen to believe otherwise. Like Sonic said "if your footsies is good you can win with almost any character".
He showed this to his viewers and subscribe by playing both low to high level subscribers with multiple characters only using D4. He displayed unreal footsies keeping out several players including PG members that often make top 8's. He spaced so well they couldn't convert his did this with low to Top tier characters and explained for them to beat him they needed to work on their neutral because in a tournament he wouldn't be D4 ing them but converting for full combo and stated they needed to utilize wave dashing to put more fear into him to not allow him to think and move freely.
Sonic isn't the only one to state this. Recently VideoGamesYo well known for his top 4 placement with Shao Kahn said what he needed to do to make that character work was to strip him down to the basics and work on fundies only using his best moves to win neutral like s1/D4/F3/Shoulder and a few projectiles it was proper spacing and high level fundies that got him top 4 not the character.
I know there are some who would like to blame MU's or characters but honestly the majority of your loses are not caused by the character shutting down all of your options. Mostly you get that loss because you made mistakes. Obviously there are bad characters and MU's but we should always try to improve ourselves over writing it off because "That character is OP" or "My Character is Low Tier". If we carry that mentality we won't improve where we need to and will instead make excuses.
I'm sure many will disagree but that's fine. To each there own.
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