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The Solution to Downplayers

Do you think this would help settle matchup debates?


  • Total voters
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WayoftheFist

Cold day in hell...
Play MK9 Jade for awhile. Everyone else feels just broken after that lol
All igau downplayers should be sentenced to a month of maining a bottom 5 character in mk9 while fighting top 5 characters in mk9. They will never take their characters tools for granted again.
 

CrimsonShadow

Administrator and Community Engineer
Administrator
Best solution? Ignore :D

Someone else downplaying won't hurt you, and playing a set won't prove anything anyway due to all the variables involved.

Theoretically 2 players that play their characters at the absolute highest level could play a lot of sets over a long period of time for matchup evidence -- but in reality, you could play a different player with the same characters and have completely different results.

Best to just focus on what really matters.
 

trustinme

xbl-OBS trustinme
Thank you captain crimson shadow on ur infinite wisdom,I can now sleep easy tonight.may u suffer a less dramatic fate than Chico from the running man,he really should have waited until the perimeter was deactivated.
 

Flagg

Champion
lmao,I'd forgotten about that.lets face it though the stalkers vs Ben Richards were all 10-0 matchups in Richards favor.
How no one said that to Brady through his entire Sz run on MK is beyond me.

Richards bringing fatalities to realty TV shows.
 

Kitana Prime

Top-tier at everything but the characters I choose
Do what everyone does to the upplayers...

*lol*
*Kanye shrug*



Harley secret top 10 mang
 

Smarrgasm

What's a Smarrgasm?
There is no true solution to downplayers. Its probably the worst side effect of being a free thinking human being. Either way you just have to go...
 

trustinme

xbl-OBS trustinme
To be fair, the hunters in the movie were F tier. Fucking Dynamo, man.

The hunters in the book were C tier. 7-3 Ben.
lol,i swear Richards sandbagged that entire tournament.what about those two jobbers 'wise' and 'loftman'? They were like the Kano and nightwolf of the running man. Do we need to discuss Whitman,price and hadad?
 

DevilMaySpy

Mama's Little Bumgorf
This doesn't work. You don't get a chance to develop your own style with the character or get a feel of the opponent's moves, even if you know their properties. I know almost everything about a few characters but can't play them to save my life because I have no experience doing so.
That's why I said high level understanding, meaning you've put at least some time in with the character. This is more about "This character shuts down my options because XYZ." If someone picks your character and uses ABC to get around XYZ, then you have to hold that. If they cannot get around their own XYZ no matter what they do, then the claim is justified.

Results of a ft5 or ft10 may not have any bearing on the actual MU though. Especially in the example you have where it was alts. Basically all that ft5 MMs are to prove a person using a char is better then a different person using a different char.

The only solution to downplayers who will not listen to logic is summary execution.
This then brings us to the idea of getting outplayed. If someone makes the above claim, uses the same tools they complained about and can't beat their own character, then they will have to accept that you're outplaying them instead of accusing you of abusing braindead tools.