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DJ L Toro

Champion
So you're suggestion to the Reptile community in order to level up is to 'do dumb shit'?
reptiles who do dumb shit make me mad salty. There's no way to read really stupid shit, you just get hit and say what the fuck that was stupid, why did it hit me, then they do some other stupid shit and the salt builds
 

THTB

Arez | Booya | Riu48 - Rest Easy, Friends
reminds me of when i played tyrant at nec. I noticed he doesn't tech every time he hit the ground. I purposely drop my combo and charge the unblockable. I know its tyrant and he is a gdlk player, but every player has a weakness some where that just needs to be scouted. When i play with j360, he techs every damn time he hits the ground, so this never works on him at all. Winning at fighting games really comes down to taking advantage of the other player.
This is how gimmicks can work hella hard.
 

Briggs8417

Salt Proprietor of TYM
Ugh.

Reptile players, stop acting like patience blows up Reptile hard. Start thinking the fuck outside the box instead of trying to go super cookie-cutter. And stop worrying about goddamn dash being blocked. The fact that people are sitting there trying to block dash gives you everything you need. Just...go outside the goddamn box lmao. Idc if you're standing there blocking. I'll just do something totally fucking stupid that you won't block.

Playing Reptile takes someone who isn't willing to think conventionally, because his playstyle is nowhere near conventional. When you stop worrying about how he sucks at playing the standard game, you'll actually start doing shit with the character.
Please enlighten me on exactly what Reptile can do against any character who is blocking on him for pressure. Also, when the fuck did the entire TYM community decide that playing like a scrub and dashing for your life in order to get 11% (and completely useless oki setups compared to what he normally gets on knockdown) in exchange for getting blocked and eating a full combo became the way to play this character. I'm seriously not going to talk about this anymore. I hope this character gets a top 8 soon, I want to be proven wrong so badly. I'm not going to talk about this character anymore however, enjoy getting blown up by a move that 90% of the cast that actually matters can punish easily.
 
reminds me of when i played tyrant at nec. I noticed he doesn't tech every time he hit the ground. I purposely drop my combo and charge the unblockable. I know its tyrant and he is a gdlk player, but every player has a weakness some where that just needs to be scouted. When i play with j360, he techs every damn time he hits the ground, so this never works on him at all. Winning at fighting games really comes down to taking advantage of the other player.
Yup, if you take a risk and noticed it's not working well don't do it, adjust mid-game, I think going into a match scripted is just exposing yourself.
 

zaf

professor
This is how gimmicks can work hella hard.
but those set ups are not gimmicks =[
they are legit man lol. Shit even worked on death, but i fucked up my timing and the charge came out too early
thats what she said

I think Cossner needs to come in here.
he is one of the most unorthodox reptiles i have ever had the pleasure to play. but he is smart about it. it is sometimes hard to tell what he is doing because you literally never seen this playstyle before. It also really looks like a reptile on crack, but the set ups work for a reason. Cossner understands reptile.
 

Phosferrax

Original Liu Kang cop.
I can not accept 'do dumb shit' as advice to help level a community up. Reptile can't play this regular footsie game like just about every other character can because he doesn't have an actually dash. No way in hell is Reptile just going to saunter up to someone from jump distance with decent footsies and spacing.
 

zaf

professor
Yup, if you take a risk and noticed it's not working well don't do it, adjust mid-game, I think going into a match scripted is just exposing yourself.
I dont go into matches scripted unless i scout something, like against tyrant.
when i mention that i dont do this against j360, its because i see him tech everything. So i go in the match already knowing NOT to do this set up.
 
I heard this somewhere, I think I read it, or w/e, forgot who posted/said it, but a big part of fighting games is figuring out how much BS you can get away with against you're opponent and don't assume your opponent knows how to properly play. Lol.

I think PL said it in his interview.
Dizzy was the one who said that.
 

Briggs8417

Salt Proprietor of TYM
So you're suggestion to the Reptile community in order to level up is to 'do dumb shit'?
He is saying that for the past two years MM has been right all along, so I really owe him an apology. I thought that by keeping the Reptile's players away from his tech I would be doing them a favor, but little did I know I was keeping them from placing top 8 at every tournament ever.
 
He is saying that for the past two years MM has been right all along, so I really owe him an apology. I thought that by keeping the Reptile's players away from his tech I would be doing them a favor, but little did I know I was keeping them from placing top 8 at every tournament ever.
Just 2, 3+4 in the dead zone. People get hella mad
 

Briggs8417

Salt Proprietor of TYM
Look you guys won't have to worry about me talking about this character being as average as he is anymore. I really don't want to talk about it anymore, and I'm officially dropping this game today for good. It's not like I was ever that good at it anyway. I'm just wasting my time, everyone have fun. Switching to Injustice for all now.
 

16 Bit

Mash d+1~Cat Claws
Elder God
NetherRealm Studios
This is like how super solid, thoughtful, FOOTSIES LAO was the one true Lao and no one understood how broke footsies Lao was. Then Carl won the world championship jumping around teleporting like an idiot.

I have made top 8 in almost every tournament I've ever entered by making people block and then doing whatever dumb shit I feel like doing.

It's simple fighting game science. But instead let's just call it Chris G's godlike fundamentals. We'll just throw out the word fundamentals without taking a lesson from what he's doing.
 

crosstalk

Kombatant
He is saying that for the past two years MM has been right all along, so I really owe him an apology. I thought that by keeping the Reptile's players away from his tech I would be doing them a favor, but little did I know I was keeping them from placing top 8 at every tournament ever.
#YOLOSWAGMUFFIN
 

Phosferrax

Original Liu Kang cop.
This is like how super solid, thoughtful, FOOTSIES LAO was the one true Lao and no one understood how broke footsies Lao was. Then Carl won the world championship jumping around teleporting like an idiot.

I have made top 8 in almost every tournament I've ever entered by making people block and then doing whatever dumb shit I feel like doing.

It's simple fighting game science. But instead let's just call it Chris G's godlike fundamentals. We'll just throw out the word fundamentals without taking a lesson from what he's doing.
Again, you show a fundamental lack of understanding about Reptile's mechanics and have not said anything of substance or use of how to better Reptile.

I don't know what the hell Chris G is doing different, but neither does anyone so until someone can actually pinpoint what it is, can everyone stop acting like they all of a sudden know what they're talking about as it's very apparent that few do.
 

16 Bit

Mash d+1~Cat Claws
Elder God
NetherRealm Studios
He dashes like he doesn't give a fuck. Then when you block he does whatever he wants. He puts a forceball on screen then does whatever he wants. That's it, it's 20 year old tech.
 

Phosferrax

Original Liu Kang cop.
He dashes like he doesn't give a fuck. Then when you block he does whatever he wants. He puts a forceball on screen then does whatever he wants. That's it, it's 20 year old tech.
See above comment. It is clear that you don't understand the character's mechanics properly, the fact that you think it is that simple and black and white shows that.

Please don't keep talking as if you have the answer.
 

16 Bit

Mash d+1~Cat Claws
Elder God
NetherRealm Studios
Just because you refuse to accept the answer doesn't make it untrue. Sometimes it is that simple.
 

RYX

BIG PUSHER
See above comment. It is clear that you don't understand the character's mechanics properly, the fact that you think it is that simple and black and white shows that.

Please don't keep talking as if you have the answer.
Clearly you don't because this careful, cautious Reptile isn't working out so well.

And Chris G, a player who doesn't even play this game, doing better than dedicated Reptile mains using that simple fucking strategy you immediately forgo as a bad strategy, is laughable.

C'mon here.
 

Phosferrax

Original Liu Kang cop.
Just because you refuse to accept the answer doesn't make it untrue. Sometimes it is that simple.
It is you who refuses to accept that you don't have the answer. You have a vague notion of forceballs and dash and that seems to be the extent of your knowledge with Reptile.

Reptile dashes and force balls, that's what he does. You can't tell the Reptile community that they're wrong and they something as weak as 'dash and force ball' like a moron who doesn't understand the character. I've already told you what is wrong with what you're saying but you just keep saying it, thinking that it makes you right.

Again, when you have some concrete examples as to what makes Chris G's Reptile more successful than all the others please share it. Until, stop just saying force ball and dash.
 

Phosferrax

Original Liu Kang cop.
Clearly you don't because this careful, cautious Reptile isn't working out so well.

And Chris G, a player who doesn't even play this game, doing better than dedicated Reptile mains using that simple fucking strategy you immediately forgo as a bad strategy, is laughable.

C'mon here.
Read above comment.
 
Not an expert here, but, yeah, he's doing something right. Obviously works regardless of how you want to put it or not want to accept it.

REO throws out random Nomad Dash here and there, it's the same concept. Sometimes you just have to put out.

I'd rather deal with results than ifs, ands, or buts, in reality anything is possible. In perfect conditions, yeah, no character should ever be beating Kabal or Kenshi, I think that's what Bit is driving at, it's the ambiguous and surprise factor that matters.

Not a SF expert either, but, I was watching Infiltration play and the commentators were mind blown people were eating that overhead slap move he kept doing with Akuma, same thing for that time when he bodied everyone with Demons.
 

RYX

BIG PUSHER
It's the same reason Lao does so well; stupid, unpredictable, dumb bullshit. It's that stuff that you're like "How did I get hit by that stupid shit" and it gets you real mad, so you start trying to scout for it, and then you open up his other options and you're just letting him do whatever the fuck he wants and he's just having a jolly old time.

I'm an online scrub though so I'm sure you'll use that to derail the argument because online warriors don't know shit.

Let's not fight though; we can be friends. :)