MacabreDerek
08-25-2005, 10:30 AM
Hey all,
I've picked up XBL a little over 9 days ago. Now, like most scrubs, I wanted to enter and make an impact. However, also like most scrubs, I was very ignorant to the competition. People parrying whole super arts, mix-up and pressure-strings I had a hard time following, far less countering, and a sudden realization about alot of what these forums talk about.
Until XBL, I was facing average players who knew a few tidbits and tricks, and for the most part played full out special moves and pokes, with no real game-plan in mind. So when I arrive online, it's a seginificant change of pace.
First lesson: Scrubs fall to patterns... Constantly. It wasnt until eather rushed down or caught in high-low-throw games with player did I realize how true this was of me. Scratch that out of the gameplay, applying my own high-low mix ups and learning to set people up into it.
Second Lesson: Parry is an artform. I've been playing CAPCOM KILLAH alot, and though not one for long winded combos, I'll never see more parries in a single match than I will against him. When facing off, jump-in parry makes for a nice arial mind-game, and parrying that up-close fireball really makes the world of diffrence.
Third Lesson: There is a reason to poke. After being hit my numerous 40-70% life combos, I am realizing how unsafe it actually is to try and apply yourself to any type of risk. Alot of special moves are beaten out by simple pokes, and pokes on their own string well for block-stun pressure ((Simple double-crouching-jabs and such)).
I've recently had the opprotunity to play my more regular Real Life opponents, thus far managing to own many rounds for free, a significant change from my normal scores with them. This reflected alot of growth in my own play, and I am psyched that it was all in a single week.
To those opponents who didnt quit after the first match, who went game-for-game, who are on my friends list, and those who just had a helpful in-game pointer, I'd like to express my deepest thanks, and hope many good games are to come.
- MacabreDerek
I've picked up XBL a little over 9 days ago. Now, like most scrubs, I wanted to enter and make an impact. However, also like most scrubs, I was very ignorant to the competition. People parrying whole super arts, mix-up and pressure-strings I had a hard time following, far less countering, and a sudden realization about alot of what these forums talk about.
Until XBL, I was facing average players who knew a few tidbits and tricks, and for the most part played full out special moves and pokes, with no real game-plan in mind. So when I arrive online, it's a seginificant change of pace.
First lesson: Scrubs fall to patterns... Constantly. It wasnt until eather rushed down or caught in high-low-throw games with player did I realize how true this was of me. Scratch that out of the gameplay, applying my own high-low mix ups and learning to set people up into it.
Second Lesson: Parry is an artform. I've been playing CAPCOM KILLAH alot, and though not one for long winded combos, I'll never see more parries in a single match than I will against him. When facing off, jump-in parry makes for a nice arial mind-game, and parrying that up-close fireball really makes the world of diffrence.
Third Lesson: There is a reason to poke. After being hit my numerous 40-70% life combos, I am realizing how unsafe it actually is to try and apply yourself to any type of risk. Alot of special moves are beaten out by simple pokes, and pokes on their own string well for block-stun pressure ((Simple double-crouching-jabs and such)).
I've recently had the opprotunity to play my more regular Real Life opponents, thus far managing to own many rounds for free, a significant change from my normal scores with them. This reflected alot of growth in my own play, and I am psyched that it was all in a single week.
To those opponents who didnt quit after the first match, who went game-for-game, who are on my friends list, and those who just had a helpful in-game pointer, I'd like to express my deepest thanks, and hope many good games are to come.
- MacabreDerek