by playing them a lot and practicing

Ask DarkSydePhil for tips.

Focus on using a single character and practice, practice, practice.

Originally posted by Vox:

Ask DarkSydePhil for tips.

and lowtiergod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjFki3ytC2Y&ab_channel=Worstcase

Talk to smarter people about tactics. Then practice practice practice.

Originally posted by JOHNNY:

just played sf2 at fightcade and wow i was SMASHED like the guy played ryu and i played ken. and i only managed to beat him to almost before he defeat me. i guess the hard part is that the INSTINCT to do what you need to do is not teachable.

ALL the grocery list of movements and moves are not useful since onereally need to take leap of faith and simply play against another person. i can do basics like fireball attraining but the moment i got cornered and the opponent ryu just beat me i got all panicky and can't do much.

First you need to know your bread and butter combos and how your character plays. Most players don't even get past this stage because the technical requirements to nail the inputs consistently might be too hard or players just don't want to invest their time perfecting it.

Once you get there, you need to learn matchups. What moves are punishable, what are not. What kind of approaches your opponent can do and how to react with them. Lastly it gets to the good part. The high level mind games. Where you try to anticipate what your opponent does and try to capitalize on their mistakes. This is e sports level.

There is only one fighting games where I got close to the e sports level. A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Chinese mobile game with gacha and questionable asset rips. The only reason I managed to get to the mind games level was cause I found a main whose inputs were easy to master. So I took him through ranked and destroyed most players online. Even whale players with their overpowered special characters didn't have an instant win against me. The only reason why the whale characters were good cause they are rare and people lack matchup exposure to them.

After 35 years of gaming, I have reached a conclusion.

Every person has a ceiling of gaming performance. A threshold that they simply can't cross no matter how much they practice and try.

Some people have a very high ceiling, and they are usually the MLG champions, and some have a really low one, and they are usually the game "journalists".

So don't be surprised at yourself for not being able to do better, it's simply your ceiling.

35 years ... what games do you play ?

Originally posted by JOHNNY:

35 years ... what games do you play ?

Hello kitty probably.

1. Learn a high damage combo.
2. Learn a counter i.e. block then strike.
3. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of each character.

Most are learnt from experience and watching how opponents will strike. Fighting games are mostly about timing. Street Fighter PvP is mainly about avoiding patterns to surprise your opponent however vs AI won't matter as much.

Originally posted by Vox:

Ask DarkSydePhil for tips.

yeah not that one.

Originally posted by gwwak:

Originally posted by JOHNNY:

just played sf2 at fightcade and wow i was SMASHED like the guy played ryu and i played ken. and i only managed to beat him to almost before he defeat me. i guess the hard part is that the INSTINCT to do what you need to do is not teachable.

ALL the grocery list of movements and moves are not useful since onereally need to take leap of faith and simply play against another person. i can do basics like fireball attraining but the moment i got cornered and the opponent ryu just beat me i got all panicky and can't do much.

First you need to know your bread and butter combos and how your character plays. Most players don't even get past this stage because the technical requirements to nail the inputs consistently might be too hard or players just don't want to invest their time perfecting it.

Once you get there, you need to learn matchups. What moves are punishable, what are not. What kind of approaches your opponent can do and how to react with them. Lastly it gets to the good part. The high level mind games. Where you try to anticipate what your opponent does and try to capitalize on their mistakes. This is e sports level.

There is only one fighting games where I got close to the e sports level. A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Chinese mobile game with gacha and questionable asset rips. The only reason I managed to get to the mind games level was cause I found a main whose inputs were easy to master. So I took him through ranked and destroyed most players online. Even whale players with their overpowered special characters didn't have an instant win against me. The only reason why the whale characters were good cause they are rare and people lack matchup exposure to them.

does the game still exist ? i mean o just know that figthing games on mobile exist....

Originally posted by kbiz:

Talk to smarter people about tactics. Then practice practice practice.

where r this smarter people ? i feel like i am the only one in my city who play fighting games

Originally posted by JOHNNY:

Originally posted by Vox:

Ask DarkSydePhil for tips.

yeah not that one.

i wonder if anyone ever actually has asked him for fighting game tips...most of the peoples who follow him are "detractors" that just like to poke fun at the lolcow, but some genuinely (somehow) like him. imagine being trained by DSP

Originally posted by JOHNNY:

Originally posted by kbiz:

Talk to smarter people about tactics. Then practice practice practice.

where r this smarter people ? i feel like i am the only one in my city who play fighting games

I don't know. What I do know is I can advise on 30+ games I beat Ironman-style.