No I'm not mad , and no i didn't suffer some bad loss. In fact I understand the point of it in a single player game . You can express your creativity and make cool combos that wasn't meant to be put together in single player games. In online multiplayer games you're just cheating .

Now i know some of you may say " dude all the pros do that " . Well you are indeed correct and in fact watching some pros play is what made me come to this decision . I've watched multiple game genres of pros playing or just top ranked players and all the people in the top abuse animation cancels .

Now I've animation canceled myself in SINGLE PLAYER games for doing creative combos . I've also played online competitive fighting games before . In fighting games every frame matters and you can't just shave off frames . If anyone was allowed to do this in this genre it would destroy competitive fighting games as we know it.

Some things have long recovery for a reason. That's one of the ways that developers balance a game. If a move does a ton of damage and can take out multiple players at once then it may have an extremely long cool down. If you're able to cancel the cool down out and just do it repeatedly then you're essentially cheating .

Hear me out ... I do animation canceling in single player games and I've noticed that no matter how hard of a game , or how hard the difficulty ... if you animation cancel you can just stun lock everything in the game and get to a point that difficulty isn't a challenge anymore . This is why i said its cool for doing creative combos . You become so strong when you animation cancel that things don't even become a challenge .

A game like DMC was built with that in mind ... well in later years that is but early on it was an accident . Bosses like vergil is meant to keep up with you're animation cancels because they're just that in depth . The average boss in any other game simply isn't meant for that . This is why I only use it in hack n slash games for combos .

Now when looking at it from a competitive multiplayer perspective how is it fair for an online player to do this ? Sure you can always say " well everyone can do it so... " That's the same as saying that everyone can technically use a script in a multiplayer game . I don't know how many of you personally have animation canceled in games but I've done it in tons of single player games after I beat the game.

I don't think people realize just how much of an astronomically extreme advantage you have over your opponent in an online game when you do this . You are more often than not 32x's advantageous than the opponent . All the pros shave off recovery frames and cancel reload animations while also using hurtbox glitches . Have you ever seen a pro do some weird stuff like punch the ground the gain speed , or ziz zagging through the air in a way that was never meant by the developers to begin with ? In online multiplayer it has no place .

Some will argue that it's skill but how can it be skill if I have such a large advantage over everyone else when i do it ? Movement , reload , shoot , super ability , Doing multiple actions at once that all require long cool downs via developers choice but you cancel it out.

Last example I'll give is recoil negation in games like apex . Ask yourself what was the point of even putting all those recoil patterns in the game if nobody even learns them and just jiggles their mouse to negate all of it ? It might as well not even be there.

Bottom line is that no matter the game genre all top players have common tactics . Those tactics are breaking every rule in the game and then combining all of it together as a strategy . The honorable players who play by the rules barely make it out of the mid level ranks . It's like you have to abuse animation cancels to move up in tiers . Cod black ops 1 on nuketown : how many people was in a lobby with a quick scoper that ran the score up in 2 minutes ? Everyone else in the game has to land multiple shots on them . They only have to land 1 bullet and if they cancel the reloads they could instantly shoot again so fast in fact that you couldn't even aim back and take them out before they one tapped you and healed .

This is every single game genre and if you yourself made it through all of this and you're high level. At what point are you not cheating essentially ? I do the same thing you do just for combos in a single player game to express creativity . I mean doing it in multiplayer just allows you to treat the game like its DMC . How is it fair ?