Numakie’s Analytical Insight: How to Not Lose!!!!!

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I do love these ask.fm questions I am getting. Sometimes I get a question that makes me think, then I get a blog worthy post for it. Feel free to ask me questions on “ask.fm/numakie” to get my brain flowing. If it gets words out of me, I’ll post it here too and maybe a little more to it.

The Question:

I keep going 0-2 at tournaments. First I lose in the game, then I try to fight the person outside and then I lose again. Are fighting games just not for me?

The Answer:

Whether fighting games are for you or not is all in your head. I won’t be able to answer that.

As for losing in tournaments, mind that people who play in tournaments, ‘specially ones you pay for, will have people that play the game often and, at the very least, find ways to not lose. In addition, those who tend to be stronger overall most likely have small sub communities (ie: friends, rivals, etc) who play with each other, learn from each other, give advice, criticize, shit talk, etc.One of the biggest hurdles when learning not to lose when learning a game is finding out “Why” I am losing. Some notable hurdles I deal with in games I am learning are:

  1. Jumping in all the time.
  2. Focusing on trying to start my combos and getting blown up.
  3.  Messing up at a critical point in my combo that leaves me wide open.
  4. Getting too predictable with my Wake up options.
  5. Not blocking or waiting.
  6. Stopping myself from advancing all the time.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, I do enjoy countering mistakes that others do. As for solutions to those options above for example:

  1. I’ll just DP them, Hit them with a normal that’s good at hitting Ground to Air, or intersect them in the air.
  2. Either options in 1, or just block and then hit punishable moves that are supposed to be mid combo filler.
  3. React when they mess up, or just mash DP mid-combo… or hell, just mash.
  4. Stand close to them and just block, or just bait DP’s, and then let them suffer.
  5. Meaties all day, baby.
  6. Pretty much all the options above and more.
The point really is to catch what you are doing wrong, and then see how you can prevent it. If it is something that the other person is doing that is catching you all the time, find out why that works and see about adopting it. It’s all trial and error and it takes time. Get to that point where all you have to do is fierce punch an opponent all day and win, then feel awesome. If losing is still happening, find someone who is of equal or slightly better skill level and learn off of each other, then face a real good person to help yourself gauge your progress and find your failings. It will come over time.

If you are unwilling to sit down and figure out why, though… nothing will help you.

Closing thoughts:

I may be good in Melty, but I do still lose. Losses are good for me since it gives me opportunity to find out why I lost and see how i can get it next time. If it is recorded, I can forever analyze my game play too. ;3

And that is it for me. Til next time.

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