[0:00] if you've ever seen a top player like
[0:01] Justin Wong or Daga umara on stream you
[0:03] might also hear that they have strong
[0:05] fundamentals I agree but what does that
[0:07] even mean and how do they even get these
[0:09] fundamentals in the first place
[0:11] fundamentals are skills that can
[0:12] transfer between game to game but no one
[0:14] ever talks about what these skills are
[0:16] how to improve in them or more
[0:17] importantly the different types of
[0:19] fundamental skills that can exist for
[0:21] example Justin is known for his ability
[0:23] to be patient not crack and wait for the
[0:25] right timing while Daigo is more known
[0:28] for his ability to make psychic reads
[0:29] and to innovate the gameplay meta both
[0:31] of these players have goated
[0:33] fundamentals but they specialize in
[0:35] different skills and different areas
[0:37] which means that they also have relative
[0:39] weaknesses to their strengths but before
[0:41] we get to this or how I've personally
[0:43] improved my fundamentals over time and
[0:44] what you can take away from this we need
[0:46] to Define all the skills that make up
[0:48] fundamentals I broke it down into 10
[0:50] different categories along with players
[0:51] who exemplify each skill and we'll start
[0:54] with the first skill reactions now I
[0:56] think there's a lot of different ways to
[0:58] define the skill I think of someone
[1:00] that's really good at spacing or really
[1:02] good at footsies or really good at like
[1:04] anti iring or really good at reacting to
[1:06] many different things in neutral the
[1:08] first person I think of this that
[1:09] exemplifies reactions is Shia high now
[1:12] I've personally played against Shia haai
[1:13] and shiai is kind of known as like the
[1:15] only person can react to a short hop and
[1:17] King of Fighters reacting to a short hop
[1:19] is insanely insanely fast and you can't
[1:21] just like stick out a button you can
[1:23] stick out preemptively but in order to
[1:24] react you generally have to have either
[1:26] a really really strong crouching normal
[1:29] which not a lot of characters have or an
[1:30] invincible DP and so being able to react
[1:33] to a very very quick jump with a DP is
[1:35] something only a few players can do and
[1:37] Shia High I think is easily the most
[1:39] consistent at it the other person I
[1:40] think of is punk punk in Street Fighter
[1:42] 5 kind of evolved The Meta because his
[1:45] reactions were just so strong with Karen
[1:47] so a lot of people didn't think that you
[1:48] could hit confirm Crouch medium kicks in
[1:50] Street Fighter five Punk sure that not
[1:52] only is it possible it's possible to do
[1:54] very very consistently and if you apply
[1:57] the very good HIC confirming skills of
[1:59] punk a along with the ability to weave
[2:02] in and out of the opponent's buttons and
[2:04] to perfectly place the crash me kicks or
[2:06] the sweeps or whatever he's using to
[2:08] whiff punish the opponent it's no wonder
[2:09] that punk is one of the best players in
[2:11] the world you can argue it's like
[2:13] anticipation right so when I watch Shia
[2:15] high in some of the matches like against
[2:17] worse players he's antir everything but
[2:19] against stronger players he can't antire
[2:21] everything as consistently right because
[2:23] it's harder to anticipate the opponent's
[2:26] moves when they're really really good
[2:27] and you can also argue it's raw reaction
[2:29] time take for example you're actually
[2:31] testing your
[2:34] reaction and so 178 milliseconds I
[2:37] recognize that's probably on the better
[2:39] end I suspect many top players have a
[2:42] benchmark slightly better than this even
[2:45] like let's say uh top player has 150
[2:47] milliseconds that's almost a two frame
[2:49] advantage and two frames can be the
[2:51] difference between something that's
[2:53] reactable and something that's not
[2:54] either way if you're really good at
[2:56] reactions you're really good at reacting
[2:58] to many different things in the neutral
[2:59] game game number two is kind of the
[3:02] opposite of reactions which is mental
[3:04] stacking or just being random I know
[3:07] that's kind of like a derogatory term
[3:09] being random but some of the best
[3:11] players are very very good at being
[3:13] random often times this means that
[3:15] you're really good at running offense if
[3:17] you've played fighting games you've
[3:18] probably ran into opponents where you
[3:19] just can't predict what they're going to
[3:21] do and if you can't predict what they're
[3:22] going to do it makes it very very hard
[3:24] to stop and being random is actually a
[3:26] really really important skill now humans
[3:28] are inherently really shitty at being
[3:31] random this is the reason why rock paper
[3:33] scissors Champions exist this is why
[3:35] terms like forensic accounting exist
[3:37] because people are bad at making up
[3:38] numbers this is why Evo memo 37 exists
[3:41] because 37 is the most popular number
[3:44] out of 1 to 100 and people that are
[3:46] really good at being random choose their
[3:47] options in a very unpredictable manner
[3:50] it's not that there isn't logic behind
[3:52] what they choose it's just that logic is
[3:54] so disguised and it's so well thought
[3:56] out and there's also like that hint of
[3:58] instinct and reading the opponent and
[4:01] all those combin into being very
[4:03] unpredictable if you've ever played
[4:04] online like Street Fighter you've
[4:06] probably ran into an online Ken who
[4:07] either matches DP and then when you try
[4:09] to finally bait the DP they go for like
[4:11] a walk up throw or some like absolutely
[4:13] crazy uh scenario and those are same
[4:16] kind of players but when I think of like
[4:17] a top player I think of someone like
[4:19] Tempest NYC from the Guilty Gear space
[4:20] who plays Leo and is just really really
[4:23] good predicting when you're trying to
[4:25] bait the DP and when you're not going to
[4:26] bait the DP right or very good at like
[4:28] sneaking in this really really slow
[4:30] cross up that Leo has and you could
[4:32] throw it any time you can beat it at any
[4:34] time but he's really good at sneaking in
[4:36] at the moments when you least expect it
[4:37] another person from the uh Street
[4:39] Fighter scene is JB I think JB is
[4:41] insanely good at mental stacking
[4:42] probably some of the best I've played in
[4:44] Street Fighter 6 and someone that can
[4:46] like do pretty suboptimal options like
[4:48] round start Drive Rush overhead and have
[4:50] it work really consistently I think is
[4:52] just someone that gets a really good
[4:54] feel for the opponent's mental and
[4:56] exploits it really hard and you can also
[4:58] argue dieo is very at this right
[5:00] everyone thinks of the um Shu and that's
[5:02] kind of what this comes down to is being
[5:04] able to predict the shukan timing even
[5:06] though it's really risky it's really
[5:07] really strong and if you have the read
[5:09] Around the shukin it's hard for it not
[5:10] to pay off all right so category number
[5:12] three is patience composure I guess you
[5:15] could say it's people that don't crack
[5:17] and wait for the right moment so I think
[5:19] of two people guichi and Justin Wong
[5:21] they will tur you out they will wait for
[5:23] you to make a mistake they're very good
[5:25] at forcing you to come to them they're
[5:28] also very good at just kind kind of down
[5:30] backing and letting you overextend and
[5:32] then punish you for that overextension
[5:34] now this is one of the skills I feel
[5:35] like is more of a old school skill
[5:38] especially in games today where it's
[5:39] like every game has their own version of
[5:41] Drive rush or Dash Lade or strive just
[5:44] you know you have a million [ __ ]
[5:45] ways to get in but the skill is still
[5:47] very valuable especially for controlling
[5:49] the clock for forcing the opponent to
[5:51] come to you and overextending I also
[5:52] think of these players is ones that have
[5:54] really good defense so a lot of moves
[5:56] and fighting games if your opponent is
[5:58] flustered or or if they're like
[6:00] distracted it's really easy to get away
[6:02] with like Drive Impact for example or
[6:04] throw in Dragon Ball Fighters and if you
[6:06] look at guichi guichi had some of the
[6:08] best defense in Dragon Ball Fighters
[6:10] just being able to stay patient choose
[6:12] the right options react to the right
[6:14] things and not get flustered on defense
[6:16] I also think of The Comebacks Justin has
[6:18] made like an Ultimate Marvel or an mvc2
[6:21] or his runaway game with storm and these
[6:23] are all skills that transfer to other
[6:25] games as well all right skill number
[6:27] four is execution now I think this is a
[6:29] number one skill that new players should
[6:31] focus on because if you can't execute a
[6:33] core Circle forward or a half circle
[6:35] forward or Dragon punch motion when you
[6:37] want to you're basically playing a
[6:39] different version of the fighting game
[6:40] right you're basically playing can I
[6:42] actually execute what I want to execute
[6:44] as opposed to the actual fighting game
[6:45] but the people at the top I think are
[6:47] ones that just never drop combos which
[6:50] is weird because I also think that this
[6:52] is like a old school skill old games
[6:54] used to have like very high execution
[6:57] ceilings there used to be combos that
[6:59] only one person could do like Sako or
[7:02] Fab where you could tell their play stop
[7:05] because they were the only person that
[7:06] would go for this particular combo in
[7:09] this situation nowadays I still think
[7:11] this skill exists but it exists in a
[7:13] different way which is consistency of
[7:16] inputs right I might drop a combo 2% of
[7:18] the time in a actual tournament setting
[7:21] but someone else might only drop it 1%
[7:23] of the time and that 1% is a huge
[7:25] difference considering that could be the
[7:27] difference between a win or a loss and
[7:29] there are some very technical things you
[7:32] can still go for for example in Grand
[7:33] blue Fantasy Versus there's like this
[7:35] fuzzy guard instant overhead that's very
[7:36] very technical to do basically you have
[7:38] to like Lancel your jump in it's
[7:41] absurdly crazy really Technical and only
[7:43] a few people in the game can do it but
[7:45] being able to do that basically gives
[7:46] you a free 50/50 where no one else could
[7:48] do a 50/50 so it still is a very
[7:51] important skill and it's easily the one
[7:53] at a lowlevel is the easiest to apply
[7:55] across fighting games for sure all right
[7:58] skill number five is game knowledge this
[8:00] is weird because a lot of people think
[8:02] of game knowledge as like how much
[8:04] you've actually played the game and
[8:05] that's that's not stuff that really
[8:07] transfers over I'm thinking more of
[8:08] players that can use the game knowledge
[8:11] and leverage it to play as optimally as
[8:14] possible these are players that are
[8:16] considered like to be cheap or players
[8:18] that seem to choose the right options
[8:20] more than their opponent and you can
[8:22] also argue this as a game awareness side
[8:24] of things right because if you're really
[8:26] good at extracting game knowledge and
[8:28] very good at understanding the mechanics
[8:29] of how the game works you can have
[8:31] better awareness by predicting what's
[8:33] going to happen in a situation you've
[8:35] never seen before right couple of
[8:37] players that come to my mind are tokido
[8:39] right he's always picking like the best
[8:41] character in every game he studies the
[8:43] game I mean you look at his YouTube he's
[8:45] literally like wearing a lap coat for
[8:47] like some of his YouTube videos and he's
[8:48] very methodical about how he approaches
[8:51] The Game and his play style is just it's
[8:53] very surgical right it's something like
[8:56] he's always choosing the right option in
[8:59] C situations and he's just going to win
[9:01] strictly based off risk reward not some
[9:03] of the other skills that other players
[9:05] might have the reason I think this is a
[9:07] fundamental skill is because being able
[9:09] to extract data from a game and use it
[9:11] to inform your decisions correctly is
[9:13] actually a skill a lot of players aren't
[9:15] as good as you might think they mostly
[9:17] play on instinct or they you know do
[9:19] what feels right in the moment but I
[9:21] feel like people that are really good at
[9:22] the skill have a better understand their
[9:24] risk reward and what would actually work
[9:26] and can exploit against their opponent
[9:27] all right so skills number six is I
[9:29] don't know it like Innovation basically
[9:32] someone that you think of like as a lab
[9:33] monster or a tech monster this is a
[9:35] legitimate skill that is very very
[9:38] important this is a skill that most top
[9:40] players just Farm out to Twitter they're
[9:43] just like oh let me see what tech is on
[9:45] Twitter okay let me steal that your Tech
[9:47] now it's my tech right but even just
[9:50] finding the tech on Twitter and then
[9:51] sifting through what's actually useful
[9:54] and what's not and then developing The
[9:56] Meta based on that stuff that's a skill
[9:58] in itself I like to think of these
[10:00] players is also like the people that can
[10:01] find the cheap [ __ ] ASAP think of
[10:04] someone like kazunoko right kazunoko is
[10:06] known for picking up the game finding
[10:08] who the cheap character is like day one
[10:10] and then having a super streamlined
[10:13] approach abusing all the cheap [ __ ]
[10:15] because they figured out what the cheap
[10:17] [ __ ] was before anyone else I would also
[10:20] categorize people that are just really
[10:22] really good finding Tech in this
[10:23] category as well and I feel like most
[10:25] tech monsters aren't like top players
[10:27] but one that I think is a top player is
[10:29] fenr so you guys might know fenrich from
[10:31] the Dragon Ball Z games but he plays
[10:33] like everything and he was known for
[10:35] like finding the craziest Touch of death
[10:37] combos in like any situation and then
[10:39] he' back it up by actually doing them in
[10:42] match and he kind of innovated the touch
[10:44] of death meta and Dragon Ball fire Z all
[10:47] right so skill number seven is
[10:49] uniqueness I know this is like kind of
[10:51] hard one to describe but if you've
[10:54] played against any of these players
[10:55] you'll totally understand it's like
[10:57] someone that has a completely different
[10:59] play style than anyone else and it
[11:02] really really throws you off so this can
[11:03] be players like amsa who plays Yoshi and
[11:07] basically is the Yoshi above all other
[11:09] Yoshis because no one else plays like
[11:11] them right basically amsa had to develop
[11:12] their own play style to fight against
[11:14] the masses they're very Innovative
[11:16] strategies that people just haven't seen
[11:18] and it gives them a leg up it's not that
[11:20] ASA is the most cracked player in in the
[11:22] world by a long shot as part of it
[11:24] actually he's really really good but
[11:26] it's also that you can't train for amsa
[11:28] right it's really hard to train for
[11:31] someone that plays that uniquely I also
[11:33] think of idams Laura and Street 5 very
[11:36] very hard to train for because no one
[11:37] else play that character at a high level
[11:39] and the best way to distinguish this
[11:40] between like lab monsters are there are
[11:43] people that just play the character
[11:45] differently right and hotchi from Guilty
[11:47] Gear is one where everyone played Nago
[11:49] in a very like methodical way and a very
[11:52] I'm an Abus the best options way and
[11:54] otashi you have this like completely
[11:56] mental stack completely super fastpac
[11:59] I'm a blood rage in your face at the
[12:02] wall doing all this crazy stuff that no
[12:06] other Naga was doing and it worked very
[12:09] very well for him because he was
[12:10] basically playing a different game than
[12:12] everyone else like unlike the lab
[12:14] monster this stuff wasn't really optimal
[12:17] right no one to this day is really doing
[12:18] blood rage Subs like otashi is but
[12:21] because this was so unique and it's so
[12:22] hard to prepare for he made it work now
[12:25] I also think these are like people that
[12:26] are like really good at Fireball
[12:28] patterns so you think of like someone
[12:30] has really strong zoning like bonchan
[12:32] you might play against a million other
[12:33] cagots or Lukes and then you run into
[12:35] Bon Chan's Luke and it's like whoo this
[12:37] is a completely different style even
[12:39] though they're doing mostly the same
[12:41] things it's not new tech they have a
[12:42] really weird timing to everything and
[12:44] they have a very hard to predict play
[12:46] style because you don't play against
[12:47] someone like that very often all right
[12:50] so skill number eight is I'd say
[12:52] adaptation this is a very obvious one
[12:53] it's the ability to overcome your
[12:55] opponent as you get more information now
[12:57] Dao is like famous ly known for being
[13:00] like impossible to beat in the first to
[13:02] 10 set because it's adaptation is just
[13:04] that good but this these are people that
[13:06] do really really well in Long sets I
[13:08] also think of these players as ones that
[13:10] have a very diverse flowchart and what
[13:12] this means is that you're playing your
[13:14] opponent and your opponent exhausts all
[13:15] their options they use all their Tech
[13:17] and you still have many tricks left in
[13:19] the bag and you have still have many
[13:21] different ideas and ways to counteract
[13:24] their strategies and once they
[13:25] counteract that they're out of steam and
[13:27] you win the set right mk's Leo is known
[13:30] for the game four comebacks where
[13:31] basically he might be losing a set or
[13:33] he's winning a set and it goes down to
[13:35] game four and MK Leo has insanely High
[13:37] win rate on game four and if he wins
[13:39] game four he's most likely going to win
[13:41] game five because his adaptation is just
[13:43] that strong all right the last two
[13:45] around mental I actually think your
[13:47] mental game is very very important for
[13:49] fighting games it's something that
[13:49] transfers over very well so I could just
[13:52] keep in the one I I split up into two
[13:53] and I think the first is your clutch
[13:56] Factor like people that play best under
[13:58] pressure and just don't choke now I
[14:00] think it's easier to come up with
[14:02] examples of people that choke
[14:05] unfortunately right I'm not going to
[14:06] name the names but think of the amount
[14:08] of people that constantly get second or
[14:11] third place and they feel like they're
[14:13] cursed but there's also people
[14:15] conversely that win the vast majority of
[14:18] time they're put in these clutch
[14:19] situations I think Justin Wong is a very
[14:21] very good example you look at his
[14:23] previous Evo runs you look at his
[14:25] ability to clutch out set I think Justin
[14:27] won's definitely there I also feel like
[14:29] there are players that have a
[14:31] disproportionate win rate when it comes
[14:33] to critical sets think getting into top
[14:35] eight of a major or top six if you're
[14:37] Evo because they have to show ads or
[14:41] winning the grand finals of a tournament
[14:43] and I think men Rd is a very good
[14:45] example of this when they have a
[14:46] critical set to win whether it's Grand
[14:48] finals or getting into a top eight if I
[14:50] feel like the percent win rate just
[14:51] skyrockets and sometimes they can look
[14:54] very very hard to beat all right I think
[14:55] the last one is like work ethic or Grit
[14:59] I don't know what you want to call it
[15:00] but it's like the power to keep
[15:01] persevering like fighting games are hard
[15:03] right and it's very easy to get
[15:04] discouraged it's very easy to grind out
[15:07] a lot of hours go to a tournament get
[15:09] watched and be like oh this isn't for me
[15:10] like oh no what was me or like you play
[15:13] a new game and then you don't do as well
[15:15] as you want you're like all right well
[15:16] this game's trash right you guys have
[15:18] probably seen ton of that on Twitter and
[15:20] I think these are the players that have
[15:21] the power to keep persevering through
[15:24] difficulties or adversities right the
[15:26] people that have the ability to sing
[15:27] tons of hours into the game have a
[15:29] positive mindset and just keep going at
[15:31] it right I think Brian that's a really
[15:33] good example of this being able to do
[15:34] content creation have a job and compete
[15:36] at a high level you have to have really
[15:38] good work ethic and git same thing with
[15:39] like players like Mochi same same idea
[15:42] like MiMi streams like insanely cracked
[15:45] amount of hours and he's still a content
[15:47] creator too it's it's a very important
[15:48] skill I think it's also how like having
[15:50] a positive mindset now like that's kind
[15:52] of hard to tell like you know the
[15:53] mindset people are in but be able to
[15:55] like not beat yourself up and take the
[15:57] right things from A Loss I think is very
[15:59] very important as well now what the hell
[16:01] do we do with all this information now I
[16:03] like to think of it as like a stat chart
[16:05] I used an Excel graph because I don't
[16:07] know how to make one of those but you
[16:10] get the idea that like people just have
[16:12] different skills they're better at and
[16:14] worse at and I think the first step to
[16:16] getting better fundamentals is being
[16:18] able to figure out where you're strong
[16:20] at and where you're weaker at right and
[16:21] the areas you're weaker at are going to
[16:23] be easier to improve upon right because
[16:27] improving upon the stuff you're already
[16:28] really really cracked on you're just
[16:30] going to get diminishing returns and I
[16:31] feel like you need all of these skills
[16:33] in order to be a top player it's really
[16:35] really hard to you know rely on a couple
[16:37] of these skills and just have like
[16:39] terrible game knowledge and terrible
[16:41] mental and be terrible at labbing and
[16:45] have the reactions of a 70-year-old dude
[16:47] it's just not going to happen right so
[16:49] to me you have to focus on your weak
[16:51] areas and as I look back at this I
[16:54] thought about where I was when I first
[16:56] started playing fighting games and again
[16:57] these numbers are just kind of up like
[16:59] no one's at 10 right no one has 10
[17:01] fundamentals for everything I obviously
[17:03] think I have better fundamentals than
[17:05] most of the fgc so like it's not
[17:07] proportional to population but this is
[17:09] example of 2016 diphone and I think
[17:12] looking back at the three areas I
[17:13] improved the most were probably randomst
[17:16] mental and grit and it's kind like dap
[17:19] got more random what the hell but yeah I
[17:21] think this is actually something I
[17:23] deliberately approve upon I actually I
[17:25] forgot to mention Sonic Fox at all but
[17:26] Sonic Fox is one of the players that I
[17:28] would study their gameplay and I'd be
[17:30] like how the hell is Sonic Fox win
[17:33] they're just doing the most random [ __ ]
[17:34] they're getting away with it I want to
[17:36] be able to do that and so by studying
[17:40] Sonic and figuring out why they do some
[17:42] things that they do and also taking like
[17:44] a more intuitive approach to the game
[17:46] cuz I used to play very like by the book
[17:49] and I realized that while that is viable
[17:53] that's not 100% the way I want to play
[17:55] the game and by bringing in like more
[17:57] Instinct and intuition into the game I
[17:59] was able to like kind of get better at
[18:02] Randomness and also like using my
[18:04] intuition being like all right in order
[18:05] to be random you have to choose good
[18:07] options and rotate them appropriately
[18:10] right and same thing with M mental and
[18:12] grit I honestly think you know 2016
[18:14] diaphone did not take care of their
[18:16] health very well I'm going keep it real
[18:18] and so I think a lot of that was hitting
[18:20] the gym focusing on diet focusing on
[18:22] lifestyle right and also like you know
[18:25] for like mental and like being able to
[18:26] like deal with clutch situations there's
[18:28] a lot of books on the topic right sports
[18:30] psychology is a very important thing
[18:32] Sports athletes that get paid much more
[18:34] money than Esports athletes focus on
[18:36] sports psychology team sports
[18:38] psychologists right there's a lot of
[18:40] information out there that can help you
[18:42] improve your mental game or and grid so
[18:44] that's where I improved upon but I think
[18:46] any of these areas you can improve upon
[18:48] you know I was kind of thinking about
[18:49] this exercise when I was putting this
[18:50] together I'm like damn my reactions are
[18:52] kind of
[18:53] ass and then I Googled it right how to
[18:56] improve reaction time and there's like a
[18:58] million things right and kind of the
[19:00] main takeaway is like yeah diet exercise
[19:03] definitely help and actually looking at
[19:05] my reaction times my reaction times have
[19:07] improved iPhone a few years ago probably
[19:09] had like a frame or two slower reaction
[19:10] times but I also think it's like I need
[19:12] to physically train my reactions more in
[19:15] game so doing like drills where I try to
[19:17] whiff kind of like what Dao used to do
[19:19] where he'd react to different stimuli
[19:22] and then triy to reacting to it Bas I
[19:24] need to drill my reactions more and then
[19:25] I could take the learnings from that to
[19:27] other games and focus on like playing
[19:29] more patient and practice reacting in
[19:32] match right just off the top of my head
[19:33] how you'd improve at some of the other
[19:35] ones composure it's like the people that
[19:37] Panic DP too much how do you get rid of
[19:39] a panic DP habit force yourself not to
[19:41] DP you play matches you don't focus on
[19:43] when you're losing you're focus on not
[19:45] dping right and I think that's like how
[19:48] you have to go about composure is you
[19:50] have to purposely put yourself in
[19:51] situations where you're forced to play
[19:53] lame and you're forced to stay composed
[19:55] execution I think that that's just
[19:56] repetition repetition the more fighting
[19:58] games you play you'll just naturally get
[19:59] execution uh game knowledge and labbing
[20:02] are both something I've been I I was
[20:03] just like kind of good at because you
[20:05] know like like science major very
[20:06] analytical mind I think I kind of
[20:08] transferred a lot of those skills to
[20:10] game knowledge and labbing but honestly
[20:12] like probably just comes down to
[20:13] spending time in training mode and
[20:15] trying to force yourself to come up with
[20:17] different ideas and force yourself to
[20:19] understand how the game works if you
[20:21] understand how the game works you'll
[20:22] understand why different situations play
[20:24] out the way they do I I feel like a lot
[20:27] of people that are bad at game knowledge
[20:28] don't understand why things happen i' be
[20:30] like oh the game just randomly decided
[20:32] to do that and if you guys know anything
[20:34] about games nothing really happens
[20:36] randomly unless it's Street Fighter 2
[20:38] because it's hard Cod to be random
[20:40] anyways uh yes shout to that game same
[20:42] thing with uniqueness right I I think
[20:44] often times it's it's really easy to
[20:46] copy what the top player is doing and
[20:48] then just do it yourself but again
[20:52] there's like if if you get really good
[20:54] game knowledge and labbing I think
[20:55] naturally uniqueness will come as long
[20:56] as you kind of take it to the next EX
[20:58] exension and start implementing that
[21:00] stuff in match and adaptation I think
[21:02] grind monsters I think if you play
[21:04] longer sets you'll just naturally get
[21:06] better at adaptation so how else can you
[21:08] use this information so I think it's
[21:09] pretty obvious that if you're fighting
[21:11] against someone at your skill level and
[21:13] that has similar fundamentals to you you
[21:14] should Target the areas that they're
[21:16] weak against but how would you fight
[21:18] against someone like Justin Wong who
[21:20] probably is the best fundamentals in the
[21:22] world if not close to it right you have
[21:24] to think fundamentals don't 100%
[21:27] correlate with in-game wi rate I know it
[21:29] sounds kind of counterintuitive but if
[21:30] you have way more game hours than your
[21:33] opponent and it feels like nothing is
[21:35] going your way you're probably targeting
[21:37] the wrong area of fundamentals to
[21:39] exploit even if their fundamentals are
[21:41] better you could still overcome that by
[21:43] knowing the matchup better or having
[21:45] your reactions to specific things
[21:47] trained or knowing more gimmicks or
[21:49] knowing more scenarios than your
[21:50] opponent it doesn't matter who you are
[21:52] Justin Wong myself Dao anyone the first
[21:55] time I pick up a fighting game it
[21:56] doesn't matter how good my fundamentals
[21:58] are they can't carry me through the
[21:59] impossible so I like to think of
[22:01] fundamentals as essentially a Time
[22:03] multiplier right so I might learn a
[22:05] fighting game you know 1.5 two times as
[22:08] fast as someone else because I have a
[22:09] base fundamentals I can rely upon and I
[22:12] can use to help me learn more
[22:13] efficiently but fundamentals can't do
[22:15] the impossible and overcome game
[22:17] specific skills that you pick up through
[22:19] playing the game a lot it's kind of like
[22:21] Shooters where you know a person that's
[22:23] really good at Shooters can transition
[22:24] from one game to another because their
[22:26] aim is just so much better but if you
[22:28] don't know the mechanics behind you know
[22:30] the good spots in the map or what Heroes
[22:32] synergize with which with each other or
[22:35] The Meta I don't [ __ ] know I don't
[22:36] play Shooters but you get the idea now
[22:38] there's one other thing I want to talk
[22:40] about like I want to include the 11th
[22:42] category which is like versatility which
[22:44] is like people that are able to play
[22:45] like many different characters and play
[22:47] Styles but the more I think about it I
[22:50] actually think these are just players
[22:51] that have really really good
[22:52] fundamentals so for example Sonic Fox
[22:55] who's one of the best multi-game players
[22:57] is able to like pick up made different
[22:59] characters and play them kind of in
[23:01] their own style and I think it's just
[23:02] because their fundamentals are crazy
[23:04] same thing with Justin right Justin
[23:06] plays any game they're they're one of
[23:07] the best at any game they pick up I
[23:09] think it's just they have crazy
[23:10] fundamentals those fundamentals give
[23:12] them the versatility to play the
[23:14] characters and to play the games that
[23:16] they want at a high level I kind of just
[23:18] made 10 categories that felt right to me
[23:21] but these aren't like the be all end all
[23:23] definition of fundamentals I'm sure you
[23:24] could further Define these skills more
[23:26] like I could break this down to 12
[23:28] categories I could break this down into
[23:31] you know execution for example I could
[23:32] break it down to multiple different
[23:34] types of execution you know how well can
[23:36] you play puppet character how well can
[23:37] you Negative Edge how well can you do
[23:39] certain inputs how clean are your inputs
[23:41] how like you know what kind of
[23:43] controller use how fast can you dash how
[23:45] fast can you walk block like there's so
[23:47] many execution things that you could
[23:48] like Breck it up into different sections
[23:50] now of course I didn't do that just for
[23:51] Simplicity sake but you know the
[23:53] definition of fundamentals I think is
[23:55] just is very Vape because it's very hard
[23:57] to Define and the whole point of this is
[23:59] just to give you like a a framework to
[24:01] which to think of things and identify
[24:03] your weak spots so you can improve upon
[24:05] them anyways guys let me know what you
[24:07] think I know it's a little different of
[24:08] a video I'm trying to make more fighting
[24:10] game knowledge videos so if you like
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