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[0:09] i want to talk about learning the basics
[0:10] in fighting games right and i guess in
[0:12] this case since i played guilty gear
[0:13] let's talk about guilty right when
[0:15] people learn fighting games
[0:17] probably reason why they try to learn is
[0:19] because they see something cool on like
[0:20] youtube
[0:22] you know they see something cool on
[0:22] youtube so you see something cool on
[0:24] twitter or what have you and then
[0:25] they're like man i want to do that right
[0:27] obviously they like go get the game try
[0:29] the game out and then you know they
[0:31] immediately try to learn that thing or
[0:32] let's say they've already been playing
[0:34] and they kind of
[0:35] play the game to some degree and they
[0:38] see the cool thing and they won't do the
[0:39] cool thing
[0:40] and then they tried in matches or
[0:42] whatever and they can't do the cool
[0:43] thing because either eight they don't
[0:44] have the execution or what have you
[0:46] right
[0:47] so
[0:48] this kind of stems into like why you
[0:50] should learn the basics right it doesn't
[0:52] matter what character you pick
[0:54] the basics are important right learning
[0:55] your spacing learning your footsies
[0:57] learning what buttons do what learning
[0:59] your anti-airs where you have
[1:00] situational anti-airs and that's a
[1:03] little bit more nuanced but you know the
[1:04] basics is generally like general poking
[1:06] making sure you have a good anti-air
[1:08] making sure you have reliable bread and
[1:10] butter combos you can go into maybe a
[1:12] counter hit combo or two and that's not
[1:14] really too advanced these are just
[1:15] things that you just should already have
[1:16] kind of like unlock right
[1:18] it's like playing street fighter and not
[1:20] being able to do short short super right
[1:22] not being able to do crotch short short
[1:23] super is really bad you know in the
[1:25] instance that you need it or a simple
[1:27] hit confirm right you need to have those
[1:29] things because you can't maximize your
[1:30] damage
[1:32] so when you're learning fighting games
[1:33] you have to have these things down right
[1:35] so taking it to a point of like
[1:37] anti-airs right
[1:38] you all know if you play like a shoto or
[1:40] a character with a short you can you
[1:41] know you have an easy way to anti-air
[1:43] right
[1:44] but then you take it into a game like
[1:46] guilty gear where like you know
[1:48] you can air block
[1:50] you know i'm saying the
[1:51] entire ep pretty pretty freely because
[1:54] there's no more air unblockables in
[1:55] guilty gear anymore right
[1:57] so
[1:58] you have to be smarter about that and
[2:00] like react to when they're throwing out
[2:01] like a button and using like 6p or 4
[2:04] punch if you will or if you have a
[2:05] situational anti-air like
[2:07] let's say geo crouching heavy slash or
[2:09] close slash you know chip 6h 5h you know
[2:12] 685h2h all those are anti-airs you know
[2:15] some of those require you to be at
[2:17] specific spacings and stuff like that to
[2:18] find some kind of consistency for them
[2:20] so it helps you with like your spacing
[2:22] it helps you make better well-informed
[2:24] decisions about how you want to play
[2:25] your neutral et cetera et cetera right
[2:28] so a lot of people tend to overlook this
[2:30] i think it's bad
[2:32] you know it's not you're not doing
[2:33] yourself any kind of service by like
[2:36] disregarding fundamentals
[2:38] like sometimes some of the best players
[2:40] play super fundamental don't do any like
[2:44] none of the flashy stuff they're just
[2:46] like you know fireballs and uppercuts
[2:47] you know and that's one of the reasons
[2:48] why a lot of people for example
[2:51] back in the street fighter four days you
[2:52] had people on like otaku complaining of
[2:54] how like oh street fighter just a
[2:55] fireball fest they're not even fighting
[2:57] it's like
[2:58] i mean
[2:59] you know these are people that are not
[3:01] even taking into consideration the
[3:02] microspacing around the fireballs where
[3:04] they're reactable where they're not
[3:05] reactable like it's on a surface level
[3:07] they don't get that right but if you're
[3:09] learning the fighting games you have to
[3:10] you do have to learn those nuances of
[3:12] like where it's reactable where you
[3:14] where it's jumpable or it's not jumpable
[3:16] where you have where you have to force
[3:17] yourself to walk and block
[3:19] et cetera et cetera so and this is all
[3:21] fundamental
[3:22] you know
[3:23] and even then you know learning like a
[3:25] basic you know footsies like
[3:27] when i say footsies is input you know
[3:29] like you're
[3:30] learning your poking game right with
[3:31] your character so if you have like say
[3:34] in guilty gear right you know you have
[3:35] kai
[3:36] kai's normals are actually very good
[3:38] they have great hit boxes on them
[3:41] and uh they do hit from afar they are
[3:43] great in combos they are great to poke
[3:45] and annoy the hell out of your character
[3:48] or rather they're good to annoy the
[3:50] opposing character you know that you're
[3:51] playing against and
[3:53] you can create like a wall of just
[3:55] normals without even doing anything you
[3:58] know what i'm saying
[3:59] so
[4:01] these are these are the things that
[4:02] people overlook
[4:04] and you know i if you're watching this
[4:06] and you're listening to me right now i
[4:07] trust you when i say that that's not
[4:08] something you want to do when learning
[4:10] like guilty gear or any other fighting
[4:12] in this case we'll just keep using
[4:13] guilty gear
[4:15] and uh
[4:18] learning how these are special moves
[4:19] also a thing right with kai you know his
[4:21] special moves aren't really the safest
[4:23] right
[4:24] however you do have ways to confirm into
[4:27] your special moves you do have ways that
[4:29] you can delay your strings into your
[4:31] special moves to kind of trick up the
[4:32] opponent
[4:33] and like let's say like his fireball's
[4:34] not really safe on block right but
[4:37] if you do like a delayed string into
[4:39] your fireball then that changes it it
[4:41] doesn't matter that it was unsafe per se
[4:43] it's just the fact that you've opened up
[4:44] another door
[4:46] to
[4:46] essentially
[4:48] use that tool now
[4:50] sure they'll be like oh i should have
[4:52] punished you for it well guess what you
[4:54] didn't
[4:55] and it's not that you shouldn't have not
[4:57] punished me it's just you did it
[4:59] in such a manner that it had like a
[5:02] different rhythm to it you know
[5:03] and that's another thing right
[5:06] when you're when you're learning you
[5:07] learn to build up a rhythm and whatnot
[5:09] and how to change up your string
[5:10] sometimes you'll just auto pod the
[5:12] string because it's like okay to do
[5:13] because it's safe you know
[5:15] but like after a certain point when
[5:17] you're playing against people and of
[5:19] like higher caliber like that starts to
[5:21] slowly like diminish
[5:23] right even myself right now playing
[5:24] jackal like a lot of times i'm using
[5:26] like 5k 2k into a soccer ball kick and
[5:28] then summon
[5:29] honestly doing that all the time is bad
[5:31] because they get a read on my pressure
[5:32] and then they can counter hit me and
[5:34] then i take a lot of damage
[5:36] it's sometimes it's hard to break out
[5:37] the muscle memory because like for
[5:39] example i guess with jackal it's just
[5:40] it's such a good string to like kind of
[5:42] do that it makes sense to just do it a
[5:43] good chunk of the time
[5:45] but you know
[5:46] the underlying theme here is to change
[5:48] up the time
[5:50] like changing the timing and going for
[5:52] the soccer ball kick to like frame trap
[5:53] them
[5:54] into pressing a button and fishing for a
[5:57] counter hit obviously i'm not all there
[5:58] yet with the counter hit combo but you
[6:00] know obviously there is there is
[6:01] something there in that regard maybe at
[6:03] the rc maybe not
[6:04] it just it just depends you know maybe
[6:06] it's screen specific maybe it needs to
[6:08] be in the corner maybe in the mid screen
[6:09] you can do something else maybe they'll
[6:10] go into a setup
[6:12] and then
[6:13] as you can see like the basic parts of
[6:14] the game now turn into more complex and
[6:16] they lead to more complex situations
[6:18] right so having good footsies is
[6:20] important having good ways to confirm is
[6:23] important delaying your strings are
[6:24] important
[6:25] you know it is literally like the entire
[6:28] like anything you can think of in terms
[6:29] of fundamentals it's there and i feel
[6:31] like even like a basic throw game you
[6:33] know take throws like
[6:35] in guilty of strive strike throw is a
[6:36] really strong
[6:38] general set of pressure in the game
[6:40] right
[6:41] and if you're not
[6:42] decent at that
[6:44] then you know that's another part of
[6:45] your pressure game that's not weak now
[6:46] you're lacking in your in like your
[6:48] throws and you don't want to be lacking
[6:49] you don't want you don't basically you
[6:51] don't want to be caught lacking in your
[6:52] fundamentals seriously
[6:54] if you can't even set up a basic tick
[6:56] throw to open up your opponent
[6:58] and you're just pressing the same string
[7:00] over and over with like the same rhythm
[7:03] you're not giving your opponent anything
[7:05] to think about anymore like everything
[7:06] is already made plain plain and simple
[7:08] it's all clear it's clear as day you've
[7:11] you you've officially played yourself i
[7:12] guess the best way to look it you
[7:14] legitimately like played yourself so
[7:17] yeah you think about that
[7:20] how do you start learning fundamentals i
[7:22] mean
[7:23] you start learning fundamentals by
[7:24] asking yourself the basic questions
[7:26] what's my
[7:27] one what's my anti-air
[7:29] two what are my best pokes
[7:31] three what are my good up close pokes
[7:33] aka range zero
[7:35] you know what are your mid-range poke so
[7:37] basically you ask yourself the long
[7:38] range
[7:39] mid-range close range pokes your
[7:42] anti-airs
[7:43] and like regular bread and butter combos
[7:46] you know and there's some things in
[7:47] regards to ant tires you might switch up
[7:49] maybe have to do an air to air like a
[7:50] jump jab or something like that to try
[7:52] to discourage them from jumping at you
[7:54] you know meet them air there and change
[7:55] the situation to something else like
[7:57] there's
[7:59] you know once you get to the
[8:00] fundamentals portion then more questions
[8:02] can be asked and answered like does that
[8:04] make sense like it's it's a lot of give
[8:05] and take
[8:07] right
[8:09] so
[8:10] because you know how to anti-air now now
[8:12] when you're anti-air right so let's say
[8:13] like uh
[8:15] we'll use axel right in strive
[8:18] axel's crotching slash is an amazing
[8:19] attire in this game right really really
[8:22] amazing
[8:23] leads to a lot of damage
[8:24] now if you
[8:26] happen to trade with that you have to
[8:28] know how to combo it right because let's
[8:30] say you practice doing it on a clean hit
[8:32] and the clean hit and tires and like
[8:34] i'll say cleaner than like it's a clean
[8:35] anti-air it doesn't trade or anything
[8:37] like that it hits for a counter hit use
[8:38] the counter to confirm boom you're good
[8:40] to go right
[8:42] but what happens when it trades you also
[8:44] have to be ready for the trade so it now
[8:46] turns into okay i know how to
[8:47] anti-normally oh shoot now i gotta go
[8:50] into the advanced style of ant turning
[8:52] with it where i'm looking for a trade
[8:53] maybe you're looking for it to trade
[8:55] maybe in this matchup it's good that it
[8:57] trades so you can take advantage of the
[8:59] trade and come out on top
[9:01] right because axles 2x low profiles
[9:03] anyway
[9:03] and the angle that it hits is really is
[9:05] really really strong for where he's at
[9:07] sure there's a dead zone but it's very
[9:08] difficult for a lot of cast of those
[9:10] it's difficult for a lot of the cast to
[9:12] get into that dead zone to punish him or
[9:14] like kind of throw off his hand tires
[9:16] so
[9:17] you learn how to reorient yourself you
[9:19] hit the you hit the uh the counter hit
[9:21] trade
[9:22] 2s and 2 anti-air combo and it's like
[9:24] cool you took this much damage your
[9:26] enemy took that much damage you know
[9:28] that's a big difference
[9:30] you know so you have to be ready for
[9:31] those things and that all comes from the
[9:33] fundamentals
[9:35] you know what i'm saying
[9:36] then yeah and the other part of it is
[9:38] also air throwing too right where you
[9:39] want to change up like how you want to
[9:41] anti them because air those are anti
[9:42] errors
[9:43] so let's say you know the sky's jumping
[9:45] very predictably
[9:47] you have a good read on it you react to
[9:49] it and you see it in your air throw it's
[9:50] like boom all right now you can turn
[9:52] that into another situation you know so
[9:54] you see i'm saying
[9:56] like there are
[9:59] everything stems from the fundamentals
[10:01] like everything stems from the
[10:03] fundamentals if you don't
[10:04] practice those things and just have them
[10:05] down
[10:06] like i said it's just it's just going to
[10:08] be a very difficult time down down the
[10:09] road
[10:11] in fighting games no matter which one
[10:12] you play
[10:13] it doesn't matter if you're playing
[10:14] tekken guilty gear street fighter
[10:16] you know world heroes freaking fatal
[10:19] fury it matters not kof there is still a
[10:21] level of fundamentals and each game
[10:23] definitely takes the fundamentals of
[10:25] fighting games on a different level
[10:27] right street fighter is obviously the
[10:28] most basic
[10:30] guilty gear is a little bit actually a
[10:31] little bit it's a lot more advanced
[10:33] because you know you introduce air
[10:34] dashing into the mix double jumps triple
[10:36] jumps you know double air dashes all
[10:38] those things kind of like take those
[10:39] same basic concepts and they're kind of
[10:41] like
[10:42] excelled even further
[10:43] you know because you have more control
[10:45] over your jump arc and having control
[10:46] over your jump mark is very important in
[10:48] fighting games too
[10:49] that's a little bit more of an advanced
[10:51] thing but you know
[10:53] regardless the game does have air dash
[10:54] and stuff like that so on on a per game
[10:57] basis while the fundamentals of fighting
[10:58] games are universal each game has its
[11:00] different set of you know rules and
[11:03] subsystems and stuff like that that you
[11:05] have to get used to to take those same
[11:06] fundamentals to the next level
[11:14] how does someone intermediate to
[11:15] fighting games know they actually have
[11:17] the fundamentals down i might feel like
[11:18] i do but do i really
[11:21] i mean think of it this way right
[11:24] let's say you're playing online
[11:27] and you are playing against an online
[11:29] opponent
[11:31] and
[11:32] you take the most basic things and you
[11:33] start winning take for example you start
[11:35] playing a basic game of like i'm gonna
[11:37] control this one spot
[11:39] and if they jump at me i'm going to
[11:41] anti-them and i'm going to go back to
[11:42] this spot and i'm going to control that
[11:44] spot
[11:45] right
[11:46] if you do that
[11:47] then and you do it well against more
[11:49] than one opponent then i would say that
[11:51] you definitely have a fairly decent
[11:53] grasp of fundamentals because that means
[11:55] you didn't have to do anything special
[11:56] to win you didn't do any oaky situations
[11:58] you do any mix-ups you just beat them
[12:00] with two plus two is four
[12:02] so if you can beat someone with like
[12:03] okay i'm gonna just press this button
[12:04] right here i'm i'm gonna control the
[12:06] space right here i'll anti-you with this
[12:08] right here and this like if like this
[12:10] area is my bubble
[12:11] and you have to respect this bubble i'm
[12:13] gonna force you to respect this bubble
[12:15] then i would say that you
[12:17] probably have fundamentals down but
[12:19] fundamentals are still like a uh
[12:21] it's like an ongoing thing like just
[12:23] because you have fundamentals doesn't
[12:24] mean that like it stops right it's like
[12:26] i understand the basics
[12:28] but like there's other ways to kind of
[12:29] push forward within the basics
[12:31] right there's more advanced things to
[12:33] the basics
[12:34] that make sense
[12:35] it should make
[12:36] sense yeah it's it's never ending it's
[12:39] like
[12:40] it's like art you know like
[12:42] the journey to being a great artist
[12:44] never ends you know and it's the same
[12:46] with this the journey to being a great
[12:48] player it never stops like you always
[12:50] learn more nuanced things to make your
[12:52] fundamental game that much better
[12:55] you know
[12:56] it's uh yeah fundamentals are definitely
[12:58] conditioning
[13:01] okay i feel that once you start doing
[13:02] basic stuff with intention
[13:05] that's meeting your basic fundamentals
[13:06] but there's always more correct
[13:08] absolutely 100
[13:10] there there's always more like once you
[13:12] have things down and you're doing stuff
[13:14] with intent
[13:15] like it makes more sense
[13:17] you know
[13:18] you're gonna stick to eating glue i mean
[13:21] that wins games
[13:22] you know but i guess it also depends on
[13:24] what you want out of your fighting games
[13:25] too right like if you're okay with just
[13:27] going ham
[13:29] nothing wrong with that
[13:31] just know that like in a lot of ways
[13:33] it's kind of like uh
[13:36] it doesn't
[13:37] it doesn't really matter if you do go
[13:38] ham in a sense too because there's
[13:39] there's you know there's some merit and
[13:41] skill to that but like you're also
[13:42] denying yourself being good at like
[13:45] the literally the basics
[13:47] like you don't want to not be good at
[13:49] the basics to some extent
[13:50] if you're just like super unga bunga
[13:53] sure you'll win games you know but you
[13:55] know that's not how tournament players
[13:57] win
[13:58] and everyone's goal is different i'm not
[13:59] going to sit and say everyone here's a
[14:00] tournament player when he's trying to be
[14:02] a tournament player nah i know that's
[14:03] not the case
[14:05] some people just play just to be good
[14:06] because they just want to be good
[14:08] and there ain't nothing wrong with that
[14:10] as long as you understand like why
[14:12] you're playing and what you're playing
[14:14] for and if you're okay not learning
[14:15] those skills that's fine
[14:17] because in some cases some players are
[14:19] actually good like at just strictly
[14:21] rushing people down how are you doing
[14:23] you know i can tell you from experience
[14:26] yo thanks for the follow
[14:27] i can tell you from experience right um
[14:31] i used to be a very i'm still a very
[14:33] aggressive player but at the same time
[14:35] i've also learned that like from playing
[14:37] a multitude of players over the course
[14:39] of time that like sometimes that doesn't
[14:41] always get you to win sometimes you have
[14:42] to play a little bit more past it
[14:43] sometimes you have to do a little bit
[14:44] more reading sometimes you just have to
[14:46] see more out of your opponent sometimes
[14:48] you have to see
[14:49] you have to put things in place to make
[14:50] your opponent give you information
[14:52] because when you get the fundamentals
[14:54] down then there's another layer to it
[14:55] which is gaining information i'll get
[14:57] into that another time because that's a
[14:58] whole other topic in itself but like
[15:01] you know it's
[15:03] there there is merit to every style of
[15:07] play
[15:08] it's just knowing when to bring it out
[15:10] and knowing when to turn like no one
[15:11] want to turn on and no i'm going to turn
[15:12] off
[15:13] if you turn on and it's on too long
[15:16] your opponent might get a read on that
[15:18] and then take it take a chance and do
[15:19] something but wild
[15:20] and it throws off your bunga and you're
[15:22] like man hit me with that there's no way
[15:23] he's gonna do it again and he does and
[15:25] then you start to regress because you
[15:27] don't know whether or not you should be
[15:28] going for that type of stuff
[15:30] i'm saying
[15:31] so i
[15:33] you know
[15:34] play however you like but i'm gonna keep
[15:35] pushing that like having the
[15:37] fundamentals down playing on a
[15:38] fundamental level is always good and it
[15:40] helps you stay
[15:41] in line believe it or not
[15:44] i tend to believe that it keeps you in
[15:45] line because
[15:47] if you don't have to be advanced on
[15:49] something why bother
[15:50] you know if your opponent is not showing
[15:52] you that you have a reason to be more
[15:54] advanced in your approach for the way
[15:56] you punish them it's pointless to try to
[15:58] go past two plus two is four
[16:00] it's like
[16:01] if your opponent is dying to the same
[16:03] mix-up why would you change it
[16:06] like just do it until he blocks it
[16:08] you know that's kind of a fundamental
[16:10] thing too
[16:11] like you do it until they stop blocking
[16:14] until they start blocking your mix up
[16:15] properly
[16:16] otherwise
[16:18] you know mix them up and it's not really
[16:20] a mix-up because you just know you're
[16:21] going to get it
[16:22] if a lot of people you know at the
[16:25] higher levels of play if they recognize
[16:27] that a player is dying to one thing
[16:30] there's no reason to do anything extra
[16:32] literally like sometimes players kill
[16:34] themselves because they want to do more
[16:36] and it's like why do you need to do more
[16:38] when you're when you're the opposing
[16:40] player can't even keep up with your
[16:41] basics and then they do something that
[16:44] throws off you know that cool new thing
[16:46] that you learned or whatever and it's
[16:47] like
[16:48] some people they mentally get thrown off
[16:50] for their game
[16:51] because they're like man i can't believe
[16:52] i did i missed that that was the i
[16:54] practiced that every day huh he just
[16:56] pressed jab on it nah there's no way you
[16:57] try it again he jabs you again and then
[16:58] he kills you that time one time he just
[17:00] jabs you out next time he just jabs you
[17:02] and does like a full-on combo and you
[17:04] die for it like
[17:06] you have to know when to hold them and
[17:07] when to fold them in rust
[17:12] don't need to step up your game until
[17:13] they show you a reason yep pretty much
[17:17] pretty much
[17:20] yeah like you know flare abusing hover
[17:22] yeah hover dash slash yeah yeah you just
[17:23] gotta respect it you have to all right
[17:25] well if you're not gonna mash her out of
[17:27] it and show that you're willing to like
[17:29] get around it
[17:30] that you know player has all the right
[17:32] in the world just keep hover dashing on
[17:33] you all day long just making you look
[17:34] like it's like a chump
[17:36] it is what it is
[17:39] i have an issue of dropping a complex
[17:41] precise input getting punished for it
[17:43] and then mentally needing to do it again
[17:46] even if it's not a good option at that
[17:47] point yep that's exactly what i'm saying
[17:49] that happens to a lot of people they're
[17:50] like there's no way
[17:52] he was that smart and it's like well
[17:54] maybe he hadn't seen the setup and he's
[17:56] taking a chance because he doesn't know
[17:57] what he's you know what he's looking at
[17:59] so
[18:00] does that mean you should try it again
[18:02] yeah
[18:03] just not immediately
[18:06] if you do it immediately you're just
[18:07] giving yourself away you know
[18:09] and there's there's there's more to it
[18:11] than that but
[18:12] yeah
[18:14] yeah i think that probably will just do
[18:16] it here for fundamentals there's more i
[18:18] can say but
[18:20] i think this will
[18:22] this will suffice for now
[18:24] and always talk more about this another
[18:25] time i think it's still like a really
[18:27] good topic because i feel like
[18:28] fundamentals are just like they're just
[18:30] ongoing there's like it never stops with
[18:32] the fundamentals like
[18:33] even that like the basic things even at
[18:35] life you can be really good at those
[18:36] things and then come back and revisit
[18:38] them and you're like man i'm doing this
[18:39] even better more efficiently you know
[18:41] just think of anything in your life that
[18:42] you do on a basic and fundamental level
[18:44] that you do like efficiently and it's
[18:45] because you do it all the time let's see
[18:47] what this is so
[18:50] be sure to practice your fundamentals
[18:51] man
[18:52] be sure to do it because
[18:55] you should
[18:57] you should
[18:59] anyhow that's gonna do it for
[19:00] fundamentals you guys
[19:02] just gonna do it right there
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