[0:00] what's up everybody this is Justin Wong
[0:02] and we're back with a banger and this
[0:04] time you know this is not gonna be a
[0:05] gameplay video this is not gonna be just
[0:07] me talking about a video game but I
[0:10] actually want to help you get better at
[0:12] fighting games so I know a lot of times
[0:13] I get so many messages of how do I get
[0:15] better at fighting games what do I need
[0:17] to do to get better at fighting games so
[0:19] I decided to make kind of like a talk a
[0:22] TED talk I don't know if that's what
[0:23] it's called real talk on how to get
[0:25] better at fighting games in 2023 so if
[0:29] you guys want to get better at finding
[0:30] games if you guys want to know how this
[0:33] can help you to get better fire games or
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[0:41] together right so we'll start with like
[0:43] execution oh execution uh is very
[0:47] important execution in terms of like
[0:50] combos like when I tell people you need
[0:52] to practice your combos like like when
[0:54] you first play a fighting game and this
[0:56] is anybody right this is anybody even me
[0:58] when I first started playing fighting
[0:59] games the one thing right the first
[1:02] thing that people will always do is
[1:05] Button Mash so the first thing I need
[1:07] people to like do or like learn is how
[1:10] to stop button mashing the reason why I
[1:12] mentioned button mashing let's let's say
[1:15] you're in trading mode right and you put
[1:16] the game into like training mode and you
[1:18] have your input data and if you press
[1:20] like let's say crouching medium kick
[1:23] Fireball right crouching medium kick
[1:25] should only be one input by you press
[1:27] process medium kick once and a fireball
[1:29] you know like uh or Circle forward and
[1:31] you press punch a lot of times when
[1:33] people do like these like kind of like
[1:35] press this one button or simple combo or
[1:37] or anything like that why do people
[1:40] press the button multiple times you know
[1:44] what I mean I feel like a lot of times
[1:45] people press the press a button like
[1:48] it's like they're they want to reassure
[1:51] themselves that the button is going to
[1:52] come out or not but the thing is if you
[1:54] press the button the button will come
[1:56] out if you do not if you press the
[1:58] button five times the button will not
[2:00] come out five times it will come out one
[2:03] time and I'm pretty sure a lot of people
[2:05] don't know that they are mashing so if
[2:07] you just like look at your replays and
[2:09] add input and you know like look at
[2:11] input data and you'll see that you're
[2:14] like you like think to yourself why am I
[2:16] pressing this button multiple times when
[2:18] you waist button presses uh you like you
[2:22] are going to pretty much you're pretty
[2:24] much losing on like accuracy your
[2:26] accuracy is going to be lowered when you
[2:28] when you want to do a specific combos so
[2:29] that's the first thing is stop button
[2:31] mashing the second thing for execution
[2:33] is basic understanding of how Combos and
[2:36] people don't understand the concept of
[2:39] canceling right like approach Community
[2:41] Fireball crouching Fireball is like the
[2:43] perfect example like every single time A
[2:46] lot of times people say look I did
[2:47] crouchy meme kick and the fireball came
[2:48] out but they're not comboing your your
[2:51] registering Crouch meme kick and
[2:52] Fireball as a two-part process but
[2:55] crouching Matrix Fireball should be a
[2:57] one-part process if you can make that as
[2:59] a one-part process says where you're
[3:01] literally doing crouching medium kick
[3:02] and while you're pressing the buncrouch
[3:04] meme kick your left hand will already
[3:06] start beat will already start doing the
[3:08] motion and press the fire to do to a
[3:11] dukin to do the fireball right and then
[3:13] your right hand will go from crotch
[3:14] communicate to press punch if you're a
[3:16] if you understand how if you under if
[3:18] you can understand that you're not
[3:19] supposed to wait for your crouching
[3:20] medium kick or any other cantable normal
[3:22] to retract and recover and then you do
[3:25] the fireball but a lot of times that's
[3:27] another thing that people have problems
[3:28] with for they can't where they cannot
[3:30] cancel correctly in combos combos is
[3:34] hard combos are definitely not easy
[3:35] concept because like there's a lot of
[3:37] different definition of combos there's
[3:39] like links link Combos and chain combos
[3:42] right chain combos obviously you do like
[3:44] one two three four five six right so
[3:46] it's it's pretty much a very fast
[3:47] pattern links is like link combos are
[3:50] like that's where I guess people are
[3:52] confused because that's where link
[3:54] Combos and cancels kind of kind of mix
[3:57] and match because links you actually do
[3:59] do wait for your normals to retract back
[4:01] to press another button so a lot of
[4:03] times people will be like people can do
[4:04] crouching me a punch crouching me and
[4:06] punch as a two-hit combo but for some
[4:08] reason they can't do crouching and punch
[4:09] crouching minion punch and then cancel
[4:11] that crouching as much into a fireball
[4:13] because they're registering oh it should
[4:15] be wait wait and wait into Fireball you
[4:18] can practice all your let's say you
[4:20] finally got through button mashing
[4:22] understanding of how combos work and
[4:24] cancels work and you're like my combos
[4:26] are OD in trading mode but you can't
[4:28] pull them off in the match right you
[4:30] can't pull them off in a match and the
[4:33] reason why you can't pull them off the
[4:35] match is because your hand it doesn't
[4:36] it's not into muscle memory you're used
[4:38] to doing you're used to doing these
[4:40] training mode combos you know in
[4:42] training mode right and like it's a
[4:43] dummy that's not moving so what I do
[4:45] recommend is like when you practice like
[4:47] you're just new at BMB that you want to
[4:49] finally get into your game uh you
[4:50] obviously want to do it against AI you
[4:52] want to you want to do this against the
[4:54] AI for sure one thousand percent and
[4:55] another thing you want to do when it
[4:57] comes to training mode uh like trying to
[4:59] get your training wheel combos into your
[5:01] muscle memory so you could use an actual
[5:02] matches is when you're playing your
[5:04] online game let's say you're playing
[5:05] ranked or casual match or whatever
[5:08] online match system that you're playing
[5:10] with that specific fighting game your
[5:12] goal for that is do not uh do not play
[5:14] to win right so let's do not play to win
[5:17] because if you're playing to win you're
[5:19] going to use your general strategy uh to
[5:21] try to win your match right and you can
[5:23] and you don't want that because
[5:25] obviously you win the match but
[5:26] ultimately your goal like your mission
[5:29] to try to get that that training mode
[5:31] combo into your into your air into your
[5:33] muscle memory it's not gonna you're not
[5:36] gonna prioritize that you're you're
[5:37] gonna prioritize yourself winning but
[5:39] because of that your execution will not
[5:40] get better let's say you lost your match
[5:42] you lost the online match but you landed
[5:45] the combo two times within that match
[5:47] that's a huge win that's already a huge
[5:49] win you should take that as a win
[5:50] already to help gain your execution
[5:52] because because you winning a match does
[5:54] not increase your execution you landed
[5:56] the combos during a match and even
[5:57] though you lost that helps your
[5:59] execution those up in general eventually
[6:01] it's going to be a point where you're
[6:02] not going to have to think about it you
[6:04] won't have to think about it anymore and
[6:05] you can land training more combos
[6:07] um in actual matches and then boom there
[6:09] there it is right so you want to make
[6:11] sure that you get it into your muscle
[6:13] memory and you don't have to uh
[6:15] overthink it right if you and you and if
[6:18] you don't overthink it eventually when
[6:20] playing that's when you successfully
[6:23] have increased your execution and get
[6:25] got to the next level right and then and
[6:27] got your your hands to like the next
[6:29] level of like accuracy of April to like
[6:31] clutch out matches by doing optimal
[6:34] combos tournament Combos and Etc and
[6:37] another thing is turning combos so this
[6:40] isn't one thing a lot of people like to
[6:41] flowchart on um and I would say the
[6:43] perfect example of this was actually at
[6:45] Capcom Cup right at Capcom cup one year
[6:47] uh Sako actually had the game-winning
[6:49] combo against Nemo in the like I think
[6:51] first round of a Capcom cup of finals
[6:54] and he actually tried to do the optimal
[6:57] combo when he didn't have to and because
[6:59] he try to go for the optimal combo he
[7:01] lost and that's why that's when you want
[7:03] to make sure that you have two different
[7:05] type of combos you have your your
[7:07] optimal combo and you know your regular
[7:08] BNB and then you have a tournament combo
[7:10] and what I mean about Turman combo is
[7:12] it's easier and and it's not optimal
[7:14] combo whatsoever but it will get the job
[7:17] done like a lot of people just kind of
[7:19] like focus on just like okay if I just
[7:21] can handle this one big ass optimal
[7:22] combo all the time I should be good like
[7:24] let's let's say this Con let's say your
[7:26] optimal combo takes 70 life the opponent
[7:28] has 40 life left right why do you need
[7:31] do an optimal combo that takes 70 when
[7:33] your opponent has 40 Health left uh and
[7:36] then there's an easier route where you
[7:37] can just kind of like finish everything
[7:39] way earlier and then cancel into a super
[7:41] that does 50 right A lot of times if you
[7:44] focus on that there's so many times
[7:45] people just drop their optimal combos
[7:47] because they know they're about to win
[7:48] because of the the nerves and the
[7:50] pressure so like you want to make sure
[7:52] that you kind of like you know help your
[7:54] mental stack by having a tournament
[7:55] combo on Deck so if you know let's say
[7:58] you're at a tournament and and you're
[8:00] just dropping all the commas you're
[8:01] practicing because you're nervous that's
[8:03] why you have a backup of a tournament
[8:06] combo right have a have a have an easier
[8:08] cash out you don't have to worry about
[8:11] that stuff right so this is so that's
[8:13] like the execution talk and now the next
[8:15] one is it's very vague uh footsies but
[8:19] I'm gonna use the word neutral like I
[8:21] will explain to you why I don't like the
[8:22] word let's use everyone uses the word
[8:25] footsies in some type of vague way oh
[8:28] this person with punish footsies oh he
[8:31] poked whatsies footsies that was
[8:33] footsies right there and I just hate
[8:35] that because it's like you're just you
[8:38] just no one no one just knows no one
[8:39] really knows the definition of footsies
[8:41] so I'm gonna use the word neutral uh
[8:43] because I think neutral neutral can be
[8:45] used in like other spaces outside of
[8:48] like fighting games so I like neutral a
[8:51] lot some of the things you want to work
[8:52] on with neutrals the first most
[8:54] important part I want you so I want you
[8:56] to imagine yourself in the training mode
[8:59] in the grid let's say you're playing a
[9:01] match you know how when people play
[9:02] online they're gonna put themselves in
[9:04] the grid right and then you see the grid
[9:06] you see the little lines and the stages
[9:08] so the first thing in neutral to that
[9:11] that's really important to take in
[9:12] consideration when you're improving your
[9:14] neutral is a stage control and Stage
[9:16] control in this in this case think of
[9:19] this as like reverse uh tug of war so
[9:22] you know how in tug of war your goal is
[9:24] to drag the opponent to your side of of
[9:27] the area you're it's supposed to be
[9:29] reverse where you want to put you want
[9:32] to get your opponent to the to the to
[9:34] the to the corner to their Corner as
[9:36] fast as possible right if you're able to
[9:38] control your side of the screen and able
[9:41] to uh invade your the other players side
[9:44] of the screen
[9:45] um and you put them in the corner that
[9:46] means you're having stage control and
[9:49] you're neutral in terms of stage control
[9:51] is superior right so that's that's one
[9:54] thing obviously there's going to be
[9:55] combos that really puts puts people in
[9:57] the corner corner carry that's why
[9:59] Corner carry is so so important Corner
[10:03] carry combos just because like you
[10:05] pretty much uh you pretty much just get
[10:08] away from having to try to play neutral
[10:10] and try to win the stage control so when
[10:13] you're able to control the stage like
[10:15] that you're really you really can
[10:16] dominate the ground game because you
[10:18] have so much space to walk back and to
[10:20] like kind of like defend defend with
[10:22] let's say if your opponent decides to do
[10:24] something risky or tries to go tries to
[10:26] do something like uh unpredictable or
[10:28] random another thing where neutral is
[10:31] very important is range of normals which
[10:34] is pretty much like I guess the word
[10:35] spacing your range of normal knowing
[10:37] having the knowledge of your of your of
[10:39] the range of normals and how to press
[10:41] them is super important and this is
[10:44] where with punishing becomes a thing
[10:46] right this is because this this is where
[10:47] with punish becomes a thing because if
[10:49] you know the range of normals of like
[10:50] this crotch medium kick this standing
[10:52] heavy punch this this like really far
[10:54] range button right there then you're
[10:57] able to whiff punish so
[10:59] easily like a lot of times when you're
[11:02] walking left right left right like this
[11:04] and people are in this like okay let me
[11:06] just press a button back because I think
[11:08] they're in my range and then you and
[11:09] then you know they're gonna press a
[11:11] button because they want to press a
[11:12] button and you take a little step back
[11:14] and it just whips in front of your face
[11:16] and then you just like smack them up
[11:17] boom you just smack them up right there
[11:20] right because that was that and then you
[11:21] whip punish so with punish is a very
[11:24] strong tool when you master of like
[11:27] range of normals or how how much range
[11:29] the specific normals has that's why a
[11:31] lot of people complain about like Dawson
[11:34] right because Dawson is a character
[11:36] obviously there's like kind of like
[11:38] characters that really don't follow
[11:40] these type of rules uh like 99 of the
[11:43] characters follow these rules but except
[11:44] there's always that one character
[11:45] awesome obviously does not need to worry
[11:47] about spacing as much compared to
[11:50] everybody else
[11:51] um but outside the awesome if you're
[11:53] able to like let's say you're fighting
[11:54] against Ryu and Ryu classic battle and
[11:56] you know reuse right here in this
[11:57] crouching State and you have them in the
[11:59] corner and you know he's going to want
[12:01] to press a button to try to like get him
[12:03] out that's the best time when you can
[12:05] actually with punish uh without having
[12:07] to use your reactions right and what I
[12:10] mean about that is that like with
[12:12] punishing is uses up uses a certain
[12:15] percentage of reaction and then also a
[12:18] certain percentage of also um assumption
[12:21] obviously there are players out there
[12:22] that just has god-like reactions from
[12:25] with punishing obviously perfect example
[12:27] would be like punk punk is like amazing
[12:29] with punishing offers just random
[12:31] normals out of nowhere and just you know
[12:33] just converting off of it but that
[12:34] doesn't mean that everybody else in the
[12:36] world has that can has that natural
[12:38] skill of having great reactions I'm sure
[12:41] a lot of people here know that they have
[12:43] bad maybe bad or or on or like not
[12:46] average or maybe average with punishing
[12:48] skills uh so in order for you to
[12:50] increase your with punishing skill you
[12:53] have to understand the range of normals
[12:54] when you understand the range normals
[12:56] and you put your opponent in a very
[12:57] uncomfortable situation you you that's
[13:00] pretty and that's pretty much the
[13:02] section where you use your assumption
[13:04] skills
[13:05] um to to with punish that specific
[13:07] normal right because you're able to
[13:09] assume that this person is uncomfortable
[13:11] in this in in this like situation near
[13:12] the corner and they're going to press a
[13:14] button to try to get out in that
[13:16] situation and that's where with
[13:18] punishing becomes a huge factor and
[13:21] that's that's when everybody can become
[13:23] a with punished God the closer you have
[13:25] them into the corner the easier that
[13:28] with punish becomes a thing so it's like
[13:30] you're like think of it's like you're
[13:32] putting somebody in a box right in this
[13:34] like small box right when they're in
[13:36] Crouch State and you know they have no
[13:38] room to walk back because they have no
[13:41] room to walk back in their Crouch day
[13:42] they can't Crouch or back walk right
[13:44] they have to walk back and they gotta
[13:46] defend their toes you know your range
[13:48] with normals is perfect your range of
[13:50] normals for you offensively poking is
[13:53] there because you know that they cannot
[13:55] with you cannot with this normal because
[13:57] they're Crouch blocking so so because of
[13:59] that that that's when you can also do
[14:01] offensive poking right when you're
[14:03] playing in this neutral War and the more
[14:05] offensive poking that you're adding into
[14:08] this a higher chance that the opponent
[14:11] will with a button because they're
[14:12] desperate to get out right they're going
[14:14] to try to defensively poke a lot of
[14:16] times defensive defensive posts do not
[14:19] work in the corner defensive pokes
[14:21] usually only work when they're like when
[14:23] they have more room to walk back because
[14:25] then you can kind of like force this
[14:26] offensive poking versus defensive poking
[14:28] War right but if they're in a corner
[14:30] they're they're cooked so that's kind of
[14:32] like the new the importance of neutral
[14:34] but it's also the hardest to master
[14:36] because execution it just takes time
[14:38] like the more you practice the more
[14:40] you'll get right and then neutral is
[14:41] just like okay this is actually how my
[14:43] game plan actually works once you master
[14:45] neutral you know like I said execution
[14:47] is just a piece of cake because it's
[14:49] like you're pretty much assuming and
[14:51] baiting the person and then you're able
[14:52] to kind of like like kind of like
[14:54] predict a lot of situations that happen
[14:56] and then that's going to be the next
[14:58] thing we go into which is called the
[15:00] Mind Games this is where we talk about
[15:02] you test your opponent knowledge to gain
[15:05] information this is why tournaments are
[15:07] two out of three uh three out of five uh
[15:10] that's why people ask people that's why
[15:11] people fight for it because they want to
[15:13] gain information on the player so they
[15:15] don't get random out because you want to
[15:17] test your opponent knowledge the more
[15:19] you can test your opponent's knowledge
[15:20] of the of in the game based off like
[15:22] character Frame data based off if they
[15:25] know like this is a bad matchup based if
[15:27] they know like if this is plus or minus
[15:29] based off what you can take advantage of
[15:31] that's how you have a higher chance of
[15:33] winning in the mind game War right
[15:36] that's also how you're able to you're
[15:38] going to be able to read someone and be
[15:39] able to tell the future and predict a
[15:41] lot like for example a lot of times when
[15:43] a new fighting game comes out people
[15:44] don't know what's what's uh what is Plus
[15:47] on block when it's my turn uh when it's
[15:49] negative when should I be able to press
[15:51] a button so you always want to take
[15:53] advantage of that like I when you when
[15:55] you find when you play in the tournament
[15:57] don't think that this player is Godlike
[15:59] the only time you can think this
[16:01] player's Godlike is if you actually had
[16:02] an opportunity to fight them before but
[16:04] like if it's my first time if you're if
[16:06] you're fighting me for example and it's
[16:08] your first time fighting me a lot of
[16:10] times people just have like this like
[16:12] thing where it's like it's Justin wrong
[16:13] he knows all right he knows all so I
[16:17] can't I can't do lots of things the
[16:19] thing is how do you know I know that
[16:21] information right so you you want to
[16:23] test their knowledge you want to test if
[16:25] I know the Frame data you you want to
[16:27] test if I know if I should press a
[16:28] button here or not right also a lot of
[16:31] times I would do let's say let's say for
[16:33] three four five Street Fighter 5 has a
[16:34] perfect example of like plus frames
[16:36] minus two and everything like that or
[16:37] even guilty or strive right if I'm
[16:39] playing May and I'm doing heavy slash
[16:41] dolphin and then they press a button
[16:42] afterwards absolutely you don't have
[16:44] like they don't have the knowledge of
[16:46] that so I'm able to abuse that like
[16:48] literally I can understand how much a
[16:50] person plays by the first thing I do
[16:53] against an opponent everyone tries to
[16:55] play like their opponents with like this
[16:57] like respect that they know as as much
[17:00] information as you you're not supposed
[17:02] to do that right you're not supposed to
[17:04] do that you're supposed to challenge
[17:05] their your information their their
[17:08] information skills by doing something
[17:10] and then pressing a button afterwards to
[17:11] see how they react to it and if and that
[17:14] should tell you right that should tell
[17:16] you enough information on like how to
[17:18] like take advantage of that right and
[17:21] you want to take advantage like if I
[17:22] know somebody that that note that does
[17:24] not know that my heavy slash dolphin
[17:25] with me is plus oh I'm going to spam
[17:29] that right I'm going to spam that until
[17:30] they show me that they can get around it
[17:32] you never stop to do something that
[17:34] works until your opponent shows you that
[17:36] like just because you're in a tournament
[17:38] or you're playing at Celestial floor or
[17:40] or like a high rank floor doesn't it
[17:43] doesn't mean that the pony you're
[17:44] playing there is like the best this is
[17:46] so good right they could just happily
[17:48] just be there or wanting to be there or
[17:50] they grind it out it like likes you know
[17:52] lucky matches but you want to test that
[17:54] knowledge until they can give you an
[17:57] understanding that yeah I know how to
[17:58] play this game right you know how many
[17:59] game games that I don't play but I just
[18:01] have fundamentals like literally think
[18:03] about it I have fundamentals that means
[18:05] I will win the neutral that does not
[18:07] mean me having fundamentals does not
[18:09] mean I have game knowledge if you so the
[18:12] best the easiest way beat somebody that
[18:15] that you know that has better
[18:16] fundamentals than you is you're going to
[18:18] have to win at the game knowledge
[18:20] scenario right and if you could win the
[18:22] game knowledge scenario then the
[18:23] fundamentals go out the window because
[18:25] then how am I supposed to you know to to
[18:28] win against that and then when you have
[18:30] all this opponent knowledge of of this
[18:33] information skills of like how your
[18:35] opponent can think and everything like
[18:36] that this is actually where you can read
[18:38] someone and able to this is what I call
[18:41] you can able to tell the future of how
[18:43] the match eventually goes you know how
[18:45] many times when I commentate a match and
[18:47] everyone in chat or you guys in the chat
[18:48] will say how did you know wait how did
[18:50] you know it's because of the information
[18:52] gathering information gathering playing
[18:54] against the opponent knowing what what
[18:57] what pisses them off is is the the best
[19:01] the best way to understand how to how to
[19:04] actually read their defensive Panic
[19:06] pressing attempt so the more things that
[19:09] you do where you don't let your opponent
[19:11] play in the neutral situation the higher
[19:14] the chance that your opponent is going
[19:15] to do something desperate and you're
[19:17] able to like read that because you can
[19:19] start to feel at like okay I could see
[19:21] that this person wants to do something
[19:23] really uh Reckless to kind of change the
[19:25] title of the match and that's where I
[19:27] that's what I call telling the future
[19:29] and predicting um when it comes to
[19:30] fighting games right so that's like the
[19:33] very importance of of Mind Games another
[19:36] thing is probably this is more for like
[19:38] kind of offensive players
[19:40] um is pressure Mix-Ups tight strings
[19:42] frame traps 50 50 situations right
[19:45] adding now adding adding stuff like this
[19:48] into your games is obviously and it's
[19:50] pretty much the the last piece of the
[19:52] puzzle and this is this is this is where
[19:55] obviously studying becomes involved
[19:58] um you try you just perfecting that with
[20:00] the execution like after doing a
[20:02] specific combo you want to go for like a
[20:04] 50 50 mix up you want to go for a frame
[20:06] trap you want to go for tight strings
[20:07] those are things you just kind of like
[20:09] it's the cherry on top where you want to
[20:11] add to your game so obviously like you
[20:13] know we talked about execution neutral
[20:15] and mind games that's like the the big
[20:18] piece of the puzzle pressure when when
[20:20] you when you come down to like offense
[20:21] that's kind of like the the cherry on
[20:24] top it's definitely important because it
[20:26] increases obviously your chances of
[20:29] winning and not having to think about
[20:31] kind of like going back to neutral uh
[20:34] going back to trying to gain information
[20:35] on Mind Games you like after you like
[20:38] win the specific neutral this basic
[20:40] execution on the specific Mind Games if
[20:43] you're able to continue your offense
[20:46] after that it's more of like you're
[20:47] reading a script at that point right if
[20:50] you're able to command kind of like
[20:52] winning the winning the the mix of War
[20:54] like like guessing right on when it
[20:56] comes to offense all the freaking time
[20:58] then you don't have to think about about
[20:59] it and it kind of saves a lot of mental
[21:01] stack on your on your side because then
[21:03] you don't have to play something you're
[21:05] not comfortable with right because
[21:06] eventually you're going to be playing
[21:07] somebody that had that might have better
[21:09] execution than you that might have
[21:10] better uh neutral than you that might
[21:13] have better mind games than you but you
[21:14] can bypass that if your pressure for
[21:17] offense is very good now what about
[21:19] pressure for defense pressure for
[21:21] defense is what I I would say I
[21:23] specialize in and what what that entails
[21:25] is it's uh obviously antire in the most
[21:28] in in like 90 percent of situations the
[21:31] anti-air
[21:32] um in like situations where you can like
[21:35] 90 90 of the time and tire is like the
[21:39] most blocking thing that you can do for
[21:42] somebody because if you're winning the
[21:43] neutral War obviously that they're you
[21:45] know what they're gonna do if you win
[21:46] the neutral War if you're able to win
[21:48] the Mind Games what's the one thing
[21:50] you're able to tell the future of
[21:52] they're going to jump because they can't
[21:54] win the ground so if they can't win in
[21:56] the ground then they're going to jump
[21:57] and try to and try to win from the air
[21:59] so if you can if you can if you can
[22:01] always look for that anti-air it is easy
[22:05] to stop them and get them even more
[22:07] pissed off and get them to jump in even
[22:09] more because that's the only thing they
[22:11] can rely on because ultimately if you
[22:14] anti-air somebody
[22:16] um 90 of the games and tires don't do
[22:19] that much damage right it's kind of
[22:20] whatever they're like it's okay because
[22:22] if I land one jump in their thought
[22:24] process of people that don't have good
[22:26] neutral if I land one jump in then I can
[22:28] land my prep my offensive pressure while
[22:30] my Mix-Ups and 50 50s and frame traps
[22:32] and I win so if you can focus on
[22:35] anti-air against those type of players
[22:37] they get smoked another thing is uh
[22:39] holding your ground we talked about like
[22:41] how in neutral if you have somebody in
[22:43] the corner and you're you know and you
[22:45] don't want to press a button and because
[22:46] it's going to make it easier to whip
[22:48] punish how do you not how do you win out
[22:51] of that situation this is more of like
[22:53] holding your ground and what I mean
[22:55] about holding your ground is you don't
[22:58] panic press right you hold your ground
[23:00] you block it out because most games by
[23:03] depending on the game obviously they
[23:04] don't have a guard meter or anything
[23:06] like that uh you use like more like
[23:08] safer resources to get out of those
[23:10] situations like that so if you hold your
[23:13] ground to fight back getting back into
[23:14] the middle of the ring that is defensive
[23:16] pressure because then it gives like kind
[23:18] of like a doubt in the in your
[23:20] opponent's mind it gives down your
[23:22] opponent's mind that like damn like he
[23:24] just fall out of here like and now we're
[23:25] back to fighting a square one right so
[23:27] holding you around is very important and
[23:29] the number one thing that I am like I
[23:32] would say an expert of is
[23:34] do not rush when you're losing and what
[23:37] I mean about this is like let's say you
[23:38] do not have the life lead and there's 70
[23:40] seconds on the clock
[23:43] you don't need to get your life lead
[23:45] back that fast you know what I mean a
[23:47] lot of times people are just so
[23:49] impatient when they they just see their
[23:51] life part oh my God my life bar it's so
[23:54] low compared to the other person I need
[23:56] to make something happen I need to make
[23:58] something happen right now if you have
[24:00] 70 seconds on the clock it's not 70
[24:02] seconds on the clock versus 10 seconds
[24:04] o'clock or two they're like night and
[24:06] day you have all the time in the world
[24:08] to make some type of comeback happen
[24:10] when Once when your opponent knows that
[24:13] they have this huge life lead going on
[24:15] they know you're desperate to make
[24:16] something happen you're there they know
[24:18] you're desperate to try to even the life
[24:20] out or take the life leap back so if you
[24:22] are right so if you approach this if you
[24:25] approach the rest of the match even when
[24:28] you're losing as like you know like okay
[24:29] we're both even life and you kind of
[24:31] like take your time with it and you know
[24:33] like little hits because little the
[24:34] little hits eventually
[24:36] add up and when the little hits
[24:38] eventually add up that's actually where
[24:40] you actually went from there I love the
[24:42] fact that I can just win a match even
[24:44] when I'm down on life because I'm I just
[24:46] take my time even if I have 50 seconds
[24:48] left I take my time 40 seconds left take
[24:51] my time 30 seconds left take my time
[24:53] only time you have to really just kind
[24:55] of like make a decision make a hard read
[24:57] is if it's like 20 seconds or less right
[25:00] 20 seconds or less is definitely the
[25:03] crunch that's definitely where it's like
[25:04] well the other person held their ground
[25:06] I'm done I gotta make a 50 50 situation
[25:09] happen and then that's that's your
[25:11] that's the gamble but
[25:13] the most important part is when you if
[25:15] you do not rush when you're losing guess
[25:17] what happens you actually
[25:19] slowly push the stage control back into
[25:22] the middle and eventually into your
[25:24] favor because your opponent is thinking
[25:26] oh they're going to rush but because
[25:29] they're going to rush and they want the
[25:31] the likely so desperately they're going
[25:33] to give up more of that space because
[25:35] they're going to try to defensively win
[25:36] for the rest of the match right they're
[25:38] not going to push as hard compared to
[25:40] the what they went out to the beginning
[25:42] of the game because they want to try to
[25:43] take as less risk as possible at this
[25:45] point it's pretty much a standard
[25:47] flowchart on how to win matches from one
[25:49] point of view right but if you but if
[25:51] you counter that with like you just take
[25:53] your time and just like take little hits
[25:55] here and there eventually it's going to
[25:57] be the ball is going to be in your court
[25:59] where they're not going to realize until
[26:01] it's too late why am I in the corner why
[26:03] why am I in the corner why why why is
[26:05] this person not rushing like head in
[26:08] head first face first and fighting
[26:10] against me he needs to make a comeback
[26:11] no he's not right so it's kind of like
[26:13] this is this is where you want to take
[26:15] in consideration and and I would say the
[26:18] most important part no that's not I mean
[26:20] that's we pretty much talk about it but
[26:21] we're going to talk about the current
[26:23] reasons why people are nervous
[26:25] um I would say back in the day for me
[26:27] nerves was not never a thing um but I
[26:29] think because of this error of like
[26:31] streaming um and the amount of money uh
[26:34] I think a lot of people get nervous
[26:36] right A lot of people get nervous and I
[26:38] think nerves because you know like I get
[26:41] so many comments how do you get how do
[26:43] you uh get around the nerves I have so
[26:45] many like you know blah blah I'm like
[26:47] well is it because like you're going on
[26:48] stream and your friends and families are
[26:50] watching or you're just like scared to
[26:52] play against like a huge audience nerves
[26:55] was not a thing back in the day as much
[26:57] compared to now everything is so nervous
[26:59] now because everyone's like bro I'm
[27:01] playing on stream next against like this
[27:03] top player
[27:04] I'm done automatically you just you just
[27:07] lost right you automatically lost in
[27:09] your head 100 it's your the match is
[27:11] completely over because you're you're
[27:12] thinking about it you're not thinking
[27:14] about your game plan you're not thinking
[27:15] about how to win you're not thinking
[27:16] about what should I do against this
[27:18] person you're thinking about my God I'm
[27:20] playing on stream against diagonal it's
[27:23] over but the thing is if you follow this
[27:26] game plan of like like if uh of just
[27:29] kind of playing doing the Mind Games
[27:31] this is where Mind Games actually
[27:33] overcome nerves right if you test your
[27:36] opponent knowledge and you gain
[27:38] information like this if all you gotta
[27:40] do is just try your best to gain
[27:42] information about how much does this
[27:44] player know that I'm playing against on
[27:46] stream because think it was like this if
[27:47] you're fighting against like myself if
[27:48] you're fighting against like Christian
[27:49] if you're fighting it's like multiple
[27:51] video game like multi-video game
[27:53] specialist experts experts wow this is
[27:55] your main game you should know more you
[27:57] should know more about the game than
[27:59] than any multi-gamer like that they they
[28:02] they're they're they're they are Jack of
[28:03] all trades master of none but you are
[28:06] the master of your game right you have
[28:08] more information about it you know that
[28:10] you might not win the fundamental War
[28:12] the fundamental the neutral War you
[28:14] might not win that but you can win in
[28:16] this situation right this is how you
[28:17] beat nerves in this way if if you gain
[28:20] information if you gather information
[28:22] about what your opponent knows you're
[28:24] gonna not be nervous anymore you're
[28:25] gonna you're gonna be less nervous
[28:27] because you're able to form a solid game
[28:29] plan you're gonna be able to to form a
[28:32] solid game plan because you know what
[28:34] you can take advantage of and then
[28:36] eventually you just don't think about oh
[28:38] bro I'm playing on twitch.tv slash
[28:40] Capcom buyer switch dot TV slash uh
[28:42] teamspooky blah blah blah that's when
[28:44] you're able to kind of like play your
[28:46] game a bit more because you formulated a
[28:49] game plan based off the Mind Games based
[28:52] off the information gathering of your
[28:53] opponent like I said do not show respect
[28:56] to your opponent until they can show you
[28:58] that they are they can be respected and
[29:00] I'm not talking about what they have
[29:02] done how many evotes have they won how
[29:04] many tournaments have they won I'm
[29:05] talking about how much time they put in
[29:08] this game that you're playing in right
[29:10] now right you know how many times that I
[29:12] played some money that is better than me
[29:15] in the game but I just out I just beat
[29:17] them because I just have better
[29:19] fundamentals in them there was this one
[29:21] man Street Fighter ex2 combo breaker all
[29:24] I have been doing the whole tournament
[29:25] was low forward Fireball low Ford super
[29:28] low Ford Fireball low forward so I'm
[29:30] playing fundamentals this guy had all
[29:32] the all the Excel custom combos he knew
[29:34] the Frame data he knew he knew how to
[29:37] attack he knew how to defend he knew
[29:39] everything about his character but guess
[29:41] what
[29:42] I won
[29:43] because the fundamentals he got nervous
[29:45] he broke down on his stream if I see you
[29:48] do this
[29:49] if I see you do this on the map while
[29:51] playing in the tournament match I know I
[29:54] won I know I won because I know that you
[29:57] can't collectively get go back back into
[30:00] that confident mindset because you're
[30:02] playing the wrong game with me you're
[30:04] playing my game when you should be
[30:06] playing your game so that's the that's
[30:08] that's that's so that's the factor on
[30:10] nerves but yeah I hope I mean that was
[30:12] pretty much my talk that was uh pretty
[30:14] much my little my how to get better at
[30:16] fighting games talk I hope it's useful
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