HOW TO GET BETTER AT FIGHTING GAMES

[00:00] what's up everybody this is Justin Wong

[00:02] and we're back with a banger and this

[00:04] time you know this is not gonna be a

[00:05] gameplay video this is not gonna be just

[00:07] me talking about a video game but I

[00:10] actually want to help you get better at

[00:12] fighting games so I know a lot of times

[00:13] I get so many messages of how do I get

[00:15] better at fighting games what do I need

[00:17] to do to get better at fighting games so

[00:19] I decided to make kind of like a talk a

[00:22] TED talk I don't know if that's what

[00:23] it's called real talk on how to get

[00:25] better at fighting games in 2023 so if

[00:29] you guys want to get better at finding

[00:30] games if you guys want to know how this

[00:33] can help you to get better fire games or

[00:34] what kind of advice can I give hit the

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[00:41] together right so we'll start with like

[00:43] execution oh execution uh is very

[00:47] important execution in terms of like

[00:50] combos like when I tell people you need

[00:52] to practice your combos like like when

[00:54] you first play a fighting game and this

[00:56] is anybody right this is anybody even me

[00:58] when I first started playing fighting

[00:59] games the one thing right the first

[01:02] thing that people will always do is

[01:05] Button Mash so the first thing I need

[01:07] people to like do or like learn is how

[01:10] to stop button mashing the reason why I

[01:12] mentioned button mashing let's let's say

[01:15] you're in trading mode right and you put

[01:16] the game into like training mode and you

[01:18] have your input data and if you press

[01:20] like let's say crouching medium kick

[01:23] Fireball right crouching medium kick

[01:25] should only be one input by you press

[01:27] process medium kick once and a fireball

[01:29] you know like uh or Circle forward and

[01:31] you press punch a lot of times when

[01:33] people do like these like kind of like

[01:35] press this one button or simple combo or

[01:37] or anything like that why do people

[01:40] press the button multiple times you know

[01:44] what I mean I feel like a lot of times

[01:45] people press the press a button like

[01:48] it's like they're they want to reassure

[01:51] themselves that the button is going to

[01:52] come out or not but the thing is if you

[01:54] press the button the button will come

[01:56] out if you do not if you press the

[01:58] button five times the button will not

[02:00] come out five times it will come out one

[02:03] time and I'm pretty sure a lot of people

[02:05] don't know that they are mashing so if

[02:07] you just like look at your replays and

[02:09] add input and you know like look at

[02:11] input data and you'll see that you're

[02:14] like you like think to yourself why am I

[02:16] pressing this button multiple times when

[02:18] you waist button presses uh you like you

[02:22] are going to pretty much you're pretty

[02:24] much losing on like accuracy your

[02:26] accuracy is going to be lowered when you

[02:28] when you want to do a specific combos so

[02:29] that's the first thing is stop button

[02:31] mashing the second thing for execution

[02:33] is basic understanding of how Combos and

[02:36] people don't understand the concept of

[02:39] canceling right like approach Community

[02:41] Fireball crouching Fireball is like the

[02:43] perfect example like every single time A

[02:46] lot of times people say look I did

[02:47] crouchy meme kick and the fireball came

[02:48] out but they're not comboing your your

[02:51] registering Crouch meme kick and

[02:52] Fireball as a two-part process but

[02:55] crouching Matrix Fireball should be a

[02:57] one-part process if you can make that as

[02:59] a one-part process says where you're

[03:01] literally doing crouching medium kick

[03:02] and while you're pressing the buncrouch

[03:04] meme kick your left hand will already

[03:06] start beat will already start doing the

[03:08] motion and press the fire to do to a

[03:11] dukin to do the fireball right and then

[03:13] your right hand will go from crotch

[03:14] communicate to press punch if you're a

[03:16] if you understand how if you under if

[03:18] you can understand that you're not

[03:19] supposed to wait for your crouching

[03:20] medium kick or any other cantable normal

[03:22] to retract and recover and then you do

[03:25] the fireball but a lot of times that's

[03:27] another thing that people have problems

[03:28] with for they can't where they cannot

[03:30] cancel correctly in combos combos is

[03:34] hard combos are definitely not easy

[03:35] concept because like there's a lot of

[03:37] different definition of combos there's

[03:39] like links link Combos and chain combos

[03:42] right chain combos obviously you do like

[03:44] one two three four five six right so

[03:46] it's it's pretty much a very fast

[03:47] pattern links is like link combos are

[03:50] like that's where I guess people are

[03:52] confused because that's where link

[03:54] Combos and cancels kind of kind of mix

[03:57] and match because links you actually do

[03:59] do wait for your normals to retract back

[04:01] to press another button so a lot of

[04:03] times people will be like people can do

[04:04] crouching me a punch crouching me and

[04:06] punch as a two-hit combo but for some

[04:08] reason they can't do crouching and punch

[04:09] crouching minion punch and then cancel

[04:11] that crouching as much into a fireball

[04:13] because they're registering oh it should

[04:15] be wait wait and wait into Fireball you

[04:18] can practice all your let's say you

[04:20] finally got through button mashing

[04:22] understanding of how combos work and

[04:24] cancels work and you're like my combos

[04:26] are OD in trading mode but you can't

[04:28] pull them off in the match right you

[04:30] can't pull them off in a match and the

[04:33] reason why you can't pull them off the

[04:35] match is because your hand it doesn't

[04:36] it's not into muscle memory you're used

[04:38] to doing you're used to doing these

[04:40] training mode combos you know in

[04:42] training mode right and like it's a

[04:43] dummy that's not moving so what I do

[04:45] recommend is like when you practice like

[04:47] you're just new at BMB that you want to

[04:49] finally get into your game uh you

[04:50] obviously want to do it against AI you

[04:52] want to you want to do this against the

[04:54] AI for sure one thousand percent and

[04:55] another thing you want to do when it

[04:57] comes to training mode uh like trying to

[04:59] get your training wheel combos into your

[05:01] muscle memory so you could use an actual

[05:02] matches is when you're playing your

[05:04] online game let's say you're playing

[05:05] ranked or casual match or whatever

[05:08] online match system that you're playing

[05:10] with that specific fighting game your

[05:12] goal for that is do not uh do not play

[05:14] to win right so let's do not play to win

[05:17] because if you're playing to win you're

[05:19] going to use your general strategy uh to

[05:21] try to win your match right and you can

[05:23] and you don't want that because

[05:25] obviously you win the match but

[05:26] ultimately your goal like your mission

[05:29] to try to get that that training mode

[05:31] combo into your into your air into your

[05:33] muscle memory it's not gonna you're not

[05:36] gonna prioritize that you're you're

[05:37] gonna prioritize yourself winning but

[05:39] because of that your execution will not

[05:40] get better let's say you lost your match

[05:42] you lost the online match but you landed

[05:45] the combo two times within that match

[05:47] that's a huge win that's already a huge

[05:49] win you should take that as a win

[05:50] already to help gain your execution

[05:52] because because you winning a match does

[05:54] not increase your execution you landed

[05:56] the combos during a match and even

[05:57] though you lost that helps your

[05:59] execution those up in general eventually

[06:01] it's going to be a point where you're

[06:02] not going to have to think about it you

[06:04] won't have to think about it anymore and

[06:05] you can land training more combos

[06:07] um in actual matches and then boom there

[06:09] there it is right so you want to make

[06:11] sure that you get it into your muscle

[06:13] memory and you don't have to uh

[06:15] overthink it right if you and you and if

[06:18] you don't overthink it eventually when

[06:20] playing that's when you successfully

[06:23] have increased your execution and get

[06:25] got to the next level right and then and

[06:27] got your your hands to like the next

[06:29] level of like accuracy of April to like

[06:31] clutch out matches by doing optimal

[06:34] combos tournament Combos and Etc and

[06:37] another thing is turning combos so this

[06:40] isn't one thing a lot of people like to

[06:41] flowchart on um and I would say the

[06:43] perfect example of this was actually at

[06:45] Capcom Cup right at Capcom cup one year

[06:47] uh Sako actually had the game-winning

[06:49] combo against Nemo in the like I think

[06:51] first round of a Capcom cup of finals

[06:54] and he actually tried to do the optimal

[06:57] combo when he didn't have to and because

[06:59] he try to go for the optimal combo he

[07:01] lost and that's why that's when you want

[07:03] to make sure that you have two different

[07:05] type of combos you have your your

[07:07] optimal combo and you know your regular

[07:08] BNB and then you have a tournament combo

[07:10] and what I mean about Turman combo is

[07:12] it's easier and and it's not optimal

[07:14] combo whatsoever but it will get the job

[07:17] done like a lot of people just kind of

[07:19] like focus on just like okay if I just

[07:21] can handle this one big ass optimal

[07:22] combo all the time I should be good like

[07:24] let's let's say this Con let's say your

[07:26] optimal combo takes 70 life the opponent

[07:28] has 40 life left right why do you need

[07:31] do an optimal combo that takes 70 when

[07:33] your opponent has 40 Health left uh and

[07:36] then there's an easier route where you

[07:37] can just kind of like finish everything

[07:39] way earlier and then cancel into a super

[07:41] that does 50 right A lot of times if you

[07:44] focus on that there's so many times

[07:45] people just drop their optimal combos

[07:47] because they know they're about to win

[07:48] because of the the nerves and the

[07:50] pressure so like you want to make sure

[07:52] that you kind of like you know help your

[07:54] mental stack by having a tournament

[07:55] combo on Deck so if you know let's say

[07:58] you're at a tournament and and you're

[08:00] just dropping all the commas you're

[08:01] practicing because you're nervous that's

[08:03] why you have a backup of a tournament

[08:06] combo right have a have a have an easier

[08:08] cash out you don't have to worry about

[08:11] that stuff right so this is so that's

[08:13] like the execution talk and now the next

[08:15] one is it's very vague uh footsies but

[08:19] I'm gonna use the word neutral like I

[08:21] will explain to you why I don't like the

[08:22] word let's use everyone uses the word

[08:25] footsies in some type of vague way oh

[08:28] this person with punish footsies oh he

[08:31] poked whatsies footsies that was

[08:33] footsies right there and I just hate

[08:35] that because it's like you're just you

[08:38] just no one no one just knows no one

[08:39] really knows the definition of footsies

[08:41] so I'm gonna use the word neutral uh

[08:43] because I think neutral neutral can be

[08:45] used in like other spaces outside of

[08:48] like fighting games so I like neutral a

[08:51] lot some of the things you want to work

[08:52] on with neutrals the first most

[08:54] important part I want you so I want you

[08:56] to imagine yourself in the training mode

[08:59] in the grid let's say you're playing a

[09:01] match you know how when people play

[09:02] online they're gonna put themselves in

[09:04] the grid right and then you see the grid

[09:06] you see the little lines and the stages

[09:08] so the first thing in neutral to that

[09:11] that's really important to take in

[09:12] consideration when you're improving your

[09:14] neutral is a stage control and Stage

[09:16] control in this in this case think of

[09:19] this as like reverse uh tug of war so

[09:22] you know how in tug of war your goal is

[09:24] to drag the opponent to your side of of

[09:27] the area you're it's supposed to be

[09:29] reverse where you want to put you want

[09:32] to get your opponent to the to the to

[09:34] the to the corner to their Corner as

[09:36] fast as possible right if you're able to

[09:38] control your side of the screen and able

[09:41] to uh invade your the other players side

[09:44] of the screen

[09:45] um and you put them in the corner that

[09:46] means you're having stage control and

[09:49] you're neutral in terms of stage control

[09:51] is superior right so that's that's one

[09:54] thing obviously there's going to be

[09:55] combos that really puts puts people in

[09:57] the corner corner carry that's why

[09:59] 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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