The 10 Skills That Separate Top Players From The Rest

[00:00] if you've ever seen a top player like

[00:01] Justin Wong or Daga umara on stream you

[00:03] might also hear that they have strong

[00:05] fundamentals I agree but what does that

[00:07] even mean and how do they even get these

[00:09] fundamentals in the first place

[00:11] fundamentals are skills that can

[00:12] transfer between game to game but no one

[00:14] ever talks about what these skills are

[00:16] how to improve in them or more

[00:17] importantly the different types of

[00:19] fundamental skills that can exist for

[00:21] example Justin is known for his ability

[00:23] to be patient not crack and wait for the

[00:25] right timing while Daigo is more known

[00:28] for his ability to make psychic reads

[00:29] and to innovate the gameplay meta both

[00:31] of these players have goated

[00:33] fundamentals but they specialize in

[00:35] different skills and different areas

[00:37] which means that they also have relative

[00:39] weaknesses to their strengths but before

[00:41] we get to this or how I've personally

[00:43] improved my fundamentals over time and

[00:44] what you can take away from this we need

[00:46] to Define all the skills that make up

[00:48] fundamentals I broke it down into 10

[00:50] different categories along with players

[00:51] who exemplify each skill and we'll start

[00:54] with the first skill reactions now I

[00:56] think there's a lot of different ways to

[00:58] define the skill I think of someone

[01:00] that's really good at spacing or really

[01:02] good at footsies or really good at like

[01:04] anti iring or really good at reacting to

[01:06] many different things in neutral the

[01:08] first person I think of this that

[01:09] exemplifies reactions is Shia high now

[01:12] I've personally played against Shia haai

[01:13] and shiai is kind of known as like the

[01:15] only person can react to a short hop and

[01:17] King of Fighters reacting to a short hop

[01:19] is insanely insanely fast and you can't

[01:21] just like stick out a button you can

[01:23] stick out preemptively but in order to

[01:24] react you generally have to have either

[01:26] a really really strong crouching normal

[01:29] which not a lot of characters have or an

[01:30] invincible DP and so being able to react

[01:33] to a very very quick jump with a DP is

[01:35] something only a few players can do and

[01:37] Shia High I think is easily the most

[01:39] consistent at it the other person I

[01:40] think of is punk punk in Street Fighter

[01:42] 5 kind of evolved The Meta because his

[01:45] reactions were just so strong with Karen

[01:47] so a lot of people didn't think that you

[01:48] could hit confirm Crouch medium kicks in

[01:50] Street Fighter five Punk sure that not

[01:52] only is it possible it's possible to do

[01:54] very very consistently and if you apply

[01:57] the very good HIC confirming skills of

[01:59] punk a along with the ability to weave

[02:02] in and out of the opponent's buttons and

[02:04] to perfectly place the crash me kicks or

[02:06] the sweeps or whatever he's using to

[02:08] whiff punish the opponent it's no wonder

[02:09] that punk is one of the best players in

[02:11] the world you can argue it's like

[02:13] anticipation right so when I watch Shia

[02:15] high in some of the matches like against

[02:17] worse players he's antir everything but

[02:19] against stronger players he can't antire

[02:21] everything as consistently right because

[02:23] it's harder to anticipate the opponent's

[02:26] moves when they're really really good

[02:27] and you can also argue it's raw reaction

[02:29] time take for example you're actually

[02:31] testing your

[02:34] reaction and so 178 milliseconds I

[02:37] recognize that's probably on the better

[02:39] end I suspect many top players have a

[02:42] benchmark slightly better than this even

[02:45] like let's say uh top player has 150

[02:47] milliseconds that's almost a two frame

[02:49] advantage and two frames can be the

[02:51] difference between something that's

[02:53] reactable and something that's not

[02:54] either way if you're really good at

[02:56] reactions you're really good at reacting

[02:58] to many different things in the neutral

[02:59] game game number two is kind of the

[03:02] opposite of reactions which is mental

[03:04] stacking or just being random I know

[03:07] that's kind of like a derogatory term

[03:09] being random but some of the best

[03:11] players are very very good at being

[03:13] random often times this means that

[03:15] you're really good at running offense if

[03:17] you've played fighting games you've

[03:18] probably ran into opponents where you

[03:19] just can't predict what they're going to

[03:21] do and if you can't predict what they're

[03:22] going to do it makes it very very hard

[03:24] to stop and being random is actually a

[03:26] really really important skill now humans

[03:28] are inherently really shitty at being

[03:31] random this is the reason why rock paper

[03:33] scissors Champions exist this is why

[03:35] terms like forensic accounting exist

[03:37] because people are bad at making up

[03:38] numbers this is why Evo memo 37 exists

[03:41] because 37 is the most popular number

[03:44] out of 1 to 100 and people that are

[03:46] really good at being random choose their

[03:47] options in a very unpredictable manner

[03:50] it's not that there isn't logic behind

[03:52] what they choose it's just that logic is

[03:54] so disguised and it's so well thought

[03:56] out and there's also like that hint of

[03:58] instinct and reading the opponent and

[04:01] all those combin into being very

[04:03] unpredictable if you've ever played

[04:04] online like Street Fighter you've

[04:06] probably ran into an online Ken who

[04:07] either matches DP and then when you try

[04:09] to finally bait the DP they go for like

[04:11] a walk up throw or some like absolutely

[04:13] crazy uh scenario and those are same

[04:16] kind of players but when I think of like

[04:17] a top player I think of someone like

[04:19] Tempest NYC from the Guilty Gear space

[04:20] who plays Leo and is just really really

[04:23] good predicting when you're trying to

[04:25] bait the DP and when you're not going to

[04:26] bait the DP right or very good at like

[04:28] sneaking in this really really slow

[04:30] cross up that Leo has and you could

[04:32] throw it any time you can beat it at any

[04:34] time but he's really good at sneaking in

[04:36] at the moments when you least expect it

[04:37] another person from the uh Street

[04:39] Fighter scene is JB I think JB is

[04:41] insanely good at mental stacking

[04:42] probably some of the best I've played in

[04:44] Street Fighter 6 and someone that can

[04:46] like do pretty suboptimal options like

[04:48] round start Drive Rush overhead and have

[04:50] it work really consistently I think is

[04:52] just someone that gets a really good

[04:54] feel for the opponent's mental and

[04:56] exploits it really hard and you can also

[04:58] argue dieo is very at this right

[05:00] everyone thinks of the um Shu and that's

[05:02] kind of what this comes down to is being

[05:04] able to predict the shukan timing even

[05:06] though it's really risky it's really

[05:07] really strong and if you have the read

[05:09] Around the shukin it's hard for it not

[05:10] to pay off all right so category number

[05:12] three is patience composure I guess you

[05:15] could say it's people that don't crack

[05:17] and wait for the right moment so I think

[05:19] of two people guichi and Justin Wong

[05:21] they will tur you out they will wait for

[05:23] you to make a mistake they're very good

[05:25] at forcing you to come to them they're

[05:28] also very good at just kind kind of down

[05:30] backing and letting you overextend and

[05:32] then punish you for that overextension

[05:34] now this is one of the skills I feel

[05:35] like is more of a old school skill

[05:38] especially in games today where it's

[05:39] like every game has their own version of

[05:41] Drive rush or Dash Lade or strive just

[05:44] you know you have a million [ __ ]

[05:45] ways to get in but the skill is still

[05:47] very valuable especially for controlling

[05:49] the clock for forcing the opponent to

[05:51] come to you and overextending I also

[05:52] think of these players is ones that have

[05:54] really good defense so a lot of moves

[05:56] and fighting games if your opponent is

[05:58] flustered or or if they're like

[06:00] distracted it's really easy to get away

[06:02] with like Drive Impact for example or

[06:04] throw in Dragon Ball Fighters and if you

[06:06] look at guichi guichi had some of the

[06:08] best defense in Dragon Ball Fighters

[06:10] just being able to stay patient choose

[06:12] the right options react to the right

[06:14] things and not get flustered on defense

[06:16] I also think of The Comebacks Justin has

[06:18] made like an Ultimate Marvel or an mvc2

[06:21] or his runaway game with storm and these

[06:23] are all skills that transfer to other

[06:25] games as well all right skill number

[06:27] four is execution now I think this is a

[06:29] number one skill that new players should

[06:31] focus on because if you can't execute a

[06:33] core Circle forward or a half circle

[06:35] forward or Dragon punch motion when you

[06:37] want to you're basically playing a

[06:39] different version of the fighting game

[06:40] right you're basically playing can I

[06:42] actually execute what I want to execute

[06:44] as opposed to the actual fighting game

[06:45] but the people at the top I think are

[06:47] ones that just never drop combos which

[06:50] is weird because I also think that this

[06:52] is like a old school skill old games

[06:54] used to have like very high execution

[06:57] ceilings there used to be combos that

[06:59] only one person could do like Sako or

[07:02] Fab where you could tell their play stop

[07:05] because they were the only person that

[07:06] would go for this particular combo in

[07:09] this situation nowadays I still think

[07:11] this skill exists but it exists in a

[07:13] different way which is consistency of

[07:16] inputs right I might drop a combo 2% of

[07:18] the time in a actual tournament setting

[07:21] but someone else might only drop it 1%

[07:23] of the time and that 1% is a huge

[07:25] difference considering that could be the

[07:27] difference between a win or a loss and

[07:29] there are some very technical things you

[07:32] can still go for for example in Grand

[07:33] blue Fantasy Versus there's like this

[07:35] fuzzy guard instant overhead that's very

[07:36] very technical to do basically you have

[07:38] to like Lancel your jump in it's

[07:41] absurdly crazy really Technical and only

[07:43] a few people in the game can do it but

[07:45] being able to do that basically gives

[07:46] you a free 50/50 where no one else could

[07:48] do a 50/50 so it still is a very

[07:51] important skill and it's easily the one

[07:53] at a lowlevel is the easiest to apply

[07:55] across fighting games for sure all right

[07:58] skill number five is game knowledge this

[08:00] is weird because a lot of people think

[08:02] of game knowledge as like how much

[08:04] you've actually played the game and

[08:05] that's that's not stuff that really

[08:07] transfers over I'm thinking more of

[08:08] players that can use the game knowledge

[08:11] and leverage it to play as optimally as

[08:14] possible these are players that are

[08:16] considered like to be cheap or players

[08:18] that seem to choose the right options

[08:20] more than their opponent and you can

[08:22] also argue this as a game awareness side

[08:24] of things right because if you're really

[08:26] good at extracting game knowledge and

[08:28] very good at understanding the mechanics

[08:29] of how the game works you can have

[08:31] better awareness by predicting what's

[08:33] going to happen in a situation you've

[08:35] never seen before right couple of

[08:37] players that come to my mind are tokido

[08:39] right he's always picking like the best

[08:41] character in every game he studies the

[08:43] game I mean you look at his YouTube he's

[08:45] literally like wearing a lap coat for

[08:47] like some of his YouTube videos and he's

[08:48] very methodical about how he approaches

[08:51] The Game and his play style is just it's

[08:53] very surgical right it's something like

[08:56] he's always choosing the right option in

[08:59] C situations and he's just going to win

[09:01] strictly based off risk reward not some

[09:03] of the other skills that other players

[09:05] might have the reason I think this is a

[09:07] fundamental skill is because being able

[09:09] to extract data from a game and use it

[09:11] to inform your decisions correctly is

[09:13] actually a skill a lot of players aren't

[09:15] as good as you might think they mostly

[09:17] play on instinct or they you know do

[09:19] what feels right in the moment but I

[09:21] feel like people that are really good at

[09:22] the skill have a better understand their

[09:24] risk reward and what would actually work

[09:26] and can exploit against their opponent

[09:27] all right so skills number six is I

[09:29] don't know it like Innovation basically

[09:32] someone that you think of like as a lab

[09:33] monster or a tech monster this is a

[09:35] legitimate skill that is very very

[09:38] important this is a skill that most top

[09:40] players just Farm out to Twitter they're

[09:43] just like oh let me see what tech is on

[09:45] Twitter okay let me steal that your Tech

[09:47] now it's my tech right but even just

[09:50] finding the tech on Twitter and then

[09:51] sifting through what's actually useful

[09:54] and what's not and then developing The

[09:56] Meta based on that stuff that's a skill

[09:58] in itself I like to think of these

[10:00] players is also like the people that can

[10:01] find the cheap [ __ ] ASAP think of

[10:04] someone like kazunoko right kazunoko is

[10:06] known for picking up the game finding

[10:08] who the cheap character is like day one

[10:10] and then having a super streamlined

[10:13] approach abusing all the cheap [ __ ]

[10:15] because they figured out what the cheap

[10:17] [ __ ] was before anyone else I would also

[10:20] categorize people that are just really

[10:22] really good finding Tech in this

[10:23] category as well and I feel like most

[10:25] tech monsters aren't like top players

[10:27] but one that I think is a top player is

[10:29] fenr so you guys might know fenrich from

[10:31] the Dragon Ball Z games but he plays

[10:33] like everything and he was known for

[10:35] like finding the craziest Touch of death

[10:37] combos in like any situation and then

[10:39] he' back it up by actually doing them in

[10:42] match and he kind of innovated the touch

[10:44] of death meta and Dragon Ball fire Z all

[10:47] right so skill number seven is

[10:49] uniqueness I know this is like kind of

[10:51] hard one to describe but if you've

[10:54] played against any of these players

[10:55] you'll totally understand it's like

[10:57] someone that has a completely different

[10:59] play style than anyone else and it

[11:02] really really throws you off so this can

[11:03] be players like amsa who plays Yoshi and

[11:07] basically is the Yoshi above all other

[11:09] Yoshis because no one else plays like

[11:11] them right basically amsa had to develop

[11:12] their own play style to fight against

[11:14] the masses they're very Innovative

[11:16] strategies that people just haven't seen

[11:18] and it gives them a leg up it's not that

[11:20] ASA is the most cracked player in in the

[11:22] world by a long shot as part of it

[11:24] actually he's really really good but

[11:26] it's also that you can't train for amsa

[11:28] right it's really hard to train for

[11:31] someone that plays that uniquely I also

[11:33] think of idams Laura and Street 5 very

[11:36] very hard to train for because no one

[11:37] else play that character at a high level

[11:39] and the best way to distinguish this

[11:40] between like lab monsters are there are

[11:43] people that just play the character

[11:45] differently right and hotchi from Guilty

[11:47] Gear is one where everyone played Nago

[11:49] in a very like methodical way and a very

[11:52] I'm an Abus the best options way and

[11:54] otashi you have this like completely

[11:56] mental stack completely super fastpac

[11:59] I'm a blood rage in your face at the

[12:02] wall doing all this crazy stuff that no

[12:06] other Naga was doing and it worked very

[12:09] very well for him because he was

[12:10] basically playing a different game than

[12:12] everyone else like unlike the lab

[12:14] monster this stuff wasn't really optimal

[12:17] right no one to this day is really doing

[12:18] blood rage Subs like otashi is but

[12:21] because this was so unique and it's so

[12:22] hard to prepare for he made it work now

[12:25] I also think these are like people that

[12:26] are like really good at Fireball

[12:28] patterns so you think of like someone

[12:30] has really strong zoning like bonchan

[12:32] you might play against a million other

[12:33] cagots or Lukes and then you run into

[12:35] Bon Chan's Luke and it's like whoo this

[12:37] is a completely different style even

[12:39] though they're doing mostly the same

[12:41] things it's not new tech they have a

[12:42] really weird timing to everything and

[12:44] they have a very hard to predict play

[12:46] style because you don't play against

[12:47] someone like that very often all right

[12:50] so skill number eight is I'd say

[12:52] adaptation this is a very obvious one

[12:53] it's the ability to overcome your

[12:55] opponent as you get more information now

[12:57] Dao is like famous ly known for being

[13:00] like impossible to beat in the first to

[13:02] 10 set because it's adaptation is just

[13:04] that good but this these are people that

[13:06] do really really well in Long sets I

[13:08] also think of these players as ones that

[13:10] have a very diverse flowchart and what

[13:12] this means is that you're playing your

[13:14] opponent and your opponent exhausts all

[13:15] their options they use all their Tech

[13:17] and you still have many tricks left in

[13:19] the bag and you have still have many

[13:21] different ideas and ways to counteract

[13:24] their strategies and once they

[13:25] counteract that they're out of steam and

[13:27] you win the set right mk's Leo is known

[13:30] for the game four comebacks where

[13:31] basically he might be losing a set or

[13:33] he's winning a set and it goes down to

[13:35] game four and MK Leo has insanely High

[13:37] win rate on game four and if he wins

[13:39] game four he's most likely going to win

[13:41] game five because his adaptation is just

[13:43] that strong all right the last two

[13:45] around mental I actually think your

[13:47] mental game is very very important for

[13:49] fighting games it's something that

[13:49] transfers over very well so I could just

[13:52] keep in the one I I split up into two

[13:53] and I think the first is your clutch

[13:56] Factor like people that play best under

[13:58] pressure and just don't choke now I

[14:00] think it's easier to come up with

[14:02] examples of people that choke

[14:05] unfortunately right I'm not going to

[14:06] name the names but think of the amount

[14:08] of people that constantly get second or

[14:11] third place and they feel like they're

[14:13] cursed but there's also people

[14:15] conversely that win the vast majority of

[14:18] time they're put in these clutch

[14:19] situations I think Justin Wong is a very

[14:21] very good example you look at his

[14:23] previous Evo runs you look at his

[14:25] ability to clutch out set I think Justin

[14:27] won's definitely there I also feel like

[14:29] there are players that have a

[14:31] disproportionate win rate when it comes

[14:33] to critical sets think getting into top

[14:35] eight of a major or top six if you're

[14:37] Evo because they have to show ads or

[14:41] winning the grand finals of a tournament

[14:43] and I think men Rd is a very good

[14:45] example of this when they have a

[14:46] critical set to win whether it's Grand

[14:48] finals or getting into a top eight if I

[14:50] feel like the percent win rate just

[14:51] skyrockets and sometimes they can look

[14:54] very very hard to beat all right I think

[14:55] the last one is like work ethic or Grit

[14:59] I don't know what you want to call it

[15:00] but it's like the power to keep

[15:01] persevering like fighting games are hard

[15:03] right and it's very easy to get

[15:04] discouraged it's very easy to grind out

[15:07] a lot of hours go to a tournament get

[15:09] watched and be like oh this isn't for me

[15:10] like oh no what was me or like you play

[15:13] a new game and then you don't do as well

[15:15] as you want you're like all right well

[15:16] this game's trash right you guys have

[15:18] probably seen ton of that on Twitter and

[15:20] I think these are the players that have

[15:21] the power to keep persevering through

[15:24] difficulties or adversities right the

[15:26] people that have the ability to sing

[15:27] tons of hours into the game have a

[15:29] positive mindset and just keep going at

[15:31] it right I think Brian that's a really

[15:33] good example of this being able to do

[15:34] content creation have a job and compete

[15:36] at a high level you have to have really

[15:38] good work ethic and git same thing with

[15:39] like players like Mochi same same idea

[15:42] like MiMi streams like insanely cracked

[15:45] amount of hours and he's still a content

[15:47] creator too it's it's a very important

[15:48] skill I think it's also how like having

[15:50] a positive mindset now like that's kind

[15:52] of hard to tell like you know the

[15:53] mindset people are in but be able to

[15:55] like not beat yourself up and take the

[15:57] right things from A Loss I think is very

[15:59] very important as well now what the hell

[16:01] do we do with all this information now I

[16:03] like to think of it as like a stat chart

[16:05] I used an Excel graph because I don't

[16:07] know how to make one of those but you

[16:10] get the idea that like people just have

[16:12] different skills they're better at and

[16:14] worse at and I think the first step to

[16:16] getting better fundamentals is being

[16:18] able to figure out where you're strong

[16:20] at and where you're weaker at right and

[16:21] the areas you're weaker at are going to

[16:23] be easier to improve upon right because

[16:27] improving upon the stuff you're already

[16:28] really really cracked on you're just

[16:30] going to get diminishing returns and I

[16:31] feel like you need all of these skills

[16:33] in order to be a top player it's really

[16:35] really hard to you know rely on a couple

[16:37] of these skills and just have like

[16:39] terrible game knowledge and terrible

[16:41] mental and be terrible at labbing and

[16:45] have the reactions of a 70-year-old dude

[16:47] it's just not going to happen right so

[16:49] to me you have to focus on your weak

[16:51] areas and as I look back at this I

[16:54] thought about where I was when I first

[16:56] started playing fighting games and again

[16:57] these numbers are just kind of up like

[16:59] no one's at 10 right no one has 10

[17:01] fundamentals for everything I obviously

[17:03] think I have better fundamentals than

[17:05] most of the fgc so like it's not

[17:07] proportional to population but this is

[17:09] example of 2016 diphone and I think

[17:12] looking back at the three areas I

[17:13] improved the most were probably randomst

[17:16] mental and grit and it's kind like dap

[17:19] got more random what the hell but yeah I

[17:21] think this is actually something I

[17:23] deliberately approve upon I actually I

[17:25] forgot to mention Sonic Fox at all but

[17:26] Sonic Fox is one of the players that I

[17:28] would study their gameplay and I'd be

[17:30] like how the hell is Sonic Fox win

[17:33] they're just doing the most random [ __ ]

[17:34] they're getting away with it I want to

[17:36] be able to do that and so by studying

[17:40] Sonic and figuring out why they do some

[17:42] things that they do and also taking like

[17:44] a more intuitive approach to the game

[17:46] cuz I used to play very like by the book

[17:49] and I realized that while that is viable

[17:53] that's not 100% the way I want to play

[17:55] the game and by bringing in like more

[17:57] Instinct and intuition into the game I

[17:59] was able to like kind of get better at

[18:02] Randomness and also like using my

[18:04] intuition being like all right in order

[18:05] to be random you have to choose good

[18:07] options and rotate them appropriately

[18:10] right and same thing with M mental and

[18:12] grit I honestly think you know 2016

[18:14] diaphone did not take care of their

[18:16] health very well I'm going keep it real

[18:18] and so I think a lot of that was hitting

[18:20] the gym focusing on diet focusing on

[18:22] lifestyle right and also like you know

[18:25] for like mental and like being able to

[18:26] like deal with clutch situations there's

[18:28] a lot of books on the topic right sports

[18:30] psychology is a very important thing

[18:32] Sports athletes that get paid much more

[18:34] money than Esports athletes focus on

[18:36] sports psychology team sports

[18:38] psychologists right there's a lot of

[18:40] information out there that can help you

[18:42] improve your mental game or and grid so

[18:44] that's where I improved upon but I think

[18:46] any of these areas you can improve upon

[18:48] you know I was kind of thinking about

[18:49] this exercise when I was putting this

[18:50] together I'm like damn my reactions are

[18:52] kind of

[18:53] ass and then I Googled it right how to

[18:56] improve reaction time and there's like a

[18:58] million things right and kind of the

[19:00] main takeaway is like yeah diet exercise

[19:03] definitely help and actually looking at

[19:05] my reaction times my reaction times have

[19:07] improved iPhone a few years ago probably

[19:09] had like a frame or two slower reaction

[19:10] times but I also think it's like I need

[19:12] to physically train my reactions more in

[19:15] game so doing like drills where I try to

[19:17] whiff kind of like what Dao used to do

[19:19] where he'd react to different stimuli

[19:22] and then triy to reacting to it Bas I

[19:24] need to drill my reactions more and then

[19:25] I could take the learnings from that to

[19:27] other games and focus on like playing

[19:29] more patient and practice reacting in

[19:32] match right just off the top of my head

[19:33] how you'd improve at some of the other

[19:35] ones composure it's like the people that

[19:37] Panic DP too much how do you get rid of

[19:39] a panic DP habit force yourself not to

[19:41] DP you play matches you don't focus on

[19:43] when you're losing you're focus on not

[19:45] dping right and I think that's like how

[19:48] you have to go about composure is you

[19:50] have to purposely put yourself in

[19:51] situations where you're forced to play

[19:53] lame and you're forced to stay composed

[19:55] execution I think that that's just

[19:56] repetition repetition the more fighting

[19:58] games you play you'll just naturally get

[19:59] execution uh game knowledge and labbing

[20:02] are both something I've been I I was

[20:03] just like kind of good at because you

[20:05] know like like science major very

[20:06] analytical mind I think I kind of

[20:08] transferred a lot of those skills to

[20:10] game knowledge and labbing but honestly

[20:12] like probably just comes down to

[20:13] spending time in training mode and

[20:15] trying to force yourself to come up with

[20:17] different ideas and force yourself to

[20:19] understand how the game works if you

[20:21] understand how the game works you'll

[20:22] understand why different situations play

[20:24] out the way they do I I feel like a lot

[20:27] of people that are bad at game knowledge

[20:28] don't understand why things happen i' be

[20:30] like oh the game just randomly decided

[20:32] to do that and if you guys know anything

[20:34] about games nothing really happens

[20:36] randomly unless it's Street Fighter 2

[20:38] because it's hard Cod to be random

[20:40] anyways uh yes shout to that game same

[20:42] thing with uniqueness right I I think

[20:44] often times it's it's really easy to

[20:46] copy what the top player is doing and

[20:48] then just do it yourself but again

[20:52] there's like if if you get really good

[20:54] game knowledge and labbing I think

[20:55] naturally uniqueness will come as long

[20:56] as you kind of take it to the next EX

[20:58] exension and start implementing that

[21:00] stuff in match and adaptation I think

[21:02] grind monsters I think if you play

[21:04] longer sets you'll just naturally get

[21:06] better at adaptation so how else can you

[21:08] use this information so I think it's

[21:09] pretty obvious that if you're fighting

[21:11] against someone at your skill level and

[21:13] that has similar fundamentals to you you

[21:14] should Target the areas that they're

[21:16] weak against but how would you fight

[21:18] against someone like Justin Wong who

[21:20] probably is the best fundamentals in the

[21:22] world if not close to it right you have

[21:24] to think fundamentals don't 100%

[21:27] correlate with in-game wi rate I know it

[21:29] sounds kind of counterintuitive but if

[21:30] you have way more game hours than your

[21:33] opponent and it feels like nothing is

[21:35] going your way you're probably targeting

[21:37] the wrong area of fundamentals to

[21:39] exploit even if their fundamentals are

[21:41] better you could still overcome that by

[21:43] knowing the matchup better or having

[21:45] your reactions to specific things

[21:47] trained or knowing more gimmicks or

[21:49] knowing more scenarios than your

[21:50] opponent it doesn't matter who you are

[21:52] Justin Wong myself Dao anyone the first

[21:55] time I pick up a fighting game it

[21:56] doesn't matter how good my fundamentals

[21:58] are they can't carry me through the

[21:59] impossible so I like to think of

[22:01] fundamentals as essentially a Time

[22:03] multiplier right so I might learn a

[22:05] fighting game you know 1.5 two times as

[22:08] fast as someone else because I have a

[22:09] base fundamentals I can rely upon and I

[22:12] can use to help me learn more

[22:13] efficiently but fundamentals can't do

[22:15] the impossible and overcome game

[22:17] specific skills that you pick up through

[22:19] playing the game a lot it's kind of like

[22:21] Shooters where you know a person that's

[22:23] really good at Shooters can transition

[22:24] from one game to another because their

[22:26] aim is just so much better but if you

[22:28] don't know the mechanics behind you know

[22:30] the good spots in the map or what Heroes

[22:32] synergize with which with each other or

[22:35] The Meta I don't [ __ ] know I don't

[22:36] play Shooters but you get the idea now

[22:38] there's one other thing I want to talk

[22:40] about like I want to include the 11th

[22:42] category which is like versatility which

[22:44] is like people that are able to play

[22:45] like many different characters and play

[22:47] Styles but the more I think about it I

[22:50] actually think these are just players

[22:51] that have really really good

[22:52] fundamentals so for example Sonic Fox

[22:55] who's one of the best multi-game players

[22:57] is able to like pick up made different

[22:59] characters and play them kind of in

[23:01] their own style and I think it's just

[23:02] because their fundamentals are crazy

[23:04] same thing with Justin right Justin

[23:06] plays any game they're they're one of

[23:07] the best at any game they pick up I

[23:09] think it's just they have crazy

[23:10] fundamentals those fundamentals give

[23:12] them the versatility to play the

[23:14] characters and to play the games that

[23:16] they want at a high level I kind of just

[23:18] made 10 categories that felt right to me

[23:21] but these aren't like the be all end all

[23:23] definition of fundamentals I'm sure you

[23:24] could further Define these skills more

[23:26] like I could break this down to 12

[23:28] categories I could break this down into

[23:31] you know execution for example I could

[23:32] break it down to multiple different

[23:34] types of execution you know how well can

[23:36] you play puppet character how well can

[23:37] you Negative Edge how well can you do

[23:39] certain inputs how clean are your inputs

[23:41] how like you know what kind of

[23:43] controller use how fast can you dash how

[23:45] fast can you walk block like there's so

[23:47] many execution things that you could

[23:48] like Breck it up into different sections

[23:50] now of course I didn't do that just for

[23:51] Simplicity sake but you know the

[23:53] definition of fundamentals I think is

[23:55] just is very Vape because it's very hard

[23:57] to Define and the whole point of this is

[23:59] just to give you like a a framework to

[24:01] which to think of things and identify

[24:03] your weak spots so you can improve upon

[24:05] them anyways guys let me know what you

[24:07] think I know it's a little different of

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