What keeps you from being an elite player, skill-wise?
ESF
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Hey, folks! Just the thread title, for those of us who recognize that there are some absolutely ridiculous players of this game out there but some of us can get better.
A few years back, I really struggled with Intercepting. I didn’t like missing and getting hit, and I was tentative and inconsistent. But what I did to fix it was simple: I took one week and said, no matter what, I am going to Intercept my way through the Proving Grounds’ Hard path, which is about 23-25K health pools.
I ran them almost every time I had enough energy for a full path. I ran them so much, I almost got sick of the game.
But by the end of that week, I could do stand-up intercepts at a B+ level. I am about an A- now.
So now, longtime players will laugh, but I have another weakness that I never addressed but am going to fix: Medium attacks.
For whatever reason, I just haven’t mastered ending combos on Mediums, even when it became obvious that kits are being designed for certain attributes to unlock by doing so. I just never liked how the end Medium felt for my fighting rhythm.
I have been stubborn for years. The only characters I make a dedicated effort to use Mediums are Night Thrasher and Nova...until now.
Now — I have already started today — for the entire next week (because no one, and I mean NO ONE, is gonna be a better Master of Kung Fu than I will be with Shang-Chi’s kit) I am going to do nothing but end combos with Mediums, as best I can, for every fight I do for the next week.
That’s the only way I know how to do it — dedicated practice on one weakness.
So, how about you folks? What weakness do you have, if any? Backdrafts? Heavy intercepts? Dexing?
Let’s hear it!
A few years back, I really struggled with Intercepting. I didn’t like missing and getting hit, and I was tentative and inconsistent. But what I did to fix it was simple: I took one week and said, no matter what, I am going to Intercept my way through the Proving Grounds’ Hard path, which is about 23-25K health pools.
I ran them almost every time I had enough energy for a full path. I ran them so much, I almost got sick of the game.
But by the end of that week, I could do stand-up intercepts at a B+ level. I am about an A- now.
So now, longtime players will laugh, but I have another weakness that I never addressed but am going to fix: Medium attacks.
For whatever reason, I just haven’t mastered ending combos on Mediums, even when it became obvious that kits are being designed for certain attributes to unlock by doing so. I just never liked how the end Medium felt for my fighting rhythm.
I have been stubborn for years. The only characters I make a dedicated effort to use Mediums are Night Thrasher and Nova...until now.
Now — I have already started today — for the entire next week (because no one, and I mean NO ONE, is gonna be a better Master of Kung Fu than I will be with Shang-Chi’s kit) I am going to do nothing but end combos with Mediums, as best I can, for every fight I do for the next week.
That’s the only way I know how to do it — dedicated practice on one weakness.
So, how about you folks? What weakness do you have, if any? Backdrafts? Heavy intercepts? Dexing?
Let’s hear it!
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In my mind it should be the opposite of dexterity, but dexing never feels as risky as intercepting, and it’s the risk that puts me off.
I’ll definitely consider using a training ground after reading this thread.
Fr though, dedicating all of my brainpower into fighting. Sometimes I will ghost something without blinking and other times I can’t seem to avoid a simple special.
Consistently landing parries
Intercepting
pretty much anything that isn’t quaking
However I am determined to pull a Shang-Chi from the featured and be better than you
Like I said above, I didn’t even have a 5-star Quake. But I also didn’t have a 5-star Ghost for years, either 😅😅
I had to learn to play this game the hard way 😎
I get so cocky that I talk trash to the AI...
"You WISH you could throw hands like these!"
The skill I am weakest at is re-parry.
I feel you. That is the second reason Kabam won’t give me a 5-star Scarlet Witch. I have been punishing people with OG Vision for years 👍
He is perfect for intercepting
Therefore i have no skills bc lazy