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General Discussion / Learning new characters.
« on: July 25, 2012, 04:01:00 AM »
This might be a TLDR so there is my warning.
So at the moment I find myself in an annoying predicament. I currently run King/Leona/Elisabeth on my main squad. I consider myself fairly advanced, if not upper intermediate at the game and I hold my own. I've won a tournament in my area and have had the opportunity to have casuals with some top players so I can safely say I know how to play the game.
I don't mean to brag I just wanted to establish my standing with the game as to avoid any misunderstanding about me being a new player and receiving advice amongst that assumption. Now onto my problem.
I have recently decided to branch out and learn new characters. I feel that you have to learn how to play other characters in order to understand them, the game, and possible matchups against them. I love my main team but it does get boring only playing them in extended casuals. So, I decided to learn others with the hope of getting some to the level of my main team, adding to my arsenal, and generally getting better at the game. Sadly this has not happened.
Now my main team got to where they are after a long period of time(Like 3 months): I had the learn the game, learn them, etc. But for some reason when I want to go to other characters, I cannot function. For example, the first ones I picked up were K', Iori, and Robert. I learned their combos and what to do but when I took them to sets I got ran over. Even after getting matches in with them I still got bodied. I soon lost hope and went back to my main squad.
Same thing happened when I picked up Ex Kyo, Iori, and Saiki. Once again I learned them and felt good using them but I can't seem to make them work. Once I get put on defense I just feel helpless, in contrast to my main team where I have an idea what to know at all time. In some sets I will just get ran over to the point where I act like I don't know how to play the game, i.e Random Dps, Lot's of Jump-Ins, and just overall dumb decisions. And I feel like even though I am learning a new character, this is detrimental to me.
On a nicer note, however, I recently picked up Mature and I seem be doing better with her. I can actually function in matches with her and seem to be doing better. I'd say she's the closest in skill to my mains. The thing is, I've done the exact same thing with her I've done with the others(except maybe I actually like the character a lot more). So I don't understand how I'm doing better with her when I probably put more work into K' and get stomped out.
It's dawned on me as I wrote this that maybe I need to simply stick through them and keep playing them till they get on par with my main squad. The thing is, now that I know the game infinitely better than I knew it back when I first started(this is my first kof btw), I feel that the leveling up process should not be so difficult. So that leads me to believe that there is something I'm doing wrong. Maybe I should just play with characters I feel comfortable with because honestly I wanted to learn the likes of Iori/Beni/Kyo, etc just becuase they were really good. And the moment might arise in a tournament where my characters just could not handle, say a Mr. Karate, and I could call upon Top Teirs to make it a little easier.
To wrap it up, I would just like to ask what it is that ya'll do when you want to learn new characters? What are some practices you employ? How do you gauge their progress and if they are not up to standards how do you remedy the situation?
Also do you think it's okay to have pocket top teirs/characters to use in certain matchups? Should you just play characters you're ultimately comfortable with?
SN: Sorry for the long post and if it seems jumbled, I just sorta wrote as I thought it up.
So at the moment I find myself in an annoying predicament. I currently run King/Leona/Elisabeth on my main squad. I consider myself fairly advanced, if not upper intermediate at the game and I hold my own. I've won a tournament in my area and have had the opportunity to have casuals with some top players so I can safely say I know how to play the game.
I don't mean to brag I just wanted to establish my standing with the game as to avoid any misunderstanding about me being a new player and receiving advice amongst that assumption. Now onto my problem.
I have recently decided to branch out and learn new characters. I feel that you have to learn how to play other characters in order to understand them, the game, and possible matchups against them. I love my main team but it does get boring only playing them in extended casuals. So, I decided to learn others with the hope of getting some to the level of my main team, adding to my arsenal, and generally getting better at the game. Sadly this has not happened.
Now my main team got to where they are after a long period of time(Like 3 months): I had the learn the game, learn them, etc. But for some reason when I want to go to other characters, I cannot function. For example, the first ones I picked up were K', Iori, and Robert. I learned their combos and what to do but when I took them to sets I got ran over. Even after getting matches in with them I still got bodied. I soon lost hope and went back to my main squad.
Same thing happened when I picked up Ex Kyo, Iori, and Saiki. Once again I learned them and felt good using them but I can't seem to make them work. Once I get put on defense I just feel helpless, in contrast to my main team where I have an idea what to know at all time. In some sets I will just get ran over to the point where I act like I don't know how to play the game, i.e Random Dps, Lot's of Jump-Ins, and just overall dumb decisions. And I feel like even though I am learning a new character, this is detrimental to me.
On a nicer note, however, I recently picked up Mature and I seem be doing better with her. I can actually function in matches with her and seem to be doing better. I'd say she's the closest in skill to my mains. The thing is, I've done the exact same thing with her I've done with the others(except maybe I actually like the character a lot more). So I don't understand how I'm doing better with her when I probably put more work into K' and get stomped out.
It's dawned on me as I wrote this that maybe I need to simply stick through them and keep playing them till they get on par with my main squad. The thing is, now that I know the game infinitely better than I knew it back when I first started(this is my first kof btw), I feel that the leveling up process should not be so difficult. So that leads me to believe that there is something I'm doing wrong. Maybe I should just play with characters I feel comfortable with because honestly I wanted to learn the likes of Iori/Beni/Kyo, etc just becuase they were really good. And the moment might arise in a tournament where my characters just could not handle, say a Mr. Karate, and I could call upon Top Teirs to make it a little easier.
To wrap it up, I would just like to ask what it is that ya'll do when you want to learn new characters? What are some practices you employ? How do you gauge their progress and if they are not up to standards how do you remedy the situation?
Also do you think it's okay to have pocket top teirs/characters to use in certain matchups? Should you just play characters you're ultimately comfortable with?
SN: Sorry for the long post and if it seems jumbled, I just sorta wrote as I thought it up.