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Melty Blood Auditorium / Optimizing Practice
« on: November 04, 2010, 05:54:40 PM »
I'm trying to expand my horizons and post outside the regional board, so if this is in the wrong place, or has already been asked, my apologies.
As a primer, MBAA is the first fighting game I've ever attempted to learn to play competitively. The folks in AZ have been nice enough to continue to have me over to try and beat some skill into me, and it's slowly working (I think), but I think that there's more that I could and should be doing on my own to speed up the process.
I generally try to get in at least an hour in practice mode grinding combos every week so that I can get to the stage where I don't drop them as often as I do, but when I go to play against other people, I notice that there are a lot of areas that I'm lacking in and I'm not quite sure how to develop them. Specifically, I have a hard time trying to learn how to react to hit confirms like I should, or how to apply sustained pressure, or things like mixups and oki.
So how do you practice? Is there a better way to optimize my time on the console aside from grinding combos? Or is that something that you just pick up as you gain experience against other players? Any advice would be very much appreciated. I'd love to be able to provide an actual challenge for everyone instead of being a slightly tougher practice mode.
As a primer, MBAA is the first fighting game I've ever attempted to learn to play competitively. The folks in AZ have been nice enough to continue to have me over to try and beat some skill into me, and it's slowly working (I think), but I think that there's more that I could and should be doing on my own to speed up the process.
I generally try to get in at least an hour in practice mode grinding combos every week so that I can get to the stage where I don't drop them as often as I do, but when I go to play against other people, I notice that there are a lot of areas that I'm lacking in and I'm not quite sure how to develop them. Specifically, I have a hard time trying to learn how to react to hit confirms like I should, or how to apply sustained pressure, or things like mixups and oki.
So how do you practice? Is there a better way to optimize my time on the console aside from grinding combos? Or is that something that you just pick up as you gain experience against other players? Any advice would be very much appreciated. I'd love to be able to provide an actual challenge for everyone instead of being a slightly tougher practice mode.