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There's other games I'd rather be playing but from chatting with locals the scenes where I live are this, Tekken or Smash and I prefer 2D fighters and having interacted with the Smash community here a few times I don't think I want to go down that road. Currently playing Sagat and trying to get my fundamentals down, definitely need to keep working on my anti-airing at the moment and not panicking. Most of my losses so far are either me panic hitting buttons when I shouldn't or letting too many jump-ins go for free. When it all goes well though, frustrating people with fireballs and tiger uppercutting them the second they try and jump in and rinsing and repeating is absolutely delightful.
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May 19, 2020 22:41
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Bit more ranked last night, slowly progressing up towards Super Bronze. Practiced some anti-airing before I queued and definitely felt like my execution was a bit better but still have a long way to go, I particularly keep getting EX Tiger Shot when trying to input EX Tiger Uppercut. Fought against a Lucia who I really struggled with - her quick sliding dash that goes through even low tiger shots meant I felt like I had pretty much zero effective pressure at range because she was never going to jump when she could slide under it. I seemed to be able to punish it with cr.LK but inconsistently. By the final round of our set I was playing a much more footsies based game while using HP Tiger Shots to stuff her run-in attempts and felt like I was turning the tide but couldn't adjust quickly enough to prevent her taking the set. That said, I finished the night closer to Super Bronze than where I started so that's satisfying and I'm pretty sure if I keep working on the problems I already know I have - anti-airing consistently and not pressing buttons when I don't need to - I'll hit Super Bronze soon. Also shoutout to the Ultra Bronze Chun-Li I fought who threw a bunch of rapid unsafe pressure at me, got blocked and punished for it, tried it again twice more with the same results, and then ragequit as I was going to close out the round. 
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May 20, 2020 22:29
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I'm in Australia so if you also happen to be down that way I'd be happy for some matches. Slid closer to Super Bronze tonight, sitting around 850LP. Getting better at not panic mashing but still really, really need to work on my anti-airing. Every jump-in that doesn't get a Tiger Uppercut right to the face is a disappointment to the King.
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May 21, 2020 14:58
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I made Super Bronze last night! Six times. And then fell back into Bronze again at the end of the night.  Feels like a universal constant that my first match after getting Super Bronze is a wifi warrior or someone about to throw my lifeless body aside to rank up into Silver. Ah well, I'll get there in time. Some good games though, and definitely some learning progress - learning how to punish Karin's Rassenha over the course of three match ups against a player I kept running into until I could consistently take sets from them was satisfying. Also getting owned by a Ryu who did nothing but a jump in combo over and over before matching with him again and consistently tiger uppercutting every single jump-in. We then rematched and he did....exactly the same thing again as I tiger uppercutted him into oblivion. Working on st. MP, cr. MP xx Tiger Uppercut as a starting combo for Sagat - struggling to get crouching DPs motions off consistently with a pad though so definitely something I need to keep drilling in training to get in to my muscle memory. Also getting one hell of a thumb callous going.
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May 22, 2020 22:23
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Elvis_Maximus posted:Nice job! Thanks for this, I'll try and give it a whirl in training mode for a while today - I'd seen a video that had discussed doing df, d, df as a shortcut for DP from crouching moves but it didn't feel consistent and was shredding my thumb, that seems a lot more manageable.
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May 22, 2020 23:44
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Sestze posted:I dumped all of the guides into a dropbox that I link to with this google sheet. I update them as I learn new things Oh awesome, I've seen/read a bunch of these guides but didn't know you were a goon - thanks so much for these, I really appreciate the straightforward way they're written. Ranked update: Super Bronze and hovering around the 1000-1200 range consistently. Every Ultra Bronze I've fought lately I've come pretty close to winning which is comforting, but have been let down by execution or match-up unfamiliarity. Working on getting some combos into my muscle memory but finding the link timing challenging, though double tapping is helping with that a bit - most of the fighters I've played recently have had gatling or cancel systems so I'm used to a certain degree of dialling in a combo that SFV doesn't let me get away with. This is also where I start wanting to play other characters even though I know it's probably better for me to just stick with Sagat and knuckle down on learning him. It's not that I don't enjoy Sagat, more that this game has a lot of cool characters.
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May 24, 2020 00:08
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Sestze posted:honestly, play who you like. 80% of the cast here I come
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May 24, 2020 04:10
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Progress report, climbed to Ultra Bronze tonight.  Got knocked down shortly after but climbed back up by the end of my session!Really digging Sagat still, I've always enjoyed zoners and playing the patient, frustrate-my-opponent slow game. It's interesting seeing the other playstyles in Super/Ultra Bronze that I've encountered so far - I'm commonly encountering people who have practiced a particular combo to perfection. It's always hugely damaging, they go for it any chance they get, and it swings matches for them because although I'm landing the occasional hitconfirm or f+HK into heavy Tiger Uppercut it just doesn't put out the same level of damage that quickly. They only need to create just a couple of openings to win, whereas I'm achieving victory more through the slow grind down. I'm finding a lot though that generally these single-combo players have no clue what to do if someone plays patient and defensive, especially the ones who have no other way to launch into the combo other than through jump in. I think I need to spend some time practicing some better punishes and confirms, just to make sure I'm maximizing the opportunities that I do get. Think I might play around with Bison for a bit soon as well - he's currently my nightmare matchup and I want the opportunity to be an rear end in a top hat with plus frames absolutely fuckin' everywhere too.
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May 30, 2020 13:08
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