Gameplay help: Can't do anything

[Dorris the Lunch Lady]

I have played street fighter for over 30 years, from street fighter 1, to 3rd strike, alpha, to 5 etc, but im trying to fight online and the opponent is blocking everything and when i block, im constantly open. I am clearly doing something wrong here, but its like playing against bots with some immunity on.

I go for a throw, i get hit, i try a combo, it is blocked, i try to block, i am thrown or comboed.

Any basic advice?

[Jimmy James]

Are you playing ranked? If not, play that so you get matched against people more likely to be at your level.

[Dorris the Lunch Lady]

Nope, playing casual. I did ranked and ended up bronze 1 star, which is kinda terrible compared to how I was ranked in SF5 and 4. There is something I am absolutely not understanding at a fundamental level here.

[Dorris the Lunch Lady]

Opponent just throws me over and over and over, i try to get up, they jump and kick me then start a combo. I literally cannot do anything. It's insanely frustrating.

[Jimmy James]

What I'm saying is play ranked to make sure you're not getting matched up with experts all the time.

You're ranked higher than I am so I may not be able to offer too much advice but if you're getting jumped in on a lot I'd start with getting your character's anti air moves down.

Start there and maybe others can offer you some more detailed tips.

[Monkey Man]

Learn throw tech if throws are very prominent also try other characters you may find one that fits how you like to play.

Also watch and learn what people do, a lot of players will either rely or use a certain tactic everytime until you get around it (if they dash a lot use cr lk or cr mk to keep checking them, if they jump too much just focus on creating that jump space so you can just anti air all the time) It's basically a game of fundamentals.

[linuxgaming]

Is it possible to upload some of your gameplay?

[BACKSTABUUU]

If your opponents are turtling up, and they're not letting you walk up and throw them, then you need to do something to force a reaction out of them.

How you do this is gonna vary wildly from character to character so I don't know if I can give you any specific advice on how to do this, but I can tell you what I've been doing on Jamie.

I've been approaching my enemies with drive rush heavy punch, which is +1 on block, and then forcing a strike throw mixup with that. I can use crouching light punch faster than they can do anything, so if they press a button they get hit. If they block, then I can throw instead of crouching light, then off the knockdown I can put them back into the exact same situation. This sequence makes it so that my opponent can't just hold block forever, or I'll just throw them to death. Another thing I can do is use my divekick to trick people into whiffing antiairs, since I can control where I land with each version.

Every character has something they can do like this, you've just gonna take a look at your character's frame data and their tools.

[Dorris the Lunch Lady]

No, I am not at this level. What im saying its like my opponents have armor on most moves, and if i attack on wake up im punished, and if i dont, i am punished.

It's like fighting a cheating end boss from SF2/SF3.

[Monkey Man]

Originally posted by Dorris the Lunch Lady:

No, I am not at this level. What im saying its like my opponents have armor on most moves, and if i attack on wake up im punished, and if i dont, i am punished.

It's like fighting a cheating end boss from SF2/SF3.

You're getting caught by a meaty if your pressing a jab on wakeup, if you're playing ryu or ken do a ex shoryu if they're pressing buttons on you.

[Dorris the Lunch Lady]

Doesn't matter who i play. I was playing manon, couldnt get a throw in, cant get close, switch to lily, play a manon that just goes through everything and throws me whenever she wants. I might as well not play and afk. It is so irritating.

[Tobithecomic]

Originally posted by Dorris the Lunch Lady:

No, I am not at this level. What im saying its like my opponents have armor on most moves, and if i attack on wake up im punished, and if i dont, i am punished.

It's like fighting a cheating end boss from SF2/SF3.

Are the opponents using Drive Impact often? (Big Move with splash color effect) In case you didn't know Drive Impact has 2 hits of armor during it's Startup. The way to counter this is to either be fast enough to hit them with 3 hits or react with your own Drive Impact to punish.
If it's more of a specific character you have trouble with, maybe try playing that character yourself to understand what their moves do, so you can make a plan on how to punish it.

[Dorris the Lunch Lady]

Originally posted by Tobithecomic:

Originally posted by Dorris the Lunch Lady:

No, I am not at this level. What im saying its like my opponents have armor on most moves, and if i attack on wake up im punished, and if i dont, i am punished.

It's like fighting a cheating end boss from SF2/SF3.

Are the opponents using Drive Impact often? (Big Move with splash color effect) In case you didn't know Drive Impact has 2 hits of armor during it's Startup. The way to counter this is to either be fast enough to hit them with 3 hits or react with your own Drive Impact to punish.
If it's more of a specific character you have trouble with, maybe try playing that character yourself to understand what their moves do, so you can make a plan on how to punish it.

THe opponent is doing whatever they want, all the time. I just fought a ken that perfected me. If I block, im thrown, he can combo whatever he wants, whenever he wants, all my moves are blocked. I really am so confused here.

[ELDEN LORD]

Originally posted by Dorris the Lunch Lady:

No, I am not at this level. What im saying its like my opponents have armor on most moves, and if i attack on wake up im punished, and if i dont, i am punished.

It's like fighting a cheating end boss from SF2/SF3.

alot of utubers have stated that throwing is goign to be really strong in this game and it looks like people are taking advantage of that. trust me ive been in a throw loop i know how u feel. but ive see masters stuck in a throw loop to so... it is what it is. sometimes i fight cheese with cheese and i killed numerous people by doing hondas buttslam over and over. i literally did 17 buttslams in a row, and it worked

[BACKSTABUUU]

Originally posted by Dorris the Lunch Lady:

THe opponent is doing whatever they want, all the time. I just fought a ken that perfected me. If I block, im thrown, he can combo whatever he wants, whenever he wants, all my moves are blocked. I really am so confused here.

First things first you need to cut out this attitude. None of us are going to be able to help you because when you talk like this none of us understand what it actually is you're struggling with. If your mentality is "no matter what I do I'm always going to lose", none of our advice is going to help you because you aren't really listening to it.

It's alright to be frustrated and salty because you don't understand why you're losing, it happens to the best of us. But you should really get up and take a minute to walk around, drink some water, and cool off so that we can help.

[ELDEN LORD]

Originally posted by Dorris the Lunch Lady:

Doesn't matter who i play. I was playing manon, couldnt get a throw in, cant get close, switch to lily, play a manon that just goes through everything and throws me whenever she wants. I might as well not play and afk. It is so irritating.

yo ive noticed alot of people are playin manon so alot of people have practice against her allready. if u want u can add me and ill play to ur skill level if u wan.t maybe i can pinpoint what u might be doign wrong a bit better. also doing foget alot of people had practice in the cracked version also