Over 20 years of FG experience and still struggle doing bnb combos

[winningatlast]

I really wonder if its just me or are others struggling as well.
I think overall I must have played FGs for about 1500 hours over the years.

As of right now I cant do AKis intermediate trial number 13. For the life of me I cant do it,its just too hard.
Is she a high execution character? Because I feel that she isnt.
I am plat 3 btw. and I am stuck there mainly because I cant do combos.

[Squidvasion]

she is high execution, don't beat yourself up man. As with all newly picked up character, you're just gonna have to find your groove. I play mostly grapplers in fighters so I also struggle with combo execution because im used to pushing 2 buttons and doing 90% damage to someone.

[Richer]

The combo trials get really hard once you're in Advanced. I have yet to do Chun-Li's advanced combos 3 and 4.

[HAIROGUMA]

There's always room to grow. The more you play the more you'll get to realize how much more there's to learn

[Zeel Ara]

Unless you missed a zero or two in your lifetime hours played then it is no wonder you're still learning. It takes dedicated practice to be good at fighting games. Playing 6,5 hours a month isn't going to let you learn much. Just buckle down and spend the time and effort required, then you'll get there quickly.

Comparatively, I have just under 1k hours in SF6 alone and I *still* suck so badly that I have things to learn from every match I play.

EDIT: I got games mixed up. Only 624 hours in SF6. Apologies for misleading.

[cdrw2400]

Why not give modern controls a try? I've had similar problems over a similar amount of time, and switching to modern has made life so much easier (and matches far, far more fun).

[BACKSTABUUU]

Intermediate 13 isn't too bad. Unfortunately it's pretty straight forward, so there isn't really any life changing advice you can give aside from just keep practicing.

That said, there are two things that could help. One, if you didn't know, you can drive rush cancel by pressing parry during a special cancelable move. If you've been trying to DRC by double tapping forward, you're making it harder than it has to be. Second, the last two inputs are qcf.hp > qcfqcf,p. The qcf that you do for qcf.hp counts towards the input for your level 3, so you can input it as qcf.hp > qcf.p.

Also always helps to break combo trials up into parts and practice each bit separately, then put it all together.

[winningatlast]

Thank you for your answers. Thats encouraging. What I meant with bnb combos was jab jab spiral arrow(Cammy main) btw. I can only do like 7-8 out of 10 times during matches. Everything more complex than this I fail more often. Maybe I am asking too much of myself.

[winningatlast]

Originally posted by cdrw2400:

Why not give modern controls a try? I've had similar problems over a similar amount of time, and switching to modern has made life so much easier (and matches far, far more fun).

I tried modern controlls and I wouldnt mind using modern. But it feels weird to me, hard to describe. Maybe I will give modern another go in the future.

[cdrw2400]

Originally posted by winningatlast:

Originally posted by cdrw2400:

Why not give modern controls a try? I've had similar problems over a similar amount of time, and switching to modern has made life so much easier (and matches far, far more fun).

I tried modern controlls and I wouldnt mind using modern. But it feels weird to me, hard to describe. Maybe I will give modern another go in the future.

Thing with me is that games like this are a tad overstimulating, so I always end up fumbling the complex inputs for classic. Without that mental stack or frustration, I'm now able to do much more complex combos and strats without mashing; it's just timing, now.

[Everchosen]

It's a bandwidth issue, when you are in training mode it's comparatively trivial to have clean and consistent execution. The dummy usually isn't going to hit you back, you can readily dictate the spacing, and you if you ♥♥♥♥ it up, worst case scenario you have a reset button.

In a match you have to contend with the mental stack, if you put all of your focus on landing a combo it's probably going to end poorly as there are like 20 other things you have to worry about to even stay in the match.

Hell I have to redrill DI counter combos, because I get the counter, I know the combo, I have several seconds to prepare and execute the combo, but my brain goes "Wooo screen went slow and glowy, you will now witness the terrifying extent of my true power, prepare to.... um why did I just press that button, that's not part of the plan!"

One thing you might want to try is to do something crazy and do a first to 20, 30, 40, 50 or whatever you can tolerate with CPU Level 6 Ken. PIck 1-2 combos and use them as the majority of your offense. CPU Level 6 is a nice balance between pressure, and the AI giving you golden opportunities to blow it up.

I would advise against setting it any higher as at that point input reading becomes a massive issues.

[C1REX]

Originally posted by winningatlast:

I really wonder if its just me or are others struggling as well.

I struggle a LOT with combos in this game while I don’t have big problems with the execution in 3D fighting games. What is weird is that people ranked significantly lower than me can do really long combos.
Also because of my inability to do combos in this game I play Zangief who doesn’t rely on them.

[Wulf]

to be fair, i got 1,500 hours of fg experience and im 17

[Everchosen]

Originally posted by C1REX-PL:

Originally posted by winningatlast:

I really wonder if its just me or are others struggling as well.

I struggle a LOT with combos in this game while I don’t have big problems with the execution in 3D fighting games. What is weird is that people ranked significantly lower than me can do really long combos.
Also because of my inability to do combos in this game I play Zangief who doesn’t rely on them.

I'm the opposite, combos in 2d fighters are way easier for me than combos in 3d games. In Tekken 7 Josie was the only character I could reliably combo on, and it took weeks to reach that point.

In SF6 I can pick up a character and have fairly optimal combos in about an hour, and can execute them fairly reliably in matches within a few days.

[toasted]

1500 hours of gameplay but can't execute a bread and butter combo? sounds to me like 1500 hours of gameplay but less than 10 hours of practice

[Archiduque Motoko]

1500 hours is nothing man, maybe a lot for a single character in a single fighting game, but distributed over the years is too little for fighting games, you need more practice that's all.