So are you liking V-Rival?

[Castyles]

It's my Phase 5.

I think I played more than 800 V-Rival matches, already. Unfortunately I don't know for sure because Capcom decided to not record any stats.

I'm currently at Master rank with JP (my main), Ken, Ryu, Akuma, Luke, Ed and Jamie.

Even though the game sets it to your online rank, I decided to rank up some characters from the very beggining i.e Rookie 1. Thinking about making the climb with either Guile or Zangief, next.

Anyway. It's HILARIOUS how 9/10 opponents ABSOLUTELY DON'T KNOW how to counter the drunk "the floor is lava" KangaRyu, regardless of rank. Always getting some funny moments.

One thing that I'd change, apart from the no stats issue, though: Capcom should've made the ghosts do those stupid and funny faces on the loading screen, prior to the match.

[Peddie]

Let them remind you that you're not playing against a real person by having them not emote back.

[kuaikukia]

They simply better than CPU AI but not perfect as real player. But it is still handy for me to train a some new combo route without pressuring myself

I do agree it needs to have AI do funny expression back too on loading screen when we do it

[OgichiGame]

I think the V-Rival system is really good for one main reason.
You can infinitely rematch against the same character.
Obviously if you want to get better at fighting players, you can just play against real players, so why use a simulation of real players
But since you can just pick any fighter to go against at any level. You can take a bunch of time learning the match-up against a specific fighter like Dhalsim that you barely ever see, and have a decent idea of how they'll play when you run into one. Rather than slowly learning how to counter him that 1 in every 100 matches you actually get to see him used.

[ShadowSplit]

I honestly forgot that is even a thing. It should be located in Fighting Grounds as some don't got to the Commune... I mean Battle hub.

[Tanner_Lindberg]

Hate how it's in battle hub. It has significantly made the battle hub experience worse. Half the lobby now are just v rival.

Outside of that the actual mechanic is great.

[ForgottenLordOfCinder]

I think it's lame.. still don't understand v-rival challenges. They don't explain anything.

[N1SB]

I've been meaning to ask you guys, what is V-Rivals for please?

I got 1 character (Cammy) to Master Rank, trying to figure out what the interest is.

However, as far as I can tell, it's just another Training Mode, but in Battle Hub.

I got some emotes, but aside from that, I think I'm missing something obvious.

[FAT WANZER]

Originally posted by N1SB:

I've been meaning to ask you guys, what is V-Rivals for please?

I got 1 character (Cammy) to Master Rank, trying to figure out what the interest is.

However, as far as I can tell, it's just another Training Mode, but in Battle Hub.

I got some emotes, but aside from that, I think I'm missing something obvious.

u can fight an AI version of pros,also they got cool combos that u don;t think is convertable from stray hit on some character,like 1 time jump head butt on zangief but not continue with borscht instead it drop down drive rush hellstab super 2->od borscht me

[Gleap]

I played it once and then promptly forgot about it. It's a nifty thing for people to develop fundamentals in but after you get past that point I don't see any draw.

[Peddie]

At the end of the day, the way to get better at fighting real players is still, to fight real players. Like others said, it's a fun diversion but it'll never be the main draw of a fighting game.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by ForgottenLordOfCinder:

I think it's lame.. still don't understand v-rival challenges. They don't explain anything.

You have to talk with Li-Fen often to beat and unlock challenges.

I finished them all but the ones that require training your own bot because Extreme Matches don't count, I'm stuck on Ranked and Casual/♥♥♥♥♥♥ Hub are cancer.

[Tyrant (My Vision is Augmented)]

I think V-Rival is notably more life-like that the traditional AI we see in the rest of the game. But Sim Sim is still ridiculously easy. For characters that I have barely played since launch, don't know much about, and am sitting at platinum with, I can easily make it to V-Rival "Master" and win about 7/10 matches without even trying. For my main, I can play Sim Sim for 30-40 minutes straight and never be in fear of losing.

I think that V-Rival's current skill cap is right about that of a Platinum 1/ Gold 5, which is pretty disappointing. As someone who was hoping to use it as a training tool, I think it will be useful for characters I have never touched, or have just released. Outside of that, it just feels like an easier Arcade Mode, sadly.

I think the best use of V-Rival is the ability to fight "yourself" - I do think it highlights your bad habits, and areas where you are overly predictable, and in a way that is more dynamic and fun than just watching replays for a while. However, the challenge there is in having to fight 50 mirror matches. For Dhalsim and Honda players, that could take a year or two...