Why do mirror matches never rematch me?

[Iridius]

Win or lose, without fail it's like people hate mirror matches and cancel. What gives?

[Calm Hostage]

Because they can't make the excuse that you're playing a toxic character :D

[Pasta]

Originally posted by Calm Hostage:

Because they can't make the excuse that you're playing a toxic character :D

[Samvega]

Yoshimitsu, Jack-8 and Lee mirrors look like a lot of fun.

[LonesomeSparrow]

Mirror matches are just not fun. I wish the game had the option to completely disable them, even if it was just in quick match. I just hold forward and move on to the next one if it happens

[Dinesh]

I love mirror matches. You can learn something new in them. Or test your character

[Castyles]

Because they're boring and annoying. Fighting games need an option to block them, already.

[S☯wn-Lﺤuꁅhtǝr]

You must do a dance using your characters plumage..

[B-Wings]

Best way to learn your character, Steve mirrors are insanely fun.

I can see players getting annoyed when they play someone who uses their character and they both play the exact same.

[helix]

Tl;dr low level players think they're boring

[AGA | prinnyuber]

I also love mirror matches! It tells you a story on how they got there and what moves you cant ste...um...learn and add to your character.

[BIG D' williamson from mBHS]

My mirror match is not fun at all. Paul v Paul is sucks. Most of Paul's moves are weirdly punishable by the same exact move. So what ends up happening is that both players just sort of block trade safe moves and break each others throws all game. It's really boring. So generally I do just leave win or lose.

The Paul player who throws something unsafe immediately gets hit with the same exact move. Both players end up doing nothing a lot of the time and it's really hard to kill each other.

And if the stage doesn't have walls? Just kill me. Both of us sit 10 meters away hitting df2 over and over again.

tldr; Paul players tend to have good defense because the character is devoid of gimmicks. You end up just staring at each other and it results in a ton of time outs. BORING NEXT

[Pasta]

Right in an offence oriented game like t8, you're staring at your opponent, sure.

Originally posted by roscosimmons:

tldr; Paul players tend to have good defense because the character is devoid of gimmicks. You end up just staring at each other and it results in a ton of time outs. BORING NEXT

Translation:
I don't think i can win against this Paul and I don't want my Paul to look weak.

Originally posted by Castyles:

Fighting games need an option to block them, already.

Translation :
No one is allowed to touch my waifu except me!

[Be_Proud (Heritage)]

Originally posted by Pasta:

Right in an offence oriented game like t8, you're staring at your opponent, sure.

Originally posted by roscosimmons:

tldr; Paul players tend to have good defense because the character is devoid of gimmicks. You end up just staring at each other and it results in a ton of time outs. BORING NEXT

Translation:
I don't think i can win against this Paul and I don't want my Paul to look weak.

You wouldn't know that if you didn't play Paul though. He's right, but I enjoy the Paul mirror match.

The reason why he says Paul is staring at each other majority of the time means spacing and gauging opponent. Paul is a single-hitting beast that'll kill you for making mistakes, so most Paul players will not get right in front of Paul unless that Paul is being disrespected. In a Paul mirror match, you don't want Paul to be in your face because Paul doesn't have a quick get off me attack, so majority of the time, Paul players will be baiting the other opponent into making mistakes based on their timing, spacing, and player tendencies.

It's almost reminiscent of fighting Kazuya, but I'd prefer to fight a Paul mirror over a Kazuya vs Paul. The thing about Kazuya is, 1 ch d/f2 will mean 60% health down if there is wall and he activates heat. He's downright scary to fight against.

[Necropants]

I don't like mirror matches, but I will generally rematch.

[BIG D' williamson from mBHS]

Originally posted by Be_Proud (Heritage):

Originally posted by Pasta:

Right in an offence oriented game like t8, you're staring at your opponent, sure.

Translation:
I don't think i can win against this Paul and I don't want my Paul to look weak.

You wouldn't know that if you didn't play Paul though. He's right, but I enjoy the Paul mirror match.

The reason why he says Paul is staring at each other majority of the time means spacing and gauging opponent. Paul is a single-hitting beast that'll kill you for making mistakes, so most Paul players will not get right in front of Paul unless that Paul is being disrespected. In a Paul mirror match, you don't want Paul to be in your face because Paul doesn't have a quick get off me attack, so majority of the time, Paul players will be baiting the other opponent into making mistakes based on their timing, spacing, and player tendencies.

It's almost reminiscent of fighting Kazuya, but I'd prefer to fight a Paul mirror over a Kazuya vs Paul. The thing about Kazuya is, 1 ch d/f2 will mean 60% health down if there is wall and he activates heat. He's downright scary to fight against.

Yeah, that guy doesn't get it and wants to be cool on a forum. Most of the characters in this game have safe strings they can constantly spam with mix ups. Paul is mostly about poking and single hits until you get that big juicy launcher or counter.

You also totally understand the no panic buttons. Which as you said results in this weird situation with Paul v Paul where you are just kind of block trading pokes until someone lands a makes one mistake. A lot of he times the game end with a time out on the infinite stages especially, because one combo is all the chance you get.

I actually love fighting Kaz as Paul. Because it feels like I'm playing an older Tekken game again. Tons of mind games and baiting then huge explosions of damage. The kits are different enough for interesting interactions and set-up.

I wish more fights were like that instead of characters like Reina or Lili where I'm just playing 500iq defense against someone doing 3 strings over and over.