Am I missing something about the PVP?

[Hystrix]

I feel like every match i'm in i'm fighting top tier players, getting locked into combos until half my health bar is gone and my kameo blocker isn't working on any hits, raidens, scorpions, sub zeros, and mileenas seem to be the worst with it but damn man, either i'm REALLY bad or i'm missing something.

[Dracula]

Get gud

[Hystrix]

oof

[TheReelReese]

Play ranked

[Darth Cervantes]

You are going up against people spend days nonstop in Mommy's basement eating hot pockets and analyzing frame data,
Since the announcement of MK1 they've been practicing, dissecting the trailers and GITTING GUD before the game even dropped.
Just look at all the crazy stuff in the tutorial, half of which I never even heard of and look at how hard some of it is to pull off.
Well these people can pull it off blindfolded with controller in one hand and hot pocket in the other.
You are out matched
If you want to play someone kasual, feel free to drop me an invite

[Cpt Obvious]

Dang yo hot pocket warriors are real

[Belle Delphine Targaryen!]

Practice!

I for some reason have to confess this: I used to report people who destroyed me in MK11 as I believed they were cheating or not playing fair for not having the courtesy to let me land a single hit.

I sincerely apologize!

[Spatzl]

Key macro cheaters

...and the rest might be core fans since 30 years.

[I'm him]

It's mostly seasoned players, sweats who have been playing games like this their whole life/been playing competitively for the last few games. Even the Kasual mode is full of people using Sareena trying to chain into 45% combos. If you want GENUINE practice without getting bodied repeatedly, you can go into practice mode, or find other like minded people trying to learn this game that you can spar with.

[TheReelReese]

Origineel geplaatst door Yerrrt:

It's mostly seasoned players, sweats who have been playing games like this their whole life/been playing competitively for the last few games. Even the Kasual mode is full of people using Sareena trying to chain into 45% combos. If you want GENUINE practice without getting bodied repeatedly, you can go into practice mode, or find other like minded people trying to learn this game that you can spar with.

I say ranked is far easier, especially right now. You’re paired with people relatively your same experience (after the sweats rank up).

[H4NS]

Raiden and Smoke are just broken safe on almost everything/hard to punish, Sub is just braindead with his YOLO slide, Scorpion is a noob killer (like in every game he's in), Mileena is annoying (i main her) and with Kung Lao kameo its straight up ragequit material. Just keep playing and stick to casual matches.

[bshock]

People are literally playing this game 10+ hrs a day, have thousands of hours in MKX/11, study frame data, and will obliterate anyone that isn't also a tryhard. Just stick to casual unless you want to devote the time to getting gud.

[sg1darkcalling]

Sadly MK is one of those games where the only people who stick around are hard core players. There is a reason the game and its community and player base drops off so fast. IE the kasuals quit leaving only hardcore players to fight against online. This is the reason :D

[sg1darkcalling]

People try to safe MK is a casual game. but I disagree. If that were the case you would easily find kasual matches online but its very difficult. Because so few people that play are truly kasual. Those are the ones that quit the game.

[sg1darkcalling]

Plus with youtube everyone just googles tutorials online on how to combo 50% your life and practice it until they can do it. All meta chases which is typical of competitive games in the age of social media and youtube

[Hystrix]

Yeah, most of these responses are what I expected, and I did look into my character of choice, reptile to see how his combos work, but he seems like more of an ability character than a combo character, which as far as I can tell is a bad thing? he has a solid aeriel, and the bubble is great for stringing combos together, but for the life me can't seem to land a consistent bubble on back B, or do the mid air jump attack after a midair combo, I get that i'm still new to it, but I spent nearly 2 hours just trying to figure out what I was doing wrong yesterday and couldn't, it was like a coinflip if the attacks I wanted to make happen, did happen? I really want to clarify, I am not complaining about the game being too hard, I understand MK1 is new so some characters won't be balanced, and I genuinely HATE sareena, but I was hoping for some advice on what i'm doing wrong more so.