Does it get easier?

[Ketz]

Am decent at pretty much every other game genre but this feels like Im learning to walk again. Spent a couple of hours as scorpion doing very hard towers, trying to practice simple combos..often lose to the bots. Took a few games into kasual online and im getting ragdolled so much i cant even start to think of what buttons to press lmao

[Nix]

I see isn't going so good, lol. Giving up?

[Ketz]

Originally posted by Nix:

I see isn't going so good, lol. Giving up?

never!

[Mr Eko]

It's easy to panic online and start pressing buttons when you shouldn't. What I like to do is just go online, and rather than try to beat the opponent, just try to block their attacks and get better at defence. You will then start to see where the openings are where you can strike back. I find being patient, slow the game down, let the other player open themselves up and then go in for the win.

[Cheezie]

Fighting games is practice, practice, and more practice. Even after drilling kombos into my head to become straight muscle memory pulling them off in an online environment still takes more friggen practice. lol Never feel ashamed to go online and learn some easy to pull off combos from others to start off with. Also 50% of this game is also learning how to fight the other characters and block them. Just play and always be learning.

[Nix]

Originally posted by ketzy wetzy:

Originally posted by Nix:

I see isn't going so good, lol. Giving up?

never!

I believe everyone new to fighthing games should watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R0hbe8HZj0&t=1s

[-=Einherjar=-]

Originally posted by ketzy wetzy:

Am decent at pretty much every other game genre but this feels like Im learning to walk again. Spent a couple of hours as scorpion doing very hard towers, trying to practice simple combos..often lose to the bots. Took a few games into kasual online and im getting ragdolled so much i cant even start to think of what buttons to press lmao

Currently ur brain skipping frames and u just didn't c anything. U need improve ur reaction and learn to c anew.

My suggestion to you pick character u want to master and spend lots of time in practice room with CPU-VERY HARD.
Learn to survive and in no time your vision becomes clearer.

[Scrub McGrub]

Fighting games are all about taking your licks Also playing against CPU characters is never a good way to practice a fighting game- they just read inputs and stuff at harder difficulties and it's literally just finding what move you can cheese them out with.

So yeah if you want to get good... lose a ton of matches, don't give up, and try to learn from your losses.

[Thomas Turbano]

NRS games are made for scrubs. MK has string with mix ups in them and injustice can be played spamming projectiles until you chip your opponent to death, LOL

[Realigo Actual]

Playing bots isn't like playing people. Playing bots is partly about figuring out when the bot wants something different, or, at high difficulties, avoiding the cheese long enough to hit a few high damage combos.

You won't really start to improve until you get over the early losing.

I don't get why people gotta race each other to being miserable tho.

[Tragic]

Fighting games are hard, and while many games (like SF6 with modern controls) have been trying to simply things. MK remains one of the hardest execution game in the FGC. I mean it is no Tekken (Though the new one coming, like SF has taken steps to make it easier), but MK is still very execution heavy and has a massive learning curve.

I think the big thing between MK and Fighters in general vs other genres if that to play at a decent level you need to spend a lot of time in practice mode. People form other games play "the game" and get better... but towers, invasion, story mode and online will not make you better at a MK, well not quickly. You need to go to practise mode and get at least one decent combo down and able to be done on the regular. Then you need to lab so you can work out what is safe and what is not and what you can use to punish... and maybe after that how to defend vs other characters.

People coming from say a FPS like Battlefield often feel like practise mode is not "playing" the game, like the game is on pause... but it really needs to be your main thing you do, if you are new.

Once you get 1 or 2 combos ready to go... Midscreen and Courner... and you can do it every time.. then go to vs and now the goal is to work out how to defend and get that hit in. Do not really on jump ins to start your combo if possible.

[Old Man Sou]

Originally posted by ketzy wetzy:

Am decent at pretty much every other game genre but this feels like Im learning to walk again. Spent a couple of hours as scorpion doing very hard towers, trying to practice simple combos..often lose to the bots. Took a few games into kasual online and im getting ragdolled so much i cant even start to think of what buttons to press lmao

As a ? main in SF6 it gets better with more practice. A lot of fighting games is muscle memory. However what matters not is the wins it's the will to play. So long as the will to play is greater than the want to win then you will always have a good time in fighters. I'm still mostly a button masher and I manage to have a grand ol' time. Is it brain damage? Maybe, but having fun is always the most important bit.