What requires more skill, fps or fighting games?

[Grilled Cheese]

Just wondering

[KuranKun]

fighting games [the war has been planted]

[AvatarMajora]

I think that they require different skillsets:

FPS's require adaptability (knowing which skills to use at any given time)

Fighting Games require muscle memory and timing skills (knowing which moves can chain into others for high-damage combos)

In a way, I suppose the skills that fighting games require take more time to hone than the skills that FPS requires. So, I guess the answer is Fighting games by a margin.

[Gently Mental]

A lot of skill is required to answer such questions without being rude.

[Swizzer]

You are joking rite?

Fighters take 100 times the skill as FPS thats why the audience for fighters is smaller cos nobody wants to learn the game lol

[Sukha]

FPS = Clutch Reactions, Aim, Situational Awareness, Map knowledge, Teamplay.
Fighting games = Strategy, Matchup Knowledge, Charracter knowledge, Mechanics knowledge, Hit confirm reactions, Execution.

[SNEK]

Probably just me, but I picked up my FPS skills much quicker than I did for fighting games. As mentioned, a lot of fighting games require specific character knowledge whereas for FPS games, the skills you learn are more general and can be applied to most matches.

[A+]

FPS lol, in fighting games 90% of the time you just press random buttons
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[Thanuz]

Originally posted by returd:

FPS lol, in fighting games 90% of the time you just press random buttons
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Sarcasm?
If not that's not even true.You dont win by pressing random buttons and fighting games take more time to adapt, to learn new combos and stuff.

[Lord Meruem]

Right on

[Xiane]

About the same actually.

Both requires honing muscle movement and timing as well as learning levels/move sets.

Which is more rage enducing is a better question...

The jerkhole who does nothing but grapple/throws or the jerkhole who camps the quad!

[Adriangabs]

I say they're equal....

[Veeh Youtube]

usually fps base around teamplay where it doesnt matter how good you are but how well you comunicate with your team.

In a fighting game its just you and your oponent and the one who plays better wins

[RABiD Justice]

Shooter are very simple to be great at. Just learn the maps and the game flow. Most of the time it comes down to who see the other person first. A lot of fps do not even have team damage anymore so you don't even have to 2nd think on what to shoot. On top of that they all almost play the same. Then it comes down to team play and communication.

Fighting game can take months to even be average at them. There is just so much you have to learn and practice to even stand a chance. Most people just go and find a combo and jump online just to find out they can't even get a hit in. They don't even know about the rest of the game. There is different combos for set up, spacing, damage, unbreakable/clashable. Frame data, spacing,reaction, wake up, and just moving around the level. Knowing how to punish an attack. And the list goes on. When you get all that down then your just out thinking your opponent.

[aspateer]

As a lifelong gamer who has been playing fighting games since day one.... i can tell ya it is much easier to get good at FPS games than Fighting games..... to get decent at a fightng game you have to master one character, to get good you have to know what that characters streangths and weaknesses are against other characters.... to get GREAT? you have to know every character and everything about them, combos, counters... you have to learn to push the attack and when to defend and how.....you have to learn what moves have the highest priority in what situation and you absolutely have to learn what frames have invunerability in what situations to try to gain an advantage over your opponents...... liken it to studying martial arts your entire life.... to get good at an FPS you learn the maps, and learn what gun feels the best for you, and you learn to work as a team. not saying that this stuff is easy.... but there just isnt as much to becoming a great FPS player......

[deathmaster snikch]

50/50
Counter-strike global offensive takes more skill to master than ultra street fighter
ultra street fighter takes more skill to master than Call of duty and battlefield combined