Combo Troubles

[paperl]

...how do you play on keyboard? i just got this game and am doing the tutorials, but Filia's 'Hairball' Attack seems near-impossible.

[xXìpèéïñpöølsgødXx]

playing on keyboard can be difficult, but it is definitely possible

for filia's hairball, you want to do a sort of quartercircle backwards motion, so that translates to down, down left, left, any kick button (if your character is facing the right). you need to input this kind of quickly, but not too fast, either
just keep trying

[UA | Receita Federal]

tbf, keyboard is extremely legit on this game (keyboard player here)

[Hiro Protagonest]

Keyboard controls make sense for a game with old-school eight-directional movement and attacks best bound to two rows. The only problem is ghosting.

I've never really had troubles with motions (except for timing a z-motion in situations where my character is getting pressured, but that's meant to be tougher), though a friend of mine has.

Since unlike my friend, I can't watch your hands when you're trying to do it, I'll try to give as universal advice as possible.

If you're doing it too suddenly, that means you're not hitting the diagonals properly. It has to be a smooth motion, which may seem unintuitive on arrow keys but it's eight-directional. The long combos in many of the tutorials are not a good place to practice this.

If you're doing it too slowly, then you'll have to speed it up while still hitting all the inputs.

Tutorial combos will be easier after devoting time to actual combo practice, and in fact I'd just get the gist of the tutorials now and come back later anyway.

[paperl]

i think i found one problem with my input, but i cannot for the life of me find the diagonal arrows on my keyboard. i am... not a hardened gamer. at all.

[Hiro Protagonest]

You do diagonals by pressing two arrows at the same time. Like jumping forwards or backwards.

[paperl]

so down left would be down and left?

[paperl]

I think I figured it out!

[𝙂𝙀𝙏𝙃𝙎𝙀𝙈𝘼𝙉𝙀]

someone please help I cannot get past the hairball move for the sake of my life. I'm on PC btw

[abdullah_nimer]

another pc gamer here and i am blind. can anyone explain it slowly and in details please? i am pressing everything right but nothing is happening.

[GameSmashDash]

Originally posted by i pee in pools:

playing on keyboard can be difficult, but it is definitely possible

for filia's hairball, you want to do a sort of quartercircle backwards motion, so that translates to down, down left, left, any kick button (if your character is facing the right). you need to input this kind of quickly, but not too fast, either
just keep trying

Really? I would say this is one of the easier fighting games for learning how to play on Keyboard, granted does hurt my hand however.

[GameSmashDash]

For keyboard you have to time your inputs right; it takes a while but you can get good enough where keyboard is good enough.

[xXìpèéïñpöølsgødXx]

Originally posted by GameSmashDash:

Originally posted by i pee in pools:

playing on keyboard can be difficult, but it is definitely possible

for filia's hairball, you want to do a sort of quartercircle backwards motion, so that translates to down, down left, left, any kick button (if your character is facing the right). you need to input this kind of quickly, but not too fast, either
just keep trying

Really? I would say this is one of the easier fighting games for learning how to play on Keyboard, granted does hurt my hand however.

thank you for reminding me about a post i made over 5 years ago

[GameSmashDash]

Originally posted by i pee in pools:

Originally posted by GameSmashDash:

Really? I would say this is one of the easier fighting games for learning how to play on Keyboard, granted does hurt my hand however.

thank you for reminding me about a post i made over 5 years ago

Oh; I didn't realize it was made over five yrs ago XD sorry for necrobumping.

[gardensWellington]

Keyboard is quite possibly the best way to play skullgirls
check the following:
are you doing your input right? the menu, as well as the vast majority of fighting game notation, will always assume you are facing right, but the inputs are reversed if you change sides
do you have a good keyboard? does you keyboard have ghosting issues that prevent you from accomplishing a 214 motion? if that is the case you might want to change control schemes or on extreme cases change keyboards (mechanical supremacy!)
is your control scheme comfortable? this really isnt that big of a issue but make sure you have a fairly ergonomic control scheme, dont be afraid to change and tune it frequently to suit your tastes and playstyles!

overall, playing on keyboard is not that bad but you do have to take these into account, you should be able to just piano your fingers across the down and back keys and with a well timed kick input it should come out without much trouble, with a bit of practice it should be consistent

[Jojothehomo]

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