When to Decide You're Ready for Online

[Ryumancer]

About what difficulty of the AI should you be able to fight off before you'd be ready to fight most other players?

[mazepa]

if you can easy beat very hard ai

[ReziuS]

Beating ai has nothing to do with playing real people, the only thing that will make you ready for online is playing online.

[NOVOJ]

Originally posted by ReziuS:

Beating ai has nothing to do with playing real people, the only thing that will make you ready for online is playing online.

THIS, No AI play is going to get you ready for the real deal. Just get your butt whooped a couple times and practice some combos. everyone online has their own skill and pace of the game

[HugzOverDrugs]

learn kombos,learn how to time them right and then use your brain to counter your enemys playstyle,you are ready once you know what you are doing with the character

[Toni 'Bō' Jones]

You just don't know that - it's a leap of faith. I don't think we are ever eady to do anything, we just do it and adjust and become better.

[Mudada]

i agree with Rezius... it's an entirely different (and more enjoyeable experience). I'd say AT LEAST know
a) 2-3 combos that go past the autochains
b) knowt the spacing of your fastest attack

other than that just go and play online, you'll get crushed, but you'll develop skills that the AI will never teach you. I hate that NRS games keep track of your win-lose and show it to you every time, because it may make you anxious that you have 3000 loses vs 40 wins, but if you can turn that off, just grind online... offline teaches you to defend and combo, will not teach you how to play

[Nooger]

if you can deal with spaming d2 and get cucked by frames,fast lows starter combos..AI play with honor and normal players play for win..if you can control your rage by not alt+f4 then you are ready for online

[NOVOJ]

Originally posted by nogger:

if you can deal with spaming d2 and get cucked by frames,fast lows starter combos..AI play with honor and normal players play for win..if you can control your rage by not alt+f4 then you are ready for online

As much as I would like to disagree with this the last part is completely true. AI plays the game the way you would expect the game to be played while the people online are doing whatever it takes to secure that W. You can be that guy who spams the same godlike combo every time the person isnt on their back or the person that runs the entire match and just shoots projectiles. Either way they are playing the way they want to for the win

[Archiduque Motoko]

My process is: Pick a character learn every normal, combo string and special move, go to tower medium diffculty apply everything, and then jump online casual matches to see what works and what doesn't, the main thing I see from people is fear of losing you gotta overcome it and lose and lose repeteadly, then you're ready to improve.

[Mewsha]

I don't think you have to be that good with combos or beat very hard AI. Know a few combos obviously, but don't feel like you need to know everything. Zoning is huge in MK11, so knowing how to do that and how to counter that somewhat is important.

Another thing is practice blocking. A lot of people go into online not knowing when to block or not expecting their opponent to use fatal blow. A lot of people come on here and cry that they lost to a fatal blow.

Last, but not least, get ready for all the Noob Saibots.

[Kolumbo]

Originally posted by Pontovyi Pirozhok:

if you can easy beat very hard ai

I have a decent enough positive win record in ranked online, and I can barely even beat hard AI :P

They are two entirely different animals. And if you ask me online is way more fun, especially in the long run - best to just dive in and start learning.

Watching good players who stream/make videos can be helpful too (I found that watching Super on youtube helped me a lot with MKX - he's by no means pro but he's a very, very capable player who wins most of his matches and often talks about the tools he's using to do so. So far the same is true with MK11.)

[r3d_belmont456]

Don't listen to anyone that tells you doing good vs hardest difficulty AI will make you good... That's a lie... I can set Alpha 3 to hardest and easily perfect every single fight spamming one single move. You can learn to exploit AI, people on the other hand adapt...

One way you can secure more wins against people is to learn your character's safest options and use them as pokes/punishes for when your opponent uses unsafe moves... By out poking and punishing your opponent as well as having better defensive game, you're already better than most of the people that play this game online...

More importantly, just have fun and don't be afraid to lose, just learn from it, it's going to happen whether you like it or not, what separate the good from the bad fighting game players is that they don't give up from losing fights, they improve from them...

[IlyaMerian]

Fighting a robot is never going to prepare you for fighting a learning, thinking human being.

So my advice to anyone new to online play is really like others have said; just get in there and do it.
Yes, you'll suck at first, and forget all the combo's you so painstakingly learned in practice mode. This is because the adrenaline and just the feels get you when you know you're up against a real person.
You'll get your ♥♥♥♥ kicked in. Don't be discouraged. Eventually the feels will calm down, and you will start to see the Matrix. You'll see what the opponent is doing, and you'll know how to beat it. Then, it's just a matter of executing what beats it. Until the next thing comes along that you've never seen before, and the process starts over again.
It's just a learning process, a slow, painful one at that.

But once you get through all that, it's rewarding as hell.

[Z-Boy]

Originally posted by ReziuS:

Beating ai has nothing to do with playing real people, the only thing that will make you ready for online is playing online.

This... in addition to having reliable internet.

[Pepsi]

Originally posted by NOVOJ:

Originally posted by nogger:

if you can deal with spaming d2 and get cucked by frames,fast lows starter combos..AI play with honor and normal players play for win..if you can control your rage by not alt+f4 then you are ready for online

As much as I would like to disagree with this the last part is completely true. AI plays the game the way you would expect the game to be played while the people online are doing whatever it takes to secure that W. You can be that guy who spams the same godlike combo every time the person isnt on their back or the person that runs the entire match and just shoots projectiles. Either way they are playing the way they want to for the win

Erron Black basically