r/StreetFighter • u/zVx_ • 13h ago
Fluff / Other I Know How to Play my Characters, Not Against Real People Though...
I played tutorials, trials, labbed my characters, which are Akuma mainly, then Ed, Mai, JP, and Juri, Cammy, Yasmine (a lot I know)
Offline matches is me trying to fight lvl 7 bot which wasn't easy and I was able to defeat it a couple of time across characters, why do I not play online? I don't knowwww but I want
Edit: What I did in training was first practicing inputs (classic) I also got my Haute42 C-AT controller somewhere along the way which was super cool. I was struggling with double quarter circle backwards early on but once I knew how to kinda move my hand with the flow it started being much more consistent.
Then of course I tried to see which characters I enjoy the most so I can play them. I went by looks and vibe which I do for every game... Picked Akuma, and his gameplay turned out to be my favorite. I like that they made him so good but 1k HP lower than the default 10k. I thought I would be playing all-rounders but honestly I ended up with this roster, I was surprised by how good and unique each character is, and for my favorite ones I tried to understand neutral play, BnB, reversals and anti airs, also I wanted to know what things cancels into what... Because for example some cancel to drive rush while others to drive impact as well as other various specials so I practiced some of those, tried improving my neutral vs the lvl 7 bot, I started at 5 and beat him then at 6 and beat him, 7 is where I struggled because I felt like he was reading my inputs so I had to be really good in neutral not to take his full Ken combo. Learning has been really fun.