Welp royal guard is a definition of blocking aggressively, it is an actionable thing where guarding is usually interpreted as a passive hold thing, once one finds fun in guarding as an actionable thing, things change for the better ^_^.
3:31 Gekko: "Neutral, everyone's least least favorite part of fighting games" Me: "what's he talking about? I love neutral!" Gekko: "unless you're a dedicated SF player" Me, a dedicated SF player: 😶
The Neutral is a defensive part of the game, the aim is to break the Neutral by taking the advantage. Everyone SAYS they love the Neutral, but who is in a game to DRAW all the time?
@childlikesaiyan Melty Blood is for people who do know. You say "remember DNF" but remember FANTASY STRIKE? exactly. DNF DUEL is designed to teach aspiring players the archetype strategies without having the hassle of inputs.
been taking a break from fighting games because tilt was getting WAY too bad, haven't taken them seriously for months now, so much so that i was considering just dropping them, after all, life is getting in the way now however i decided to watch this vid out of random curiosity and this vid is exactly what i needed to hear back then maybe i'll try and give them a go again eventually, this vid is peak :D
Melty Blood type lumina being my first fighting game. I was a bit disappointed when i leaned you needed to combo things in a specific order in guilty gear. "What do you mean i can't combo special moves into a super ?!?" Every fighting game is universally similar, but they all are all terrifyingly different when it comes to specifics. Maybe you just didn't find your style fitting fighting game yet if you're struggling so much.
5:42 I feel this every second I play Granblue! (Especially if we're literally inches from each other and crouching, almost frozen, waiting to make a move lul). I like noticing either when impatience gets the better of me, or when I beat the opponents XD
I second this thought as an other Granblue player! I get that situation quite a bit against friends, aaaaand... I always throw a random move out that gets me punished xD
The one person who forced me to learn this lesson is a friend of mine who likes to play Jigglypuff in Smash Ultimate. He plays like a mosquito trying to bite you and the only way to hit him is to wait for him to come close before swatting him down
As a new guilty gear player I learned that when I was playing elphelt I won because my friend didn’t have burst to burst out of rekka but when she played Johnny and out ranged me, I adapted ram to fight Johnny instead of elphelt and I found that doing nothing actually did so much because I could wiff punish her air dash, ram as a zoner is really funny
I spent $60 on a fighting game. Blocking is part of that. What ISN'T part of that is Jack-O hearing "I'm okay with blocking" and taking it to mean "all I want to do is block". Also, if offense is talking, and defense is listening, and DPs are telling your opponent to STFU, what are grabs?
I just asked myself this question like not even an hour ago. And as soon as i open YT up boom this video pops up XD. Love ur content man. Keep up your top tier quality work.
Funny, my current problems are all the exact opposite. I don't press anything because I'm terrified of getting counterhit for 70%. Then I get put in a blockstring, risc cranked, then that combo is 100%.
Light punches and kicks are really good for getting out of sticky situations. Players comboing you will probably go for the big, time consuming, heavy hitter moves if they don't expect you to fight back, and those are easy to interrupt.
Learn some basics about other characters, like what's minus on block. You can see and feel when they can't immediately act after some moves, it just requires experience watching for your brain to adjust. Then use your fastest button or jump at the point you expect that gap of several frames. Being terrified doesn't help. Actively trying to poke at different points and remembering the result does. It's a puzzle game, you're not losing anything real if you get combo-ed.
8:53 He doesn't have a health mechanic but, I feel that the day I kept this in mind VS Vaseraga was the day my mind cleared up a little O-O (Now to remember this VS Belial/Ladiva...)
I've been following this advice for years now, and it's been better off for my play. Even before this video was made, this was the most common advice I'd hear, other than advice about tilt and crash outs. Mainly because I made it EVERYONE ELSE'S problem, but sometimes it's like that and you can't get a safe distance fast enough. Anyway, thanks for reminding me and anyone else who needs to hear this advice, Gekko. You earned my like.
As much as people hate the series, MK does a great job at teaching most of what was mentioned in the vid. Even mkx taught people to be patient (tho a different kind of patience). It’s the reason why so many lower level players can play the game decently. Can learn a character’s basics in like 30 minutes as opposed to other games where you have to devote your entire life to learning one character
Yeah, this would be great advice if I played rushdown or shotos, but I play heavy grapplers, my ass knew day 1 I was supposed to hold block till I could snap the opponents neck
Haven't watched one of your vids in a while. Good topic. Thanks. I usually get games w/a gift card (no $60), but get what you mean on slowing down in SF6, Strive, Granblue, etc. Don't get to play as often as I like. so I'm usually mid-rank, though not frustrated. I find a person who follows your advice & doesn't have many openings can beat me, especially w/a command grab I don't react to. Fun vid. 🙂
Applied this in a match of mk today. Had a sub zero full screen slide a lot, so I would start throwing projectiles and let him slide into me to punish him lol. My biggest issue is that I mash during block string though, so I’m working on getting better at it. Great video :)
i was kinda struggling with finding pressure options on some characters in PKMNCC since there's no gatling system (and manually timing frametraps is hell in 100 fps delay netcode) but now i know the wonders of Clicking The Same Plus Frames Button Repeatedly Then Kicking Them In The Nuts When They Try To Escape
Honestly, I'm one of the lower perfect of players that love playing neutral. Like throwing fireballs, pokes ect though that leaves me a bit with bad habits of always wanting to do it and not captilzing on my opponent when they jump over the fireball in cases. My defense isn't bad either I would day I just I have trouble going on the offense as I'm the opposite. I'm pretty good on defense and neutral but on offense I get so caught up in blocking in all of my opponent that I often don't know when to or take my time blocking to see when I can press some buttons.
And then there's me, having no issue to just block for like 20 seconds straight. I just need to start actually using defensive mechanics like faultless defense or yellow roman cancel. Whoops
@bungusbajablast2877 I'm ok at reacting to dash ins, but Dizzy's anti air feels too slow to reliably react to things, not gonna lie. I'm also running almost 100% on predictions as my reaction time is subpar. Whoops
To me is almost the opposite. I don't like too frantics games where the neutral basically doesn't exist and where your best defense is attack back. I want to fight but I also wants to know what the fuck is going on, I want to approach the enemy with a strategy and I want to be able to defend myself from that attack and wait patiently to the moment when I fight back with the right answer. Even if that answer is as simple as "Backward dash, 720 command grab", is something that I figured out after defend myself from a barrage of attacks, I worked for ir and will be a LOT more satisfying that if the game just would make thing easy and allow me to deal the same damage mashing buttons.
I quit Tekken because the game does not really rewards you for defense. Also, once the opponent got you with launcher or a sweep, you can brew a cup of tea and empty it, because meanwhile your opponent will perform a long ass combo you cannot break by any means Shit, this is the same feeling as getting a headshot in CS right at the beginning of the round, so you have to wait the next for a very long time, and I hate it very very much
Well hey neutral isn’t that bad proceeds to be bad at neutral because he thought it would be a good idea to switch to a controller that professionals use and it’s fancy and looks cool and omg it is so weird to use but I love it at the same time and now I’m stuck at mid to low tear because I’m learning this whole other style to play because game pads are hard man so hard like why are they like this and allso yes I’m crazy I love ggs neutral I don’t know why but to my dyslexic brain it’s satisfying and fun why is it that fighting games do this to me like come on sorry I went on a went rant what are we talking about right neutral it’s ok I guess
I didn’t pay 60 dollars to block… I paid 40 to have fun. And part of that is just waiting a little and learning how my opponent plays so that I can make some space and WH-WH-WHAT COULD THIS BE?
![Blox Fruits Dragon Rework Update [Full Stream]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EqDAp8udhm0/mqdefault.jpg)
People who say “I didn’t pay $60 to block” have clearly never felt the absolute dopamine of Royal Guard
Objectivelly true
Ah yes the one move that actualy blocks "parry this you filthy casual"
Welp royal guard is a definition of blocking aggressively, it is an actionable thing where guarding is usually interpreted as a passive hold thing, once one finds fun in guarding as an actionable thing, things change for the better ^_^.
3:31 Gekko: "Neutral, everyone's least least favorite part of fighting games"
Me: "what's he talking about? I love neutral!"
Gekko: "unless you're a dedicated SF player"
Me, a dedicated SF player: 😶
The Neutral is a defensive part of the game, the aim is to break the Neutral by taking the advantage. Everyone SAYS they love the Neutral, but who is in a game to DRAW all the time?
@@bruceleeds7988i misinterpreted this as drawing as in art
It took you putting up footage to make me remember that dnf duel was a thing
I play DNF every month. You should be playing DNF with people who DON'T know how to play fighting games.
@bruceleeds7988 I mean yeah... But like... Melty Blood...
@childlikesaiyan Melty Blood is for people who do know. You say "remember DNF" but remember FANTASY STRIKE? exactly. DNF DUEL is designed to teach aspiring players the archetype strategies without having the hassle of inputs.
My favorite response to, "I didn't pay $60 to block" is "Did you pay $60 to get your ass whooped?"
I didn't pay 60$ to block
I payed 25$.
2:46 GekkoSquirrel says as I am in the queue for a Fortnite match with my Hatsune Miky skin on
Bruh I'm in the lobby with MIKU rn😭😭
It's 2025 and we're still trying to explain the Machaboo triangle to people.
YOMI HUSTLE MENTIONED HOLY SHIT
been taking a break from fighting games because tilt was getting WAY too bad, haven't taken them seriously for months now, so much so that i was considering just dropping them, after all, life is getting in the way now
however i decided to watch this vid out of random curiosity
and this vid is exactly what i needed to hear back then
maybe i'll try and give them a go again eventually, this vid is peak :D
Melty Blood type lumina being my first fighting game. I was a bit disappointed when i leaned you needed to combo things in a specific order in guilty gear. "What do you mean i can't combo special moves into a super ?!?" Every fighting game is universally similar, but they all are all terrifyingly different when it comes to specifics. Maybe you just didn't find your style fitting fighting game yet if you're struggling so much.
5:42 I feel this every second I play Granblue! (Especially if we're literally inches from each other and crouching, almost frozen, waiting to make a move lul). I like noticing either when impatience gets the better of me, or when I beat the opponents XD
I second this thought as an other Granblue player! I get that situation quite a bit against friends, aaaaand... I always throw a random move out that gets me punished xD
The one person who forced me to learn this lesson is a friend of mine who likes to play Jigglypuff in Smash Ultimate. He plays like a mosquito trying to bite you and the only way to hit him is to wait for him to come close before swatting him down
1:48 welp there goes monetization
As a new guilty gear player I learned that when I was playing elphelt I won because my friend didn’t have burst to burst out of rekka but when she played Johnny and out ranged me, I adapted ram to fight Johnny instead of elphelt and I found that doing nothing actually did so much because I could wiff punish her air dash, ram as a zoner is really funny
Congrats.
I spent $60 on a fighting game. Blocking is part of that.
What ISN'T part of that is Jack-O hearing "I'm okay with blocking" and taking it to mean "all I want to do is block".
Also, if offense is talking, and defense is listening, and DPs are telling your opponent to STFU, what are grabs?
2:21 YOMI mentioned, cultured individual
I just asked myself this question like not even an hour ago. And as soon as i open YT up boom this video pops up XD. Love ur content man. Keep up your top tier quality work.
Could not have dream for better !
Funny, my current problems are all the exact opposite. I don't press anything because I'm terrified of getting counterhit for 70%. Then I get put in a blockstring, risc cranked, then that combo is 100%.
Light punches and kicks are really good for getting out of sticky situations. Players comboing you will probably go for the big, time consuming, heavy hitter moves if they don't expect you to fight back, and those are easy to interrupt.
Learn some basics about other characters, like what's minus on block.
You can see and feel when they can't immediately act after some moves, it just requires experience watching for your brain to adjust.
Then use your fastest button or jump at the point you expect that gap of several frames.
Being terrified doesn't help. Actively trying to poke at different points and remembering the result does.
It's a puzzle game, you're not losing anything real if you get combo-ed.
0:04 you know what else is hard 😏
Testament on preview = neuron activation
8:53 He doesn't have a health mechanic but, I feel that the day I kept this in mind VS Vaseraga was the day my mind cleared up a little O-O
(Now to remember this VS Belial/Ladiva...)
Your only move is hustle MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope this will helps the comp scene not die
It is inevitable!
I've been following this advice for years now, and it's been better off for my play. Even before this video was made, this was the most common advice I'd hear, other than advice about tilt and crash outs. Mainly because I made it EVERYONE ELSE'S problem, but sometimes it's like that and you can't get a safe distance fast enough. Anyway, thanks for reminding me and anyone else who needs to hear this advice, Gekko. You earned my like.
As much as people hate the series, MK does a great job at teaching most of what was mentioned in the vid. Even mkx taught people to be patient (tho a different kind of patience). It’s the reason why so many lower level players can play the game decently. Can learn a character’s basics in like 30 minutes as opposed to other games where you have to devote your entire life to learning one character
Yeah, this would be great advice if I played rushdown or shotos, but I play heavy grapplers, my ass knew day 1 I was supposed to hold block till I could snap the opponents neck
Parasite Eve 1 - Police department theme, always an exceptional choice.
Dear Diary: Today i learned to bei a chill guy to become better in fighting games
Haven't watched one of your vids in a while. Good topic. Thanks.
I usually get games w/a gift card (no $60), but get what you mean on slowing down in SF6, Strive, Granblue, etc.
Don't get to play as often as I like. so I'm usually mid-rank, though not frustrated.
I find a person who follows your advice & doesn't have many openings can beat me, especially w/a command grab I don't react to. Fun vid. 🙂
Applied this in a match of mk today. Had a sub zero full screen slide a lot, so I would start throwing projectiles and let him slide into me to punish him lol. My biggest issue is that I mash during block string though, so I’m working on getting better at it. Great video :)
8:16 Nago takes more damage with a fuller blood rage bar?!
The pandemonium ost from FFXIV threw me off SO BAD LOL I thought I had a music tab open or something
I'm just here for FFXIV music, Soken's music speaks to my soul
Very beautiful very powerful
i was kinda struggling with finding pressure options on some characters in PKMNCC since there's no gatling system (and manually timing frametraps is hell in 100 fps delay netcode) but now i know the wonders of Clicking The Same Plus Frames Button Repeatedly Then Kicking Them In The Nuts When They Try To Escape
2:46 no way
Great video ngl
Would love to learn how to speed up as potemkin
Me, in love and a committed relationship with neutral❤️
YOMI HUSTLE POG
Honestly, I'm one of the lower perfect of players that love playing neutral. Like throwing fireballs, pokes ect though that leaves me a bit with bad habits of always wanting to do it and not captilzing on my opponent when they jump over the fireball in cases. My defense isn't bad either I would day I just I have trouble going on the offense as I'm the opposite. I'm pretty good on defense and neutral but on offense I get so caught up in blocking in all of my opponent that I often don't know when to or take my time blocking to see when I can press some buttons.
holy shit the low quality funkytown ended me
parasite eve music yay
wait there are actually people who like doing their offense?
And then there's me, having no issue to just block for like 20 seconds straight. I just need to start actually using defensive mechanics like faultless defense or yellow roman cancel. Whoops
you could also lock in and get better at reacting to dash up throw/jumping on prediction if they're both plus and in sniffing distance
@bungusbajablast2877
I'm ok at reacting to dash ins, but Dizzy's anti air feels too slow to reliably react to things, not gonna lie. I'm also running almost 100% on predictions as my reaction time is subpar. Whoops
Wait yall have locals?
The best tip is to stop playing fighting games
To me is almost the opposite. I don't like too frantics games where the neutral basically doesn't exist and where your best defense is attack back. I want to fight but I also wants to know what the fuck is going on, I want to approach the enemy with a strategy and I want to be able to defend myself from that attack and wait patiently to the moment when I fight back with the right answer. Even if that answer is as simple as "Backward dash, 720 command grab", is something that I figured out after defend myself from a barrage of attacks, I worked for ir and will be a LOT more satisfying that if the game just would make thing easy and allow me to deal the same damage mashing buttons.
W metaphor
I quit Tekken because the game does not really rewards you for defense. Also, once the opponent got you with launcher or a sweep, you can brew a cup of tea and empty it, because meanwhile your opponent will perform a long ass combo you cannot break by any means
Shit, this is the same feeling as getting a headshot in CS right at the beginning of the round, so you have to wait the next for a very long time, and I hate it very very much
Well hey neutral isn’t that bad proceeds to be bad at neutral because he thought it would be a good idea to switch to a controller that professionals use and it’s fancy and looks cool and omg it is so weird to use but I love it at the same time and now I’m stuck at mid to low tear because I’m learning this whole other style to play because game pads are hard man so hard like why are they like this and allso yes I’m crazy I love ggs neutral I don’t know why but to my dyslexic brain it’s satisfying and fun why is it that fighting games do this to me like come on sorry I went on a went rant what are we talking about right neutral it’s ok I guess
I hate Zoners. Specifically Axl.
this is anti wakeup mashing propaganda you cant fool me
I didn’t pay 60 dollars to block…
I paid 40 to have fun. And part of that is just waiting a little and learning how my opponent plays so that I can make some space and WH-WH-WHAT COULD THIS BE?
"FG are hard", strive four seconds later LOL
melty ost with no melty in the video at all 🥲