The Character Crisis | Video Essay
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- In this video essay, we discuss the ever-problematic character crisis, and my philosophy on how it effects the FGC.
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I think the most important thing to keep in mind when trying to pick a main is to not be afraid of experimenting. I ended up “maining” 3-4 characters in Strive before I eventually arrived on Chipp, but I don’t regret trying the others out and learning their combos. Don’t limit yourself because you’re worried all the time you put into one character will be wasted if you switch - that knowledge will still be useful at some point down the line
Either the time practicing the combo system or the matchup knowledge you'll use it somehow
yeah I did the same thing and also arrived on chipp. the wall running combos are hard to resist
Who where the other "mains"
@@supahnoodles3893 going into the game I thought I would main Ram 100% but her play style wasn’t really my thing. I tried Giovanna, May and Sol and they were all fun but something still kinda felt off. Before Ram was announced I thought Chipp looked like fun but his high skill floor and paper defenses scared me off, but now that I had more experience I gave him a shot and haven’t looked back since
I don’t think that’s peoples issue. The issue is usually the learning process. Someone might like Alex in third strike starting out because his big normals, stomp loops and only one combo route that has good damage let’s them really enjoy the game at there level. But when they get intermediate Alex’s lack of lows, poor options for supers, lack of a reliant get off me tools and certain tricks working less and less often players might not enjoy the character anymore because they don’t know how to deal with these issues in the learning process.
Alternatively someone could hate Oro because he doesn’t get meter easily and most of his kits a little unorthodox like not having a forward throw. This could put you off trying him despite the fact they would (hypothetically) love his juggle combos and hyper threatening upclose parry game with really creative and flexible supers that allow for expression.
Learning how to get into and get more out of a character are probably the biggest causes of character crisis’. You’ll pick some up but once you start fighting people who know your tools and winning becomes a lot harder you’ll want someone who captures what got you in love with the first guy you picked but struggle to sit through learning a character because they don’t give the instant feeling of gratification or just don’t click at a surface level.
Man, GG Strive has been rough as someone who loves big body characters. I was always a Potemkin main in AC and Xrd, and think his iteration in Strive is the best of all of them. Buut... I tried out Nago and absolutely fell in love with the character, so I switched to him. And now, Goldlewis, who looks super fun to play, is gonna get released soon.
Well, better than not wanting to play anyone, but still, wish me luck, fellas
Just means you have a type. Its aight, at least its still a similar enough archetypee, even if all three play differently
I mean hey, better to have too many great heavies then none at all, right?
You can always have a secondary / pocket character.
I usually really don't like characters like that, I can't stand being slow. Tried out Nago, loved how the idea was used with him. He's not actually slow, it's just that he's going full weeb mode and chooses to move and attack slowly but decisively.
Still didn't like his slow movement speed but really appreciated what they went for with him...and then I realized he can teleport, taking away my only complaint with him. Actually considering maining him, when I usually go for people like Chipp.
then just play with all of them, i mean, you payed for the entire roster right?
My natural solution to the character crisis is just "Oh man that guy looks cool too. Guess Im playing them too" repeat until Im learning the whole game.
me trying to main every character and sucking at the game for the entire time i play that game
Hm... for some reason, it always works out for me, why? _They never expect a retard to use a charge base zoner to go rushdown_
Nobody expects me to try to zone them out with Mario fairs either.
@@James-oj6ru unrelated but i once used to play a moba and im a proud tank player, my friends call me out alot for having damage taken and damage *given* the highest on the team.
@@ascaredmilipede7971 thats just mean you are a beast
There's a particular character crisis I have experienced which I call "low tier anxiety". You pick a character knowing they're not very good but do well with them anyway. You're initially comfortable with them as you don't play at a level where their weaknesses become insurmountable, but you fear for the day you get high enough in bracket where those weaknesses become very exploitable. You feel like you need to preemptively switch mains now to avoid that future problem or risk progress stagnation (as by the time you hit that snag, you will have invested too much time into your low tier main to make switching easy). It creates this sense of "wastefulness" when you play and do well with the character you enjoy.
It happened to me in SFV...
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SKULLGIRLS MUSIC AYOOOO
I hear beat eat nest however you say it kinda sucks that you can’t play it louder
I remember in +r I migrated from Robo-Ky to Ky to Jam to Anji before I literally had a dream I was playing May, who i never played before, and was playing sick af with her. I tried her out, fell in love and haven’t looked back since lol In Strive i messed with Zato for a few rounds, but I know my girl always got my back lol
I think you just cured my character crisis. I may never get to talk to you, but thank you, Eddventure.
reason #3 to be thankful to be a grappler main: you never have to feel this way
@@AspynDotZip SNK games, tekken, games, and other simplified fighters like fighterz stay away from up inputs, sticking to halves, forward/back halves, or qc to hc... or it it's fighterz everything is qcf or qcb
And aways remember to practice!
Word. Sometimes certain match ups can make you sad, but then you hit your command grab and the world makes sense again. It’s a simple, beautiful life
WHEN I SAID SNK I MEANT KOF SPECIFICALLY I AM A DUMBASS.
I've used to love faust, but strive did my man dirty, the redesing is really cool dont get me wrong, but the gameplay... I miss pogo stance. So i switched over to i-no and lived happily ever after (at least until jack-o dlc gets released)
Dream: they change mix mix mix to be able to be held, and when it’s held you go into pogo stance and can move like in old games but can only use mix mix mix still so it would fit the dumbed down mechanics
Well what do ya know. Jack-O trailer came out
To find my character, just find someone who is an unga bunga non charge character.
That or just pick Akuma
Doesn't akuma fit that
@@durmusaltan8957 kinda? I feel he’s more mix up rushdown but I like him because he ALSO does lots of damage unlike most mix up characters
@@AspynDotZip Yes I do main Sol
"Just pick a top tier!" - Sanford Kelly
Me who mains random select: Interesting
It's the way to go.
Eleven chads rise up
It's not that hard for me, just learn their BNBs and be competent with fundamentals and your good to go
Just pick character based on color of the hair
White hair guys is a yes from me bc i like Dante from DMC
*taps forehead* Opponent can’t devise a counterplay if my gameplay is different every game
The mindset I go into trying out different characters and not really knowing who to main is that it's a learning experience. You pick up different skills by playing different types of characters, and more specifically when you're playing as someone you can both find out what rattles your character when it happens and how other people are responding to the character's options so you learn how to better counter them even if you switch.
I feel some sort of loyalty towards Potemkin. I have tried Anji, I-No, and I’m excited for Goldlewis. I played Kotal Kahn In MK, Grundy and Bane in Injustice, and Abigail/Alex in SF. I just like big boys with grabs.
I dealt with a character crisis in SFV for such a long time, going from character to character, and I've ultimately landed on maining Kolin with Rashid as a secondary, and I've been actually enjoying SFV now because of it.
Great to hear you got over it!
I can’t find any characters I like in Sfv that was until like got revealed, I really like balrog but I don’t like charge characters so if Luke isn’t a charge character I will definitely pick back up Sfv
I have a variation of this problem where I just like to play every character in every game. This stops me from getting better at my main.
Yo u right
I swear, every single fighting game I get into I have a character crisis. I can't settle on one or two characters for my life. For example, in Strive, I'm interested in Anji, Nago, Ky, Axl, Leo, and Zato. The games aesthetic is too good! And I love all the characters personalities. I'm not too bad at execution, so that's never really an issue.
Me, who mains everyone: buy why can't you have all.
You don't actually have to sink hours and hours into one character to play at surface level. I managed to get everyone in Strive (aside from Faust and Millia, but it's not because I can't, but because it's still WIP, I'm gonna do it in few days) to level 100 at celestial. My winrate was terrible, but it's a fucking celestial. On lower floors you can easily play more than 1 character, if not all of them.
I don’t know if I just have insane luck or if I adapt to my character, but every single first pick for me has been the character I loved the most, in any game genre. Ridley in Smash (He got replaced later, but that took time and a DLC), Faust in Guilty Gear, and anybody else always end up feeling tailor-made for me. It’s great, honestly.
i usually end up on those "tricky" unique gimmicky type characters like Hazama, Lei Wulong, Dan Hibiki, but that caused me problems due to those characters struggling a lot in certain situations. so i started playing characters like Hakumen and Jin Kazama to broaden my character options and then we got Nagoriyuki who is basically my dream main.
One thing to also take into account that falls just outside of aesthetic is character lore for beginner players. You can like the look and even gameplay of a character like, say, May, but be turned off by *something* in their lore that just makes you wanna stay away from them, even if it’s as simple as “they’re just not important at all to the lore.”
Lmao, Blazblue CF just got rollback and i have been experienced same character crisis as you lately, it's been 20 hours and i still cant decided yet
This video help alots, thank you
Dude, team games are 10 times worse for me. 3 whole characters I’ve got pick.
Not if you playing a team game which dumbs down the character like bbtag lol
@@doritolegend9664 or mvc infinite or dbz
Really well made video. Props for adding Dengeki footage, brings a tear to my eye whenever it see people know that the game exist. Even though the game itself is far from dead and has a pretty healthy player base playing it via Discord.
Such a good video to clear my uncertainty and cure my disease. As a charge main I have no hesitation anymore. Thank you and see you in the sea world.
my go-to character usually falls in one of these categories
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Amazing topic to speak of 💯
Thanks! You and Lazunoko's Gills are what keep me playing the character!
I don't think I've really hit that point in any fighting game I've played yet... but I've been put off of at least two fighting games now before I even picked my first character to play. Fantasy Strike because not a single member of the cast appealed to me, and Blazeblue: Chronophantasma Extend because I thought "I'll just try the story mode to get a taste of all the characters."... Took me 30 minutes to realize it was just a visual novel and never bothered to pick the game up again. I really should give it another shot though.
Im new to fighting games and i got lucky enough to find your channel 👍
I like how the three characters you put in the thumbnail are exactly the ones I am having this problem with
My character crisis in strive is that I think too many of the characters are cool.
I main a character cuz it looks cool and that's it lol
If it's gameplay is hard I would force my self to learn it
Literally how I picked King as my main. "Aw dude, this guy has a jaguar mask and wrestles, sick!"
I have never learned a combo in my life. I just mess around. Makes that half of the character crisis easy.
My issue with season passes blocking new characters is that u still need to lab ur main against a new dlc character so even if u don’t want to switch, u still need to either find a friend who did buy the pass, or purchase it yourself to practice against the match up.
I can't help it if I immediately choose the weird ones, they're precious to me.
And then there's me, who picks up a new game, and immediately mains the grappler
I can't say I've experienced this, but you do make great points. At least in the beginning stages pick who looks cool or is fun to you.
Awesome vid. When UMvC3 was still popular and my group of friends or random acquaintances new to the game would ask for recommended characters for a team I would tell them to pick;
1. A character they like.
2. A character they want to learn.
3. A character that is considered "good".
Almost all of them wound up keeping at least one of those characters by choosing that way and either formed a new team around that one character or just found others that vibed with them eventually.
u fight perfectly with everyone
until your friends are gone then hell comes back
Can't relate to this crisis, I can and will play all characters. Badly, yes, but random is the one true main.
After maining Slayer in Guilty Gear Xrd, i had to find someone new when Strive came out. I decided on Millia, practiced with her for an hour or two, and took her online. For the next month, I was stuck in floor 3. I could win the occasional match, but never a set. Then I picked up Ky, because he was simpler, didn't even practice with him, just learned his moves and inputs. Quickly ranked up 5 times.
This happened to me in SFV, where I wanted to main Juri and Sakura, but after hundreds of matches decided to play as Ryu for a while so I could get a grasp of the fundamentals. Once I fully understood the game, I switched back to Juri and was able to get results. Hopefully one day I can return to Millia in Strive.
This vid came out at the perfect timing for me. I played Pot in Strive since day 1 and wanna try out other characters but nobody else gives me the same satisfaction of landing a HPB or PB
I had a horrible character crisis for like... 70 hours on strive. Then I decided to say screw it and play goldlewis vs my friend, after some anger I had a blast
There's no character crisis if you main Random
I don't really have any input in this since I do the non efficient way of trying out every single character and spend ours doing it
Ultimately, all knowledge is good knowledge, and whether playing another character deepens your understanding of their weaknesses and strengths, deepens your understanding of the game itself, or just gives you a fun time to avoid burning out on a character you consider your main, I feel time spent toying around with other characters can be well worth the effort, even if they're not "main material".
So don't let character loyalty hold you back from experiencing all the game has to offer, and just do what works best for you.
Hell, even playing Goldlewis for just a few hours made me focus on air dashes more than I usually would to get in, which improved my flow with Milia when I started trying her out again
something I deal with a lot of times. At the same time, I have a a set of mains that I always rock with so it's only when I want to learn someone else
I understand the BlazBlue bit very well. As RUclips’s resident annoying BB fan, I’ve played a lot of Cross Tag and only picked up CF recently. And in Cross Tag, I’ve always found myself crawling back to Hazama. I’ve got a shit ton of loyalty, he’s my husbando, and I love the way he plays. So, he can’t be that hard in CF, yeah? _I was so wrong, bro._
I had no idea what the hell I was doing, the combos were difficult, and I felt myself wanting to drop the game almost immediately. But I payed $60 for this game, so I’m sure as hell gonna play it. So I went through, looked at all the characters, and found Terumi and Lambda. I liked them both in personality and design a lot, and so I picked up Lambda first. I like Lambda.
But back to Cross Tag. I’m not that good at Hazama. And the CF bit broke my spirit quite a lot. “Do I keep playing my favorite character that I’ve been playing since the beginning?” And I said no. I found a side team in Nu/Vatista, picked up Neo, and got good at Neo. Who did I play with Neo? Who else. Funny green haired man was the only character I was really used to. And now I play Hazama and Neo. -I also play Susano’o on the side, but shhhh.- So that’s my experience.
That happened to me in SFV, I went in thinking about maining Necalli, now Im a Zeku player
Ouch. I always thought Es looked cool.
Me too
Es is cool LUL
There’s something cool about small characters with big weapons man idk
I've been having a really weird version of some of this with dbfz, my first fighitng game, I have no prior dragon ball knowledge so no bias to certain characters outside of design, but only one character stood out to me design wise right off the bat. Android 18 looks basically how I wish I looked and so I immediatly gravitated to her, the issue came with picking the other 2 spots for my team, I looked up a lot of basic character guides to get a feel for how characters worked, but was partly limited by only owning the first dlc pass, who cares if that dlc character seems neat when they'd cost more money to play and someone else is also pretty cool. I eventually settled on learning Z broly and vegito alongside 18 and I enjoy the two additions a lot, but now I'm in a weird spot enabled more by this being my first fighitng game, where I'm, bad and especially struggle with neutral and defence, where the shorter reach of 18 compared to most of the cast and especially my other two mains makes her a character I tend to play worse than them even though I adore her visually.
Sometimes I feel like I’m trying to play too many characters, but I get bored easily, (I play Giovanna, Leo, Nagoriyuki, and Zato) I’m about level 100 with all 4.
I feel u, I've gotten to like lvl 60 with gio, ky, axl, sol, nago and anji 😓
@@khandokarzabir7417 us Nago players have to have pocket mains. Nago gets boring fast.
@@spoderbas5550 his design is so sick it keeps drawing me back lol
One need not be restricted by their past choices no matter how much they define who we were, and still are.
My mental loophole for character loyalty is to tell myself im just getting a secondarym, and eventually if it really ends up being overall better for me, that secondary will just kinda become my main and by that point my brain has already rewired my character loyalty to thos new one while my old main becomes the secondary.
As long as there's a big boy with an enormous command grab in the game, I'll never have a character crisis. Zangief, Potemkin, Waldstein. Only exception is I play Lucky Chloe in Tekken lol
Appropriate that you'd use Skullgirls music in the background. I used to have that issue with the game. I liked it, but once Annie came out, and she clicked with me, I truly started loving the game
Was looking for the music in the background. Thank you for this.
I feel that as players become more experienced with fighting games the crisis start decreasing as they become more aware of what kind of characters they prefer aesthetically and function-wise.
My reason to have an early character crisis is that I tend to get bored easily on playing 1 character or playstyle.
Even on Tag Game
I thot he was gonna talk about an existential/identity crisis… but I mean…
I wasn’t wrong really
For me I often have the opposite problem when starting the game. I usually never have trouble finding a character I like both visually and gameplay wise immediately. And then I find another. And another. And another. And then I attempt to juggle 5 mains, try and learn too many characters, suck with all of them, and I almost always end up trying to do one characters moves with a different character. (the amount of times I ended up so confused because my counter super didn't come out) It takes me a long time to narrow it down to one or two characters I main. In Blazblue I was absolutely certain that Tager was my favorite, and in the span of a literal week it went to Azrael, and then Relius, and then Terumi, and finally I was satisfied with Hakumen. This happens to me on basically every fighting game lol
I mean. I have one main that i can always rely on since they appear on every single fighting game for some reason. Maybe he is public domain and everyone put them in the roster to fill up an easy spot?
Random.
I clicked on this video because the thumbnail has the actual same 3 characters I bounce around between
Wanted to play Giovanna ended up playing chipp complaining about his low Health starts to play Giovanna loses like 4 matches goes back to chipp and the cycle continues
In Blazblue I'd mained Nu (or her equivalent iteration) since Calamity Trigger, so she was the obvious pick when Central Fiction rolled around. Except... I hated the changes she'd had. Some of her core functions I'd grown accustomed to had been shifted over to Lambda now that they were completely separate characters, and I genuinely enjoyed playing Lambda exclusively over her prior counterpart.
But I had to spend about a week struggling to "enjoy" playing Nu before I just devoted myself to dropping her as my Main. I know that's nothing in the grand scheme of fighting-game careers, but the character devotion was real, and the internal debate was seriously stressful. I'm happy I made the switch now, and I think that this video covers an important topic for people at any point in their FG career. Sometimes you just need to ask yourself "Would it be better if I switched?"
Picking a character is so hard. Love May, just couldn't get used to charge inputs. Chipp and Millia are cool, too complicated as a new player. Jack-O has some sick stuff, hands cannot physically perform sick stuff. End up playing Gio and having a blast.
Intermediate crisis is all me I dropped dozens of hours into Faust and he isn't as fun anymore I'm swinging between Leo or Potempkin but I don't want to put the time in all over again. Maybe the losing streak was what cause it.
I think this video applies to mobas as well, I play LoL and beend playing Darius since I got into the game, but now that I don't like the way he is playing, I just end up not playing any ranked matches.
i have a character crisis with every game i play but finally solved two for games i like; love zeku in sfv no one quite feels the same, and yuzu in uni is so fun i just can't stop playing her
Woah I made it into the video. Another banger of an essay.
I wonder if there are any interesting solutions to this on the game design end of things…
Going through it in Strive right now. Anji Mito was my secondary character in Accent Core and was really the only character I had my eye on playing once Strive dropped. I still main Anji, but I also picked up Nagoriyuki to try and cover Anji's bad match ups. I figured with his range and pressure, it'd help, and it kind of does with characters like Ramlethal a little bit, but I still struggle with characters like Axl and May since Anji and Nago both have slow buttons that are easily abused. I still find them both to be very fun and rewarding to play as, and even though I *could* switch to Sol, Ram, or Leo, I don't want to because those characters just don't feel fulfilling to play as for me. Though Nagoriyuki's inputs are difficult to consistently execute at times, and the blood gauge can make him predictable. Depending on how the DLC characters turn out, I may end up dropping him for one of them. We'll see how it goes. In the meantime, I'm going to keep putting time into both characters, I really enjoy them both still (though I'm going to keep praying for Anji buffs).
i literally just went through a character crisis in guilty gear but damn does goldlewis feel right
In blazblue i actualy main a character i dont like design-wise
i sticked with mu-12 because her gameplay is just so fun to me i dont mind her design
mu-12's gameplay is the reason BB is the game i grind now
Great video, but, imo, you've forgot about one pretty common type of character crisis. Some players are extremely used to their main, so they get upset it they can't find somthing similar enouth in other games.
I just like my strong punchy men, It's why I've played sol in every guilty gear, Enkidu in uniclr, Fera Tohr in mkx, Bane (In)justice, cowboys, or swordsmen (guess who my favorite guilty gear character is lmao). It is impossible for a fighting game to be missing all three, and that is how you win at fighting games.
Never had trouble picking characters but the video was very informing and fun to watch, especially that I play both fighting games and r6s which made it even more relevant
I live with constant character crisis in GGST. I play May; her play stlye suits me perfectly and I have a lot of fun using her. BUT, I hate everything else about her. I hate her costume, voice, back story, theme song, dolphins... I was hoping to see how you dealt with this in BBCF, but was disappointed that the essay implies that you quit and mained Axl in Xrd instead...
Nobody wants to hear this but having locked characters on launch that need to be unlocked through gameplay fixes most of this by forcing you to make a choice out of a smaller list, and giving you a chance to try many of the character as you unlock them with incentivization to try all of them because it's a reward rather than homework.
Late Stage crisis ? I don't think I'm ever gonna get there cuz ya boy still airdashes when Axl does 6H
I’m a casual fighting game player at best. Haven’t really played any lately, but wanting to get back into it. Do you have any recommendations for fighting games on Switch? (Besides Smash Ultimate. I already have that one.)
Fighting Games on switch is rough since there isnt a huge dedicated playerbase there, but Skullgirls is AMAZING, cheap, and has a switch port, so that's definitely worth getting. Im pretty sure older Guilty Gears are on the switch as well, but youd be better off getting those on PC, they'll run on just about anything. If you do have a lower-end PC, look into downloading fightcade + some roms, its got a massive catalog of all sorts of arcade fighting games that can be played online with great netcode too, so people will always be playing something on there!
Bbcf, dragonball, gg+r, UNI, power rangers, do not get skullgirls. Skullgirls is patches behind and kind of a shit port.
@@devilmaycrysarockingdontcome Ah really, I was unaware
I reccomend Rivals of Aether if you are into the platform fighter genre, and dbfz is great if you can handle the netcode
@@devilmaycrysarockingdontcome UNI?
I didnt even know this had a name, Im literally going through it without knowing I wanna play May Anji and Leo in guilty gear and tbh Goldlewis Dickinson is probably joining them
I wanna start learning Xrd, and I'm having the same problem. I like Jam, Leo, Ram, and Raven, but can't choose
I typically just pick a guy with a moustache
Me, who will always play the fucking ninja character: I wonder if I should play Chipp in strive??
Just found your youtube channel! Nice content!
I often get character crisis. I had fun looking for characters in smash and dbfz by watching tournaments.
Love the idea of the video, it's really usefull for new and old players!
I'm in a weird spot my self, as a new guilty Gear player i'm in love with axl, but started loving anji the same way, and i find my self in this weird spot where i don't know Who to choose, i thought i should call Who i play Better my main and the other a secondary, thoungs?
I have 30 something hours on BBCF
At least 10 I spent doing the character tutorials
Even then, I have like, 5 or 6 potential characters I want to pick up
In +R I either like the gameplay (Sol, Pot, Ky) or the lore/visuals (Chipp, Robo-Ky, Order Sol), but not both at the same time, so I don't feel inclined to learn anyone
Great vid : )
Honestly i mostly play with friends, so most of my character crisis comes actually from being bored of fighting the exact same match-up all the time XD Before Strive came out i picked up Slayer again in Xrd and had a blast fighting my friends Leo as opposed to playing the now stale I-No vs Leo which we had fought a million times before.
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I'm currently going through a character crisis in Strive. When the game released, I mained Gio for the first two months. Eventually managed to reach celestial with her, and then shortly after that Jack-O was released. I decided with strive I wanted to learn how to play every character before settling on a main, since this is the first time I've ever managed to make it this high up in competitive play in a fighting game before. It's not my first fighting game mind you, but up until now any fighting game I've ever owned had either been me messing around with the characters in training mode, challenge combo mode, or story mode. Never really played online and didn't meet a group of fg players I could play with until recently. So, since I'm still inexperienced and trying out multiple characters, I picked up Jack-O since she looked like she'd be fun. Have had a blast playing her, eventually made it back into celestial with her this time instead of Gio. But, I've had mixed results with her which I am almost certain could be overcome if I invested more time into learning her.
So now I've hit a bit of a dilemma. Currently, I've been jumping back and forth between I-no, May, and Ram trying to decide who I should pick up and learn next. But the more I play other characters, the rustier I feel on both Gio and Jack-O. Jack-O, especially, is a character I want to play more and compete with more. But I don't want to become super rusty playing her at the competitive level while I'm trying to pick up and learn someone else. On the flip side to that, I also don't want to overcommit to her since I still don't know if I'd enjoy competing with another character in the roster more.
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MMmm, no. You missed the point there.
Daigo switched from Ryu because Ryu lost what Daigo considered to be a key tool he wanted-- invinsible meterless DP.
In a casual perspective. It is okay to play like 5 characters or so? Like air dashers/ anime fighting games are so varied in cast that I can't just stick to one when the others offer something unique, sometimes in all the genre. Or what if you like a character a lot in design/story/movesent idea but you are shit with that Character.
Yeah I know that I suffer a lot from this problem.
But in games like under night everyone seems at least half fun to play it was already difficult to me to chose like 3 to center around depending on the opponent character/how I wanted to play at that moment.
Similar is my case in BlazBlue I just can't only use 4 or less characters, like I only rotate between 8 characters and I know that is bad long term.
It doesn't help that I usually like to try characters like Venom or Carl because I'm stupid. without having the bases of the game fully solified 😐. So uh how do you get out of this situation? Or is okay as long as I don't mind losing? I don't think I will change it soon, but I'm starting to see how I can't get better by trying to stay focused in so much characters.
I have character crisis with every game I play, whether it's fighting game or mmorpg or moba. But unlike some people, I don't fret over it. I welcome it. I see it as an opportunity to understand each individual character. To learn the matchups
Bro it doesn't take that long to learn a a new character of your already good at Fighting games
It’s harder to learn a new game than a new main.
I legit never even thought about Puff because "why would I play someone who doesn't have a recovery, and a move that just puts her to sleep?"
Then I read the wiki
Another character crisis, I call this one the Daru crisis.
When you're fully convinced dropping the character would be your best option since they are considered weak, but then a high ranking player comes out and has a very good performance, and gives you some hope that maybe the character isn't trash.
Overall just play with friends have fun and improve
My Smash backstory was that I mained Peach because I couldn’t play as Daisy. Now I don’t even have to worry because they’re the same character 😂
I mained bedman in xrd and i love a lot his playstyle and design, but because he is so unique, i never know who to play in every fighting game, even if i like the character i feel empty for some reason, i dont know who to play in strive, in BBCF hell, i dont even know who to play in street fighter, i need help
Im still a newer fighting game player, (My first serious games were BBTag and UNIST) certainty feel the struggle of accepting my own losses and trying to work with my character's weaknesses. I love Oki-focused characters, characters with oppressive tools to keep the opponent guessing, which made me initially gravitate toward Anji. I love his aesthetic, his demeanor, his butterfly... Honestly a lot of things I love. But as I played more and more, started to feel his weaknesses and how other characters felt like they did his job better I eventually caved and swapped to Millia. Do I regret it? No, she's extremely fast and Oki is terrifying, but damn it I don't miss my fan twirling dancer.