I don't mean average in relation to the general public, i know its good but i got to 1800+ with Manon last phase and i wanna get 1800-1900 at least with Chun so 1700 right now is still kinda middle of the road. That's all i meant
Sorry to hear of furious & slamming stuff. Good to hear your break resulted in winning so much after. Point taken on being away too long from the game being tough. I have that problem w/fighters- not getting to my brother's to play for a week or two, or more. Dropping ranks can be demoralizing. Stopping as soon as a losing streak starts is key. Replay review & training, like you've said. I just hope to get online for SF6 someday (like every other game). Then I'd be able to see how it goes. Nice vid. 🙂
I had this happen to me this week also. Went from 1780 MR down to 1530. Yes, you read that correctly. I've since bounced back to 1700 AND I got a nice 2nd place at my local. But I ABSOLUTELY needed a break get out of my rage queuing. If you're reading this, and you're feeling it also... just breathe, take a break, and clear your head. Don't let this game break you.
This happened to me 2 days ago. I was at 1750 MR, got all the way down to 1570. yesterday I got back 1650ish. the thing is its not taking a break from the game I blame, its the fact that I went to battle hub and was playing 15 --16 MR players and got away with things I had no business. that along with what you said. Dropping, making terrible decisions as i got saltier. I think I'm going to take a week to play other games.
i play chun, i feel like the hazansho nerf is the worst ever, it feels so useless now. i just hate to see people say chun-li is top 1 character when shes mid af
@@jrg305 yes, they shifted the invincible frame from 6th frame to 7th frame... makes it completely luck to use vs fireballs now. stupid nerf for no reason other than all the pros saying chun is S-tier to save their own characters. similar to tokido downplaying akuma atm cause hes broken.
@@ObeyaCorpsArmory yeah I was surprised to see chun li nerfs. Very hard to use. Seems like they balance against the top 0.01% of players or somethin who find something broken.
@@jrg305 to be fair, balancing for top level is important in a competitive game with a million dollar prize. I agree though, they represent a very small percentage of the player base, and the mid-high level players frequently get left out of the conversation, I think to everybody's detriment. I only exclude the bottom 50% because Ideally they are the ones that are new, are doing something wrong they need to learn, have busy schedules/play ranked infrequently, or bought the game and decided they didn't like it. Frankly, they deserve to have an opinion too, it's just much more common that it's a skill issue in those ranks, so they should be receptive to advice from higher players. I've been hard stuck Plat 4 a long time, and get really distracted by other games when I get frustrated, and it can be tough. I know that a lot of what's holding me back is scrubby excuses, but not handling the tilt well is probably my biggest issue on the game nowadays (I should probably get coaching). Anyway, all of that was just to say it makes sense to balance for top level, but this doesn't excuse devs from considering the mass population's experience, like with Honda.
I used to do about 5 ranked matches a night in SFV, eventually hit super diamond. In SF6, I don't touch ranked, not because I'm afraid or anything, but because I still fight High MR players in battle lounge or if I decide to fight people in my local scene. I work 3-11 and sometimes do OT in the AM doing tech support. I can get pretty stressed when I'm home, but putting myself through the numbers game or ranked doesn't really seem good for my mental. However, fighting one of the top players of my scene in FT20 ALSO can get me tilted, but I can still improve from those sets. Battlehub, you never know what you will get and I love it. Sometimes I'm fighting people lower skill than me, but I'm atleast teaching the dhalsim matchup. Other times I'm getting smacked around by 1500-1600 MR players and regardless of that I'm learning either way. I don't think hopping on ranked after a break is the best decision, but it still looks like you gained something from it.
Same here! New to fighting games at all, picked SF6 in December and started with WT. Now I'm plateauing in Plat 5 around 18.200 LP. But! We gonna break through, just keep training and trusting in ourselves!
Played from the release. Only once or twice a week at best granted, but watching this and reading these comments it’s as though this is easily achievable for everyone but me. 🤷🏻♂️ I believe I know my character well but nowhere near as well as everyone else it seems. Overall I think your frame of mind is going to be the deciding outcome in nearly every situation in life. Not just fighting games. Keep up the good work, respect to you all.
Could be worse, you could have been playing the game for over a year, have 370 hours in the game, and still be hard stuck in plat 4 like...um, nobody I know, definitely not me. I don't cry when content creators talk about how easy it is to get to master, but I'm sure someone else does 😂😅😢😭 In an unrelated story, sometimes I wake up with bruises on my knuckles because I own a Wing Chun dummy and lose my cool on it for unrelated reasons. Did I mention this is in no way related and just a random tangent?
I definitely was burned out after Combobreaker; got home and couldn't bring myself to lab or review losses like I normally would - then my PSU broke and I couldn't play anyways, and honestly not only did it feel pretty freeing, when I picked the game back up again a week later I made 3rd at the local. I do think a character like Chun is harder to be consistent with, and while I believe she is top tier on paper, for competing in bracket or ranked it can wear at you.
I stopped taking this game seriously already. I Don’t train anymore, I don’t bother wasting my time. I keep playing here and there because of my friends.
Grinding mr is a waste of effort in this game. This game is too ignorant for me to wanna actually get to a certain mr goal, because this game is built for players to always be able to lose at a moments notice whether they really deserve to or not. One successful Hail Mary by your opponent and you lose so much progress, this game is only fun if you play casual and battle hub so you can lose with no consequences
Love this video. I always think it’s a great idea to talk about dealing with and overcoming frustration/anger, especially when it comes to our video games. Sometimes it’s just nice to be reminded that no matter how tilted one gets, one can always get back to level
I've been on a major losing streak since Akuma came out. I was close to reaching my goal of hitting Master, but over the course of a couple sessions, I lost about 1000 LP. It's been rough trying to stay motivated to keep going, but I'm trying to take small steps to get back on track so I can finally reach my long term goal in the game.
No joke, i saw MenaRD's new video about "switching to Zangief" and then was like, "lol, so THATS how you play as Zangief, logged on and went on a 20 win streak and then got my gief to Master in a day. Started at Diamond 1 (got him in prelims to diamond 1 then never touched him again) Games hilarious.
No game gets me as salty as playing SF ranked matches. I'm a 50-year old man who's played every major SF since the World Warrior in the arcade. I'd like to believe that 30-plus years of experience gives me an advantage in SF6 (most special moves are so encoded in my muscle memory I have scar tissue). And I can say that I have eleven characters at Diamond Rank, over half of them ranked up from Silver through Platinum. But, damn, there are many days when it's hard not to get furious when every other player walks all over me and my pride. I struggle to keep pace with the crazy number of options. If I'm not looking for something at the right time, I usually stand no chance of reacting to a Drive Impact, DR, neutral jump, etc.. It's frustrating to feel outplayed so often and I have to remind myself of what I've accomplished or I start beating myself up, cursing the other players, etc.. Wait, isn't this supposed to be fun?
A few days ago i went like 1-7, got hit by every Akima HK, Giefs were counter SPD'ing me like crazy, couldn't dust Jinrai to save my life. Yesterday was the total opposite, played like a demon (for my skill level). All things are balanced lmao.
SF6 is my first serious fighting game experience, i'm playing Manon. From 1200 to 1400 MR in a week, from 1400 to 1200 in an hour 🥲. Learn when it's time to quit ranked, never play tilted.
I'm a casual player (family man in my 40s) playing here and there online on Xbox console for "pleasure". Although I still managed to get Master rank with Manon (which was painful), the more I play... sorry... the more I get DESTROYED, the more I feel disgusted by the game. This is just not fun anymore to play 1/ as a casual among good players 2/ one of the weakest character in the game. I dont wanna invest more time learning another character so I guess I'll soon give up the game and keep watching pro player tournaments to entertain myself. Thanks anyway for your videos, always helpful and interesting. Your thoughts about the game and life in general is worth listening.
Tilt is a killer. That happened to me just last week. I have 3 toons in leveling and whenever I sick with one, I’ll switch and generally can pull myself back mentally and switch back toy main. But not that day, oh no. All 3 toons I almost de-ranked. Losing streaks on all 3 and talk about getting heated! My last set I finally just said “I’m done” and turned it off for a day. Came back and was back to my usual self!
Oh yeah, when it rains it pours and I'm waterlogged. You speak truth about mental resources allocation when tilted. Or having some unresolved stress about something else you don't recognize. But in the moment, since whatever that is isn't recognized, I feel like I'm an even worse player, then I get mad for being mad, lol. That's called training.
I went from 1650 to fucking 1250 and now i'm trying to climb back currently at 1580 but still those 2 days of pure losing like a 50 game lose streak still haunt my soul don't pull an all-nighter on tilt lmao
When I get salty playing this game I just start making random observations about the game while talking trash about everything that's happening in a comedic way. At first I kinda of vent but eventually it starts getting really funny to talk trash about everything that I notice in the game and it just clicks and I start playing good again. It also helps that I talk trash about my own gameplay and I usually notice a lot of the things I'm doing wrong, shit is actually therapeutic to me lol
What's this Terry and Mai coming in as their young selves while Ryu and ChunLi are old? I think the KOF devs have taken over because the SF devs are all gone.
Yeah, a few months ago playing Granblue I hit a long losing streak and the salt wouldn't let me cut my losses. Tanked my win rate to 20%. I'm slowly recovering that win rate and improving in ranked but I also feel like I'm spinning my wheels a lot with it still. That one night looms over me.
Personally , I try to play only until I’ve either dropped or gone up 50 MR in a day. Just like anything in life , you gotta cut your losses or quit while you’re ahead. MR grind is not for the feint of heart 🤣
as i am kim, if they ready for the gimmicks you get smashed. as you said it is a momentum based game, so some days you get smashed and just dont recover. time to stop playing.
I got Akuma to Master fairly easily without knowing any real combos or really anything honestly. Made the mistake to keep playing after I got there and dropped to like almost 1200 IMMEDIATELY 😂 Been learning more since, trying to get more consistent and I'm SLOWLY clawing my way back to 1500. It was demoralizing at first but I'm still really enjoying it. And after a while I actually liked that I been improving and been climbing my way back up. I'm def going to keep going. I think I have the ability to reach 1600+ eventually. My younger bro got to 1700 with Ryu recently so that's now motivating me to get there too. It's gonna be fun. MR system is good tho. Working as intended. I dropped to 1290 something because I belonged there. Now I'm at around 1450 because I belong there. When I get to 1600 it'll be because I belong there. It's all good. Game's mad fun.
Sometimes it happens like that. You get in your head when things go wrong especially if you haven’t played the game in a while. So you are right. Take a break and your mind off it, though your mind is still working unconsciously figuring out what went wrong. Then when you come back in a calmer relax state every thing just flows. The right cause of action along with all the answers and solutions just come to you like that. Like some super natural intuition or something. It happens to me all the time.
This has happened to me lately and my controller having a fault has not helped at all, on a break at the moment. Very glad I'm not the only one. Literally went from practically 2 star platinum all the way down to gold 4
I have so many days or moments where I get truly upset with myself and the game when I'm doing badly, usually because what I was thinking in my head didn't happen on screen. Sometimes it's the connection but often times it's a sloppy input that's really hard to correct in the moment. I also have major issues when dealing with heavy pressure since Manon's options are limited and it feels like SF6 is HEAVILY balanced toward allowing consistent pressure. I've been trying to work through my issues in a number of ways. I spend more time in training mode mainly because it gives me the mental space to not only pay attention to my inputs but I get the readout on the side as well. It's hard to figure out what went wrong in the moment and for me that tends to be the source of my frustration. I get far less upset when I can accurately explain what went wrong. I've also started compiling a wiki of all the Manon information that I could because my other issue is knowing what to do in general. Some characters have obvious openings but others really don't. I've ben wanting something like it so that when I am struggling to deal with a person or attack I can go, read up on it, and then have that peace of mind of "Oh yeah, I can hit that with s.LK" or something along those lines. Building it has been a SLOG since I'm just one person, but it's certainly helped to some extent already. It's missing a ton of stuff and a lot of it is actually placeholder but I'm proud of where it is at the moment. It also allows me to play the game on the days that I'm not feeling up to "playing the game" so it keeps me involved. manonsdancingcorner.notion.site/0a6cb1115fbd4c5b83d5253f484384a0?v=4a0342ec0df14bae9d52059f9598377e&pvs=4 Now I just have to work on my ranked anxiety so that I can push her to Master rank (currently Diamond 4) and I'll have met my own personal goal.
You guide is pure gold and absolutely amazing, my friend. Not only for Manon, it contains really valuable information for each match up. Great work, we nee more people like you in the FGC!
I don't mean average in relation to the general public, i know its good but i got to 1800+ with Manon last phase and i wanna get 1800-1900 at least with Chun so 1700 right now is still kinda middle of the road. That's all i meant
I'm nowhere near as high level as you but im finding over the last few days it's all gone to crap with my ranked on this. It's a mental trap and as you're demoralised you try and gain what you've lost. Very toxic to be honest.
I think for me the thing is that I'll play and have fun with characters I don't care about. They're throw away matches for me. If I lose with them I just laugh it off and try again. I play so loose and free, and I find myself having fun and not caring about the points. I don't even look at it....... AND THEN I pick up my main (Chun) and suddenly I'm playing tight and full of salt when I lose. I realized this a few weeks ago and have been trying to figure out why I do that to myself? I think it's because I must be feeling that this character is my "best" character and I do all this training stuff, and watch videos on tech, so I must feel like "Hey i SHOULD be good with her!" But the truth is that this is really taking all the fun out of playing with my favorite character. I get no loose and free relaxing vibes, no satisfaction in wins and only self hate and frustration in losses. Just reproaching myself for bad decisions and input mistakes until I want to pull my hair out. This video came at a good time for me Mura. Thanks so much for sharing. I need to listen and stop feeling this way.
I have been taking sf6 ranked seriously again and was absolutely losing it, as I was unable to consistenly beat Akuma players because of how volatile the character can be sometimes and ended up demoting multiple times Because I was absolutely malding after guessing wrong on wakeup 10 times against an Akuma until I was dead in one of my matches my decision making became drastically poor and I went on to lose/almost lose other matches. Then after taking a much needed break, I was able to retain my gameplan on Rashid again and managed to get back to my original LP after promoting back to D5. This video was much needed and really emphasizes that LP gains and ,more importantly, self improvement in this game is a marathon 😅. This video was much needed thank you!
I can totally relate with getting frustrated/angry on a losing streak. I basically dont play ranked anymore because of this and just stick to battle hub (not really an option for you I know, crazy that they haven't even added 1 north africa/middle east battle hub server yet). I also find it super frustrating/demoralising that we all have days like you had with a big losing streak, followed by big win streak and all those matches make a net gain of 11 MR. I end up wondering why i bothered. It ends up feeling like a chore when the whole reason we play the game is that it's fun. I'll probably play ranked again to get bison to master when he's out but won't grind for MR with him.
I'm glad other people still experience this too and it's not just me. A lot of people were talking about this early on, but I guess people either just continuously played or accepted that there's something about SF6 that's so specific that it's just easy to lose the feeling for after a certain period of time.
I was at a point where I could beat 1800 mr players or whatever but I can’t and don’t want to play for several hours a day anymore so I just accept that there are people who completely obsess over these games (and just better) and will destroy me, I’ll go 20 -0 and not care at all, get a win or two then they’ll leave hahah, all these people care about is winning and stroking their infantile egos, they have no life, no hobbies, no family etc. I got akuma to diamond and just stopped ranked with him because he’s not actually super fun for me, I’ll still beat masters with him in hub, get rekt nonstop, get hate messages, teabags etc but just remember that we actually have real lives and our whole sense of self worth and happiness doesn’t come from winning in a video game like the sweat lords. We aren’t pros and never will be so just chill, if I don’t play for a week I’m getting cooked extra crispy unless I’m using my one master character deejay then it’s a light crisp, it doesn’t matter😂
I get what you're saying but naw screw that. The best feeling in the world is beating those no lifers in a match with less time trained. This game is so volatile it's actually possible. Coming home from my 9-5 and beating some ass before I get in my pj's and sip some tea with a splash of salt from the tears of my opponents 😂😂😂😈
I'm trying to relate, but in a way this video feels disingenuous to most of the population playing this game. You're at master and took a week off. You're a top percentile. Im at plat and took a month off. I lost 2000 LP coming back. You're like a celebrity skinny girl complaining she gained 5 lbs when traveling to Aruba when I'm like a 350 lb person with binge eating disorder who struggles to lose 5 lbs without gaining 20 after giving up. Oh poor you skinny girl. Must be hard.
To each their own goals and aspirations. I would be a king if i got a legend rank but to Daigo its nothing and he wants to win the pro tour. Others just want the master rank and if they got it that's the world to them. What i am trying to say is that the drawbacks and frustration of being set back relative to your goal happens to all of us and i wanted to share my experience is all.
People, set your own goals. You don't need to let other's opinions be your own. I hear all of these arbitrary "rules" about real Masters and what not. People say you're not a real Master unless you have 1800 MR or more. This is dumb. There's levels of Mastery. Ranked is sweaty and the game can be not-so-fun if you take it too seriously. I'm a 1600 MR guy...that's good enough for me. I've beaten "Legend" ranked players before. But grinding for a number is not fun to me. I just want to fight.
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I can’t even get to 1400 Mr and you say 1700 is average 😢
i believe 1400-1500 mr is actually the average for master. anything that’s 1600 or above is like top 1%
1700 is not average.
I don't mean average in relation to the general public, i know its good but i got to 1800+ with Manon last phase and i wanna get 1800-1900 at least with Chun so 1700 right now is still kinda middle of the road. That's all i meant
What do you mean you can’t get to ? You start off at 1,500 lol
@@kriscotd76he meant to sustain 1500 through out the season. Achieving master rank doesn’t mean one is a MR1500 player
Sorry to hear of furious & slamming stuff. Good to hear your break resulted in winning so much after.
Point taken on being away too long from the game being tough. I have that problem w/fighters- not getting to my brother's to play for a week or two, or more.
Dropping ranks can be demoralizing. Stopping as soon as a losing streak starts is key. Replay review & training, like you've said.
I just hope to get online for SF6 someday (like every other game). Then I'd be able to see how it goes. Nice vid. 🙂
Rank can be sweaty from time to time
I had this happen to me this week also. Went from 1780 MR down to 1530. Yes, you read that correctly. I've since bounced back to 1700 AND I got a nice 2nd place at my local. But I ABSOLUTELY needed a break get out of my rage queuing. If you're reading this, and you're feeling it also... just breathe, take a break, and clear your head. Don't let this game break you.
This happened to me 2 days ago. I was at 1750 MR, got all the way down to 1570. yesterday I got back 1650ish. the thing is its not taking a break from the game I blame, its the fact that I went to battle hub and was playing 15 --16 MR players and got away with things I had no business. that along with what you said. Dropping, making terrible decisions as i got saltier. I think I'm going to take a week to play other games.
i play chun, i feel like the hazansho nerf is the worst ever, it feels so useless now. i just hate to see people say chun-li is top 1 character when shes mid af
What happened? The jump over fireball part?
@@jrg305 yes, they shifted the invincible frame from 6th frame to 7th frame... makes it completely luck to use vs fireballs now. stupid nerf for no reason other than all the pros saying chun is S-tier to save their own characters. similar to tokido downplaying akuma atm cause hes broken.
@@ObeyaCorpsArmory yeah I was surprised to see chun li nerfs. Very hard to use. Seems like they balance against the top 0.01% of players or somethin who find something broken.
@@jrg305 to be fair, balancing for top level is important in a competitive game with a million dollar prize. I agree though, they represent a very small percentage of the player base, and the mid-high level players frequently get left out of the conversation, I think to everybody's detriment.
I only exclude the bottom 50% because Ideally they are the ones that are new, are doing something wrong they need to learn, have busy schedules/play ranked infrequently, or bought the game and decided they didn't like it. Frankly, they deserve to have an opinion too, it's just much more common that it's a skill issue in those ranks, so they should be receptive to advice from higher players.
I've been hard stuck Plat 4 a long time, and get really distracted by other games when I get frustrated, and it can be tough. I know that a lot of what's holding me back is scrubby excuses, but not handling the tilt well is probably my biggest issue on the game nowadays (I should probably get coaching). Anyway, all of that was just to say it makes sense to balance for top level, but this doesn't excuse devs from considering the mass population's experience, like with Honda.
Hey... Mura... BS... 1700MR is not average, it is literally in the top 3-4% of the players.
I used to do about 5 ranked matches a night in SFV, eventually hit super diamond.
In SF6, I don't touch ranked, not because I'm afraid or anything, but because I still fight High MR players in battle lounge or if I decide to fight people in my local scene.
I work 3-11 and sometimes do OT in the AM doing tech support. I can get pretty stressed when I'm home, but putting myself through the numbers game or ranked doesn't really seem good for my mental.
However, fighting one of the top players of my scene in FT20 ALSO can get me tilted, but I can still improve from those sets.
Battlehub, you never know what you will get and I love it. Sometimes I'm fighting people lower skill than me, but I'm atleast teaching the dhalsim matchup. Other times I'm getting smacked around by 1500-1600 MR players and regardless of that I'm learning either way.
I don't think hopping on ranked after a break is the best decision, but it still looks like you gained something from it.
I can't even break into diamond 😂
you need the lab and not to learn combos but actually learn your character... Seriously. That is the main difference between Master and Diamond/Plat
Same here! New to fighting games at all, picked SF6 in December and started with WT. Now I'm plateauing in Plat 5 around 18.200 LP. But! We gonna break through, just keep training and trusting in ourselves!
@@riczz4641this doesn't really help anyone. No specifics.
Played from the release. Only once or twice a week at best granted, but watching this and reading these comments it’s as though this is easily achievable for everyone but me. 🤷🏻♂️
I believe I know my character well but nowhere near as well as everyone else it seems.
Overall I think your frame of mind is going to be the deciding outcome in nearly every situation in life. Not just fighting games.
Keep up the good work, respect to you all.
Block, anti air, stop doing random DI (definitely counter DI though).
Boom. You're diamond.
Could be worse, you could have been playing the game for over a year, have 370 hours in the game, and still be hard stuck in plat 4 like...um, nobody I know, definitely not me. I don't cry when content creators talk about how easy it is to get to master, but I'm sure someone else does 😂😅😢😭
In an unrelated story, sometimes I wake up with bruises on my knuckles because I own a Wing Chun dummy and lose my cool on it for unrelated reasons. Did I mention this is in no way related and just a random tangent?
I definitely was burned out after Combobreaker; got home and couldn't bring myself to lab or review losses like I normally would - then my PSU broke and I couldn't play anyways, and honestly not only did it feel pretty freeing, when I picked the game back up again a week later I made 3rd at the local. I do think a character like Chun is harder to be consistent with, and while I believe she is top tier on paper, for competing in bracket or ranked it can wear at you.
I stopped taking this game seriously already. I Don’t train anymore, I don’t bother wasting my time. I keep playing here and there because of my friends.
Bro I had 8 days of hell on this game … pure frustration … 800 fights in a week. Finally hit my goal but it was horrible
Grinding mr is a waste of effort in this game. This game is too ignorant for me to wanna actually get to a certain mr goal, because this game is built for players to always be able to lose at a moments notice whether they really deserve to or not. One successful Hail Mary by your opponent and you lose so much progress, this game is only fun if you play casual and battle hub so you can lose with no consequences
Love this video. I always think it’s a great idea to talk about dealing with and overcoming frustration/anger, especially when it comes to our video games. Sometimes it’s just nice to be reminded that no matter how tilted one gets, one can always get back to level
I've been on a major losing streak since Akuma came out. I was close to reaching my goal of hitting Master, but over the course of a couple sessions, I lost about 1000 LP. It's been rough trying to stay motivated to keep going, but I'm trying to take small steps to get back on track so I can finally reach my long term goal in the game.
U can do it broski. Just stay in the fight
@@TeamSeagull I appreciate it, brother. I'll get there one day. 🫡
If you knew.. LP are totally useless. The ranks proves nothing...
No joke, i saw MenaRD's new video about "switching to Zangief" and then was like, "lol, so THATS how you play as Zangief, logged on and went on a 20 win streak and then got my gief to Master in a day.
Started at Diamond 1 (got him in prelims to diamond 1 then never touched him again)
Games hilarious.
Why do people think Mr. is a good representation of skill lvl. Coz it really isn't. an it doesn't make you emune to defeat either.
No game gets me as salty as playing SF ranked matches. I'm a 50-year old man who's played every major SF since the World Warrior in the arcade. I'd like to believe that 30-plus years of experience gives me an advantage in SF6 (most special moves are so encoded in my muscle memory I have scar tissue). And I can say that I have eleven characters at Diamond Rank, over half of them ranked up from Silver through Platinum.
But, damn, there are many days when it's hard not to get furious when every other player walks all over me and my pride. I struggle to keep pace with the crazy number of options. If I'm not looking for something at the right time, I usually stand no chance of reacting to a Drive Impact, DR, neutral jump, etc.. It's frustrating to feel outplayed so often and I have to remind myself of what I've accomplished or I start beating myself up, cursing the other players, etc.. Wait, isn't this supposed to be fun?
A few days ago i went like 1-7, got hit by every Akima HK, Giefs were counter SPD'ing me like crazy, couldn't dust Jinrai to save my life. Yesterday was the total opposite, played like a demon (for my skill level). All things are balanced lmao.
SF6 is my first serious fighting game experience, i'm playing Manon.
From 1200 to 1400 MR in a week, from 1400 to 1200 in an hour 🥲.
Learn when it's time to quit ranked, never play tilted.
I'm a casual player (family man in my 40s) playing here and there online on Xbox console for "pleasure".
Although I still managed to get Master rank with Manon (which was painful), the more I play... sorry... the more I get DESTROYED, the more I feel disgusted by the game. This is just not fun anymore to play 1/ as a casual among good players 2/ one of the weakest character in the game. I dont wanna invest more time learning another character so I guess I'll soon give up the game and keep watching pro player tournaments to entertain myself.
Thanks anyway for your videos, always helpful and interesting. Your thoughts about the game and life in general is worth listening.
Tilt is a killer. That happened to me just last week. I have 3 toons in leveling and whenever I sick with one, I’ll switch and generally can pull myself back mentally and switch back toy main. But not that day, oh no. All 3 toons I almost de-ranked. Losing streaks on all 3 and talk about getting heated! My last set I finally just said “I’m done” and turned it off for a day. Came back and was back to my usual self!
Oh yeah, when it rains it pours and I'm waterlogged. You speak truth about mental resources allocation when tilted. Or having some unresolved stress about something else you don't recognize. But in the moment, since whatever that is isn't recognized, I feel like I'm an even worse player, then I get mad for being mad, lol. That's called training.
I went from 1650 to fucking 1250 and now i'm trying to climb back currently at 1580 but still those 2 days of pure losing like a 50 game lose streak still haunt my soul
don't pull an all-nighter on tilt lmao
When I get salty playing this game I just start making random observations about the game while talking trash about everything that's happening in a comedic way.
At first I kinda of vent but eventually it starts getting really funny to talk trash about everything that I notice in the game and it just clicks and I start playing good again.
It also helps that I talk trash about my own gameplay and I usually notice a lot of the things I'm doing wrong, shit is actually therapeutic to me lol
What's this Terry and Mai coming in as their young selves while Ryu and ChunLi are old? I think the KOF devs have taken over because the SF devs are all gone.
Yeah, a few months ago playing Granblue I hit a long losing streak and the salt wouldn't let me cut my losses. Tanked my win rate to 20%. I'm slowly recovering that win rate and improving in ranked but I also feel like I'm spinning my wheels a lot with it still. That one night looms over me.
Personally , I try to play only until I’ve either dropped or gone up 50 MR in a day. Just like anything in life , you gotta cut your losses or quit while you’re ahead.
MR grind is not for the feint of heart 🤣
some days I'm mopping the floor with all those top tiers with my Manon and somedays I lose 200+ MR in one night....So sad☹.
Mura: I began to lose to players at 1400 mr which is a lower ranking players
Me: wait when do you get a number on your rank
This game sucks without Cody, i cant even lie. I'm a Manon main in this game like you.
as i am kim, if they ready for the gimmicks you get smashed. as you said it is a momentum based game, so some days you get smashed and just dont recover. time to stop playing.
I got Akuma to Master fairly easily without knowing any real combos or really anything honestly. Made the mistake to keep playing after I got there and dropped to like almost 1200 IMMEDIATELY 😂
Been learning more since, trying to get more consistent and I'm SLOWLY clawing my way back to 1500. It was demoralizing at first but I'm still really enjoying it. And after a while I actually liked that I been improving and been climbing my way back up. I'm def going to keep going. I think I have the ability to reach 1600+ eventually. My younger bro got to 1700 with Ryu recently so that's now motivating me to get there too. It's gonna be fun.
MR system is good tho. Working as intended. I dropped to 1290 something because I belonged there. Now I'm at around 1450 because I belong there. When I get to 1600 it'll be because I belong there. It's all good. Game's mad fun.
im more of raging in tournaments because i know can be just that good it very upsetting for sure currently rn
1712 MR “I’m average” 🤦🏾♂️
It’s also cuz chun can’t keep up with the shotos
shit i cant even get more than 1 star in platinum
Sometimes it happens like that. You get in your head when things go wrong especially if you haven’t played the game in a while. So you are right. Take a break and your mind off it, though your mind is still working unconsciously figuring out what went wrong. Then when you come back in a calmer relax state every thing just flows. The right cause of action along with all the answers and solutions just come to you like that. Like some super natural intuition or something. It happens to me all the time.
This has happened to me lately and my controller having a fault has not helped at all, on a break at the moment. Very glad I'm not the only one. Literally went from practically 2 star platinum all the way down to gold 4
I have so many days or moments where I get truly upset with myself and the game when I'm doing badly, usually because what I was thinking in my head didn't happen on screen. Sometimes it's the connection but often times it's a sloppy input that's really hard to correct in the moment. I also have major issues when dealing with heavy pressure since Manon's options are limited and it feels like SF6 is HEAVILY balanced toward allowing consistent pressure.
I've been trying to work through my issues in a number of ways. I spend more time in training mode mainly because it gives me the mental space to not only pay attention to my inputs but I get the readout on the side as well. It's hard to figure out what went wrong in the moment and for me that tends to be the source of my frustration. I get far less upset when I can accurately explain what went wrong.
I've also started compiling a wiki of all the Manon information that I could because my other issue is knowing what to do in general. Some characters have obvious openings but others really don't. I've ben wanting something like it so that when I am struggling to deal with a person or attack I can go, read up on it, and then have that peace of mind of "Oh yeah, I can hit that with s.LK" or something along those lines. Building it has been a SLOG since I'm just one person, but it's certainly helped to some extent already. It's missing a ton of stuff and a lot of it is actually placeholder but I'm proud of where it is at the moment. It also allows me to play the game on the days that I'm not feeling up to "playing the game" so it keeps me involved.
manonsdancingcorner.notion.site/0a6cb1115fbd4c5b83d5253f484384a0?v=4a0342ec0df14bae9d52059f9598377e&pvs=4
Now I just have to work on my ranked anxiety so that I can push her to Master rank (currently Diamond 4) and I'll have met my own personal goal.
You guide is pure gold and absolutely amazing, my friend. Not only for Manon, it contains really valuable information for each match up.
Great work, we nee more people like you in the FGC!
@@Loendall Thanks. It's been a stupid amount of work and has so much more to go but I'm happy with what I've managed so far.
You're so out of touch if say 1700 is average
I don't mean average in relation to the general public, i know its good but i got to 1800+ with Manon last phase and i wanna get 1800-1900 at least with Chun so 1700 right now is still kinda middle of the road. That's all i meant
I'm nowhere near as high level as you but im finding over the last few days it's all gone to crap with my ranked on this. It's a mental trap and as you're demoralised you try and gain what you've lost. Very toxic to be honest.
I think for me the thing is that I'll play and have fun with characters I don't care about. They're throw away matches for me. If I lose with them I just laugh it off and try again. I play so loose and free, and I find myself having fun and not caring about the points. I don't even look at it....... AND THEN I pick up my main (Chun) and suddenly I'm playing tight and full of salt when I lose. I realized this a few weeks ago and have been trying to figure out why I do that to myself? I think it's because I must be feeling that this character is my "best" character and I do all this training stuff, and watch videos on tech, so I must feel like "Hey i SHOULD be good with her!" But the truth is that this is really taking all the fun out of playing with my favorite character. I get no loose and free relaxing vibes, no satisfaction in wins and only self hate and frustration in losses. Just reproaching myself for bad decisions and input mistakes until I want to pull my hair out. This video came at a good time for me Mura. Thanks so much for sharing. I need to listen and stop feeling this way.
I have been taking sf6 ranked seriously again and was absolutely losing it, as I was unable to consistenly beat Akuma players because of how volatile the character can be sometimes and ended up demoting multiple times Because I was absolutely malding after guessing wrong on wakeup 10 times against an Akuma until I was dead in one of my matches my decision making became drastically poor and I went on to lose/almost lose other matches. Then after taking a much needed break, I was able to retain my gameplan on Rashid again and managed to get back to my original LP after promoting back to D5. This video was much needed and really emphasizes that LP gains and ,more importantly, self improvement in this game is a marathon 😅. This video was much needed thank you!
I can totally relate with getting frustrated/angry on a losing streak. I basically dont play ranked anymore because of this and just stick to battle hub (not really an option for you I know, crazy that they haven't even added 1 north africa/middle east battle hub server yet).
I also find it super frustrating/demoralising that we all have days like you had with a big losing streak, followed by big win streak and all those matches make a net gain of 11 MR. I end up wondering why i bothered. It ends up feeling like a chore when the whole reason we play the game is that it's fun.
I'll probably play ranked again to get bison to master when he's out but won't grind for MR with him.
I'm glad other people still experience this too and it's not just me. A lot of people were talking about this early on, but I guess people either just continuously played or accepted that there's something about SF6 that's so specific that it's just easy to lose the feeling for after a certain period of time.
Capcom should put a Grand Master rank instead of the mr system imo
Sometimes it feels like the game is fighting just as much or more than the opponent 😂😂
Refreshing to hear this on RUclips. Thanks, Mura. Always a pleasure
Thanks for the MR.
This happened to me today 😂
I relate to this good you stood strong
I was at a point where I could beat 1800 mr players or whatever but I can’t and don’t want to play for several hours a day anymore so I just accept that there are people who completely obsess over these games (and just better) and will destroy me, I’ll go 20 -0 and not care at all, get a win or two then they’ll leave hahah, all these people care about is winning and stroking their infantile egos, they have no life, no hobbies, no family etc. I got akuma to diamond and just stopped ranked with him because he’s not actually super fun for me, I’ll still beat masters with him in hub, get rekt nonstop, get hate messages, teabags etc but just remember that we actually have real lives and our whole sense of self worth and happiness doesn’t come from winning in a video game like the sweat lords. We aren’t pros and never will be so just chill, if I don’t play for a week I’m getting cooked extra crispy unless I’m using my one master character deejay then it’s a light crisp, it doesn’t matter😂
I get what you're saying but naw screw that. The best feeling in the world is beating those no lifers in a match with less time trained. This game is so volatile it's actually possible. Coming home from my 9-5 and beating some ass before I get in my pj's and sip some tea with a splash of salt from the tears of my opponents 😂😂😂😈
cope
I'm trying to relate, but in a way this video feels disingenuous to most of the population playing this game. You're at master and took a week off. You're a top percentile.
Im at plat and took a month off. I lost 2000 LP coming back.
You're like a celebrity skinny girl complaining she gained 5 lbs when traveling to Aruba when I'm like a 350 lb person with binge eating disorder who struggles to lose 5 lbs without gaining 20 after giving up. Oh poor you skinny girl. Must be hard.
To each their own goals and aspirations. I would be a king if i got a legend rank but to Daigo its nothing and he wants to win the pro tour. Others just want the master rank and if they got it that's the world to them.
What i am trying to say is that the drawbacks and frustration of being set back relative to your goal happens to all of us and i wanted to share my experience is all.
People, set your own goals. You don't need to let other's opinions be your own. I hear all of these arbitrary "rules" about real Masters and what not. People say you're not a real Master unless you have 1800 MR or more. This is dumb. There's levels of Mastery. Ranked is sweaty and the game can be not-so-fun if you take it too seriously. I'm a 1600 MR guy...that's good enough for me. I've beaten "Legend" ranked players before. But grinding for a number is not fun to me. I just want to fight.