What everyone gets wrong about DEFENSE.
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2023
- When it comes to fighting games, a very common misconception about "defense" when playing a game is to simply hold block and not get hit...But I'm gonna tell you right now, that is NOT what defense is all about. I'll be discussing what real defense actually entails, some examples of it in games like Guilty Gear Strive, Street Fighter V, and Dragon Ball FighterZ, and how you can change your defensive tactics after all this.
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"That's what good defense is all about, it's not just blocking ... good defense is part of recognizing you are in a situation that's bad, and escaping it thoroughly" - Lord Kizzie
Anything that involves you evading or dodging a hit is defense. Creating space, air dashing, back dashing, ect. And once you master your character, keep your eyes on your opponent. In a fight you don't look at yourself, you pay attention to the enemy's movements. You will win a whole lot more if you do that.
“Just block” and “wait your turn” are both super common pieces of beginner advice but the whole path to growth is finding where those don’t apply. As a player you really need to be finding how to nose your way out of situations.
Having an unbreakable defense is the hardest and best skill to have in a fighting game
I feel defense is based off game knowledge and situational awareness. Like how kizzie used the Bison example with Diago.
I didn’t pay 60 bones to block
At our local fighting game scene, we often discuss the idea of "taking turns" when talking about offence and defence and that was a good way of breaking it down for me when learning, because it adjusted my attitude towards the attack/defence dynamic. Offence and Defence don't happen in a vaccuum, they're cyclical. When it's your turn on offense, you need to know when your turn is ending, the gaps in your offense, where an opponent has a response and what those responses are character by character. Meanwhile, when you're on defence, it's not your turn and your mind needs to be on getting your turn back and finding your opportunity to do so. In both situations, you are thinking on both sides of the fence. On defence, you are looking for a chance to take offensive action and on offense, you're trying to use a defensive maneuver at the end of your pressure to keep your aggression going (Like in the Daigo example).
i strongly agree also i love how you always use clips from multiple games to cover a larger audience so more people have a chance to understand whats going on
Learning to play against big setplay characters helped me learn this. You can block all day, but you have to push back or else you will get run over.
Something you didn't go over that is also an important part of defense is learning when to take a calculated hit. If you know a bad situation and mix up is coming and see a chance to mess that up by taking an unintended hit from the attacker you should. More than likely they will get a little damage and maybe some oki at best but depending on the situation that's probably preferred over you blocking that and eating something even worse right after.
Yup defense for me was learning how to counter in tekken, I was always stuck blocking and never able to get the opponent off of me. To me defence was learning how to get out of a bad situation.
Kizzie is absolutely right. Defense just like offense is multi-faceted. Good defense is different from being able to block well. The best defense is preventing offense. Having great neutral not only helps in mounting an offense, but it also prevents your opponents offense. Also, knowing your defensive options is good. A lot of newer fighting games are giving you more options in case you are forced into a defensive position. Just be glad that Darkstalkers' defensive mechanics aren't mainstream. Block teching was a mash fest, and counters meant you had to do a Dp in one frame.... Good times.
This is great stuff. Personally I have always thought of defense as "the ability to consistently recognize and select the least risky option". Sometimes that means blocking for a while. Sometimes that means wake-up DP.
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I think a way of putting this is that blocking is about mitigating damage, which yeah, it's a cornerstone of defensive play, sure. But I feel defence in a more broad sense is about mitigating risk and taking control of the match, turning the tables so you can be the one setting the tempo instead
When i wrestled in high school, my coach always said, "When in doubt, reset to neutral." Same applies here also.
I need more of these videos from you. This would be a really nice RUclips serious of you explaining similar fighting game misconceptions and giving us your insight.
Great tips kizzie. After watching this I've decided I will mash dp whenever my opponent is anywhere near me, even when it's my turn.
That dbfz clip was absolutely insane it was really the definition of a DBZ fight where they're evenly matched
there's a lot of things you don't understand until you get a lot better at the game. A lot of players might wonder things like why people don't just burst or guard cancel in some situations as well and good defense is also knowing when not to press those things because your opponent wants to bait it