THINK! Questions for you who want to win

Myke · Jan 11, 2021

THINK! A brilliantly written article by Jin (@jin_hm) for Virtua Fighter players of all skills, backgrounds and experience levels. Packed with many tips and words of wisdom that are applicable to other fighting games as well. Check it out!

Blog article: https://jinblog.games/vfbeginner01_eng/

A few excerpts that I really liked, such as the need to establish fundamentals before going for the deeper stuff:

"However, you must be aware that this only a viable option AFTER you have established that you can punish and apply pressure without any delay! You can experiment with delay shenanigans later on, get your 50/50 pressure down to an Art before you start adding delays to your repertoire."
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On reactions:

"At the end of the day you can’t let your opponent do whatever they want and try to win by reacting alone. You are going to have to make reads and preemptive decisions based on data and patterns you’ve noticed throughout the game."
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Ultimately, it all comes down to:

"It doesn’t matter how perfect your execution is, or how much you know, this game is ruled by reads!"
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And finally, the payoff:

"When you start seeing yourself pull off combos you couldn’t before, adapt to situations like you couldn’t before, and frustrate your opponent like you couldn’t before… When you learn to stand back and really judge your own growth, you’ll begin to see leaps in performance you weren’t aware of. There’s real satisfaction in seeing progress and learning to spot it."
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What did you think of the article? Were there any points in there that you could personally relate to?

kungfusmurf · Feb 5, 2021

The Payoff: Finally getting to play an online warrior that's a 1/2 as good as they are offline.

Conclusion: If you're not thinking while playing then you haven't even started.

Mental Ceiling: Do the knee, you know you want to & do it AGAIN!

Ellis · Jan 11, 2021

It is hard to let go of the knee when one have started flailing it around. tbh.

kungfusmurf · Jan 11, 2021

Yes, especially since the % of players as well as getting it to hit during a match consistently is very low. Sadly it's just my opinion & I don't have the factual #s to back that up, meh.

Tricky · Jan 11, 2021

loved this article. Thank you for helping translate this. I wonder, is it possible to translate more of his writings? His style is really fun to read

erdraug · Jan 12, 2021

My favorite quote is "If you want to play against lots of different people, I suggest dusting off your old 360 or PS3"

Tricky · Jan 13, 2021

vid on the technique Goro-SHiki (or as we'd call it and Option Select) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6fQlD8gpuM&t=239s

Jide · Jan 20, 2021

So good.. The advice should be patched into the game!

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