Hate Speech: We Talkin' Bout Practice?

Fuzzieviking said:
I tend to put the computer on the hardest setting in practice and fight them for hours. Usually characters that I personally have trouble with like asta or ivy.

That or I practice other possible combos I could be doing. Its how I learned most of my combos xD
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This doesn't work, and not because I'm an elitist against the AI or anything like that.

I can tell you right now that the AI for any fighting game is inherently flawed -- either they can't block certain setups, or block all setups -- something a human would never be able to do.

Case and point: Ivy will almost always hit an AI with her CL A+B[A+K] on the second hit for no good reason. Yet, anyone who plays Ivy knows that this move is unsafe/predictable and should be used sparingly. You need to be consciously aware of the AI's limitations, and even then this doesn't come close to actually praticing setups with a person.
 
NEED to add this here:

Playing against the CPU nonstop can develop really really bad habits. Just like playing only online, or playing against only 1 or 2 people. The CPU can not handle complex ideas and can not problem solve well. It can be exploited HARD. If you lack decent competition then play CPU sparingly. It's good for building reaction time, but useless for practicing mix ups. As a side note, thank you Idle for breaking the bad news to me. It humbled me greatly and allowed me to reflect on my fighting style and how I handle situations. Example: Pick Zasalamel. Do only 2A and 4B+K.
 
This is a wonderful topic. Ive been wondering how top players practice, other than play against humans.

Someone like me who virtually has no offline scene, Has trouble practicing effectivly. So Ive been doing most the things in Hates post. I mostly go into training mode and set up certain situations against characters that give me trouble and practice defence and counters.

But Ive been wondering if Im doing it correctly. Or if there is some better way I should be practicing. I will set the CPU on very hard (cause Grand Master just seems un-realistic) and not try to just beat the computer, but keeping an eye out for certain moves or situations and see how I counter it on reaction.

So is there a better way that someone like me can practice without having the aid of actual humans to play with?

HRD
 
For me, it's a lot of scenario recreation, and a little bit of input practice. I mean, it's always good to know you have a handle on JagA, a+ka2A, and A+Ka2A. But most of the time, it's me going "Okay, my opponent has this option - what things can I do as Siegfried to beat it?" A lot of it is trying to be creative just for creativity's sake, using stances transitions to escape strings - sometimes it ends up actually being the catch-all option, but most of the time I end up sticking to 3B, 4K, etc; moves that are tried and true tend to be that way for most scenarios.
 
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