Hate Speech: Stop Playing (Mindgames) With Yourself

Misty_Chaos said:
A few things actually, based on experience:

1. Placing way too much value on online progress. This is an incredibly easy trap for anyone to fall into to. You place value on what ranked says besides your username or character. The simple fact of the matter is that online is never going to be the same thing as playing someone in person, no matter how good the netcode is.

As a result, you will either lose because of lag or win too much due the same reason. This can either crush you or inflate your ego excessively, neither of which are positive effects.

For instance, I know from my experience in SF4, that I shouldn't care about how many points I have as it doesn't reflect my skill as I don't play 10 hours a day and I keep losing to stuff I'd wouldn't otherwise in an offline setting. Similarly as I'm new to SC, I spam a lot online but I also know that this would get me slaughtered in a tournament setting but I'm willing to accept this as part of the learning process.

2. Playing a character you don't actually like. I wouldn't identify myself as a tier whore but I'm sure plenty of people are using for example, Mitsu and Natsu online for that very reason and if you're good with them, more power to you. However, the reality is more often than not, most of the people playing these characters aren't suited to them.

Again using SF4 as an example, I play Juri, a character that is deceivingly difficult to use and mid tier in the game at best. I know there are better characters in the roaster but I like playing as Juri more than the rest of the cast ( except Bison, who I use as a secondary. ) It's not that I can't play the other members of the cast, I just don't get the same feeling of satisfaction from playing them.

It's for that reason I never touched Wesker in Marvel ( and was probably one of the reasons I don't like that game as it's like ' Play top tier only - OR ELSE! ' ) and while I did briefly play Yang in SSF4 AE, I didn't play Yun. I don't like those characters, they don't gel with me, if you get my drift. If I was to force myself to play one of those types of characters, I'd probably end up hating the game.

Don't let tiers discriminate your choice of your character, I picked Juri because she jumped out at me, nothing else. This is the same reason I picked Pyrrha as well, it's just a coincidence that she is high tier in this game.

Unless the game is an unbalanced mess ( in which case, I'd probably not bother playing it ) play a character that you actually like, you'll be thankful in the long run.

I'm going to leave it that as I've gone on way longer that I thought I would on those 2 points alone.
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I realized that playing as a character that you like results in playing better with that said character because:

- You get a great feeling of satisfaction for winning with your favorite character

- You play better with said character because you do not want to see your character beaten to a pulp, especially if it's one of those characters you dislike.
 
Well I used to think that if go to a Tournament and do horrible at it that people won give advice for improvement and instead they will belittle me. I have discussed this with many of the members on this site and they said that they would never belittle someone that want to be competitive. I tend to think of it rarely now.

I always looked at competition to look at my flaws and learn. I if I lose a match online or anywere I will research the tools of my opponent and the character.

I tend to be confident if I see improvement. I try to tellmyself that i will see my true skills in a competition

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There have been a ton of articles on the competitive mindset put out these days - this is the best one yet.

The only thing I can add is this: When you play, always assume you can win. Its an easy assumption because its true - there is no one in the history of fighting games with a 100% win rate and there has never been a 0-10 match up. Ever. I will talk down about my skills all day long, but from the moment a match starts to the end the number one thing going through my head is 'I can take this guy' - and it stays there no matter how many matches in a row I've lost before that.
 
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