When did you stop sucking?

Norik

Norik

[14] Master
We were all scrubs once, but we eventually got deeper into the game. In my case, I was a button mashing scrub for a very long time, maily because I only got to play in the arcades or at the house of a friend. That changed when I got SCIV. Then I was no longer a button mashing scrub, I became a Kilik scrub LOL. But then I slowly started to like the game more and more, until I became a fan of the series. I downloaded all emulators I could, and played all the games in the series near to 100% completion (except for SCIII, because my computer ran PS2 VERY slowly). I got much better along the way. Then I finally managed to play online and I realized how much better I could get; So I spent some time playing all the games again and trying to find my main. And so, I've slowly gotten better, and I guess I'm still in the middle of the learning process.

How about you? When did you stop sucking?
 
Uh I'm on the slow path of becoming better. Really it first started when I went on youtube looking up combo videos, eventually I came across one video where the poster linked me here. Learned to play the game with basics, then I started to get better execution wise. A few members here picked me up and taught me stuff that was layered on the skelaton of what I knew, then I learned in depth knowledge. Now I have people complimenting me a lot and I play offline with a really good group of players. Personally I think I'm still pretty poor but I'm getting there.
 
You stop sucking by realizing you aren't losing; but being beaten, at least.. that's when I stopped sucking.

To explain:

Seth Killian said:
There are two ways to walk away from a match as the loser. You can just lose, or you can be beaten. You can give it away, or have it taken from you. Everyone understands this distinction on some level already, but lets make it explicit:

Say you weren't keeping track of the timer. Or you blew your big chance at a combo/counter. You guessed the wrong way to block. And so on. This is you, losing. This is giving it away. Losing like this is something you effectively do all by yourself- the opponent can just hang around, taking advantage of all the mistakes you're handing him. The other way to lose is to be beaten. This is the only way a serious player will allow themselves to lose. To lose like this means to be in the game, do your best, and have the win pried from your cold, dead hands. You get beaten by superior tactics, being outguessed, or to something youve never seen before, etc. Not because of something you screwed up. Never "just losing" is one of the first steps toward being a better player.
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-Idle
 
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