10 Bad Street Fighter V Habits You Need to Break
Street Fighter V can really make you angry. Sometimes you don’t know how to counter or escape from a rough situation, but other times you know you could have won if you’d only made one less mistake. That comes with any competitive multiplayer game, but so does the joy of beating someone you know should have beaten you soundly, or clutching out a close victory. These are good feelings, and you should want to experience them more than losing.
If you want to lose less, you’ll have to become a better player (or stop playing, I guess). To do that, follow these e-sports-certified tips on what to avoid doing in Street Fighter and you’ll become the best e-sportster in the whole business. Or e-sportsman (sorry, e-sportsperson). When you’re as good as these tips will make you, you can choose what they call you!
Random Sweeps
Sometimes you end up having an intimate staring contest with your opponent. It happens in the heat of battle: as you go for a jumping attack, they block it, and you move back. Suddenly, you realize you may love your opponent but don’t know what to do about it. So you both decide to crouch down and block for seconds, waiting for the other person to confess their love. Instead of letting the moment come, you throw out a crouching heavy kick, your opponent blocks it and whips out the 30% damage combo they’d practiced for hours in case they’d come across an opponent who didn’t profess their love.
You have to stop getting in your own way, Street Fighter V player. Let them tell you how they feel. Or better yet, walk up and throw them.
Wake-up Shoryukens
I get it. When you’re playing online and someone’s being a little too aggressive, this works. You can uppercut your way to some easy wins, but in the long-run, it’s not healthy for your life as a player. Eventually, someone is going to get wise about what you’re doing, block while you get back up, and make you eat a full combo, because they’ll have eternity to figure out what they want to do with your sorry ass after they’ve blocked your Shoryuken. I would go as far as to say wake-up Shoryukens are the devil’s Shoryukens.
Respecting your opponent
And you, the Birdie who’s always falling for those wake-up Shoryukens. You have to understand something about the lower leagues of Street Fighter play—everyone’s a little dumb. You’ve probably heard about “conditioning your opponents” to do certain things over the course of a match, but some people don’t want to learn, and they’ll never realize every devil’s Shoryuken they throw out digs them deeper into the Street Fighter abyss. So stop giving them that respect. Don’t think they’ll ever learn until they prove it you.
Not respecting your opponents a little
I know this is literally the exact opposite of what I just told you, but bear with me. Sometimes you have to do one thing, and sometimes you have to do another. If you want to get better, wait until you get a good baseline read of what your opponent is like before completely disregarding their intelligence as a human being. Fighting games are to some degree guessing games, and part of that involves “guessing” whether your opponent will fight with dignity, or succumb to the devil’s Shoryukens.
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