5:36 another word to describe it is “until it becomes instinctual”

Me who used to cry when I lost because I felt like a failure and quit fighting games and is just getting back into playing them: 👁 👄 👁

"Boards...don't hit back". Great advice here for beginners. This is hilarious. Can't wait for the next vid haha

Unfortunately, switching focus from winning to learning only makes me ragequit from being unable to learn instead

Man this video makes me remember my love for fighting games. I've been playing fighting games for many years now and I recently bought SF6, I've had for 3 weeks now and now I am Diamond 5, but yesterday I got my ass handed to me in a tournament. But I was thinking that loss made me want to get better and I want to keep improving, even if I don't win I will keep trying.

This "Losing to learn" concept is something I struggle with the most. I watch all these fighting game tornaments and get hyped to play. Then I go home thinking yeah Ima do all these amazing combos I've seen today. Then the match starts and I get destroyed by my friend over and over only to realise I'm garbage. Then I quit the game and go back to playing MMOs and RPGs which is what I'm good at. My friend has played fighting games all his life and it feels impossible for me to learn anything playing against him. He does give me advice though but I forget everything when the match starts even the combos since I'm so focused on winning. I'll try out your advice and see if I can finally start getting better.

Thought I'd have some fun, do something new. Hope you enjoy!

Thank you so much! I've watched so many tutorials and advice videos. This video made so much more sense to me because I feel like you related more to how I feel when I play. Usually people go into the general, but you really wanted people to relate to how you felt. I'm not going to knock other tutorials, but I felt as though you were communicating to me directly. Thank You so much! I will apply this daily online and even offline where the salt would dig in deeper.

Thanks for the advice. I hit Silver rank a couple of weeks ago, and thought, 'OK, maybe I'm starting to get decent at the game'. Then I proceeded to go on a losing streak until I dropped back to Bronze. At first, I was pretty demoralized, blaming unfair matchmaking, lag and whatnot. I must have lost like 40 straight matches. And that's when it just clicked into my head that I wasn't yet ready for Silver. Sure I made it there not necessarily by fluke, but I didn't have enough skill to stay in Silver bracket, and I was right back where I belonged in Bronze. And I spent the last couple of weeks winning, losing and learning. It's a very slow process, but I'm definitely a better player now than I was a couple weeks back.

Thank you, I'm an extremely emotional player so I really take losses hard, I always just want to win and in my mind I guess I think that winning proves that I'm the better player but now that I think about it, it just mean's I won a best of 1, it means nothing in the long term like you are saying. I have a habit of destroying my game plan under pressure, I revert back to my old style and forget all of my hard work. I really want to become one of the best player's out there so I have to work on my mentality and my ability to execute a plan under pressure, thank you for this video! You helped me become aware of one of my flaws, it's greatly appreciated.

The moment you defined plateau made this video more than just entertaining (and informative), but now also SUPER AWESOME.

Also wow, this video is a year old. I haven't seen it. It just showed up in my reccomended section.

BY THE WAY. Setting simple goals for the match helps alot. The goal I set gets higher priority then winning to me, though winning is still the goal, but it's like a challenge mode or something. I try to win with something new. I learned alot of new stuff by setting my goal, as Juri, to try and throw as many fireballs as possible in a match......I got WAY better at fighting zangief by accident. I went back to my regular style of play...accept against zagief! (and I learned some other stuff too but this comment is long enough)

Thanks for this video, this is me to a T when I play fighting games. I get into this depression/rage spiral becaue I can recognize how horrible the other player is but I still lose to them. I get this useless mentality where any time I do win it didn't actually count, because if I beat someone they must have been horrible because I suck. So I want to fight and beat people better than me, but because I'm too angry I never advance as a player in order to get to those next level of players. It also means that all of my victories are erased from my memory and I only remember the times I lost, so I feel like I must have a 5% winrate. Then eventually I just give up until another fighting game catches my eye and the cycle repeats itself.  I'm trying Tekken 7 now and it's promising because it's not execution heavy but I'm sensing myself fall back into this mindset and I'm trying to make a conscious effort to chill out and take it slower.

This video helped me tremendously, and I appreciate it so much.  I play Overwatch, and it can be a little hard not to care because it being a team based game, people will only really care in Competitive mode, so I have to compete and improve there.  I had no idea how to disconnect my ego from the game and just improve, which resulted in my progress grinding to a halt.  Even playing the game became difficult because I would get so tilted at myself.  But redefining what a win means and reorganizing my priorities has worked out so, so well for me!  I can can enter a game with a few simple goals and be satisfied enough just by fulfilling them.

That salt part was hilarious lol. Thanks for the insight

Dude, yes! I often keep going back and forth from this mindset to the land of the raging salt, so it's damn good that you actually talked about the very same concepts I try to keep in mind every day when trying to incorporate new stuff into my repertoire.

Thanks for the great video, it will work as great incentive for me not to go to salt land next time.

Great video. I need to remind myself of this all the time and started playing casuals to try detach myself from that winning mentality. In ranked I'm sitting around 50%, but in casuals I'm sitting around 20% because that's my experimentation space.

This is so GENIUS! this is exactly what I'm experiencing and thanks to my buddy who sent me this video. I've just recently got into street fighter and invested in a fight stick. Something I've never used before. That alone is a HUGE learning curve but I adapt quickly. I'm a very competitive player overall when it comes to everything else but those games always had teammates to rely on to help or blame in a lot of situations lol. Fighting games are straight up two players... Yourself and the opponent but this here is the advice he was always trying to tell me. You NAILED the emotion side on things when it came to facial expressions and saltiness hahah! I try to keep it toned down especially having kids around but my nature is to be a WINNER! not to mention rank up! Anyway amazing video and thanks!

Wow I actually think I learned something, great vid

As a new player to fighting games, this will help so much. You explained it in a very easy format with great explanations. Would love to see more of these in the future if possible.

dude I applied what u said in this video applying the stuff I've been practising like reads and basic option selects rather than focusing on winning and I just had one of my most satisfying victories thank you so much man :D