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@@dt7202 that’s ok! You don’t need to do the fanciest combos in order to do okizeme, even just punishing a DP with a normal into a special that gives a good knockdown will improve your gameplay significantly. I’ve also got a video on how to improve your execution if you want to learn how to improve at doing combos! czcams.com/video/6X5cJ_iDumA/video.htmlsi=vQ5EnFZeLHQOPZQR

@@Shorins22I appreciate you bro!!

@@Nax-xq6by Most college courses (in the US at least) label introductory classes as 100 level. I thought it would signify that these are an introduction to fundamental aspects of the game and not everything there is. Sorry for the confusion lol I guess fundamentals 1-100 would be stuff like: learning the controls, how to move, what the meters are and things similar to that

@@Shorins22 Ok bro, thank you so much🥇🥇🥇

I know 😭 I saw your neutral video and had to put it in the description of mine as sort of a “further reading” section Keep it up bro your videos are incredible

@@Neagomesha I’d just say pick whoever looks cool! Every character is good and viable at a high level.

@@Neagomesha I think SF6 is definitely more beginner friendly

This is an interesting way to approach defense, seems a bit too risky for my taste as a level one defense though 😅

@@smokeandmaintain1 A safe jump is done when you have enough frame advantage to jump at your opponent and press an attack, but by the time their reversal comes out, you’ll land which cancels your jumping attack and lets you block. You’ll see akuma do light tatsu into sweep and jump after a lot. If his opponent tries to do a reversal here, it’ll get blocked.

@@lamMeTV Exactly! There’s so much knowledge we build over the years, and a lot of people wouldn’t even think of mentioning it to someone who doesn’t know. The only difference between a beginner and expert player is knowledge and experience.

Hopefully not for long! Glad you enjoyed :)

Hey you got back hp now!

@@TheLeroy125 These are really good supplements to the video! I talked about it a bit in my last one “if your opponent keeps getting hit, you don’t need to change your strategy” but I definitely should have stressed it more in this one. It’s important to not overadapt. DI is extremely powerful at a lower level. Being ready for it/having a setup that will let you react more easily will definitely help not just at a lower level, but at all levels of play :). Thanks for watching!

lol what

100% agree the tool is super important. A nice fightstick (rap 4 kai or even the quanba drone is a good entry level) is leagues of difference from a mayflash f300 or similar. The cheaper ones tend to break often and you'll end up spending MORE money on cheap sticks than investing a little more upfront to get a slightly nicer one. I haven't played on pad much, I know there's a bunch who play on base ps4 controller rather than ps5. A lot of people are also starting to use the victrix pro bfg, if you're looking for a nice controller I've heard incredibly good recommendations for it from other fighting game players. Leverless controllers are nice because you probably already have one (keyboard) and if not you can get one for really cheap compared to the other two options. I switched to these from fightstick mainly because it's way easier to carry around at tournaments and put in my carry-on for flying. Imo it's definitely the one with the steepest learning curve though.

I have a guide on how to improve execution here! czcams.com/video/6X5cJ_iDumA/video.html It shows you some techniques and how to practice in training mode :)

Ryu 5HP and 5LK do not link nornally only on counter hit, BUT it does link into 5LP

@@bardockvegetable6377 Thank You

@@venivediicommented4046 Most people will do a small delay when they throw so that if you do a strike, they’ll block it, and if you throw, they’ll tech it. This is called “delay tech” and loses super hard to shimmies but it’s very effective against frame traps and throws.

@@Shorins22 ohhh makes sense... As if they are delay teching. Question, would an instant grab from opponent stop the shimmy ??

@@venivediicommented4046 it depends on the range and frame advantage, most of the time it won’t stop it but it’ll make the whiff harder to punish, it’s an ok option but it loses to strikes. Tokido actually instant techs a lot!

There’s just so much information to learn! I didn’t know you could hold 2 buttons to backrise and thought you had to tap them until someone watched my defense video and pointed it out.

@@Shorins22 Well… I just learned something new too now 😂

Ur lying there’s no way u master and didn’t know u could chain lights

@@radicalcellz6666 nope, must suck to suck lol

@@KingJinzo2125 I’m masters gang I don’t suck

It might seem like your opponent is whiff punishing + poking at the same time, but most of the time they’re just switching “modes” very fast because you’re walking forward. If you take a step just outside of their range and act like you’ll walk forward, but just hold block instead, you’ll be surprised how often people press a button. To bait whiff punishes you could also whiff a light button, and a lot of the time your opponent will whiff their whiff punish, thinking you did a heavier button. This is also why at high level you see people walking forward and walking back a lot, both are trying to get in range to poke or whiff punish, without walking themselves to the corner, and staying out of their opponents ranges. If that doesn’t quite answer your question I think you should consider the idea of “mental stack”. Humans can really only react to 2 (maybe 3 if they’re really really good) things in game at once. If your opponent is focused on making sure you don’t walk forward and whiff punishing at the same time, it would be very hard for them to react to a jump, a drive rush, or even a raw DI.

Thank you for your response! Your response, and the visual example in this video of the Jamie whiff punishing Guile's low MK, kind of gave me a good idea of how to approach this situation. Would a good way to think of it be that I would have to try to just stay patient, and hope that my opponent eventually gives me something to punish, whether that be a whiff punish, a blocked move, or an anti-air?

It’s an incredibly complicated topic at the end of the day. I’d like to make more videos about it though, thanks for liking this one!

@@co81385 there’s that, and if you notice they’re waiting to whiff punish a lot, you can start playing a bit more preemptive. Keep in mind there’s not just 1 neutral triangle. A lot of the time they can be broken down like this: waiting for your opponent to do something you can react and punish (checking drive rush), doing something that beats reactions (doing drive rush qcb hp with Luke), and doing something that beats preemptive play (neutral jumping the qcb hp).

Thank you so much for your responses! If I may ask, how would Drive Rush heavy Flash Knuckle beat a reaction?

@@ZeroFanfare 1. There’s nothing wrong with a flowchart as long as you have different responses to different things! It’s good to think about things in a structured way in order to better conceptualize them. 2. A frame trap is about conditioning your opponent to stop pressing buttons when THEY are on defense, so that way you’re able to open up your options and start doing things that wouldn’t work if they were pressing jab after every time they blocked.

@@Shorins22 Thank you. So then how do those things lead up to overwhelming the opponent?

@@ZeroFanfare if you use a frame trap to stop your opponent from pressing buttons, it lets you do more options to overwhelm them. It’s not necessarily the frame trap itself that will overwhelm them, but what it lets you do when they are conditioned to block :).

@@Shorins22 That makes more sense, thank you for explaining! I'm fairly new so it's a lot to process.

@@ZeroFanfare of course! I’m uploading all of these pretty fast, but each concept takes a while to internalize. If you’re new and following along with the series, there’s a lot of information and concepts you haven’t really thought about before coming up all at once. Don’t worry if you don’t get it right away, it took me years to get to the point I’m at now.

@@Jarrych83 I hadn’t considered tying execution to that before, I’ll give it some more thought! The links aren’t as precise as you think anymore, since street fighter 5, the games have an input buffer system that let you press the button a few frames early, and the button will come out as fast as possible. There’s still an element of timing to it that’s difficult, but there’s no (or very very few) 1 frame links anymore.

@@Shorins22 Yeah, true. Just amazing how tight a lot of it is. A lot of gamers who play more flexible combo games like Strive immediately note how tight that part of the game feels. I've also found that the frame meter and the cancel window indicators help a LOT with connecting frame data to the animations and making those things link. I've been talking about this with a few people and was considering putting together a "for beginner by beginner" sorta video on this stuff, but then you kinda hit it on the nose.

@@Jarrych83 Yeah links take a bit to understand the timing for. The advice I got when I was new was just “if your move doesn’t come out, you’re doing it too fast. If it doesn’t combo, you’re doing it too slow.” It only clicked for some friends that wanted to learn the game and I was teaching when they heard the rhythm of the link through my buttons. There’s not really much else like links in other games, so as a musician I have a much easier time conceptualizing it than maybe a lot of other gamers would.

@@Shorins22 that makes sense. So any of the in-game tools that help with connecting those things are good. And if you don't have someone else to "hear," it can be tricky that way.

Yeah! Go to reversal settings, and under block reversal, set your opponent to do whatever attack you'd like. Then press square (light punch for me) and change the count setting to however many times you want them to block.