How I reached 1900 mr from1487 mr in a year
For those of you who feel like you're stuck in the mid/intermediate bubble, here are the 2 main improvements I made in Sf6 to get past that wall.
- Avoid overlying on a small set of strategies. Most people are that are stuck at around 1500mr and even up to 1800 are typically overly stubborn, trying to force a strategy that isn't the most effective vs the player they are fighting. This can include only focusing on approaching and gaining plus frames or in my case, only trying to keep people out with big buttons.
Improving at utilization these strategies helps you rank up. But it also lures you into a false belief that it's all you need to keep improving. Whether it works to 1500 mr or 2k mr, eventually you'll hit a wall if you don't develop gameplans outside of your comfort zone.
For me, this meant walking down defensive players who aren't easy to clip with normals, switching my strategy to chipping at their drive gauge or forcing guesses with drive rush. That strategy is less effective vs a hyper aggressive Mai player who gives doesn't give you that same time and would result in a more swingy and volatile match.
- Stop trying to react to everything. This game throws a lot of mental stack tests at you, drive rush being at its core. But if you focus too hard on trying to react to every drive rush, dash, jump, whiffed normal, character specific move like Ken dragonlash, you'll end up sitting there a deer in the headlights and accomplish nothing.
To play reactive, you have to adjust to the opponent and shift your focus accordingly to the options they present in certain situations.
And while it is important to improve at checking all these options, you need to also learn how to enforce your own offense. It's not enough to sit back and wait in most fighting games, especially not one with offense as strong as this one.
- WATCH YOUR DAMN REPLAYS!!!! Watching replays isn't just about looking for every individual time you got hit and calling it out or. It means not only looking for obvious mistakes, but decisions that may have not been the optimal choice. Sometimes you jump and it works out, but was that a good jump in? Did you have a read? Other times you try to check a drive rush and the first time all set your opponent rips an OD dp. You got hit but your opponent lost 3 bars of drive so that's not something to waste energy worrying about most of the time. Remember to watch replays Holistically to find core improvements in your general strategy, character matchup strategy, and most crucial mistakes that you can take from those replays and improve on.
Secret art: Switch from pad on PlayStation to keyboard on pc so you can only miss dp 50 percent of the time. Okay have a good day ❤️