One thing I find in this game is that it's not always clear when it's time to press a button. You can't always "feel" when a move is minus or not and sometimes have to look up frame data or go to training mode to work it out. Certain moves seem like they are minus or should be punishable when they are not. That paired with the priority/counter crush system is why I think a lot of people struggle with this game
The solution is in your statement. It just so happens that those who can't work it out also happen to be lazy in regards to training and frame data. They'd rather have their lazyness catered too than to learn how the game is intended to be played. I hate to say it, but SFV is by far the easiest fighter besides mk11. It's balanced slow paced footsies with push blocking. The very basics of most if not all fighters out there. With exceptions like fantasy strike that only go on to prove my point further. If you want to take this game seriously and get to platinum or diamond rank. You're going to have to learn. If you don't want to learn, be happy with silver. Because that's where you belong.
@@FlockofSmeagles I don't agree that Sfv is the easiest fighter or Street Fighter for that matter. I found Alpha 3, Third Strike and CVSNK2 a lot easier and natural to play, that's just my opinion let's not make this an argument. And I haven't played a MK game since I was a kid so I can't comment on that. Fantasy Strike shoudn't even be mentioned in the same sentence as any 2d Fighter game really because it looks and plays like trash. And no mate I'm not in Silver Rank either. Peace out my man
@@FlockofSmeagles I'm ultra gold/plat and I still get caught out by some characters moves, nothing to do with laziness, U really expect non pros to go through every character and remember the frames on all their moves and do that every patch? Then U call others lazy? Mate U pretty much just bragged about sitting on Ur ass for extended periods of time playing a game, U got no right to call others lazy, especially when Ur reasoning is grounded off Ur own wrong assumption.
@@intergalacticdegengypsy6135 still do? You're still learning, dude. Also, your logic is dumb for a lot of reasons. You might want to turn that back on yourself. You don't even realize that you can use an app to catch up on frame data during the match! I probably play less than you do. Lazy, lol, you don't know me, and frankly. I'm glad that I don't know you. Now, please, go onto to tell me about how I'm wrong in the most fallacious way possible.
@@PSpiel8861 You're saying that you like the flow. That has nothing to do with how well the game is balanced, and very little to do with accessibility. 3rd Strike is very well known for its extremely tight timing and parry system. Do you know what a kara is? Can you roll cancel in CVS2? Did you even know what that was? SFV doesn't have these mechanics, and it's purposeful. It's very straight forward and designed to be easily learned. Understanding character matchups and frame data is the literal baseline for advanced play in any fighting game. Also, fantasy strike isn't bad at all. It just amplifies the aspects of gameplay that noobs hate in fighting games, ironically so.
In Ranking a lot of ppl use Shoryuken fighters and the first thing they do is get you in the corner and keep hitting you non stop and won’t even get a chance
About V-trigger, you are absolutely right. I am a silver player and I still don't know how to or when to use V-trigger propery outside of just combo extensions. Your V-trigger guide video helped me a lot. You are awesome, man! You will get the support that you deserve
Nice tips, actually helpful. I'd say, even if I'm still in gold, in silver-gold you should learn your character's BNB, and in plat learn the distance of your attacks.
Thanks man, i knew I was supposed to let my opponents hang themselves in bronze from Brian’s video but after watching this I realized I hadn’t actually absorbed that advice and I started to consider the risk of throwing fireballs (was getting jumped on a lot) then I went on 3 win streaks from 1400 LP to 2700 LP in one day and now I’m working on super silver!
The tips in this video are spot on. One tip that isn't spoken about enough... Get to know the character you are using. Either via practice mode or through practice lobbies. Knowing what your character can and cannot do places you in a good place.
I play necalli, and he literally sucks at everything but Meaties and V Trigger offense. His VSkill 2 is also really strong but it disappears either too soon or after I get hit
I'm in gold league and yeah I am having trouble working on offensive pressure on the opponents wake up, meaties etc, so the tip for gold definitely applies, just gotta train more.
Decent tips, not sure if they're really spread out across the ranks like that but still all useful things. Especially for beginners, mastering things like punishment, blocking, and antiairing while not doing punishable moves yourself will get you so many free wins.
Bro even gold/plat akumas spam air fireball, they think they so good with their cheap pressure until bison gets a meter and ex stomps that shit out of the air
Thank you for making this! I just started trying to get into Street Fighter but I am waiting to start ranked since i’m still bad LMAO. I’ll keep this stuff in mind when I start to practice online!
Keep at it, I made the mistake of playing casuals for so long and getting stomped. Finally playing rank 3 weeks and still cant get to super bronze. I suck, but still keep working. Cant help myself I love fighting games.
Sadly I am diamond and struggling to move forward, but what you say is damn right. Mashing button when the opponent is + is something that I always do..
My list is actually completely different but I like the tips. I mean, I'm only (ultra) silver but still. Btw, my list is something like: 0-1000 LP: practice specials to not mess them up under pressure 1000-2000 LP: damage, that is learn and practice the biggest damaging combo I can execute for punishes 2000-3000 LP: mix ups, flowcharts and pressure 3000-4000 LP: learn some dang neutral (to myself; this is now)
I would say that learning neutral should come first, and then you learn how to do your most damaging combos. No point in learning those crazy combos if you can’t put yourself in situations where you actually use them
@@NotJohnnyKim I think for me neutral is just harder to grasp than big combo's and pressure. Honestly I had this whole answer typed in about learning neutral not giving rewards without knowing big combo's either untill I realised that I actually don't really know how neutral gives you (big) opportunities. I try to play safe and push my opponent to the corner, that in itself helps a lot but in the corner I only feel a slight advantage and no clear openings. Maybe it's the shimmy's? Those are hard for me to predict.
@@tasseiviews2947 next time you see pros play, count how many times they use combos greater than 2 hits, and also count how many complex combos they use (other than bnbs)
@@jesumexcraft Falke players have terrible defense, so in the beginning of the match just dash or jump forward it should be in your benefit and in the corner they always jump back. Also just be patient, they are gonna back themselves in a corner pretty quickly
I'm someone that only play this game casually and stuck at Super Bronze for life, but I really enjoyed this video how you explain this very clearly. Thanks
I'm SupPlat Ryu only player. The update was a welcomed fix to a lot of his shortcomings. I have a love hate relationship with this game. I'm currently sitting on a 17 game winstreak. 1300lp from Diamond. I go months without playing it. Or I just play pure casuals.
I made it to gold but I'm still bad at not using the resources when I have them (V-trigger and meter). I'm the kind of player that waits for the 'hang themselves' moment then applies pressure. I also need to learn what moves each character has that is actually unsafe as opposed to 'looks safe'.
Those tips were completely Bogus. Online Ken is the reason why I'm stuck in Gold. jk. Great Vid. I'll try to develop a better offensive gameplan for my characters :).
I think the problem I run into is not really knowing who my character is. I have a few that I am decent with, but I can never stay on 1 character too long.
For Gold you basically just have to learn how to punish all the moves. Frame data etc to get out of dumb situations. Platinum and up is all mind games really.
in silver you can just meaty your combo string or your throw, it's not hard to get a first knockdown on them and then you just loop em since they don't late tech anything, at least that's the pretty much the only "significant" improvement I made to get out of it
jump forward and neutral jump will get u over fireballs but will leave u vulnerable in the air if your opponent sees it coming and pretty much every character has at least one move that gets them around fireballs so jus try to use these in a way your opponent wont see coming and if your character has a fireball you can use that too. i would say the most important thing is to not be predictable and trying to find their timing
Biggest tip for anything above gold in my Opinion is learn your individual matchups . Learn when your opponent is minus and when you can press a button or go neutral . Stop putting up with fake pressure !
I actually just got into silver and almost at 3000 lp. I still don't use vshift or reversal at all and I still got a ton to learn. Think my problem is characters because I play ed cus my inputs aren't accurate so he's just been easy to play. I'd like to pick up a better character once I get a hitbox or fightstick
I stuck to silver from super silver,before the covid situation they had the game playing online in 4 line selection on the bars really good! But after that they had some really serious lag issues and now if i choose to put it in the online search on 4 i don't see that many ppl popping out like it used to in the request! Only in any now can have those challenges and it is in 3 lines most of the times instead 4-5! I say they messed up their online pretty good,and i was going for the gold league for my trophy as well! Yeah you will say not to play only for the wins but this was showing i was going great and the capcom BOOM ruined all the fun somehow! I am from europe as a region if worth mentioning at all!
Know when to call it a night and play consistently. It would also help if you actually like the game to. I hated the vanilla version of SFV so I took a few years off after the patches. It's way better now except poor (claw)Vega
I'm stuck in Silver, and V-Trigger usage is weird to me because, I play Mika. I know I have a 50/50 setup or a conversion with it but I'm never in the situation I want when I activate it. Like for example, if I sweep and V-trigger, is this the moment to call Nadesko or hold it? If I on, dashing is risky so I do nothing and give up pressure. If I just call her I have to do it now and usually they are blocking. I never seem to know when and what to even though I have labbed some situations. Like is this the time to use THIS setupr or the OTHER setup?
That is something you'll have to either lab out or ask other mika mains who know more on what to do. If you want to investigate it for yourself, I would suggest looking at two things: the frame data and the spacing. Frame data shows you what moves/options you can do before your opponent can try to challenge you. Spacing shows you which of those options will actually work.
Glad I finally found this. I've been at super/ultra silver for about four years, trying to reach gold. Made sure to get Birdie VT activation down years ago thanks to VT vids & my character Discord, but can lose to better players. I study replays, do training, watch vids for matchups, and stop after 1-2 losses in ranked, but haven't found a way to gold. Wish it were easy, or at least moderately tough, but seems extremely difficult. Maybe takes 100s or 1000s of matches, depending.
@@voutespancar Hey, good seeing you here. Yeah, I was jettmanas on GameFAQs for a long time. I should've just gone for jettmanas1. Who're you there? :)
Im a Silver Balrog and my defense needs work, hit confirms need work and pressure needs work lol basically i just have spacing and frame data but atleast i try to learn the true fundamentals and not just go YOLO like so many Silvers
This is why i still dont use the more complicated Gill combos. You need to learn setups and matchups. Opponents from Bronze to Silver is massive leap in difficulty for me. Well anyways, i just need to see enough of their shenanigans to parry their faces. Silvers i think are starting to have faint idea of frame datas. I dont think they necessarily know the numbers or theyd be way above the ranks. They just know the kit of their characters. Even if they are minus on block, they will use something like an ex shoryuken or Akuma's ki charge to bait you.
i bought the game finally and had fun playing a couple ranked games but then i realized im pure trash and dont play it since it feels like even if i learn all there moves i dont know combos. i wanted to be better oof. One day ill give it a go again.
I made it to Ultra Silver and lost a few matches and already back to normal Silver but a high Silver not only that you lose so many points and half of the time when I do an V Trigger half of the time they don't do it an don't get me started with the lagg an I can admit that I have beaten some Gold Players on Super Silver crazy but True literally with Ryu.
Medium kicks are hard because they reach a good distance away, can usually lead to good damage, and are very hard to whiff punish. The way I like to deal with it is by pre-emptively throwing out a far reaching, heavy normal that crush-counters to try to catch them in the startup of the medium kick, but this is risky if they whiff-punish you. The other way is by whiff-punishing, which is, again, hard. There's a reason people spam medium kicks, even as you get to the higher ranks. Lag abuse can only be avoided by playing people with as little lag as possible. Nothing much to do here.
I'm getting destroyed with CA. Every time I'm about to close the gap i get hit confirmed and CA, and Everytime it's enough to finish me. I don't know how to make them spend their gauge so don't have to worry about CA at the end of the match.
@@NotJohnnyKim thank you for replying and for 1 lag....it stops a lot of punish combos. And tbh im a decent Ryu I wont even sound like im a great player im decent.
@@NotJohnnyKim as we spoke I just had fought a laggy as dhalsim...on my channel I post my fights and sometimes I put laggy ones up ...the lag be dropping combos and blocks and make people recover off of punish combos
@@NotJohnnyKim 4-5 and PlayStation only And before anyone says yes I know but when I put it 5 only for some reason to me I lag even more so I just leave it 4-5
I'll do anything! Anything to see Gold League for me! Anything to escape the horror of Bronze! I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in Bronze or wonder for the rest of my life if I could get the final achievement.
Hello! And yes I am! I am kind of just going through and making videos about more basic concepts first, but I will 100% make an option select video in the future.
@@NotJohnnyKim I am stuck on ultra gold, I believe OSs and better execution can get me up a bit. I really appreciate your effort and dedication, thank you very much
@@efelicio No problem man! OS's are definitely a great tool. If you got to ultra gold WITHOUT OS's though, you godlike. I started using basic OS's in like high bronze LMAO
@@NotJohnnyKim I have a couple on my pocket, very basic. I struggle on investing in practice, bcos I usually have 1h a day to play and I want to fight on-line. So blame on me too
@@efelicio Nah man, if you don't got the time, do what you want to do. If that's just to hop online and get some real games in for that 1 hour, no one can blame you.
So john I am almost at plat....like 7 wins away just wanted to update you...I feel like diamond will be my cap but overall just thanks and wanted to update u...still feel like playing on P4 is really holding me back...I rather play on PC where lag really wont effect anything and I can legit do ALL of my damn combos..
That’s awesome man! I’m really happy to hear about your improvement. That’s a big leap! You should feel proud and diamond is definitely in reach after that. Of course, make sure you’re having fun still. No shame in stopping or taking a break
@@NotJohnnyKim i def wouldn't mind running some sets with u if u don't mind 1 day so u can really judge my shitty Ryu but regardless thanks for the vid and wanted to update u
As for bronze players I have a very specific tip. You know the "50/50" setup ken has with his blocked HK tatsu?. On block, ken is at enough disadvantage to eat a jab. More specifically, a 4 frame move, like a light-medium DP if you mash it right. Timing is strict tho, mashing does work anyway
Don't even need a char that has a dp. All 3 and 4 frame chars can punish hk tatsu. i.e jab into punish combo. Also you don't even need to block hk tatsu. It becomes air borne and you can literally anti-air ken while he is in the air. i.e with ryu do dp while ken is in the air with hk tatsu. You just gotta be careful when ken has vt1 with hk tatsu. however I think you can still aa him. It has multiple solutions beyond mashing.
i just donwload the game 2 days before and i am 0 lvl and i queue against people who are 33 lvl and they have 1000 points i have 0 i have never won and sucks.. idk what to do seems pretty hard
Level 33 is actually a very low level. 1,000 points is also very, very low as well. These are new players that you are describing. Just know that fighting games give skills that are cumulative and lifelong. Focus on learning. Getting your ass whooped in the beginning will always be a thing
Just play casuals insted of ranked until you feel comfortable. You won't loose any points and you can level up. I'm superplat and I always play casuals before I go into ranked, it gets the blood flowing and you'll know a few games in if today is your day to be playing ranked. Good luck. Btw. Never play ranked if you haven't gotten a good night sleep and hydrated. Your game play will be sluggish and you will become salty real fast.
I've actually never understood the appeal of playing Ken for beginners since SFIV, he hasn't been a cool character since SFIII but I suppose he was exceptionally easy to get a lot of free damage with in vanilla IV through V
I got this game when it's out. Got into silver. Then I got annoyed by season 1 Rashid, so I said f it and deleted the game. Until it updated Akuma. Well, I like Akuma a lot. So i got back, and got to upper gold. Then I quitted again for Rashid and Alex. Until I noticed there's Seth update. I was a Seth main since super SF4. So I check out his trailer and game play. And all I see just trap Seth lol. But it's still lot of fun watching matches. Especially for Kage matches and Gill.
I'm not the best player in Street Fighter 5 an I used to struggle getting out of Silver rank now days I'm literally passed out of Silver an in Gold rank it is true that they barely block.
We have all looked at street fighter v in the FGC the game is completely a badly developed game, which was stated by the developers🤦♀️ its developed so badly a normal controller cannot do advanced combos 😂 no wonder Capcom is completely redesigning from the mechanics to the cgi and making it look more like marvel vs Capcom which is actually fun, we are all looking forward to street fight 6 can't wait🍺
Bronze Ken players are the true goats of sfv, no one is as confident and fearless as they are, I am convinced a bronze ken player could easily win evo with a blindfold on
Pro-Tip: How to make it to Plat 1. Pick Ken 2. HK Tatsu into throw 3. Once you have 1 bar, HK Tatsu into EX DP 4. ????? 5. Profit Oh, and don't forget to never stop jumping. Remember, you can't be conditioned. Anytime you have a bar mash that EX DP during their block strings.
After the basics, this game is about reaction time and frame data. At the ultra silver level, I play against silver players that execute their full character combos and constantly put me in some frame traps. I strongly believe that the character you pick has a huge influence on your win rate. I really wanted to go back to enjoy street fighter games with my Ryu, but I'll share my view of the game: - The fireball game of Ryu is very predictable. People do a lot of reads with jump-in at the right time. - Ryu's DP is almost vertical (barely any horizontal reach), DPs are subject to trade or even lose to crush counters. Another detail is that a bunch of other characters can change their trajectory mid-air or teleport or any other gimmick and then you are airborne ready to receive a big combo. - Then there is the shitty aspect of the game that some lame character(ex: Cammy, Karin, Mika), they all have gimmicks to quickly go through the Hadouken, any blow is reliable anti-air for them, they make a health lead and stay crouched waiting for your jump-in, or if you dash and try to throw they tech or goes back to the first point where they jump-in after a fireball. It is very frustrating at this point. To jump from silver to Super silver and then Ultra silver I had to incorporate some cheap kill with quick weak blows when my opponent has low health. I think at this point the game becomes an absolute shit show and I really lose the taste for the game when I have to do that. Now to mention a few other things like other characters have better projectiles (ex: This is true power from G), hitting multiple times, anti-air, screen coverage, weird trajectory (diagonally, under, bouncing, you name it ) It feels like Akuma is the only shoto that can handle other character's gimmicks with his own gimmicks, lol Now, the thing that bothers me the most is that we need to memorize which blows leave opening for counter or not. This should be visually intuitive (like the character raining down from the sky, "Yes, it's my turn. NOPE!").
I'm not gonna sit here and try to argue why 90% of what you said is wrong, since I don't think that's even the worst part. The worst part is that you have put up such a strong mental block on yourself that I doubt you will improve past gold if you keep this up. You're going to have to accept that if you're stuck in silver, it's because your gameplay isn't good enough to make it past silver players, and that has nothing to do with character strength or anything like that. I had to do the same when I was silver. If you can accept that your gameplay is truly silver level and others beat you because they played better than you, then you will allow yourself to change, improve, and grow as a player.
@@NotJohnnyKim How about you refute what I said instead of playing the neutral guy? You are a SF5 content creator, so I expect you to disagree with me that the game sucks in some aspects. I think a game where I have to memorize if a move is positive or negative on frame data instead of visual is retarded. But sure you have a lot of time to spend and "learn" the game as oppose to me that I'm just a casual.
Interesting point you make that it should be more visually intuitive when it is your turn. The visuals often suggest that you can make a move while you cannot. This makes the learning curve quite steep.
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One thing I find in this game is that it's not always clear when it's time to press a button. You can't always "feel" when a move is minus or not and sometimes have to look up frame data or go to training mode to work it out. Certain moves seem like they are minus or should be punishable when they are not. That paired with the priority/counter crush system is why I think a lot of people struggle with this game
The solution is in your statement. It just so happens that those who can't work it out also happen to be lazy in regards to training and frame data.
They'd rather have their lazyness catered too than to learn how the game is intended to be played. I hate to say it, but SFV is by far the easiest fighter besides mk11. It's balanced slow paced footsies with push blocking. The very basics of most if not all fighters out there. With exceptions like fantasy strike that only go on to prove my point further.
If you want to take this game seriously and get to platinum or diamond rank. You're going to have to learn. If you don't want to learn, be happy with silver. Because that's where you belong.
@@FlockofSmeagles I don't agree that Sfv is the easiest fighter or Street Fighter for that matter. I found Alpha 3, Third Strike and CVSNK2 a lot easier and natural to play, that's just my opinion let's not make this an argument. And I haven't played a MK game since I was a kid so I can't comment on that. Fantasy Strike shoudn't even be mentioned in the same sentence as any 2d Fighter game really because it looks and plays like trash. And no mate I'm not in Silver Rank either. Peace out my man
@@FlockofSmeagles I'm ultra gold/plat and I still get caught out by some characters moves, nothing to do with laziness, U really expect non pros to go through every character and remember the frames on all their moves and do that every patch? Then U call others lazy? Mate U pretty much just bragged about sitting on Ur ass for extended periods of time playing a game, U got no right to call others lazy, especially when Ur reasoning is grounded off Ur own wrong assumption.
@@intergalacticdegengypsy6135 still do? You're still learning, dude. Also, your logic is dumb for a lot of reasons. You might want to turn that back on yourself. You don't even realize that you can use an app to catch up on frame data during the match! I probably play less than you do. Lazy, lol, you don't know me, and frankly. I'm glad that I don't know you.
Now, please, go onto to tell me about how I'm wrong in the most fallacious way possible.
@@PSpiel8861 You're saying that you like the flow. That has nothing to do with how well the game is balanced, and very little to do with accessibility. 3rd Strike is very well known for its extremely tight timing and parry system. Do you know what a kara is? Can you roll cancel in CVS2? Did you even know what that was? SFV doesn't have these mechanics, and it's purposeful. It's very straight forward and designed to be easily learned. Understanding character matchups and frame data is the literal baseline for advanced play in any fighting game. Also, fantasy strike isn't bad at all. It just amplifies the aspects of gameplay that noobs hate in fighting games, ironically so.
My biggest tech was mastering the lag, after that I ranked up 3 times in a roll
A -4 move canceled into a Ex ?
The Lag is Epic and Good for 1x or 2x Spikes per Match...Can really be a Game Changer!
YES THE LAG!!!!
You cant rank up three times in a row, you cant even rank up 2 times in a row
In Ranking a lot of ppl use Shoryuken fighters and the first thing they do is get you in the corner and keep hitting you non stop and won’t even get a chance
About V-trigger, you are absolutely right. I am a silver player and I still don't know how to or when to use V-trigger propery outside of just combo extensions. Your V-trigger guide video helped me a lot. You are awesome, man! You will get the support that you deserve
This super helper dude. I Just made it to Gold! Now I know what to work on to keep me out of silver rank
Nice tips, actually helpful.
I'd say, even if I'm still in gold, in silver-gold you should learn your character's BNB, and in plat learn the distance of your attacks.
Definitely good stuff. I had to limit myself to one tip or else the video would have been 20 minutes long LOL
Thanks man, i knew I was supposed to let my opponents hang themselves in bronze from Brian’s video but after watching this I realized I hadn’t actually absorbed that advice and I started to consider the risk of throwing fireballs (was getting jumped on a lot) then I went on 3 win streaks from 1400 LP to 2700 LP in one day and now I’m working on super silver!
Lets go dude!! Keep at it
Good tips man. I've been struggling in gold teir. I've been thinking my flow chart was the problem.
Your videos have really helped me as an akuma main. And just SFV tips in general
Great! Thats all I'm here for :)
I made super bronze today 🥳 I don’t normally play traditional fighting games so I’m super stoked about this!
ggs
The tips in this video are spot on.
One tip that isn't spoken about enough...
Get to know the character you are using. Either via practice mode or through practice lobbies. Knowing what your character can and cannot do places you in a good place.
That is a great tip!!
I play necalli, and he literally sucks at everything but Meaties and V Trigger offense. His VSkill 2 is also really strong but it disappears either too soon or after I get hit
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I’m an idiot 🤣 but btw I love this channel this is my first vid of yours
POG I made it in one of NotJohnnyKim's videos
hopefully you will be in many more
I love your content so much dude
I love you for watching my content :)
@@NotJohnnyKim you bet friendo I'll try and catch your stream when I can too
@@NotJohnnyKim I love your content aswell man, you'll get me to Diamond NJK ;)
You sir, are awesome. I'm super plat working to diamond and this was very helpful
Watched just one video and I am starting to love this man!
I'm in gold league and yeah I am having trouble working on offensive pressure on the opponents wake up, meaties etc, so the tip for gold definitely applies, just gotta train more.
Decent tips, not sure if they're really spread out across the ranks like that but still all useful things.
Especially for beginners, mastering things like punishment, blocking, and antiairing while not doing punishable moves yourself will get you so many free wins.
Bro even gold/plat akumas spam air fireball, they think they so good with their cheap pressure until bison gets a meter and ex stomps that shit out of the air
As I gear up for street fighter 6. I'm teaching to myself to stop jumping like an asshole all the time
I'm stuck on sliver but your videos really helped me. Hopefully I get out of Sliver someday. Again thanks for this cool video .
You can get to gold and beyond easily. Just focus on a couple things
Any progress after 1 year?
Bruh, this page is gonna explode soon and im here for it !
Haha that would be super sick. Heres to hoping
Thank you for making this! I just started trying to get into Street Fighter but I am waiting to start ranked since i’m still bad LMAO. I’ll keep this stuff in mind when I start to practice online!
amazing content man super entertaining
Great tips, man 👍🏿
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Wait, people do that? Now that's some next level try harding.
"dark skin + dark map + quit the second you get stunned" is the forbiden combo
@@whaith1359 but how does that tactic work??
For me, even selecting the airplane stage is try harding (and being an ass), due to the motion sickness it causes in some players.
Cool content mate. Cheers for that
thank you dude, I'm consistently staying between gold and super gold
Keep at it, I made the mistake of playing casuals for so long and getting stomped. Finally playing rank 3 weeks and still cant get to super bronze. I suck, but still keep working. Cant help myself I love fighting games.
Thanks for the important information hopefully we can train together
Sadly I am diamond and struggling to move forward, but what you say is damn right. Mashing button when the opponent is + is something that I always do..
it's just so tempting. jab counterhit combos are the forbidden fruit
Jab counter hit combos ahhahaahah now i found a name for the forbiden move XD
Still better than laggy kens spamming dp whenever u decide to attack him IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM
Guess I'll just use all of this valuable information as I stay in bronze.
I have no plans on ranking up anyway.
Stage 4, denial
@@marvdabeaf8085 quite the statement you used there.
I like the content good stuff it's always the little stuff that gets significant gains
Yeah you only need to improve a few things to see big jumps in your rank!
My list is actually completely different but I like the tips. I mean, I'm only (ultra) silver but still. Btw, my list is something like:
0-1000 LP: practice specials to not mess them up under pressure
1000-2000 LP: damage, that is learn and practice the biggest damaging combo I can execute for punishes
2000-3000 LP: mix ups, flowcharts and pressure
3000-4000 LP: learn some dang neutral (to myself; this is now)
I would say that learning neutral should come first, and then you learn how to do your most damaging combos. No point in learning those crazy combos if you can’t put yourself in situations where you actually use them
@@NotJohnnyKim I think for me neutral is just harder to grasp than big combo's and pressure. Honestly I had this whole answer typed in about learning neutral not giving rewards without knowing big combo's either untill I realised that I actually don't really know how neutral gives you (big) opportunities. I try to play safe and push my opponent to the corner, that in itself helps a lot but in the corner I only feel a slight advantage and no clear openings. Maybe it's the shimmy's? Those are hard for me to predict.
@@tasseiviews2947 what if I told you most players can win without doing anything more than a 3-hit combo?
@@NotJohnnyKim I'd definitely say my interest is piqued
@@tasseiviews2947 next time you see pros play, count how many times they use combos greater than 2 hits, and also count how many complex combos they use (other than bnbs)
People in bronze through plat is basically the same thing just a different rank.
Well yes but actually no. But also actually yes
i can define silver as a more educated bronze. Still, I need more practice and matchup knowledge lol. How do you even play footsies against falke?
@@jesumexcraft Falke players have terrible defense, so in the beginning of the match just dash or jump forward it should be in your benefit and in the corner they always jump back. Also just be patient, they are gonna back themselves in a corner pretty quickly
Thats like so true lmao
I'm someone that only play this game casually and stuck at Super Bronze for life, but I really enjoyed this video how you explain this very clearly. Thanks
Even super casuals can get to plat! But as long as you are having fun, more power to you
I'm SupPlat Ryu only player. The update was a welcomed fix to a lot of his shortcomings. I have a love hate relationship with this game. I'm currently sitting on a 17 game winstreak. 1300lp from Diamond. I go months without playing it. Or I just play pure casuals.
Very useful 💪
good content man.
Thanks homie :)
It really is crazy how different the game becomes when you reach diamond. What it takes to improve from there is so demanding
That is definitely true. Been taking a break from sfv because of this
I made it to gold but I'm still bad at not using the resources when I have them (V-trigger and meter). I'm the kind of player that waits for the 'hang themselves' moment then applies pressure.
I also need to learn what moves each character has that is actually unsafe as opposed to 'looks safe'.
Those tips were completely Bogus. Online Ken is the reason why I'm stuck in Gold.
jk. Great Vid. I'll try to develop a better offensive gameplan for my characters :).
Or it could be your region. Not all regions are equal in skill. I'm in Toronto Canada and I get pure killers from New York.
Superplat Ryu.
@@KillahManjaro jk is short for just kidding.
Great tips!
I think the problem I run into is not really knowing who my character is. I have a few that I am decent with, but I can never stay on 1 character too long.
Choose a strong character. My main is kage. I play for fun not for rank. Kage is a weak character but has stylish and fun combos
For Gold you basically just have to learn how to punish all the moves. Frame data etc to get out of dumb situations. Platinum and up is all mind games really.
I’ve been stuck in gold for a while. This advice may help!
thanks man, sub for this.
in silver you can just meaty your combo string or your throw, it's not hard to get a first knockdown on them and then you just loop em since they don't late tech anything, at least that's the pretty much the only "significant" improvement I made to get out of it
Bro I told you I would update you
AND I DID YA YOUR BOY FINALLY HIT PLATINUM !! AFTER 2 LONG MONTHS LETS GOOOO
LETS GO!! CONGRATS BRO
@@NotJohnnyKim thanka man I always remembered your video as the days go by for 1 of my motives man....feels great man feels amazing
@@gallonthegreat7036 thats awesome man, you deserve it.
@@NotJohnnyKim thank you man...I earned it
The online ken thing though, I'm in ultra bronze and ken is s+ tier down here
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As a personal thing I would recommend how to counter fireballs for bronze players since guile and gill give me the most trouble.
jump forward and neutral jump will get u over fireballs but will leave u vulnerable in the air if your opponent sees it coming and pretty much every character has at least one move that gets them around fireballs so jus try to use these in a way your opponent wont see coming and if your character has a fireball you can use that too. i would say the most important thing is to not be predictable and trying to find their timing
Maybe I will do a short guide on how to deal with fireballs generally and how the projectile game is played.
Biggest tip for anything above gold in my
Opinion is learn your individual matchups . Learn when your opponent is minus and when you can press a button or go neutral . Stop putting up with fake pressure !
I actually just got into silver and almost at 3000 lp. I still don't use vshift or reversal at all and I still got a ton to learn. Think my problem is characters because I play ed cus my inputs aren't accurate so he's just been easy to play. I'd like to pick up a better character once I get a hitbox or fightstick
these videos are so helpful but youre gone now ;-; pls come back we need you
Another rock-solid, insightful video. I need more.
Also are you from WI? You talk through your nose like us lol
Nah I’m a California kid. Glad the video is useful to you tho!
I stuck to silver from super silver,before the covid situation they had the game playing online in 4 line selection on the bars really good! But after that they had some really serious lag issues and now if i choose to put it in the online search on 4 i don't see that many ppl popping out like it used to in the request! Only in any now can have those challenges and it is in 3 lines most of the times instead 4-5! I say they messed up their online pretty good,and i was going for the gold league for my trophy as well! Yeah you will say not to play only for the wins but this was showing i was going great and the capcom BOOM ruined all the fun somehow! I am from europe as a region if worth mentioning at all!
Nice tips 👍
Know when to call it a night and play consistently. It would also help if you actually like the game to. I hated the vanilla version of SFV so I took a few years off after the patches. It's way better now except poor (claw)Vega
I'm stuck in Silver, and V-Trigger usage is weird to me because, I play Mika. I know I have a 50/50 setup or a conversion with it but I'm never in the situation I want when I activate it. Like for example, if I sweep and V-trigger, is this the moment to call Nadesko or hold it? If I on, dashing is risky so I do nothing and give up pressure. If I just call her I have to do it now and usually they are blocking. I never seem to know when and what to even though I have labbed some situations. Like is this the time to use THIS setupr or the OTHER setup?
That is something you'll have to either lab out or ask other mika mains who know more on what to do. If you want to investigate it for yourself, I would suggest looking at two things: the frame data and the spacing.
Frame data shows you what moves/options you can do before your opponent can try to challenge you. Spacing shows you which of those options will actually work.
I play mika to although I'm super bad
Glad I finally found this. I've been at super/ultra silver for about four years, trying to reach gold.
Made sure to get Birdie VT activation down years ago thanks to VT vids & my character Discord, but can lose to better players.
I study replays, do training, watch vids for matchups, and stop after 1-2 losses in ranked, but haven't found a way to gold.
Wish it were easy, or at least moderately tough, but seems extremely difficult. Maybe takes 100s or 1000s of matches, depending.
Hey bro you are indie animator right
@@voutespancar Hey, good seeing you here. Yeah, I was jettmanas on GameFAQs for a long time. I should've just gone for jettmanas1. Who're you there? :)
@@jettmanas I'm your buddy Supremo, and toguraum on CFN
@@voutespancar Cool. :) Yeah, I've watched every ranked vid there is. It's definitely not easy. 0.0
Im a Silver Balrog and my defense needs work, hit confirms need work and pressure needs work lol basically i just have spacing and frame data but atleast i try to learn the true fundamentals and not just go YOLO like so many Silvers
Take it one thing at a time. You'll definitely improve
@@NotJohnnyKim yeah, i can see ive improved alot already just loads more improvement to go lol but i will definitely get to where i wanna be ;)
This is why i still dont use the more complicated Gill combos.
You need to learn setups and matchups.
Opponents from Bronze to Silver is massive leap in difficulty for me.
Well anyways, i just need to see enough of their shenanigans to parry their faces.
Silvers i think are starting to have faint idea of frame datas. I dont think they necessarily know the numbers or theyd be way above the ranks.
They just know the kit of their characters. Even if they are minus on block, they will use something like an ex shoryuken or Akuma's ki charge to bait you.
Ay nice video dude im going for master this month with gill 😎
I look forward to it!
I played since SF 2. But i still practice SFV learning basic combo plus combination with special moves. Back to Basics.
i bought the game finally and had fun playing a couple ranked games but then i realized im pure trash and dont play it since it feels like even if i learn all there moves i dont know combos. i wanted to be better oof. One day ill give it a go again.
I made it to Ultra Silver and lost a few matches and already back to normal Silver but a high Silver not only that you lose so many points and half of the time when I do an V Trigger half of the time they don't do it an don't get me started with the lagg an I can admit that I have beaten some Gold Players on Super Silver crazy but True literally with Ryu.
Just need one for Master and Warlord
How about bronze players who spams medium kicks or throws and abuse lags?
Medium kicks are hard because they reach a good distance away, can usually lead to good damage, and are very hard to whiff punish. The way I like to deal with it is by pre-emptively throwing out a far reaching, heavy normal that crush-counters to try to catch them in the startup of the medium kick, but this is risky if they whiff-punish you. The other way is by whiff-punishing, which is, again, hard. There's a reason people spam medium kicks, even as you get to the higher ranks.
Lag abuse can only be avoided by playing people with as little lag as possible. Nothing much to do here.
beautiful and i am super silver and i will focus on the gold tip and report back
I'm getting destroyed with CA. Every time I'm about to close the gap i get hit confirmed and CA, and Everytime it's enough to finish me. I don't know how to make them spend their gauge so don't have to worry about CA at the end of the match.
Wow this is very helpful...btw im forever stuck in Gold
Naw man you can get to plat. What do you feel stuck on?
@@NotJohnnyKim thank you for replying and for 1 lag....it stops a lot of punish combos.
And tbh im a decent Ryu I wont even sound like im a great player im decent.
@@NotJohnnyKim as we spoke I just had fought a laggy as dhalsim...on my channel I post my fights and sometimes I put laggy ones up ...the lag be dropping combos and blocks and make people recover off of punish combos
@@gallonthegreat7036 unfortunately lag is something we'll just have to deal with. What connection settings do you play with?
@@NotJohnnyKim 4-5 and PlayStation only
And before anyone says yes I know but when I put it 5 only for some reason to me I lag even more so I just leave it 4-5
I'll do anything! Anything to see Gold League for me!
Anything to escape the horror of Bronze!
I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in Bronze or wonder for the rest of my life if I could get the final achievement.
Ty
Hi There! Are you considering an option select video? Bread and butter and advanced. You are producing awesome content, congratulations!
Hello! And yes I am! I am kind of just going through and making videos about more basic concepts first, but I will 100% make an option select video in the future.
@@NotJohnnyKim I am stuck on ultra gold, I believe OSs and better execution can get me up a bit. I really appreciate your effort and dedication, thank you very much
@@efelicio No problem man! OS's are definitely a great tool. If you got to ultra gold WITHOUT OS's though, you godlike. I started using basic OS's in like high bronze LMAO
@@NotJohnnyKim I have a couple on my pocket, very basic. I struggle on investing in practice, bcos I usually have 1h a day to play and I want to fight on-line. So blame on me too
@@efelicio Nah man, if you don't got the time, do what you want to do. If that's just to hop online and get some real games in for that 1 hour, no one can blame you.
In sf5 there are many many many smurfs especially in silver and bronze league. How do rank up when in this league there are smurfs?
the only thing you can do is not rematch and blacklist
So john I am almost at plat....like 7 wins away just wanted to update you...I feel like diamond will be my cap but overall just thanks and wanted to update u...still feel like playing on P4 is really holding me back...I rather play on PC where lag really wont effect anything and I can legit do ALL of my damn combos..
That’s awesome man! I’m really happy to hear about your improvement. That’s a big leap! You should feel proud and diamond is definitely in reach after that.
Of course, make sure you’re having fun still. No shame in stopping or taking a break
@@NotJohnnyKim i def wouldn't mind running some sets with u if u don't mind 1 day so u can really judge my shitty Ryu but regardless thanks for the vid and wanted to update u
@@gallonthegreat7036 fosho man. Hopefully we can when I’m streaming!
@@NotJohnnyKim bet
@@NotJohnnyKim you stream on twitch ?
How do I deal with players who “conveniently” go from five bars to two as soon as I start doing well or win a match?
Blacklist, don’t tilt, go next
@@NotJohnnyKim Just because I'm as terrible as LTG doesn't mean I have to blacklist everyone I meet. XD
No, blacklist those who don't run it back.
As for bronze players I have a very specific tip. You know the "50/50" setup ken has with his blocked HK tatsu?. On block, ken is at enough disadvantage to eat a jab. More specifically, a 4 frame move, like a light-medium DP if you mash it right. Timing is strict tho, mashing does work anyway
Don't even need a char that has a dp. All 3 and 4 frame chars can punish hk tatsu. i.e jab into punish combo. Also you don't even need to block hk tatsu. It becomes air borne and you can literally anti-air ken while he is in the air. i.e with ryu do dp while ken is in the air with hk tatsu. You just gotta be careful when ken has vt1 with hk tatsu. however I think you can still aa him. It has multiple solutions beyond mashing.
I'm still stuck on silver though with ryu but I'll try and mash it
Ok definitely don't mash, but keep trying!
i just donwload the game 2 days before and i am 0 lvl and i queue against people who are 33 lvl and they have 1000 points i have 0 i have never won and sucks.. idk what to do seems pretty hard
Level 33 is actually a very low level. 1,000 points is also very, very low as well. These are new players that you are describing. Just know that fighting games give skills that are cumulative and lifelong. Focus on learning. Getting your ass whooped in the beginning will always be a thing
Just play casuals insted of ranked until you feel comfortable. You won't loose any points and you can level up.
I'm superplat and I always play casuals before I go into ranked, it gets the blood flowing and you'll know a few games in if today is your day to be playing ranked. Good luck.
Btw. Never play ranked if you haven't gotten a good night sleep and hydrated. Your game play will be sluggish and you will become salty real fast.
I’m from the future and I can’t stay out of rookie rank
I've actually never understood the appeal of playing Ken for beginners since SFIV, he hasn't been a cool character since SFIII but I suppose he was exceptionally easy to get a lot of free damage with in vanilla IV through V
He's easy to pick up.
Can anyone tell me how does the dark stages + dark costumes work?
You can't see your opponents movement properly and crap like that lead to a lot of costumes being banned.
Yo Johnny are you gonna stream today
Nah not today. Sorry homie
@@NotJohnnyKim yeah no problem dude and you can cancel any move into demon if the opponet wakes up CA right?
@@dominateturtles7985 yep!
@@NotJohnnyKim wow thats so rigged I'm gonna try that cause I wanna learn akuma he looks fun and he feels super smooth to play as
@@NotJohnnyKim yo Johnny wanna run some sets right now I'm on i see your online as well
The only way to rank up is to play online? I hate the lag.
For now, unfortunately, yes. Hopefully that will change soon
I got this game when it's out. Got into silver. Then I got annoyed by season 1 Rashid, so I said f it and deleted the game. Until it updated Akuma. Well, I like Akuma a lot. So i got back, and got to upper gold. Then I quitted again for Rashid and Alex. Until I noticed there's Seth update. I was a Seth main since super SF4. So I check out his trailer and game play. And all I see just trap Seth lol. But it's still lot of fun watching matches. Especially for Kage matches and Gill.
How do I get out of ultra diamond? 😩😩😩
Homie I’m in regular diamond LOL
@@NotJohnnyKim 😝😝
Im always close to promoting to super bronze, im not good at dealing with zoners and defensive players in SFV
What about Master/Grand Master?
See, I would, but I can’t even get to those ranks, so I’m clearly not qualified to give them tips
I'm not the best player in Street Fighter 5 an I used to struggle getting out of Silver rank now days I'm literally passed out of Silver an in Gold rank it is true that they barely block.
We have all looked at street fighter v in the FGC the game is completely a badly developed game, which was stated by the developers🤦♀️ its developed so badly a normal controller cannot do advanced combos 😂 no wonder Capcom is completely redesigning from the mechanics to the cgi and making it look more like marvel vs Capcom which is actually fun, we are all looking forward to street fight 6 can't wait🍺
I've been playing SFV since it came out. I am a Ken main. I am stuck in Silver rank. Highest i got to is Gold.
Just focus on improving a few key areas of your gameplay and you'll climb no problem
Ultra Gold for me but i stopped playing bc of lag netcode combined with my bad internet
@@zetsuron_g4 it be like that. Hopefully you can get that internet fixed!
@@zetsuron_g4 Yeah i know what you mean.
@@NotJohnnyKim Could we play together someday? To let me know what i need to improve on.
Hey i am new to st5 can anyone help me i dont know how to make a hadoken on PS4 i would like to know the inputs
(Dpad) press your right button SLIDE to the down button then Slide back to the right button press square
wait so your not johnny kim??
Great tips! Hoping to escape silver one day! :D
You got this homie
@@NotJohnnyKim I'm back to square one now. Just bought myself a stick after being a pad player all my life haha.
@@Haru_VII fightstick culture is awesome though. Welcome to the club
Bronze Ken players are the true goats of sfv, no one is as confident and fearless as they are, I am convinced a bronze ken player could easily win evo with a blindfold on
Well I play Judi soo …. God the mountains I have yet to climb
What’s a flowchart
Flowchart is basically if A happens, do X. If B happens, do Y. You should definitely just google it.
Thx
Online ken is the reason im stuck in gold
Pro-Tip: How to make it to Plat
1. Pick Ken
2. HK Tatsu into throw
3. Once you have 1 bar, HK Tatsu into EX DP
4. ?????
5. Profit
Oh, and don't forget to never stop jumping. Remember, you can't be conditioned. Anytime you have a bar mash that EX DP during their block strings.
This is obviously a terrible plan
Lol
After the basics, this game is about reaction time and frame data.
At the ultra silver level, I play against silver players that execute their full character combos and constantly put me in some frame traps.
I strongly believe that the character you pick has a huge influence on your win rate.
I really wanted to go back to enjoy street fighter games with my Ryu, but I'll share my view of the game:
- The fireball game of Ryu is very predictable. People do a lot of reads with jump-in at the right time.
- Ryu's DP is almost vertical (barely any horizontal reach), DPs are subject to trade or even lose to crush counters. Another detail is that a bunch of other characters can change their trajectory mid-air or teleport or any other gimmick and then you are airborne ready to receive a big combo.
- Then there is the shitty aspect of the game that some lame character(ex: Cammy, Karin, Mika), they all have gimmicks to quickly go through the Hadouken, any blow is reliable anti-air for them, they make a health lead and stay crouched waiting for your jump-in, or if you dash and try to throw they tech or goes back to the first point where they jump-in after a fireball. It is very frustrating at this point.
To jump from silver to Super silver and then Ultra silver I had to incorporate some cheap kill with quick weak blows when my opponent has low health. I think at this point the game becomes an absolute shit show and I really lose the taste for the game when I have to do that.
Now to mention a few other things like other characters have better projectiles (ex: This is true power from G), hitting multiple times, anti-air, screen coverage, weird trajectory (diagonally, under, bouncing, you name it )
It feels like Akuma is the only shoto that can handle other character's gimmicks with his own gimmicks, lol
Now, the thing that bothers me the most is that we need to memorize which blows leave opening for counter or not. This should be visually intuitive (like the character raining down from the sky, "Yes, it's my turn. NOPE!").
I'm not gonna sit here and try to argue why 90% of what you said is wrong, since I don't think that's even the worst part.
The worst part is that you have put up such a strong mental block on yourself that I doubt you will improve past gold if you keep this up. You're going to have to accept that if you're stuck in silver, it's because your gameplay isn't good enough to make it past silver players, and that has nothing to do with character strength or anything like that. I had to do the same when I was silver. If you can accept that your gameplay is truly silver level and others beat you because they played better than you, then you will allow yourself to change, improve, and grow as a player.
@@NotJohnnyKim How about you refute what I said instead of playing the neutral guy?
You are a SF5 content creator, so I expect you to disagree with me that the game sucks in some aspects.
I think a game where I have to memorize if a move is positive or negative on frame data instead of visual is retarded. But sure you have a lot of time to spend and "learn" the game as oppose to me that I'm just a casual.
Interesting point you make that it should be more visually intuitive when it is your turn. The visuals often suggest that you can make a move while you cannot. This makes the learning curve quite steep.