ROFL... I got placed in Diamond, out of the box with my Pocket Luke. I was fighting some Master in my placement match. I almost wished to win on the placement matches because I was wondering if I could be placed in Master rank after your 10 placement matches. I was Diamond again.
For anyone that feels this way over a video game, they need to be reevaluated. Also, I'd recommend they right away put it down for a little while or for good if it becomes detrimental.
@@TheGohthecrow Just because its a video game doesnt mean it automatically has no value. For some people, sure, its an addiction and unhealthy and they should get help. But for most people it is just a hobby. If a football coach is training a player like this then you would say the same thing about football?
@@HafusAndLegacy bruv, read your analogy/comparison. They're not the same thing. One has more benefits than the other despite being on the losing end. Figure that out yourself now...🤦♂️
Im on Diamond 5 on my way to Master. the only thing I disagree is that you should learn how to counter DI earlier, around silver/gold rank. Also when you get at certain level, light attack meaties are a really good way to counter DI on wakeup since they give you more real-life frames (not ingame since the game freezes on each hit) to react. Aside from that I believe I agree with everything else. Update: Got my Master rank today =D
Rookie - learn a combo Bronze - learn to block then attack Silver - learn to anti air Gold - be patient about gimmicks and start to understand characters strength Plat - start using those drive system smartly, parry more and interrupt fake pressure Diamond - haven’t reached it yet😢 Edit: or just spam blanka ball or honda headbutt… I got to high plat knowing 0 combo😂
I feel like finding a frame trap you can loop is very good in early ranks, since most players will mash a lot. If your character lacks plus buttons, maybe try to find a meaty setup to get plus frames.
I can feel that: at plat V consistently one of if not my biggest problem I feel is I just I am missing information about the character I am facing, especially in relation to their pressure, what I can punish, when it’s my turn, etc. So been considering taking a break from grinding out my character to go play with cast members I have trouble against.
We need more pros teaching us noobs like this, in a structured way, teaching what you should learn and focus first, and what steps you should take next, instead of the usual approach of “just play a lot, eventually things you click”. Thanks for this video!
I want to touch on something LK said in this video and elaborate on it. At 2:55 LK says that if you're platinumish you should start trying to find your local. I think this suggests that you should be at a certain level to attend locals. You do not. You can be an absolute beginner or a super sweaty pro gamer and you will be welcomed with open arms at your local scene. Unless you're in an area with a dense population of good players (Major cities or OG arcade venues), the average skill level is gonna be just about gold. Sure there will be outliers, but that's how it is. If you have fun playing the game and you have time, show up to your locals. It doesn't matter if you go 0-2 or if you take the whole bracket by storm, you'll form bonds with people through something you enjoy and that is something that can make or break your FG experience.
Getting experience at locals will also help you improve way quicker than playing online. I'm not really sure what to attribute this to but I was hardstuck Silver for a while. Went to 2 locals and went 0-2 at both, but the casuals experience as well as my actual tournament experience taught me so much and the next day, without any more practice, I went into ranked and shot straight through low silver and got to Gold 3.
important to note that you do not have to enter a tournament when you go to a locals, nobody should be expecting you to shell money out to go 0-2 for no reason when you JUST GOT THERE , scoping out a venue to see if it's a right fit before you commit is important. i have been to some toxic places a few times and regret spending money and wasting an entire night
@@reisvanderpol5413 you learn from losses,not wins, a basement king who bodies his friends is just a frog in the well compared to someone who has been to several tournaments already Keep iui improving and ask questions to tour opponent when they have time to answer
Idk if anyone had the same experience as me, I was like stuck silver in SFV, tho admittedly I didn't play as much as I'm playing 6 and the weirdest thing so far to me was how getting out of silver to me was WAY HARDER than getting out of gold. I fought way more solid kinda players on like high silver. And then the moment I hit gold, I started getting the absolute wildest players ever, lot of modern players too, that had like 1 strategy and the moment you broke their flowchart, they couldn't do anything. Took me about double the time to get out of silver than it took me to get out of gold.
This is funny, I had a similar experience but also in iron of all places. I ran into two people running drive rush extension combos on me in Iron and I didn’t see that again until late silver (very rarely ofc). Good chance it was just people with non SF fighter experience who got placed pretty low like me, but I honestly thought I was just that garbage until I realized you’re gonna run into some monsters in pretty much any rank. Just because someone’s in gold doesn’t mean they’re a “gold” player. Sometimes you run into that player who’s on the climb and you’re the next victim. That’s just the nature of these LP based ranked systems. Those are my favorite matches though for sure.
I find that gold is mostly populated by people who actually play worse than silver, but BEAT most silvers easily, because your average silver player is not good at actually adapting, or hasn't gone to the lab for that particular strat yet. Basically, they've got cheese tasty enough to get into gold, but too lowbrow for plat skill.
@@CineGoodog oh yeah that's definitely true, I'm plat rn and I'm sure I wouldn't be if the rank system was the same as SFV. But the phenomenon with silver/gold is what I found very interesting.
My experience as well. Getting out of silver took me a whole first week of the game. And then I steamrolled gold in a couple of sessions. But idk, how the rating system factors into it. I just grinded non stop while I was in silver. Took a week of a break, and then something clicked - I came up with a game plan, my combos became more consistent. I guess the PSA is - take breaks.
I got placed in iron, and then won my way to platinum. Haven't played since FF16 came out though. I think you're right about silver and gold feeling the same, but I think iron and bronze did feel different to me. In iron and bronze people were taking crazy risks constantly like using H tatsu as a poke. In silver and gold it looked more like something vaguely resembling how SF is played at high level, but everyone still eats meaties. Platinum definitely felt like the biggest jump. My opponents had structure to how they played. I did too. It feels like we have flow charts but to get to diamond we have to do more than just that.
Definitely agree! I got placed in iron and made my way to platinum. I will have to say though, I feel gold was actually it's own seperate rank instead of being with iron-silver. I breezed my way right through iron, bronze, and silver. I struggled a bit once I hit gold 5 star. Gold definitely feels like players know what they are doing. In silver, most people I've seen, really were just throwing specials moves out there hoping they would connect.
As a Marisa placed in Gold and grinded to master, the path for Marisa is: Gold: Punch Plat: Punch harder Diamond: Punch Hardest Master: Okay, maybe start to throw in a kick and a grab. But, also punch even harder.
Congrats on getting Master. I'm on Silver with Marisa, grinding it out. What I'm having trouble with is getting in. Once I get in I can do some decent damage, but sometimes I feel have a very hard time landing that initial hit. Do you have any advice for that?
@@vesperianstar Stop superman punching in neutral if I've already anti aired you the last four times. Signed, someone who probably AA'd you to death on my way up to Plat 1
@@doublevendetta I don't Superman a lot. I think the kick is safer most of the time if you wanna advance with a special and people are usually better at blocking the Superman punch.
Out of all the stuff I’ve prepared a playlist for and partially watched, I’ve watched this twice now and will be going in for my third or fourth watch as well. Super clean information with good explanations!
Always feel free to hit the battle hub to preserve your rank and play really good players too. When you play fight to 5s or 10s you notice your bad habits more than in the best of 3 sets in ranked.
@@LEWfromdaHOU my boxing coach told me once you need three sparring partners: one that whoops your ass, one that you whoop their ass, and one that you’re competitive with.
I hit Diamond with Zangief pretty recently and it was tough, but the punish gamr is very much what makes the platinum grind much easier. Punishing -6 optimally will make a huge difference because other players are used to getting away with them!
@@eriklopez9968 be wary of the change that's coming tomorrow with Rashid, crouching LP will be a lot easier to confirm into a bread and butter punish with it
I made it to platinum on a controller but switched to an arcade stick for the first time and dropped to gold. I did notice that I can do a lot more combos into supers and I can drive rush with the arcade stick (but can’t with the controller). So I’m staying with the stick and getting better
My best advice to get to plat at least is focus on developing fundamentals and a strong neutral. Learning to anti air consistently and react to DI. Learn what buttons you press in neutral, on punishment and any get off me tools your character has. Learn a frame trap, learn the strike throw shimmy mix. I got to plat with about 20hrs SF experience just by learning to answer what my opponent does and what game plan specific characters might have.
Solid advice. I’ve been playing fighting games for awhile and didn’t play SFV but somehow my JP got placed in Platinum. I play multiple characters. Platinum definitely has good players. My Cammy only got placed in Silver and Chun Li got placed in Gold and I felt accomplished getting them di platinum moreso than getting placed there off the bat with JP. Then later on I learned Luke and got placed in Diamond and I’m too afraid to continue playing ranked games.
@ScurvyKipyou recreate a scenario that you constantly find yourself in. Whether it be a specific combo that you keep dropping, a meaty you keep getting hit with, etc. and find a work around for it when it does pop up. I use Dee Jay, a character with good range to his normals, so a typical practice setup for me is to set the cpu to block and then try to attack back with their best normals and DI so that Ik which buttons are good in neutral against that character. I’m sure there’s better practice setups out there but this is to get you started
Good video man. I've been stressing out because in 5 I managed to get to Platinum and that was my first fighter I played online so I felt like I was doing well. In SF6, I've been getting stuck on just Silver 1 and it's getting frustrating because I feel like I should be performing better than I am. Thing is, I've been practicing a few basic combos, and I land them in training, but in a match I just always drop them. Something about this input seems like it's too strict but also really easy to bust out a DP motion when I was going for quarter circle... I watched this video then gave up on landing the fancy high-damage combos for now and focused on the fundamentals. In one evening I've been winning way more matches then I lost and I think I'm only a few more away from breaking Gold. Thanks man! Legendary advice.
Honestly I feel like I have a lot of the things to get out of gold that you mentioned, I know multiple combos I know how to drive rush I know my situations I know how to super and anti-air when I need to but my nerves get to me and I get impatient and I guess silver is where I belong until I can master those things for more than a match or two. When I was super new I feel like confirming was a very hard thing to do and once you get comfortable with canceling and confirming it's all in the reflexes. I either am very good and I crush my opponent or I just get outplayed in neutral, and I know it's my fault most of the time because of a mess input or greedy situation, but either way this game is super rewarding and I'm having a great time and I really appreciate the content It has been a fun journey
I was bouncing between silver and gold a lot in 5. In 6, I've got 5 characters in plat, and most of the difference has been two things. 1. patience. simple as that, I find that opponents start making more and more mistakes the longer the match goes on. I use that against them. 2. being unpredictable. even if it means being FAR less optimal, I will throw random shit out at random times, just to screw with the other guy's head. often creates enough tilt to make em just as predictable as I'm NOT being.
@@antonsimmons8519 there are some things that I made note of, like picking safer options, not committing, knowing when I can cancel into drive impact, but my main issue is I am naturally nervous as hell and patience is definitely the number one thing- it doesn't matter if you know how to confirm into super if you can't use it or waste it on an unsafe as shit block string
When I first got the game I placed plat 4 with Lily but it was so hard to win so I switched to Marisa. I just placed Diamond 1 with her today. Playing patient and reading your opponent is def a must. Higher ranks rarely throw out unsafe moves and its really a matter of who makes a mistake first and punishing optimally.
I thought I was stuck in plat 3 but then I basically skipped 3 *and* 4 in one sitting. I’m not really worried this time around, things aren’t set in stone. I’ll get there when I get there.
good advice I'm plat 2 rank and now scared of losing it and have ranked anxiety, I will practice learning about other characters gimmicks, options. Thanks.
This was a great vid. I'm platinum 2 with Zangief and it's difficult for me to get on a winning streak at this level, and the bonus is what made me reach Platinum so fast. It's so many back and forth matches in Platinum, and I've dropped a couple times back to Platinum one. But those vid has been helpful. Hope I can make diamond soon.
@@saviormonroe-lh7oh I'll be honest. I thought it was hard too. But you have to change your gameplan. I would rush down and command grab in the lower lvls but doesn't work up here. You have to really Patient and get in before you can actually do anything.
@@G-MEISTER6 I can see that now for sure. I'm using a lot more pokes and grabbing a lot less in these higher levels. Takes longer to kill, but that's the only way to possibly win
Just got diamond tonight when I started DR buffering my pokes in neutral and hitting my bnbs at 90%+ (Luke perf double flash knuckles) you can kill people in 2 or 3 touches + neutral damage, you also have to get very very good at AAing so people stop jumping at u, when they don’t jump anymore they sit and eat fireballs. Super timing when it will burn them out is a big game changer. Learn to delay tech, and start holding back not down back in pressure strings when they are out of low range to prevent a bunch of throw attempts. Learn to PP people like Honda, they literally will not be able to use buttslams or headbutts in neutral if u can get them done. And also stop using uncancellable pokes as much if ur getting DI slammed. I love ending my strings w 5mk but can’t when people are throwing out DI like candy in neutral.
i've started to do that but.. if they block it then you're just burning meter for a throw unless you're quick to use low or overhead based on their position. I can't react to use the right move if they block it and it feels bad to just throw.
@@aaronyeh3652 you’re poking at a range where you won’t hit their body only an extended limb which will either whiff or count as a hit buffered into DR so it’s guaranteed to follow up.
Man I'm stuck on silver forever, and I feel like I'm just missing some basic and simple concept. What would you say is the most important thing for silver, from the perspective of someone who's not a pro, like ourselves?
I think this video covers it somewhat well, but countering your opponents poor decisions is most important, and doing so effectively as well, just learning combos, how to beat gimmicks (jump spam, blanka/Honda spam, etc) is really important because once you get your defense down, you will probably run through ranked, offense is easy but defense is hard and that's why I feel the lower ranks are often just players running each other over
I struggled a lot to get out of Gold 5 man I kept going up to rank up opportunity, then down to gold 4, and I finally hit plat 1 two days ago. Now I want to keep getting better and playing ranked but even though i keep telling myself rank doesnt matter, that its about getting better, I honestly still care about not ranking down...im a pretty nervous player too, i play best when im confident, but i have a lot of homes in my style. I dont really react much to what happens in the moment, I kinda just throw attacks out and try to predict what my opponent will do. It worked a lot better in the lower ranks.
I think there's a setting to actually hide all rank points and stuff on your screen. Maybe that'll help you play without worrying too much since you can't saee it.
I'm almost to plat too. Probably gonna hit it today with lily. I plan to take a break and start fighting people more in battle hub that are plat and above to prepare
I feel you, Casual, and hub are so easy but when I do rank automatically I start getting sweaty (and everyone says ranked don’t matter, but everyone cares about their rank and points regardless what they say) that’s why I tend to do a ranked match or two and see how I feel, if I’m starting to feel really tense and nervous, I take a little break (bathroom break, food, check TH-cam for sf6 videos) calm down and then go again. This has been helping my game a lot and I’ve found that more and more it takes longer for me to tense up and get nervous. It’s like training your nerves 😆
If this is your first fighting game that you're taking ranked seriously it can be hard to knock that feeling of like being worried about your rank. I can only say it gets easier in time. Just keep playing try to find friends to play with that really helps try to just think about having fun.
Great advice, I used to be a beast at 3rd strike. I played that game so long I'm finding it hard to readjust to the timings and different systems. I took the same approach you mentioned. One combo at a time. Even if I lose, as long I hit the combo once per round I was happy. Honestly the improvement was quicker than I was expecting. It took an hour or so until it was muscle memory!
This was such a great video, new players hear how large the mental stack is. But at low levels, just chillin can do so much lol. Your opponents will fuck up
Update. I reached Diamond with Honda today. On the way up I learned two things. To watch my replays and to look at how the community practises beating Honda.
i just got to Plat and man it was a struggle getting out of gold,you have to learn different mixups in gold cause thats when people know all the matchups by then.
Nailed it. It made me laugh just how accurately your description of a typical Platinum player fits me lol; I feel like I know my characters pretty well but I have no idea what I'm doing against half the cast, and I tilt pretty hard when I run into a tricky character I'm less experienced against (JP and Blanka spring to mind). No doubt you're right, and what it will take for me to get to the next level is to lab some match-ups and develop counter play.
Crazy because I recently changed my mentality and reached a higher rank than ever before but now I’ve hit another block. It’s frustrating. This video came right on time.
this was excellent! if you want to do a follow up, even though it was covered somewhat in the 'do nothing' section, maybe talk about delay techs and the utility of shimmy against that? i know for me as a non-sf player it took a lot of time for me to understand that situation and let go of the idea of strike/normal throw as a real 50/50
I remember i picked up ehonda and played the placement matches. Out of the 10, i think i won 5 or 6, then the game placed me on platinum. Its weird because i got same results with other characters and got placed lower
I think it depends on HOW you fight. Using the system mechanics, etc. I went 6 out of 10 but beat two Diamond players. It placed me in Diamond. And I lost one match to a Gold player. My Ryu and Luke got placed in Diamond. But my Ryu won 8 out of 10. My Ken got placed in Gold. And he's my best fighter. Go figure. He's a Diamond now. I felt bad because I ascended quickly playing against people who I should not have been matched up with.
Man, this game started me off in bronze. I have so much fg experience and I did well in the betas so I thought I had a shot at a higher placement, but now I'm in diamond. I didn't play sf5 a whole bunch but was stuck in silver and ultra bronze lol
Oh, I was kinda upset launch day. I was sure I'd get placed gold or plat. Load it up, lab a bit with Cammy, do my placements and...bronze. lmao. I had all 5 characters I play in plat in less than a week. I hope, for the sake of others, that the placement system stops being total ass XD
I played all of World Tour before i even touched rank. Got placed in Plat 1 after placement matches, and am Diamond 2. This was pretty good advice but truthfully, the only way to rank up is to win more than losing. If you can maintain a 65-70% W/L ratio, you're going to level up just fine.
I'm platinum, i understand the fact that i don't have the year of experience of the top and i don't have that much time to play much like them so i understand and don't complain about it. -From a casual point of view
Manon's crouch HP anti air isn't too difficult and what's great is that it combos into another HP hard knockdown. If the opponent doesn't get away fast enough you can even go for a command grab as they are getting up to add another medal making her stronger the next time they do it. For a faster anti air, she can OD a Rond Point, but that cost meter.
I get so much advice and it just bounces off my skull. But I can’t quit because I love playing. It’s a really frustrating catch 22. It’s hard to believe anymore improvement is possible tbh
Surprised to hear that you placed in silver but as you say that’s just a placement and your development will help you climb. Thanks for sharing the experience. Most of my placements are played on 300+ ms and I was feeling discouraged about currently being 7-2 in platinum for my placements but I’m definitely getting overzealous about the rank and not my actual play.
I lost my job around the time this game came out so ibought it and played the heck outa it for about a month before i started working again. I got placed at 1,000 iron, and slowly grinded my way up to gold after about 1,000 matches. Since then, I haven't been able to play nearly as much as before and have stagnated at gold for weeks now. SO yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to improve
I just made it to platinum with Marisa and I don't feel I deserved it. I blazed through gold until the last 1000 or so points. I'm afraid to keep going with platinum because I don't feel I'm really good enough. I have a friend who auto placed into platinum (I was placed in high bronze) and he CONSISTENTLY beats me every time we fight. I also feel off because I NEVER made it out of silver in SFV. I dunno, I get why the win streak is there. for people who don't really belong at the low ranks and wanna get outta there. but I legit feel I got lucky. maybe I'm downplaying myself, not sure... but I'm gonna keep practicing. thanks for the great vid as usual.
Currently more than halfway through Platinum lv.2 with Manon. I would say that most of what you cover in this video is true to my experience, but with one caveat: all the advice given should be -1 rank. I'm a US player in SoCal that gets outta work around 11pm - i.e. I'm gaming starting past midnight - so maybe my experience doesn't speak to other US players. I feel like general familiarity with your character would start in Silver. This includes acclimating oneself to the basics of footsies as it relates to your characters hitboxes (intuitively speaking, not knowing the literal dimensions); comprehending your characters surface level strengths (their 'gimmick' or 'premise' to put it crudely); and implementing drive mechanics into play -- even if it means performing naked drive impacts, parrying strings, punishing parries with throws, etc. Gold is where you should begin to 'play against' opposing characters. Meaning, both what you can grasp about the 'character' itself (without playing them of course), as well as pick up on some general habits the opposing PLAYER tends to utilize with said character. Some other dynamics that should start coming into play is beginning Oki: meaning, Drive Rush games in the corner, mountain dew dashing to blindside opponents, the basics of shimmying and poking, and understanding the appropriate routes for certain combo options. Plat is where the game actually starts, as you mentioned. I feel as though the only real way to play at this level is to get a grasp on conditioning opponents, who are more than familiar with their character at this point. Hell, I've seen some plenty a decent combo game in Gold, Plat is a next level past even that. The only external training I can think of being helpful here is getting a grasp on comprehensive frame data on your characters normals, and an intuitive understanding of your opponents frame data as well.
@@Sk8r115 probably has a bit to do with the fact that you can grind ranks off of a 40% win ratio. On top of that, there is an interesting caveat where mashers can get up to a certain level, and then just cap there; on the other, if you struggled to get to Gold/Plat, but start playing against people who 'get' the game, you can start winning more due to the fact that you're not just dealing with someone flailing.
I disagree with the -1 rank opinion. At least at this point in the games lifecycle, I noticed that in Gold everyone does the cheapest gimmick their character has (+ DI spam and using it like burst or PRC in GGST). In low Plat people do the next cheap gimmick that not many players have learned the counterplay to yet. Taking Ken as an example, in Gold every Ken spams heavy dragonlash. In low Plat, I was able to get pretty far with doing meaty 5MP target combo into medium Jinrai kick. But again, that will change over time and might depend on our location.
Or, I actually agree that the advice could be applied one level sooner, but I think you’re overestimating the level of play at different ranks in the second part of your comment. For example, I don’t think people in gold have good oki nor that good oki is needed to get out of gold. That’s something that comes into play in plat. Same with conditioning - no one is doing this stuff in low plat. But that’s just based on my experience.
I’m in my way to Diamond rank soon. I feel like Platinum is the standard for the competitive side of SF6, while Gold and below are ppl just having fun or have never played SF before.
I got placed in gold 3 and worked up to diamond 1 now I like the sound of master rank not ranking down but playing the top 1% all the time might not be for me
As someone who just made Plat 1 for the first time in their entire life last night, all of this is HIGHLY relatable and great advice. Focusing on the pennies really does make the dollars roll in, esp in those early metal ranks.
Me too buddy, I'd say patience and staying calm was one of the more important things for me personally. Once I have the life lead I try and play safe. Went from silver to platinum with Marisa.
I'm currently going back and forth between Platinum 4 & 5. I get ranked down to platinum 4 when I meet Diamond players. I see a huge skill gap between Diamond 1 & Platinum 5. Diamond players almost never do unsafe moves, they almost never jump toward me and have a better neutral game in general and they punish my mistake with the optimal combos of their character. Each time I defeated a Diamond player, It was because they made a mistake ( blocking in a corner (I play Zangief), dropping combos, doing random drive impact, not Whiff punishing me), but I need to figure out how to consistently beat Diamond players who don't do these type of mistakes . I'm missing something, but I don't know what exactly.
The ranking system is weird in this game and at times way too generous. With my main Ryu, I got placed in Gold 1 from the start, but when I decided to play my placement games with deejay I won 7 out of 10 games and had to face 1 master rank and 1 diamond rank where I got my ass kicked and immediately my deejay was ranked Diamond 1 😂 I should be plat 1 at best…
@@RePlayQ yeah, I see this as a big issue for me going forward, instead of playing people in and around my skill level and working my way up. I am now stuck playing some real killers, essentially I am going to be farmed for points lmao!!
@@RePlayQ 1000% incorrect, I literally ranked down from plat to gold today and have done in multiple times on multiple characters. He’s not in master, he will rank down to where his skill level is, and there’s no way to get to master without extreme skill, there wouldn’t be a need to de rank if you made it there, so your original comment is unneeded, misguided and incorrect.
Personally I really recommend looking at the character guides because they're actually worth it in this game. If you put work into it you could play and fight a character decently in just a day.
I was put at bronze for my placement and then just grind my way to platinum with jp knowledge checks lmao 😂 but the game is definitely more fun with the good online compared to past fighting games
@@EasterDude yessir. But once you find answers to it mid match and pulling it off, really euphoric feeling. Even just labbing it after the match is fun.
I'm Diamond 2 stars, I remember I was in a back and forward situation between platinium rank and diamond but something happend and I couldn't stop winning and got stuck at diamond again
The only thing I disagree with is I'd put gold players in with platinum/diamond. That seems to be where people really have the mechanics down and can effectively play footsies, punish, and land high-damage combos. Love the video though! Very informative
With me being pretty new to Street Fighter, I placed Diamond with JP. I was so confused and I thought I was placed too high. I should’ve, at the maximum, been placed at Gold or something. 😭 I still have so much to learn and I don’t think I deserve the rank I have yet!
Grind is real. I rank myself as pretty decent in fighting games and jumped into rank 20 minutes in. I was sadly placed in bronze and blitzed up to platinum. The issue i'm having now is dealing with good reactions on jumpins and dealing with spacing properly. Also countering drive rush has me crazy because it feels like it eats my inputs halve the time.
Yea i have this issue too and its really frustrating. Like i correctly anticipate a DR so i neutral jump but because the DR ate my inputs now im still on the ground and the opponent is right in my face and im still trying to figure what the hell just happened. I think honestly they should change something about this so it doesnt eat your inputs all the time.
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ROFL... I got placed in Diamond, out of the box with my Pocket Luke. I was fighting some Master in my placement match. I almost wished to win on the placement matches because I was wondering if I could be placed in Master rank after your 10 placement matches. I was Diamond again.
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This killed me. Funny how Ky is the worst character in SF6
Love when a pro gives such frank, down-to-earth advice that doesn’t belittle anyone for where they are at in their learning journey.
For anyone that feels this way over a video game, they need to be reevaluated. Also, I'd recommend they right away put it down for a little while or for good if it becomes detrimental.
@@TheGohthecrow Just because its a video game doesnt mean it automatically has no value. For some people, sure, its an addiction and unhealthy and they should get help. But for most people it is just a hobby. If a football coach is training a player like this then you would say the same thing about football?
@@HafusAndLegacy bruv, read your analogy/comparison. They're not the same thing. One has more benefits than the other despite being on the losing end. Figure that out yourself now...🤦♂️
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@@TheGohthecrowYou're right, video games are way more beneficial, all you get from football is life long injuries, painkiller addictions and CTE.
Im on Diamond 5 on my way to Master. the only thing I disagree is that you should learn how to counter DI earlier, around silver/gold rank. Also when you get at certain level, light attack meaties are a really good way to counter DI on wakeup since they give you more real-life frames (not ingame since the game freezes on each hit) to react. Aside from that I believe I agree with everything else.
Update: Got my Master rank today =D
Ayy congrats🎉
What character? congrats dude
When I get people in the corner if they don't have a dp I just spam jabs because I'm tired of getting hit with DI
Got to diamond today 🎉
nice congrats!!! im in between diamond 4 n 5 n i keep getting matched with keep away players and if they win they quit 😤 any tips?
Rookie - learn a combo
Bronze - learn to block then attack
Silver - learn to anti air
Gold - be patient about gimmicks and start to understand characters strength
Plat - start using those drive system smartly, parry more and interrupt fake pressure
Diamond - haven’t reached it yet😢
Edit: or just spam blanka ball or honda headbutt… I got to high plat knowing 0 combo😂
Lol
I feel like finding a frame trap you can loop is very good in early ranks, since most players will mash a lot. If your character lacks plus buttons, maybe try to find a meaty setup to get plus frames.
One thing I notice to is many people that place into diamond get immediately deranked because they don’t know the matchups
I can feel that: at plat V consistently one of if not my biggest problem I feel is I just I am missing information about the character I am facing, especially in relation to their pressure, what I can punish, when it’s my turn, etc. So been considering taking a break from grinding out my character to go play with cast members I have trouble against.
We need more pros teaching us noobs like this, in a structured way, teaching what you should learn and focus first, and what steps you should take next, instead of the usual approach of “just play a lot, eventually things you click”. Thanks for this video!
I wish I could just be a gamer and play and be good lmao, glad it helped
I want to touch on something LK said in this video and elaborate on it. At 2:55 LK says that if you're platinumish you should start trying to find your local. I think this suggests that you should be at a certain level to attend locals. You do not. You can be an absolute beginner or a super sweaty pro gamer and you will be welcomed with open arms at your local scene. Unless you're in an area with a dense population of good players (Major cities or OG arcade venues), the average skill level is gonna be just about gold. Sure there will be outliers, but that's how it is. If you have fun playing the game and you have time, show up to your locals. It doesn't matter if you go 0-2 or if you take the whole bracket by storm, you'll form bonds with people through something you enjoy and that is something that can make or break your FG experience.
Getting experience at locals will also help you improve way quicker than playing online. I'm not really sure what to attribute this to but I was hardstuck Silver for a while. Went to 2 locals and went 0-2 at both, but the casuals experience as well as my actual tournament experience taught me so much and the next day, without any more practice, I went into ranked and shot straight through low silver and got to Gold 3.
important to note that you do not have to enter a tournament when you go to a locals, nobody should be expecting you to shell money out to go 0-2 for no reason when you JUST GOT THERE , scoping out a venue to see if it's a right fit before you commit is important. i have been to some toxic places a few times and regret spending money and wasting an entire night
@@reisvanderpol5413 you learn from losses,not wins, a basement king who bodies his friends is just a frog in the well compared to someone who has been to several tournaments already
Keep iui improving and ask questions to tour opponent when they have time to answer
Idk if anyone had the same experience as me, I was like stuck silver in SFV, tho admittedly I didn't play as much as I'm playing 6 and the weirdest thing so far to me was how getting out of silver to me was WAY HARDER than getting out of gold. I fought way more solid kinda players on like high silver. And then the moment I hit gold, I started getting the absolute wildest players ever, lot of modern players too, that had like 1 strategy and the moment you broke their flowchart, they couldn't do anything. Took me about double the time to get out of silver than it took me to get out of gold.
This is funny, I had a similar experience but also in iron of all places. I ran into two people running drive rush extension combos on me in Iron and I didn’t see that again until late silver (very rarely ofc). Good chance it was just people with non SF fighter experience who got placed pretty low like me, but I honestly thought I was just that garbage until I realized you’re gonna run into some monsters in pretty much any rank.
Just because someone’s in gold doesn’t mean they’re a “gold” player. Sometimes you run into that player who’s on the climb and you’re the next victim. That’s just the nature of these LP based ranked systems. Those are my favorite matches though for sure.
I find that gold is mostly populated by people who actually play worse than silver, but BEAT most silvers easily, because your average silver player is not good at actually adapting, or hasn't gone to the lab for that particular strat yet. Basically, they've got cheese tasty enough to get into gold, but too lowbrow for plat skill.
That is because the ranking system in SF6 is way more lenient on losses than SF5. Especially on low ranks.
@@CineGoodog oh yeah that's definitely true, I'm plat rn and I'm sure I wouldn't be if the rank system was the same as SFV. But the phenomenon with silver/gold is what I found very interesting.
My experience as well. Getting out of silver took me a whole first week of the game. And then I steamrolled gold in a couple of sessions. But idk, how the rating system factors into it.
I just grinded non stop while I was in silver. Took a week of a break, and then something clicked - I came up with a game plan, my combos became more consistent.
I guess the PSA is - take breaks.
Main reason I cant get ranked cause im just chilling in the lobby doing spinning bird kicks while listening to the lobby music.
I can't help but smile every time somebody throws out a raw DI and I'm playing Manon. I love free medals.
I got placed in iron, and then won my way to platinum. Haven't played since FF16 came out though. I think you're right about silver and gold feeling the same, but I think iron and bronze did feel different to me. In iron and bronze people were taking crazy risks constantly like using H tatsu as a poke. In silver and gold it looked more like something vaguely resembling how SF is played at high level, but everyone still eats meaties. Platinum definitely felt like the biggest jump. My opponents had structure to how they played. I did too. It feels like we have flow charts but to get to diamond we have to do more than just that.
Definitely agree! I got placed in iron and made my way to platinum. I will have to say though, I feel gold was actually it's own seperate rank instead of being with iron-silver. I breezed my way right through iron, bronze, and silver. I struggled a bit once I hit gold 5 star. Gold definitely feels like players know what they are doing. In silver, most people I've seen, really were just throwing specials moves out there hoping they would connect.
lol are we twins?? I got placed in Iron
Am now platinum
Stopped playing to pick up FF16 🤣 😎 🍻
@@TeflonBTM lol thats amazing! I thought FF16 was a super cool game. I hope you enjoy it! 🍻
As a Marisa placed in Gold and grinded to master, the path for Marisa is:
Gold: Punch
Plat: Punch harder
Diamond: Punch Hardest
Master: Okay, maybe start to throw in a kick and a grab. But, also punch even harder.
Congrats on getting Master.
I'm on Silver with Marisa, grinding it out.
What I'm having trouble with is getting in. Once I get in I can do some decent damage, but sometimes I feel have a very hard time landing that initial hit.
Do you have any advice for that?
@@vesperianstar Stop superman punching in neutral if I've already anti aired you the last four times. Signed, someone who probably AA'd you to death on my way up to Plat 1
@@doublevendetta I don't Superman a lot. I think the kick is safer most of the time if you wanna advance with a special and people are usually better at blocking the Superman punch.
@-nomi.- Thank you. I'll keep that in mind.
@@vesperianstar Congratulations, you're officially smarter than every other Marisa I've played 😂
Out of all the stuff I’ve prepared a playlist for and partially watched, I’ve watched this twice now and will be going in for my third or fourth watch as well. Super clean information with good explanations!
You're easily the most underrated FGC content creator on TH-cam (or anywhere really). You're doing the Lord's work... no pun intended 😂
Always feel free to hit the battle hub to preserve your rank and play really good players too. When you play fight to 5s or 10s you notice your bad habits more than in the best of 3 sets in ranked.
You'll run into smurfs in the battle hub too.
@@LEWfromdaHOU my boxing coach told me once you need three sparring partners: one that whoops your ass, one that you whoop their ass, and one that you’re competitive with.
@@bbyjohn11 Fair enough
I love the vibe of this channel so much and all the information is so clearly communicated, great video!
I hit Diamond with Zangief pretty recently and it was tough, but the punish gamr is very much what makes the platinum grind much easier. Punishing -6 optimally will make a huge difference because other players are used to getting away with them!
What did you usually punish with?
@QisGRACE thanks bro I'll try to incorporate those staggers and DR more
@@eriklopez9968 be wary of the change that's coming tomorrow with Rashid, crouching LP will be a lot easier to confirm into a bread and butter punish with it
I made it to platinum on a controller but switched to an arcade stick for the first time and dropped to gold. I did notice that I can do a lot more combos into supers and I can drive rush with the arcade stick (but can’t with the controller). So I’m staying with the stick and getting better
My best advice to get to plat at least is focus on developing fundamentals and a strong neutral. Learning to anti air consistently and react to DI. Learn what buttons you press in neutral, on punishment and any get off me tools your character has. Learn a frame trap, learn the strike throw shimmy mix. I got to plat with about 20hrs SF experience just by learning to answer what my opponent does and what game plan specific characters might have.
Very good advice, this was my approach as well. I’m one level away from Diamond.
Solid advice. I’ve been playing fighting games for awhile and didn’t play SFV but somehow my JP got placed in Platinum. I play multiple characters. Platinum definitely has good players. My Cammy only got placed in Silver and Chun Li got placed in Gold and I felt accomplished getting them di platinum moreso than getting placed there off the bat with JP.
Then later on I learned Luke and got placed in Diamond and I’m too afraid to continue playing ranked games.
@ScurvyKipyou recreate a scenario that you constantly find yourself in. Whether it be a specific combo that you keep dropping, a meaty you keep getting hit with, etc. and find a work around for it when it does pop up. I use Dee Jay, a character with good range to his normals, so a typical practice setup for me is to set the cpu to block and then try to attack back with their best normals and DI so that Ik which buttons are good in neutral against that character. I’m sure there’s better practice setups out there but this is to get you started
Great job of explaining things very clearly and to the point, well done.
Good video man. I've been stressing out because in 5 I managed to get to Platinum and that was my first fighter I played online so I felt like I was doing well. In SF6, I've been getting stuck on just Silver 1 and it's getting frustrating because I feel like I should be performing better than I am.
Thing is, I've been practicing a few basic combos, and I land them in training, but in a match I just always drop them. Something about this input seems like it's too strict but also really easy to bust out a DP motion when I was going for quarter circle... I watched this video then gave up on landing the fancy high-damage combos for now and focused on the fundamentals. In one evening I've been winning way more matches then I lost and I think I'm only a few more away from breaking Gold.
Thanks man! Legendary advice.
Honestly I feel like I have a lot of the things to get out of gold that you mentioned, I know multiple combos I know how to drive rush I know my situations I know how to super and anti-air when I need to but my nerves get to me and I get impatient and I guess silver is where I belong until I can master those things for more than a match or two. When I was super new I feel like confirming was a very hard thing to do and once you get comfortable with canceling and confirming it's all in the reflexes. I either am very good and I crush my opponent or I just get outplayed in neutral, and I know it's my fault most of the time because of a mess input or greedy situation, but either way this game is super rewarding and I'm having a great time and I really appreciate the content It has been a fun journey
I was bouncing between silver and gold a lot in 5. In 6, I've got 5 characters in plat, and most of the difference has been two things.
1. patience. simple as that, I find that opponents start making more and more mistakes the longer the match goes on. I use that against them.
2. being unpredictable. even if it means being FAR less optimal, I will throw random shit out at random times, just to screw with the other guy's head. often creates enough tilt to make em just as predictable as I'm NOT being.
@@antonsimmons8519 there are some things that I made note of, like picking safer options, not committing, knowing when I can cancel into drive impact, but my main issue is I am naturally nervous as hell and patience is definitely the number one thing- it doesn't matter if you know how to confirm into super if you can't use it or waste it on an unsafe as shit block string
When I first got the game I placed plat 4 with Lily but it was so hard to win so I switched to Marisa. I just placed Diamond 1 with her today. Playing patient and reading your opponent is def a must. Higher ranks rarely throw out unsafe moves and its really a matter of who makes a mistake first and punishing optimally.
I can't get Diamond because of my trash teammates!
Great choice for using "Hide, hideaway" as the background music ❤
I thought I was stuck in plat 3 but then I basically skipped 3 *and* 4 in one sitting. I’m not really worried this time around, things aren’t set in stone. I’ll get there when I get there.
good advice I'm plat 2 rank and now scared of losing it and have ranked anxiety, I will practice learning about other characters gimmicks, options. Thanks.
This was a great vid. I'm platinum 2 with Zangief and it's difficult for me to get on a winning streak at this level, and the bonus is what made me reach Platinum so fast. It's so many back and forth matches in Platinum, and I've dropped a couple times back to Platinum one. But those vid has been helpful. Hope I can make diamond soon.
Gief main as well. I was like you too bro. Now I'm one lvl away from Diamond. Keep at it and you'll get there
@@G-MEISTER6 hard work pays off. Especially hard with Gief. Lol. I salute you 🙏🏾 cus it's not easy in them platinum levels.
@@saviormonroe-lh7oh I'll be honest. I thought it was hard too. But you have to change your gameplan. I would rush down and command grab in the lower lvls but doesn't work up here. You have to really Patient and get in before you can actually do anything.
@@G-MEISTER6 I can see that now for sure. I'm using a lot more pokes and grabbing a lot less in these higher levels. Takes longer to kill, but that's the only way to possibly win
Just got diamond tonight when I started DR buffering my pokes in neutral and hitting my bnbs at 90%+ (Luke perf double flash knuckles) you can kill people in 2 or 3 touches + neutral damage, you also have to get very very good at AAing so people stop jumping at u, when they don’t jump anymore they sit and eat fireballs. Super timing when it will burn them out is a big game changer. Learn to delay tech, and start holding back not down back in pressure strings when they are out of low range to prevent a bunch of throw attempts. Learn to PP people like Honda, they literally will not be able to use buttslams or headbutts in neutral if u can get them done. And also stop using uncancellable pokes as much if ur getting DI slammed. I love ending my strings w 5mk but can’t when people are throwing out DI like candy in neutral.
i've started to do that but.. if they block it then you're just burning meter for a throw unless you're quick to use low or overhead based on their position. I can't react to use the right move if they block it and it feels bad to just throw.
@@aaronyeh3652 you’re poking at a range where you won’t hit their body only an extended limb which will either whiff or count as a hit buffered into DR so it’s guaranteed to follow up.
Ive gotten to the point where all my characters are plat and am just starting to struggle to get further, thanks for the vid lordknight
Man I'm stuck on silver forever, and I feel like I'm just missing some basic and simple concept. What would you say is the most important thing for silver, from the perspective of someone who's not a pro, like ourselves?
I think this video covers it somewhat well, but countering your opponents poor decisions is most important, and doing so effectively as well, just learning combos, how to beat gimmicks (jump spam, blanka/Honda spam, etc) is really important because once you get your defense down, you will probably run through ranked, offense is easy but defense is hard and that's why I feel the lower ranks are often just players running each other over
I ranked right into Platinum 4 star and have been getting absolutely wrecked
I struggled a lot to get out of Gold 5 man I kept going up to rank up opportunity, then down to gold 4, and I finally hit plat 1 two days ago. Now I want to keep getting better and playing ranked but even though i keep telling myself rank doesnt matter, that its about getting better, I honestly still care about not ranking down...im a pretty nervous player too, i play best when im confident, but i have a lot of homes in my style. I dont really react much to what happens in the moment, I kinda just throw attacks out and try to predict what my opponent will do. It worked a lot better in the lower ranks.
I think there's a setting to actually hide all rank points and stuff on your screen. Maybe that'll help you play without worrying too much since you can't saee it.
I'm almost to plat too. Probably gonna hit it today with lily. I plan to take a break and start fighting people more in battle hub that are plat and above to prepare
I feel you, Casual, and hub are so easy but when I do rank automatically I start getting sweaty (and everyone says ranked don’t matter, but everyone cares about their rank and points regardless what they say) that’s why I tend to do a ranked match or two and see how I feel, if I’m starting to feel really tense and nervous, I take a little break (bathroom break, food, check TH-cam for sf6 videos) calm down and then go again. This has been helping my game a lot and I’ve found that more and more it takes longer for me to tense up and get nervous. It’s like training your nerves 😆
@MrShinTensei same I play casuals when I feel like I'm stuck at a rank (when I first got to plat) so I can keep getting real player experience
If this is your first fighting game that you're taking ranked seriously it can be hard to knock that feeling of like being worried about your rank. I can only say it gets easier in time. Just keep playing try to find friends to play with that really helps try to just think about having fun.
Great advice, I used to be a beast at 3rd strike. I played that game so long I'm finding it hard to readjust to the timings and different systems. I took the same approach you mentioned. One combo at a time. Even if I lose, as long I hit the combo once per round I was happy. Honestly the improvement was quicker than I was expecting. It took an hour or so until it was muscle memory!
Platinum 5 JP on my way to Diamond. Still have trouble with DI counters and getting familiar with mirror matches. Started playing June 12th.
This was such a great video, new players hear how large the mental stack is. But at low levels, just chillin can do so much lol. Your opponents will fuck up
Thanks for this, it was great after a session on ranked to wind down with this. Its definitely food for thought 😊
Man, your videos rocks, congratz!!
Obviously its because my character is holding me back and i only get bad matchup and its definetly because of my lack of skill (im terrible)
Lol what character?
@@Boom_OH zangeif
@@salihninja yea that's gotta be rough
This video has helped so much!
I usually play Guilty Gear and this is my first Street Fighter.
I couldn’t have climbed without videos like this!
Update. I reached Diamond with Honda today. On the way up I learned two things. To watch my replays and to look at how the community practises beating Honda.
i just got to Plat and man it was a struggle getting out of gold,you have to learn different mixups in gold cause thats when people know all the matchups by then.
It’s hard I started from Rookie and made it to plat but it’s hard to adjust even now
@@K.JBoone where you stationed bro
Ty for this video you kinda confirmed my thinking process so I know I'm on the right track its much appreciated ty again
Finally reached Diamond! Thanks for the advice!
I went from rookie to gold I earned my stars and I’m proud of them 😁
Nailed it. It made me laugh just how accurately your description of a typical Platinum player fits me lol; I feel like I know my characters pretty well but I have no idea what I'm doing against half the cast, and I tilt pretty hard when I run into a tricky character I'm less experienced against (JP and Blanka spring to mind). No doubt you're right, and what it will take for me to get to the next level is to lab some match-ups and develop counter play.
Crazy because I recently changed my mentality and reached a higher rank than ever before but now I’ve hit another block. It’s frustrating. This video came right on time.
As a player that had to grind from bronze to diamond and is fighting for his life in diamond one, this is a great video for learning.
mans already got the ff16 music in the bg. Great vid!
LK you deserve more subs. Goat content.
this was excellent! if you want to do a follow up, even though it was covered somewhat in the 'do nothing' section, maybe talk about delay techs and the utility of shimmy against that? i know for me as a non-sf player it took a lot of time for me to understand that situation and let go of the idea of strike/normal throw as a real 50/50
Crazy how LK knew exactly why I wasn’t diamond 🤯 yet more evidence he’s the GOAT!
I remember i picked up ehonda and played the placement matches. Out of the 10, i think i won 5 or 6, then the game placed me on platinum. Its weird because i got same results with other characters and got placed lower
I think it depends on HOW you fight. Using the system mechanics, etc. I went 6 out of 10 but beat two Diamond players. It placed me in Diamond. And I lost one match to a Gold player. My Ryu and Luke got placed in Diamond. But my Ryu won 8 out of 10. My Ken got placed in Gold. And he's my best fighter. Go figure. He's a Diamond now. I felt bad because I ascended quickly playing against people who I should not have been matched up with.
Man, this game started me off in bronze. I have so much fg experience and I did well in the betas so I thought I had a shot at a higher placement, but now I'm in diamond. I didn't play sf5 a whole bunch but was stuck in silver and ultra bronze lol
Oh, I was kinda upset launch day. I was sure I'd get placed gold or plat. Load it up, lab a bit with Cammy, do my placements and...bronze. lmao. I had all 5 characters I play in plat in less than a week. I hope, for the sake of others, that the placement system stops being total ass XD
@@antonsimmons8519you were placed there Because you couldn’t win the matches .
@@antonsimmons8519egotistical much?
I played all of World Tour before i even touched rank. Got placed in Plat 1 after placement matches, and am Diamond 2. This was pretty good advice but truthfully, the only way to rank up is to win more than losing. If you can maintain a 65-70% W/L ratio, you're going to level up just fine.
Yup Diamond is a diff kinda struggle, its a plat 3 life for me.
Plat 3’s not bad at all 👍🏾
Plat is such an extreme slog, I've been stuck at plat 1 for two weeks now and cannot get through to even level 2 of it
Excellent video man
Great job! Nice and easy to understand!
I appreciate the FF16 Hideaway music vibes in the background.
When this game lunched my goal was platinum now I'm Platinum ranked. I guess I might as well continue to play in ranked and see where I go.
Diamond 💎
Hella random man, your barber lined you up pretty nicely man. Looking clean
I'm platinum, i understand the fact that i don't have the year of experience of the top and i don't have that much time to play much like them so i understand and don't complain about it.
-From a casual point of view
Getting platinum still is a good accomplishment, getting diamond isn’t a must for me because I never really got to a high rank when I played as a kid
Manon's crouch HP anti air isn't too difficult and what's great is that it combos into another HP hard knockdown. If the opponent doesn't get away fast enough you can even go for a command grab as they are getting up to add another medal making her stronger the next time they do it. For a faster anti air, she can OD a Rond Point, but that cost meter.
That final fantasy 16 hideout theme song is just so relaxing
thanks to all the content creators giving very insightful info i reached diamonds rank with kimberly my next goal is master rank
I get so much advice and it just bounces off my skull. But I can’t quit because I love playing. It’s a really frustrating catch 22. It’s hard to believe anymore improvement is possible tbh
Surprised to hear that you placed in silver but as you say that’s just a placement and your development will help you climb. Thanks for sharing the experience. Most of my placements are played on 300+ ms and I was feeling discouraged about currently being 7-2 in platinum for my placements but I’m definitely getting overzealous about the rank and not my actual play.
You can't sneak the FFXVI OST past me, LK, you sneaky bastard (thanks for the vid)
I lost my job around the time this game came out so ibought it and played the heck outa it for about a month before i started working again. I got placed at 1,000 iron, and slowly grinded my way up to gold after about 1,000 matches. Since then, I haven't been able to play nearly as much as before and have stagnated at gold for weeks now. SO yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to improve
I just made it to platinum with Marisa and I don't feel I deserved it. I blazed through gold until the last 1000 or so points. I'm afraid to keep going with platinum because I don't feel I'm really good enough. I have a friend who auto placed into platinum (I was placed in high bronze) and he CONSISTENTLY beats me every time we fight. I also feel off because I NEVER made it out of silver in SFV. I dunno, I get why the win streak is there. for people who don't really belong at the low ranks and wanna get outta there. but I legit feel I got lucky. maybe I'm downplaying myself, not sure... but I'm gonna keep practicing. thanks for the great vid as usual.
Got my Honda into platinum now im learning meaty clap combos for the sauce
😂😂😂 "meaty clap"
Thanks for the video. I really hope Capcom tweak the input reader, as a weak player it's made it hard for me to enjoy the game as much :-/
the final fantasy 16 music was the perfect touch.
This video hit me hard because I know I'm never getting my main to Diamond :(
Because I'm in Master rank BABY!
Great video! Loved it
Lk beard mustache combo lookin crazy good
0:09 let me stop you right there, i cant get into diamond rank because i suffer of a severe skill issue
I got freaked out because I heard the hideaway music from XVI and thought I left the ps5 on
Currently more than halfway through Platinum lv.2 with Manon. I would say that most of what you cover in this video is true to my experience, but with one caveat: all the advice given should be -1 rank. I'm a US player in SoCal that gets outta work around 11pm - i.e. I'm gaming starting past midnight - so maybe my experience doesn't speak to other US players.
I feel like general familiarity with your character would start in Silver. This includes acclimating oneself to the basics of footsies as it relates to your characters hitboxes (intuitively speaking, not knowing the literal dimensions); comprehending your characters surface level strengths (their 'gimmick' or 'premise' to put it crudely); and implementing drive mechanics into play -- even if it means performing naked drive impacts, parrying strings, punishing parries with throws, etc.
Gold is where you should begin to 'play against' opposing characters. Meaning, both what you can grasp about the 'character' itself (without playing them of course), as well as pick up on some general habits the opposing PLAYER tends to utilize with said character. Some other dynamics that should start coming into play is beginning Oki: meaning, Drive Rush games in the corner, mountain dew dashing to blindside opponents, the basics of shimmying and poking, and understanding the appropriate routes for certain combo options.
Plat is where the game actually starts, as you mentioned. I feel as though the only real way to play at this level is to get a grasp on conditioning opponents, who are more than familiar with their character at this point. Hell, I've seen some plenty a decent combo game in Gold, Plat is a next level past even that. The only external training I can think of being helpful here is getting a grasp on comprehensive frame data on your characters normals, and an intuitive understanding of your opponents frame data as well.
I play Manon and I’m in gold 2 atm. Any advice on progressing further up for Manon specifically? (outside of what’s in this video obv)
Plat is crazy to me cause it's a mix of straight garbage throw the whole sink players and also pretty good players slowly making the climb
@@Sk8r115 probably has a bit to do with the fact that you can grind ranks off of a 40% win ratio. On top of that, there is an interesting caveat where mashers can get up to a certain level, and then just cap there; on the other, if you struggled to get to Gold/Plat, but start playing against people who 'get' the game, you can start winning more due to the fact that you're not just dealing with someone flailing.
I disagree with the -1 rank opinion. At least at this point in the games lifecycle, I noticed that in Gold everyone does the cheapest gimmick their character has (+ DI spam and using it like burst or PRC in GGST). In low Plat people do the next cheap gimmick that not many players have learned the counterplay to yet.
Taking Ken as an example, in Gold every Ken spams heavy dragonlash. In low Plat, I was able to get pretty far with doing meaty 5MP target combo into medium Jinrai kick.
But again, that will change over time and might depend on our location.
Or, I actually agree that the advice could be applied one level sooner, but I think you’re overestimating the level of play at different ranks in the second part of your comment.
For example, I don’t think people in gold have good oki nor that good oki is needed to get out of gold. That’s something that comes into play in plat. Same with conditioning - no one is doing this stuff in low plat. But that’s just based on my experience.
I’m in my way to Diamond rank soon. I feel like Platinum is the standard for the competitive side of SF6, while Gold and below are ppl just having fun or have never played SF before.
I got placed in gold 3 and worked up to diamond 1 now I like the sound of master rank not ranking down but playing the top 1% all the time might not be for me
This video hit me cause I JUST got shot down from Silver 5 to Silver 4 when I was only 100 LP away from Gold
As someone who just made Plat 1 for the first time in their entire life last night, all of this is HIGHLY relatable and great advice. Focusing on the pennies really does make the dollars roll in, esp in those early metal ranks.
Me too buddy, I'd say patience and staying calm was one of the more important things for me personally. Once I have the life lead I try and play safe. Went from silver to platinum with Marisa.
Love the FF16 hideaway soundtrack in the background
I'm currently going back and forth between Platinum 4 & 5. I get ranked down to platinum 4 when I meet Diamond players. I see a huge skill gap between Diamond 1 & Platinum 5. Diamond players almost never do unsafe moves, they almost never jump toward me and have a better neutral game in general and they punish my mistake with the optimal combos of their character. Each time I defeated a Diamond player, It was because they made a mistake ( blocking in a corner (I play Zangief), dropping combos, doing random drive impact, not Whiff punishing me), but I need to figure out how to consistently beat Diamond players who don't do these type of mistakes . I'm missing something, but I don't know what exactly.
The ranking system is weird in this game and at times way too generous. With my main Ryu, I got placed in Gold 1 from the start, but when I decided to play my placement games with deejay I won 7 out of 10 games and had to face 1 master rank and 1 diamond rank where I got my ass kicked and immediately my deejay was ranked Diamond 1 😂 I should be plat 1 at best…
In a game where you can’t rank down, I’d rather be placed low than high tbh
@@RePlayQ yeah, I see this as a big issue for me going forward, instead of playing people in and around my skill level and working my way up. I am now stuck playing some real killers, essentially I am going to be farmed for points lmao!!
@@RePlayQ You can rank down, its only master that doesnt rank down.
@@cryptocaesar8972 master cannot derank into diamond, plat cannot derank into gold, and iron cannot derank into rookie
@@RePlayQ 1000% incorrect, I literally ranked down from plat to gold today and have done in multiple times on multiple characters. He’s not in master, he will rank down to where his skill level is, and there’s no way to get to master without extreme skill, there wouldn’t be a need to de rank if you made it there, so your original comment is unneeded, misguided and incorrect.
Yo!? Is that Fire Emblem Heroes in the background!? Also great video
The thing about meaties in Plat is so true 😂
You really have to learn to mix it up much more after Gold 4.
Personally I really recommend looking at the character guides because they're actually worth it in this game. If you put work into it you could play and fight a character decently in just a day.
I’m quite comfortable in iron rank thank you very much
If you perfect parry during your placements you get placed really high even if you lose.
I was put at bronze for my placement and then just grind my way to platinum with jp knowledge checks lmao 😂 but the game is definitely more fun with the good online compared to past fighting games
Knowledge check characters are so much fun until you finally run into someone with the right responses then you’re the one getting knowledge checked 😅
@@EasterDude yessir. But once you find answers to it mid match and pulling it off, really euphoric feeling. Even just labbing it after the match is fun.
I'm Diamond 2 stars, I remember I was in a back and forward situation between platinium rank and diamond but something happend and I couldn't stop winning and got stuck at diamond again
The only thing I disagree with is I'd put gold players in with platinum/diamond. That seems to be where people really have the mechanics down and can effectively play footsies, punish, and land high-damage combos. Love the video though! Very informative
With me being pretty new to Street Fighter, I placed Diamond with JP. I was so confused and I thought I was placed too high. I should’ve, at the maximum, been placed at Gold or something. 😭 I still have so much to learn and I don’t think I deserve the rank I have yet!
I'm in plat and I still barely input combos about as well as a silver. Dpad diagonals, feels bad man.
Grind is real.
I rank myself as pretty decent in fighting games and jumped into rank 20 minutes in. I was sadly placed in bronze and blitzed up to platinum.
The issue i'm having now is dealing with good reactions on jumpins and dealing with spacing properly.
Also countering drive rush has me crazy because it feels like it eats my inputs halve the time.
Yea i have this issue too and its really frustrating. Like i correctly anticipate a DR so i neutral jump but because the DR ate my inputs now im still on the ground and the opponent is right in my face and im still trying to figure what the hell just happened. I think honestly they should change something about this so it doesnt eat your inputs all the time.
this is my first non DBFZ fighting game and I think I'm getting it pretty well, but im still about to hop out of bronze. I'll be happy with plat tbh
My final advise... aim for consistency over substance. Don't go for OPTIMAL combos, go for combos that you NEVER drop.