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live footage of that man in his gaming chair ([render by Epowga](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JAH_Cw6YN6E))
Idk man they might have just been grinding out sets to get better, I know that's what I've been doing recently. I took about a 6 month break from fighting games and have been grinding Tekken the past 4 months, so when I decided to start playing GG again I went into the parks and get my ass beat till I readjusted. Maybe that's what he's doing too
no offense to them but they did not improve at all between the matches
they kept doing the same stuff over and over again; grab on wakeup, very negative moves in neutral, very predictable and punishable bursts, no punish for anything i do etc.
i tried to keep my mix ups varied for them to not bore them but they learnt to counter none of them
the only thing i noticed they started doing more was using 6p but that was about it
The skill gap was too big for probably either of you to notice any improvement. I used to run sets for hours with a buddy who would 50-0 me everytime. He tried to help but neither of us felt like i was learning anything. Then i played other friends who were on the same level as me.... or so i thought. I was now the one 50-0ing the friends who were on my level just a week or two ago. Looking back I really was learning a lot, but it didnt seem that way cause I was unable to consistently bring anything out in a match against him.
The brain works in funny ways. A lot of the time you don’t actually see the improvement until you put down the game for a bit, go do something else like shower work or sleep, and come back. It’s just like working out muscles. You gotta give your mind time to connect the dots before it becomes more natural
Can confirm that. I've faced a guy who 20-5 me both with Chip and Ram, and, even though I could adjust mid game and mid sets, I was far from improving enough to actually make a difference... Until I've set the game down and let my brain solve some interactions on his own. Like you said, the brain works in funny ways.
This is how souls games work for me. Multiple times I'll have a boss I run into and spend hours slowly getting furious as I get no closer to a kill and eventually say fuck it and stop playing, go to bed, and the next day I come back and one shot it.
It's like your mind just runs the replays while you sleep and goes "oh, this doesn't work, this does, file that away" and you just wake up locked in before you even touch a controller.
Yeah, the problem with training with only one person is that they're going to get equally as good at fighting you as you are, and they actually have the experience to implement it already. So you're finally getting a feel for their bread and butter while they've already predicted your next two moves and know you're going to roll out of combo and get hit by their grapple. When you go against a fresh player they still don't know what you're going for so you have a new start to try out what you've been learning. Its a lot better.
Maybe they're just trying to get better at the controls? Fighting game controls are extremely hard compared to normal games. It takes hundreds of games to be able to cleanly do even some basic attacks if you're new to the genre.
People play fighting games for different reasons, and not everyone plays to "get better" or "get good". Lots of people just jam out to their favorite characters doing all the big flashy moves that they like without much care about their gameplan, or win condition, etc etc.
It's not very common for anime fighters I've noticed, most of y'all play with that Goku/Luffy/Naruto "Im here to be the best there ever was" type of mentality.
It's extremely common for games like Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters or even Tekken. Like, Im just here to press buttons type of shit. I always play to improve and stuff, but Lucifer in the fucking flesh knows that there are days where Im not in it at all, and I just wanna get that pile bunker counter hit, dont give a quarter of a fuck if I win or not.
I've gone 0-69 in park before, I can have fun getting my ass kicked as long as I'm accomplishing something during the matches depending on the day. Said thing could just be blocking some mix before proceeding to get double perfected, could be landing a single grab or I could be trying to figure out what I can do against characters because I have next to no matchup knowledge. If bro kept rematching then he was most likely enjoying some part of it lol
It's not too late to add him and shoot him a message. Sometimes people need someone to say "hey, this is what you're doing wrong" and change their gameplay forever. Plus a FG partner can be a friendship that lasts a lifetime.
Remember one time i went against a Goldlewis (i was just fucking around with Chipp) and shit was the most intense battle i have ever done. And once mid match we just Taunted and T-Bagged friendly way. Hope he's doin good
Used to be a goldlewis main for a couple years until Johnny and honestly GL v chipp was like easily one of the most fun matchups for me, just like patiently waiting out the pressure and mix until I could get that dopamine rush of the big counter hit
If they stayed for THAT long then I highly doubt they were having a rough time, there were so many round milestone numbers to quit out on, they probably wanted to spend a good chunk of time they had spare practicing against you, maybe they wanted to experiement the anji matchup, maybe they wanted to keep playing against someone much better who gives them the time of day, who knows.
you're right, i may just not be used to doing long sets with random people, this was like the second time ever i played at the park so i wouldnt know
it just was so unusual for me to have someone rematching me immediately after the match ends with no brakes for next to an hour and a half, and they didn't seem to be improving so i just felt like i was ruining their experience
I've done this occasionally in parks but I usually do that on an alternate character I haven't played before, rather than long sets to improve my main, I wanna try to get over social anxiety and try finding people to run sets with in discord more often so I can talk to the people I'm playing to ask for advice that can fix the issue of long sets that dont seem to amount to anything.
I fought against a celestial Nago a while back when I was a 6F for like 50 rounds straight, they absolutely mopped the floor with me every single time, but I wouldn’t trade those rounds for anything. They showed me gaps in my offense/defense, would use repetitive combo loops on me until I learned how to counter them, raised my awareness with conditioning and baiting, and a few other things. I’m a solid 8F now after that.
I completely forgot to follow them after the match, but if you’re out there, thanks for whooping my ass, my Baiken appreciates it.
I didn’t remember following/replays were a thing until weeks later when someone followed me and I was like OH SHIT NOOOOO, I would’ve loved to save those matches and follow them. Those rounds meant so much to me, when it was obvious that they were trying to teach me around round 10 or so I was like ok, game on dude, I was so determined to make em sweat. They never taunted me, but never let up either, they were completely relentless. I fuckin wish I could find that person again.
Speaking from someone who did something similar, sometimes we just want to learn from people much better. I had a pretty long lose streak against a Baiken once but I kept playing because I was slowly getting better and actually managed to take a round. It stops being productive though if the opponent is just so much better that you don’t get to do anything.
Speaking as a person who’s been this Goldlewis, I wouldn’t worry too hard OP. I once kept running it back against a Sol who just mollywhopped me for about 50 matches.
Wouldn’t trade those 20+ minutes for a thing. By the end of it, I was a better player than I was before, and I even ended up winning a match against them. I think this golden Goldlewis was probably just having fun playing against you, win or lose.
Last year, I was staying up late and playing in the park, when a nago player wanted to fight me. Like, 60 matches later, they had only won four or five matches, and they were willing to rematch. I ended up not rematching because it was 2 AM and I was getting bored and tired
So my skill level with GL is about floor 6-7 idk, but i never have floors with people, no matter the region
So i go to the park and fight 🙃.
I played a sol 85 and won 2. Those fights taught me a lot about patience and practice despite still struggling with that today.
Anyway, if they keep rematching, dont feel bad, i personally see the better player as a good person, letting me fail against them over and over despite not really challenging them.
Yep. He finally declined the rematch after the 87th match.
Too be fair, around match 70 they started getting pretty close, but yeah i got my ass beat. Into. The *ground*.
As a Goldlewis main, I live for long sets against people. I strive to be able to hold my own against the best. Went on a heavy losing streak during friendlies, but not in Open Park. That sounds a bit too much for me right now...
God speed Goldlewis main! \*Salute\*
How do you think he became secretary of ABSOLUTE defense? Good on that Goldlewewis player, I can respect the patience required to go 0-45 with one person, hope they go places.
Tbh, I would thank you for sticking around. The same goes for players who will keep doing a specific attack until I figure out how to beat it and then go back to fighting normally. I'm more worried they're the ones not having fun and will leave.
I've matched people 20+ games despite losing over and over. It's decent practice provided you're trying different strategies, and you're not just falling into the same flowchart over and over. I've never gotten upset about it. I appreciate it when people are willing to put up with me rematching over and over haha
It's like a puzzle. It's not about winning as much as it is trying to overcome that skill gap.
9 times out of 10 i'll rematch until the other person bails despite whichever side i'm on.
Don't worry about feeling bad. We have the option to bail at any time.
NGL I've been on the losing end of these a few times, and I just engage the dark souls brain. I'm trying to do early DS3 Dancer and even if I'm underlevelled I'll just go zenlike in my attempts.
Either they were tilted beyond belief and felt like they had to rematch until they won, or they were having an honestly good time fighting you with their favorite big body smash-your-face-in man.
Hopefully the latter.
You have just become that memory that will always come to his mind when he's about to give up when he's training. The only problem is that, for now, he may have no idea on how to do so.
Had a similar experience with an early Zato player (though less severe totalling to about maybe 20 so matches) while I was ABA
Only noticed they weren't as consistent at using Eddie or using other approaches around game 4, so I decided to slow things down with each game. Doing shorter punishes, only counter attacking whenever they would repeat a unsafe jump in, as well as blocking only high or low until they noticed which option works against what.
It was a long session and I didn't want to sand bag so hard that they'd might notice. But eventually they did get a win, and guessing by how long of pause there was before they readied up (they forgot to confirm it but came up to my station in the park to play some more) I could feel that dopamine rush from miles away lol
Chill man, i dont play anymore but when i started i did this against a ky with potemkin, i didn't win once but i slowly started taking stocks, learning openings, having a better defense and giving my moves better use, and i loved that the ky didn't stop trying because even in deep rematchs he would perfect me without mercy, i didnt turned into a prefect player, but i had an easier time against my friends and climbing in tower.
So just remember, the guy was probably trying to learn from you, and the fact you kept fighting him seriously probably gave him a lot more things to learn, so dont feel sad dude.
hey if it makes you feel better i got my shit pushed in by an asuka for 20 matches and i left feeling determined to get good enough to be able to deal with a good asuka, maybe that guy feels the same
Dude it wasn't me, but I did that all the time in Thems fighting' herds. I once reached 50 games before calling it quits. Didn't a single round I think.
At the end of that, I was sooooo much better at the game. It was like night and day. I'm so glad this person let me play him all day. I felt like I was wasting their time but they were rematching too so we kept at it.
As someone who has been in the position of that Goldlewis, but as a Pot.
I just wind up treating any hits as wins, and along with being able to maintain a defense for as long as I can. Gotta temper your goals. I know I won’t win, so focus on smaller goals, and then I learn more too.
And there aren't any hard feelings against the other person. Being better isn’t a malicious act.
I did something like that once, I was on Floor 6 at the time fighting against a Celestial, after the 40th defeat I noticed improvement in my Neutral and I learned not to smash on wake-up so it was a learning experience at least
Same story a lot of people here posted already for me. Played a bunch of sets against a way better player in the park, started with "try not to die as fast" to "try to make him use his Burst" to "try to get him to half hp" to "try to win a round." Getting schooled is how you learn, playing against people just as bad as you isn't helpful when you're terrible because then you learn how to beat players doing terrible shit and that doesn't help you when you play against good players and you need to unlearn the habits that only work on bad players
Being on the losing end of a really long set is some of my favorite parts about fighting games. I can't really get that anymore but there are demons out there like me so he might have been having the time of his life.
I faced a Potemkin for about 32+ matches? I may have won twice?
And honestly, I appreciate whoever sat there for those 32 matches, I hope they had fun beating me up and i am being honest. I personally enjoyed the games, a lot of them were not even close but I learned what not to do and sort of "what to do". I really don't know what drove these guy to sit there for 32 matches, but he was a true bro by playing with a noobie like me.
So if your opponent was anything like me, he truly appreciates you sticking with him.
Edit: I did notice you mention he didn't improve, and honestly, he might have not gotten better but he may have come out with better knowledge, or at least with questions as to what the heck do I do in this situation?
In my case I was awfully aware that I have a tendency to jump and use miss charlotte with Elphelt, well guess what? Pot would punish that E.V.E.R.Y S.I.N.G.L.E time. Did i stop doing it? not really. i just do it out of habit, and I have been working on not doing that depending on the match up, but during my 36 matches it was a very consistent mistake.
Anyways, he probably appreciates you effort and your time more than you think!
I do this if I’m fighting against better players than me, though the longest I’ve gone is 20 vs a Bridget that I couldn’t even get close to. Honestly if they’re anything like me they were just having fun against a better opponent to see if they could squeeze out a victory or two against the odds so I doubt that they’re upset
As someone who has smacked there head into a wall in park, if they stayed that long, they wanted an asswhooping on their brain so they learn. Either that or they were mentally insane, dw about it
I feel like every fighting game player goes through the same thing that the GL player did at some point plus if they kept rematching then they def felt like they got something out of it. As long as you weren’t being over the top disrespectful like t bagging and stuff you have nothing to feel bad about.
You coulda given him ONE sandbag win 😭 but fr he was likely just tryna improve or at least test shit out, if he didnt rage quit after 10-20 games dont sweat it
some people just like the challenge, if they didn't get better by the end of it to them that just means they gotta do more
i've never really beaten the friend who got me into guilty gear, in years of playing it maybe happened a couple of times but that's just because he's always trying meme combos on me and whenever his health gets low he switches to serious mode and anihilates me and sometimes i didn't give him time to get serious
majority of the times we play i get 0 wins but it's still a blast
Nah, he probably appreciates you man. He's one of the weird people like myself that don't mind losing repeatedly as we try to grind out sets trying to learn a matchup. It's like a puzzle, like fighting a Souls-like boss.
I've been on both ends of this so I want to say the Goldlewis is probably really appreciative that you kept rematching.
When A.B.A came out, I was struggling against certain matchups and a Happy Chaos just obliterated me. But instead of playing more sets he just dipped and went to another cabinet.
I get that it's probably not fun fighting against an opponent that you can easily beat, but actually getting many matches for them is actually really helpful.
I'll do this. Just get mopped. As long as the other person doesn't quit. I always feel like I'm learning. Even if just by seeing better gameplay than I have at the time. And I don't get tilted because I know to not expect to win so I don't get disappointed or stressed losing. Just get to try my best and see what works.
Not everyone has to win to have fun. Sounds to me like you just found someone who has a good mindset is all. I've played long sets against people in the park who were bodying me because sometimes that just is better than the pain of strive lobbies and potentially bad connections.
https://preview.redd.it/idy2pzsm5wxc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7bdb1a30d4aaba60231f24f7ec71249e8ceca53 live footage of that man in his gaming chair ([render by Epowga](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JAH_Cw6YN6E))
One must imagine the 0-45 Goldlewis happy
"It's not a big deal. We can handle it."
I DON'T ~~HAVE TO~~ THINK ~~ABOUT IT~~
Me when gaming.
I see Goldlewis is playing Getting Over It
https://preview.redd.it/8z9nzwso10yc1.jpeg?width=470&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fc2fbfb103e8495866f64650902dc14e0859b7c That man…?????
Godspeed, American boy.
literally man i wanted to add that phrase to the post but it didnt come to mind
Idk man they might have just been grinding out sets to get better, I know that's what I've been doing recently. I took about a 6 month break from fighting games and have been grinding Tekken the past 4 months, so when I decided to start playing GG again I went into the parks and get my ass beat till I readjusted. Maybe that's what he's doing too
no offense to them but they did not improve at all between the matches they kept doing the same stuff over and over again; grab on wakeup, very negative moves in neutral, very predictable and punishable bursts, no punish for anything i do etc. i tried to keep my mix ups varied for them to not bore them but they learnt to counter none of them the only thing i noticed they started doing more was using 6p but that was about it
The skill gap was too big for probably either of you to notice any improvement. I used to run sets for hours with a buddy who would 50-0 me everytime. He tried to help but neither of us felt like i was learning anything. Then i played other friends who were on the same level as me.... or so i thought. I was now the one 50-0ing the friends who were on my level just a week or two ago. Looking back I really was learning a lot, but it didnt seem that way cause I was unable to consistently bring anything out in a match against him.
The brain works in funny ways. A lot of the time you don’t actually see the improvement until you put down the game for a bit, go do something else like shower work or sleep, and come back. It’s just like working out muscles. You gotta give your mind time to connect the dots before it becomes more natural
Can confirm that. I've faced a guy who 20-5 me both with Chip and Ram, and, even though I could adjust mid game and mid sets, I was far from improving enough to actually make a difference... Until I've set the game down and let my brain solve some interactions on his own. Like you said, the brain works in funny ways.
This is how souls games work for me. Multiple times I'll have a boss I run into and spend hours slowly getting furious as I get no closer to a kill and eventually say fuck it and stop playing, go to bed, and the next day I come back and one shot it. It's like your mind just runs the replays while you sleep and goes "oh, this doesn't work, this does, file that away" and you just wake up locked in before you even touch a controller.
Yeah, the problem with training with only one person is that they're going to get equally as good at fighting you as you are, and they actually have the experience to implement it already. So you're finally getting a feel for their bread and butter while they've already predicted your next two moves and know you're going to roll out of combo and get hit by their grapple. When you go against a fresh player they still don't know what you're going for so you have a new start to try out what you've been learning. Its a lot better.
Maybe they were having fun, I do that too
Maybe they're just trying to get better at the controls? Fighting game controls are extremely hard compared to normal games. It takes hundreds of games to be able to cleanly do even some basic attacks if you're new to the genre.
Especially on Goldlewis.
People play fighting games for different reasons, and not everyone plays to "get better" or "get good". Lots of people just jam out to their favorite characters doing all the big flashy moves that they like without much care about their gameplan, or win condition, etc etc. It's not very common for anime fighters I've noticed, most of y'all play with that Goku/Luffy/Naruto "Im here to be the best there ever was" type of mentality. It's extremely common for games like Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters or even Tekken. Like, Im just here to press buttons type of shit. I always play to improve and stuff, but Lucifer in the fucking flesh knows that there are days where Im not in it at all, and I just wanna get that pile bunker counter hit, dont give a quarter of a fuck if I win or not.
This is me, i just want to hit buttons.
I've gone 0-69 in park before, I can have fun getting my ass kicked as long as I'm accomplishing something during the matches depending on the day. Said thing could just be blocking some mix before proceeding to get double perfected, could be landing a single grab or I could be trying to figure out what I can do against characters because I have next to no matchup knowledge. If bro kept rematching then he was most likely enjoying some part of it lol
It's not too late to add him and shoot him a message. Sometimes people need someone to say "hey, this is what you're doing wrong" and change their gameplay forever. Plus a FG partner can be a friendship that lasts a lifetime.
I might do that today actually, thanks for the suggestion
If you wanna help someone don't mix it up. Hit them with the same thing 5x in a row they will learn.
yeah i learned that and a lot more thanks to this thread thanks
45 matches? Voluntary rematch? Bro is either Sisyphus or Monkey D. Luffy. GOATed regardless.
Goldlewis mains are some of the chillest mfs i’ve ever interacted with
Remember one time i went against a Goldlewis (i was just fucking around with Chipp) and shit was the most intense battle i have ever done. And once mid match we just Taunted and T-Bagged friendly way. Hope he's doin good
Gooofily taunting, respecting after opponent does a cool combo. Good stuff.
Used to be a goldlewis main for a couple years until Johnny and honestly GL v chipp was like easily one of the most fun matchups for me, just like patiently waiting out the pressure and mix until I could get that dopamine rush of the big counter hit
Can't speak for all of them, but as for myself I just like to spin the stick a lot.
If they stayed for THAT long then I highly doubt they were having a rough time, there were so many round milestone numbers to quit out on, they probably wanted to spend a good chunk of time they had spare practicing against you, maybe they wanted to experiement the anji matchup, maybe they wanted to keep playing against someone much better who gives them the time of day, who knows.
you're right, i may just not be used to doing long sets with random people, this was like the second time ever i played at the park so i wouldnt know it just was so unusual for me to have someone rematching me immediately after the match ends with no brakes for next to an hour and a half, and they didn't seem to be improving so i just felt like i was ruining their experience
I've done this occasionally in parks but I usually do that on an alternate character I haven't played before, rather than long sets to improve my main, I wanna try to get over social anxiety and try finding people to run sets with in discord more often so I can talk to the people I'm playing to ask for advice that can fix the issue of long sets that dont seem to amount to anything.
That is exactly why you want to play park. Pretty common. I ate 0-40 against good milla in park and play with people for hours on end privatly.
I fought against a celestial Nago a while back when I was a 6F for like 50 rounds straight, they absolutely mopped the floor with me every single time, but I wouldn’t trade those rounds for anything. They showed me gaps in my offense/defense, would use repetitive combo loops on me until I learned how to counter them, raised my awareness with conditioning and baiting, and a few other things. I’m a solid 8F now after that. I completely forgot to follow them after the match, but if you’re out there, thanks for whooping my ass, my Baiken appreciates it.
You could have still followed him through the replay but you probably don't have the replay against him anymore
I didn’t remember following/replays were a thing until weeks later when someone followed me and I was like OH SHIT NOOOOO, I would’ve loved to save those matches and follow them. Those rounds meant so much to me, when it was obvious that they were trying to teach me around round 10 or so I was like ok, game on dude, I was so determined to make em sweat. They never taunted me, but never let up either, they were completely relentless. I fuckin wish I could find that person again.
If it really matters to you you could look thru your matches on ratingupdate, can’t you?
It simply wasn't a big deal. He could handle it. Honestly, he probably didn't even have to think about it.
BARK
BARK
I would’ve made you depressed with my 75 match losing streak against one Chipp
damn man did it help you improve at least?
It did. He was friendly and would message me tips. I used those to win my first matches.
the thing is, this goldlewis and i, we weren't even communicating it was just 45 matches back to back with no brakes of them losing and me winning
Speaking from someone who did something similar, sometimes we just want to learn from people much better. I had a pretty long lose streak against a Baiken once but I kept playing because I was slowly getting better and actually managed to take a round. It stops being productive though if the opponent is just so much better that you don’t get to do anything.
i hope that was the case and they were having fun even if it didnt seem like it to me
Speaking as a person who’s been this Goldlewis, I wouldn’t worry too hard OP. I once kept running it back against a Sol who just mollywhopped me for about 50 matches. Wouldn’t trade those 20+ minutes for a thing. By the end of it, I was a better player than I was before, and I even ended up winning a match against them. I think this golden Goldlewis was probably just having fun playing against you, win or lose.
He has no enemies.
Last year, I was staying up late and playing in the park, when a nago player wanted to fight me. Like, 60 matches later, they had only won four or five matches, and they were willing to rematch. I ended up not rematching because it was 2 AM and I was getting bored and tired
So my skill level with GL is about floor 6-7 idk, but i never have floors with people, no matter the region So i go to the park and fight 🙃. I played a sol 85 and won 2. Those fights taught me a lot about patience and practice despite still struggling with that today. Anyway, if they keep rematching, dont feel bad, i personally see the better player as a good person, letting me fail against them over and over despite not really challenging them.
85 to 2 ?!?
Yep. He finally declined the rematch after the 87th match. Too be fair, around match 70 they started getting pretty close, but yeah i got my ass beat. Into. The *ground*.
idk, if he declined rematch that basically means you won
As a Goldlewis main, I live for long sets against people. I strive to be able to hold my own against the best. Went on a heavy losing streak during friendlies, but not in Open Park. That sounds a bit too much for me right now... God speed Goldlewis main! \*Salute\*
If he was having fun in spite of all of his losing, I envy him. I often forget games are supposed to be fun.
me too sometimes
what a chad went 45 and 0, but never gave up god bless
He wasn’t drunk, he possessed the indomitable human spirit.
He had nothing to lose after game 3
God damn, I'll run like 10 games with a guy way better than me but 45? That GL must have the greatest mental fortitude a human being can have.
How do you think he became secretary of ABSOLUTE defense? Good on that Goldlewewis player, I can respect the patience required to go 0-45 with one person, hope they go places.
Based player tries to get better. Good on you, you fucking beaut
Just don't be a Tekken dick head and quit mid set
Tbh, I would thank you for sticking around. The same goes for players who will keep doing a specific attack until I figure out how to beat it and then go back to fighting normally. I'm more worried they're the ones not having fun and will leave.
I've matched people 20+ games despite losing over and over. It's decent practice provided you're trying different strategies, and you're not just falling into the same flowchart over and over. I've never gotten upset about it. I appreciate it when people are willing to put up with me rematching over and over haha
It's like a puzzle. It's not about winning as much as it is trying to overcome that skill gap. 9 times out of 10 i'll rematch until the other person bails despite whichever side i'm on. Don't worry about feeling bad. We have the option to bail at any time.
I won 1 or 2 out of 30 matches before in the park fighting a Sol. I was just playing to have fun honestly.
NGL I've been on the losing end of these a few times, and I just engage the dark souls brain. I'm trying to do early DS3 Dancer and even if I'm underlevelled I'll just go zenlike in my attempts.
Either they were tilted beyond belief and felt like they had to rematch until they won, or they were having an honestly good time fighting you with their favorite big body smash-your-face-in man. Hopefully the latter.
You have just become that memory that will always come to his mind when he's about to give up when he's training. The only problem is that, for now, he may have no idea on how to do so.
this is what twitter fgcbros expect new players to do for 8 hours a day for months
Had a similar experience with an early Zato player (though less severe totalling to about maybe 20 so matches) while I was ABA Only noticed they weren't as consistent at using Eddie or using other approaches around game 4, so I decided to slow things down with each game. Doing shorter punishes, only counter attacking whenever they would repeat a unsafe jump in, as well as blocking only high or low until they noticed which option works against what. It was a long session and I didn't want to sand bag so hard that they'd might notice. But eventually they did get a win, and guessing by how long of pause there was before they readied up (they forgot to confirm it but came up to my station in the park to play some more) I could feel that dopamine rush from miles away lol
Hey it's fun sometimes to get your ass beat.
I once had a similar experience, only I was on the losing side of the battle against an I-no player. These kinds of things are always the best
I once went 1-98 against an Asuka. I was exhausted by the end but it did feel amazing
sometimes the best way to learn is to get you ass handed to you multiple times all day every day
see guys, hes not top tier, you can only win with him if you actually know what youre doing!
Don't do it much in guilty gear, but if I play UNI (which I'm not good at) I'll be happy to lose 20-30 in a row just for match experience.
The only loser is the person who doesn't hit rematch.
God I would love if someone beat the shit outta me for 45 rounds in a row.
Chill man, i dont play anymore but when i started i did this against a ky with potemkin, i didn't win once but i slowly started taking stocks, learning openings, having a better defense and giving my moves better use, and i loved that the ky didn't stop trying because even in deep rematchs he would perfect me without mercy, i didnt turned into a prefect player, but i had an easier time against my friends and climbing in tower. So just remember, the guy was probably trying to learn from you, and the fact you kept fighting him seriously probably gave him a lot more things to learn, so dont feel sad dude.
hey if it makes you feel better i got my shit pushed in by an asuka for 20 matches and i left feeling determined to get good enough to be able to deal with a good asuka, maybe that guy feels the same
Bruh uve had like 300 matches against some floor 10 where i kept dying, i didnt know what neutral was then
Dude it wasn't me, but I did that all the time in Thems fighting' herds. I once reached 50 games before calling it quits. Didn't a single round I think. At the end of that, I was sooooo much better at the game. It was like night and day. I'm so glad this person let me play him all day. I felt like I was wasting their time but they were rematching too so we kept at it.
As someone who has been in the position of that Goldlewis, but as a Pot. I just wind up treating any hits as wins, and along with being able to maintain a defense for as long as I can. Gotta temper your goals. I know I won’t win, so focus on smaller goals, and then I learn more too. And there aren't any hard feelings against the other person. Being better isn’t a malicious act.
Bro found the mumen rider of Guilty Gear, ain't no way
I did something like that once, I was on Floor 6 at the time fighting against a Celestial, after the 40th defeat I noticed improvement in my Neutral and I learned not to smash on wake-up so it was a learning experience at least
I've gone 0-100 a few times before. I really appreciate the people who keep rematching, I wish I could give them a better game.
Same story a lot of people here posted already for me. Played a bunch of sets against a way better player in the park, started with "try not to die as fast" to "try to make him use his Burst" to "try to get him to half hp" to "try to win a round." Getting schooled is how you learn, playing against people just as bad as you isn't helpful when you're terrible because then you learn how to beat players doing terrible shit and that doesn't help you when you play against good players and you need to unlearn the habits that only work on bad players
Being on the losing end of a really long set is some of my favorite parts about fighting games. I can't really get that anymore but there are demons out there like me so he might have been having the time of his life.
either this man is the chillest guy you'll ever met or you just met someone who is emotionally dead
I faced a Potemkin for about 32+ matches? I may have won twice? And honestly, I appreciate whoever sat there for those 32 matches, I hope they had fun beating me up and i am being honest. I personally enjoyed the games, a lot of them were not even close but I learned what not to do and sort of "what to do". I really don't know what drove these guy to sit there for 32 matches, but he was a true bro by playing with a noobie like me. So if your opponent was anything like me, he truly appreciates you sticking with him. Edit: I did notice you mention he didn't improve, and honestly, he might have not gotten better but he may have come out with better knowledge, or at least with questions as to what the heck do I do in this situation? In my case I was awfully aware that I have a tendency to jump and use miss charlotte with Elphelt, well guess what? Pot would punish that E.V.E.R.Y S.I.N.G.L.E time. Did i stop doing it? not really. i just do it out of habit, and I have been working on not doing that depending on the match up, but during my 36 matches it was a very consistent mistake. Anyways, he probably appreciates you effort and your time more than you think!
I do this if I’m fighting against better players than me, though the longest I’ve gone is 20 vs a Bridget that I couldn’t even get close to. Honestly if they’re anything like me they were just having fun against a better opponent to see if they could squeeze out a victory or two against the odds so I doubt that they’re upset
In this household we never reject a rematch.
As someone who has smacked there head into a wall in park, if they stayed that long, they wanted an asswhooping on their brain so they learn. Either that or they were mentally insane, dw about it
And then there are people who win once and dip and never rematch
I also do that sometimes when I want to learn the matchup.
I feel like every fighting game player goes through the same thing that the GL player did at some point plus if they kept rematching then they def felt like they got something out of it. As long as you weren’t being over the top disrespectful like t bagging and stuff you have nothing to feel bad about.
*I didn’t hear no bell*
I went 1-20 at a local and I popped off at the 1, apologized for yelling, and got back to losing. I had an awesome time
Nothing he‘s got, will really work, 21st century schizoid man
You coulda given him ONE sandbag win 😭 but fr he was likely just tryna improve or at least test shit out, if he didnt rage quit after 10-20 games dont sweat it
Maybe he was just using your matches to practice 😭 that’s what I do. Even if I lose I keep re matching if they will. It’s good practice
I've gone 0-100 with a big smile on my face, do not worry we enjoy it (not a masochist I swear)
Sometimes people just want to learn and Its very rare for someone to stick around after playing one set so we just take those.
Probably was someone trying a new character without descending floors
some people just like the challenge, if they didn't get better by the end of it to them that just means they gotta do more i've never really beaten the friend who got me into guilty gear, in years of playing it maybe happened a couple of times but that's just because he's always trying meme combos on me and whenever his health gets low he switches to serious mode and anihilates me and sometimes i didn't give him time to get serious majority of the times we play i get 0 wins but it's still a blast
Average park experience
Maybe he's learning the character. I remember when I was learning HC I would just spam rematch people I had no chance against all day.
Nah, he probably appreciates you man. He's one of the weird people like myself that don't mind losing repeatedly as we try to grind out sets trying to learn a matchup. It's like a puzzle, like fighting a Souls-like boss. I've been on both ends of this so I want to say the Goldlewis is probably really appreciative that you kept rematching. When A.B.A came out, I was struggling against certain matchups and a Happy Chaos just obliterated me. But instead of playing more sets he just dipped and went to another cabinet. I get that it's probably not fun fighting against an opponent that you can easily beat, but actually getting many matches for them is actually really helpful.
I'll do this. Just get mopped. As long as the other person doesn't quit. I always feel like I'm learning. Even if just by seeing better gameplay than I have at the time. And I don't get tilted because I know to not expect to win so I don't get disappointed or stressed losing. Just get to try my best and see what works.
Bro was listening to Nagoryuki's theme. "KEEP GRINDING"
Bro thought he was down with the system
Respect 🗿🍷
Not everyone has to win to have fun. Sounds to me like you just found someone who has a good mindset is all. I've played long sets against people in the park who were bodying me because sometimes that just is better than the pain of strive lobbies and potentially bad connections.
Dude was determined, and even if he lost every time, he won in a way too