BC Sama Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 2 to 3 weeks although this is because I have no job. :'(
Medic Haus Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 A few months for Rachel, a few weeks for Hazama.
Undying Posted March 6, 2011 Posted March 6, 2011 Days? Months? Weeks? Fortnights? Oh, and are you coming from a fighting game background? I'm not :/ If by "proficient" you mean "can win matches regularly/consistently", then I am mostly there, I have been "maining" my "mains" for a little over a month now. If I had focused on just one character, I think I would have already been at that level of "proficiency", but I like being able to play all the cool characters well enough :8/:. Certainly however, I am not proficient enough to win matches against expert or professional fighters, nor do I see myself winning any kinds of tournaments any time soon. None of my "combos" go over 2.5-3k damage with any character and I am struggling with timing in more complex ones . When CT came out, I was on a crash-course in the fighting game scene that was sparked by Street Fighter IV. I had played them now-and-then throughout my gaming experience, but nothing that went beyond button mashing and simple canned chain-combos (I didn't even know what a combo was at the time, but it looked really cool ). CS came out about a year after that experience and by then, I had a sufficient knowledge of several concepts discussed regularly in the scene such as okizeme, yomi, footsies, zoning, frames, hitboxes, and what have you. I took the knowledge I gained from playing multiple kinds of fighters regularly online and against live players in local multiplayer or at arcades to try to play Blazblue correctly (that is, to win.) For CT I was not from a serious fighting background, but for CS I was already on top of things before I even knew what they were. Definitely not an advanced player, but most certainly an enthusiast of the fighting game scene in general:kitty:.
wighti Posted March 6, 2011 Posted March 6, 2011 I've been playing BB for a couple of years now. I'm still a total scrub.
Deviru Dahlia Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Took 3 months before I learned how to properly use Noel.
Tibbz2 Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 Been playing CS on and off since its December release.... Still no good :L
Kind Polar Bear Posted March 26, 2011 Posted March 26, 2011 I'm still trying to get better with my main. I still drop combos like crazy. I have been playing fighting games since the 90s too.
SGTDiphthong Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 Let's see... Noel took me a few weeks. Maybe 3 or 4. It took me a while to find out which drive combos worked effectively. Rags, my sub, took me a bit longer. My bread n' butter only works, what, 50% of the time. Still, I enjoy playing as him. Once I figure out his combos, I'll get better.
I Have A Name Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 I think it took me about 5 or 7 months until I was good enough with Tager to be happy with myself. Not really sure since I have no sense of time.
hakucurbstomp Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 it took two weeks to actually find my first main(hakumen) and two weeks to get good with him. i recently switched to tager and i became good in 1 week and in three weeks people just started rage quitting when i played them
Waff Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 Well its nice to see that there is a thread for a question I wanted to ask.. I'm just interested in how long it took for you guys to get good at this in general.. Here is a bit of my background info; Always played fighting games casually as a kid and such, anytime I had to time to play a fighter I did, but I would just button mash, like most kids do and try and pull stuff off. But now I'm 19, started playing stuff like SF 2 Turbo, SFA 3, and MvC 1 on MAME alot I think either in summer of 09 or summer last year, really can't remember. Just recently though, I began to understand stuff like frame rates, hitstun, blockstun, and all of that. Me understanding the system has really given me some confidence to try and go in with any character and learn how to play w/ em, cuz I can just print out frame data and figure out what I can do combowise, and for frame traps and other stuff... But yeah, I've been in challenge mode for BBCS just recently, and I guess since I haven't played this game in a while I forgot how HARD it is. I've already been knowing that BB and GG are the most execution heavy games out there, but WOW, I'm having trouble with level 3 challenge mode combos. I feel right now that I wanna main Ragna, how long did it take some of you Ragna players to get the execution and timing down for this guy? And I'm also learning alot that distance plays a role in combos, I had alot of trouble with the 2nd Combo in the 3rd Challenge... It was Forward Throw > 214B > 214D > 5B > 623D > 236C > 214D. The timing between the 214B and 214 D has to be really precise, cuz the 5B will whiff cuz Bang keeps teching out of it... Took me a while to get that down...
Nini Heart Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 Took me 3 months to become a scrub, 6 to learn the game, 9 to become a not-scrub. Still working on becoming proficient.
Hamakusa Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 I'm still learning about my character... But to become good... It was something like 1-2 months.
The Katz Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 I started with CT on day one, and only became what the majority would recognize as good a few months ago. There's such a thin line when it comes to Ragna. For everyone else in the cast it took me about 7-9 hours for CT, then roughly 4 hours for each character I picked up in CS1. That, or everyone I know is ridiculously free.
LadyRequiem Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 I'm still learning with my main (Hazama) it's been 3 months now. I remember I used to think he was a real difficult character to learn, but now I got the hang of it... somewhat... his challenge #9 is a pain in the ass atm...
BatousaiJ Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 I do some cool stuff here and there and beat most people I face online(lolnetplay) and think to myself, "Man! I'm pretty good!" Then I save some replays then watch them later and learn that I'm still in fact quite terrible. Funny how that works.
The Katz Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) I do some cool stuff here and there and beat most people I face online(lolnetplay) and think to myself, "Man! I'm pretty good!" Then I save some replays then watch them later and learn that I'm still in fact quite terrible. Funny how that works. Pay attention to how you win, not the fact that you won. :x Which makes me question why I see what one would consider a 'pro' say a year or more, and a number of people say a month or two. Edited April 16, 2011 by The Katz
YukiBlue Posted April 18, 2011 Posted April 18, 2011 CS Hakumen - 3 Months to become proficient. But I'm still improving CS Bang - 2 Months to nail all BnB's solid. Still learning. CS Ragna - 1 Month. Game became boring using the same Combo.
dante1287 Posted April 23, 2011 Posted April 23, 2011 i dont think there will ever be a time were i can say "theres nothing more i can learn" with hakumen that is^^. ill always be trainging,i mean ya you can only go so far with learning combos and when to go for em and learning pressure and counter times. but theres even more then that. like the all mighty frame data and then getting your timing down to within half a second to perfectly pull off any combo you need to and reading your opponents and general strats for fighting other characters tailored to your main.theres jus so much and thats why i love blazblue soooooo much. i dont think ill ever get tired of it or perfecting my hakumen^^
YukiBlue Posted April 23, 2011 Posted April 23, 2011 i dont think there will ever be a time were i can say "theres nothing more i can learn" with hakumen that is^^. ill always be trainging,i mean ya you can only go so far with learning combos and when to go for em and learning pressure and counter times. but theres even more then that. like the all mighty frame data and then getting your timing down to within half a second to perfectly pull off any combo you need to and reading your opponents and general strats for fighting other characters tailored to your main.theres jus so much and thats why i love blazblue soooooo much. i dont think ill ever get tired of it or perfecting my hakumen^^This. What BB has is kinda weird It looks simple on the outside, but on the inside, it's incredibly intricate. And I've spent around 6 Months with Hakumen, I know next to all of his combos, And I was win consistently with him. With not too much hassle. I started with Bang, and found it amazing how many times I lost. Now im a mediocre bang, going onto Hazama for CS2. Games got lifespan, Bro.
Lunar_Divider Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 Barely a week. But it took me a year and three other 'mains' to realise I was actually very good with him.
solidusfox1 Posted May 9, 2011 Posted May 9, 2011 Hard to say, it differs per character. It took me 2 weeks to get proficient with bang, while it took me a month to be proficient with valk. Tager took me a week and i'm still working on Ragna
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