How long did it take -you- to get proficient with your main?

[crazycrackers]

j.4 xN.

Or IAD > 4A+B xN.

Don't worry, I already do my fair share of air dash cancel spam. An indicator of gifted arakune players.

[ZONG_one]

Don't worry, I already do my fair share of air dash cancel spam. An indicator of gifted arakune players.

Just sayin'.

That's the matchup. :]

[No Limitz]

I wonder how low people's standards are if they consider themselves proficient with so little time put in.

[toanenadiz]

I play netplay. I can never be proficient with my main.

I'm in the same boat.

[Bacon4thetakin]

Took me about a year, mainly because I didn't put in the kind of hours I did back then as I do now. Once you get dedicated, things start to move along much faster for ya

[Seraphic]

I thought I knew how to use Rachel,but it wasn't until CS came along and I was forced to get more creative to win was when I noticed how much I didn't know about her in CT.

But I think I know alot more now in CS than CT.

However, I'm in the 'still training for always' boat.

[skd]

Aight guys ima give you the real deal

I started out around June, during summer break of last year. I was 14, and i felt like everything was going downhill. Everyone made fun of me at school, my girlfriend decided to cheat on me, My best and only friend found better people to hang out with, and my dog died. So I decided i was going to off myself. But i wasnt totally ready yet. I tried a few times, i could never do it. And one day, walking around, i walked past a gamestop and saw this really cool looking anime poster. It was love at first sight. I was so interested, it was like the first real feeling ive had in months. It felt great, but i knew it wouldnt last. So i said to myself "Eh, might as well enjoy the last of my days" so i went in, bought the game and rushed home.

So as i started to play it, all my thoughts of offing myself just dissipated. All of the characters were so cool. I picked Ragna because he reminds me of myself, the cool protagonist type. I immediately went online, and started winning matches left and right. Eventually, i got bored and looked for stronger opponents. Then i learned all about the advanced tactics of the game, like rapid canceling, bursting, combos, and blocking. I was on a roll, I was learning at a very fast pace. But eventually, it came time for school. I had to drop BlazBlue, and i also fell into a deep state of depression again. I played from time to time, which literally kept me alive.

It was summer vacation of the next year, by that time i thought i had become really good. But then, i caught wind of a new BlazBlue game. BlazBlue Continuum Shift! At first , i was very excited. What cool new Anime characters would they add in this installment? I always secretly wanted hazama, he was one of the cooler villians and had a cool suit and hat. And i loved his role in the story mode. But then i realized, ragna wouldnt be the same anymore. So i hopped on dayca dustloop and started to look at the changes. I panicked. would i have to remaster ragna all over again? I posted my complaints, but realized i could do nothing about it. Cue another period of depression.

Eventually, the game came out. I started to play Ragna again, and i didnt like what they did to him. I think they nerfed him overall, and i know better so yeah. Anyways, i eventually got to the same level (but i was dragged down by ragna's nerfs). I felt i was ready to move on, so i started to attend tournaments. One place near me, GamePOD had St1nKBuG biweekly tournaments for anime lovers, so i decided to show up. I did relatively well, but there was one guy who always stopped me from winning. Ziderp. He played Hazama, and always stopped me dead in my tracks. I didnt know how to win. I felt like all my progress was for nothing. But I viewed him as a rival, and i thought it was cool that we were rivals just like Ragna and Hazama in game. I quickly made friends with everyone.

On the last biweekly before the major tournament, North East Championships, i was once again snuffed out by Ziderp. But i wasnt upset. Afterwards, leaving GamePOD relatively late at night, i encountered 4 negroid young men who wished to relieve me of my fabulous scarf. I refused, as being fabulous is one of the things that gets you jailbait, and in turn, was held up. All my training, just to die here? I heard the sound of a gunshot, and thought, "what would ragna do?" and using my amazing reaction time thanks to BlazBlue, i DP'd the bullet. Or so i thought. I ended up losing my hand as a result. The men were confused as to what the fuck just happened and ran away.

At the hospital, the doctor told me that i would never be able to play on a ps3 dpad again. I was heartbroken. How was i supposed to play BlazBlue? Was this all for naught? I was in greater pain than ever before. But i had an idea. The stub of my hand was still attached, the wrist was still good. Determined, i asked the doctor to attach my wrist to an arcade stick. Out of pure determination, he was convinced. I immediately started to rehab myself for NEC. Intense netplay training sessions took place (think hyperbolic time chamber). The day before NEC, i knew i was ready.

Long story short, i unexpectedly showed up and and blew up NEC and some nigga who didnt belong named ZONG_two. At losers finals, it was me and some random litchi player named Lord Knigga. After an intense battle, i moved on to grand finals to blow up Ziderp, win NEC and all the Jailbait of world and share it with everyone who motivated me to win. I was truly happy and no longer wanted to kill myself.

Rags to BBitches, The fucking end

Real talk it took me 2 months.

Edited December 2, 2010 by not_lunaris

[Anbicion]

for me, its a never ending story...

[Achtzehn]

Started learning and playing tager when BBCT hit stores, got pretty good about a year later... Still have a long ways to go though.

[BangisMyHomeboy]

Took me months. I was playing the game like it was SF4 and finally got good with Bang after I dropped it and learned how the game works.

[CaelSeraphim]

I was pretty average in BB:CT. When CS launched, i joined dloop and started developing my Jin even more. I also based alot of my style off of Hiroshi. For me to even be as go as i am now, i had to drop all of my sub chars for a short time until i got used to the new system CS had implemented.

[LunaKage]

CT: 5 Months.

CS: 3 Months.

Fucking Noel.

[RolandRd]

My Makoto is decent in my point view..

Proficient level i have to say 3 or 4 months.

But i still suck at jump combos

[Zane Hitsurugi]

Many years of training in the mountains of thailand with gorrillas

[.:TM:.]

A few months for CT when playing Tager.

As for CS, only got it this friday, so still getting used to Hazama and the new capabilities of Tager and Ragna.

[SkyKing]

I've played fighting games since I was 6, starting with SFII and Fatal Fury.

CT:

Noel - About 2 months, including match-up experience.

Ragna - 1 week, just to prep for CS.

CS:

Ragna - 2 weeks. Then had him as a sub.

Noel - Feels like I'll never be fully efficient with her. Took about 1 month to get comfortable with her, and still learning her match-ups.

[lxMetalSonicxl]

Um proficient with my main? HAHAAHAHHAHAHAAH NEVER!!

[Shugotenshi]

I'm still not proficient because I don't give a damn about CS.

[brofist]

Soviet skills are bred deep, not learned.

[itsme]

A week after getting the console version (got a 360 just for CS). This is after a whole year playing casual at the arcades, I actually can't believe how easy I can do some combos and moves now after seeing myself struggling to do them back then (too bad they don't have CS).

[OniYouji]

Never. I have a whole three combos at my disposal, and they all do less than 3k.

[TD]

Never. I have a whole three combos at my disposal, and they all do less than 3k.

well how long were you playing the game? lf longer than a month that could be a problem

[OniYouji]

well how long were you playing the game? lf longer than a month that could be a problem

Been playing since the release date of Calamity Trigger. Continuum Shift, I was a bit late to the party on (I was out of town on the 28th), but I started playing around August.

About two months ago, I finally found a way to combo into Belial Edge like all the "cool cats" do with Ragna, but that only gets me just barely 2.9k (it can be over 3k if I Carnage Scissors instead of Gauntlet Hades, but you know), and even that is unreliable. Not to mention I don't even know the definition of footsies, spacing, yomi, mixups, frame data, etc.

I don't really play fighting games. But when I do, I play BlazBlue Continuum Shift. Stay godlike, my friends.

[Avenger]

Wow I didn't notice this thread before...

Well, took me 3 months on each of my main, namely Tager, Bang, Hakumen and Hazama (in that order).

[bluerogue]

Proficient? Good? Those are extremely vague relative terms. If people think they're proficient after a few weeks or a few months of play then they really need to reevaluate their gradations of 'proficiency.' At a certain cutoff almost everybody can execute suboptimal or optimal combos in a match, the rest just becomes judgment. People who say anything less than a year without BBCT, GG or heavy fighting game experience haven't fought extremely talented players yet. I see people posting great w/r's that still don't understand aspects of the game yet.

Going through these posts I see a ton of players who think they're proficient at bbcs after playing a few months, players I've played before that are HORRIBLE at dealing with many situations.

How long did it take me to learn how to start intuitively comboing and applying them in matches? I'd say about 2-3 months. How long did it take me to get good? I don't know, I'll tell you when I get good.

Edited December 14, 2010 by bluerogue