EmptySkyForm Posted August 23, 2011 Posted August 23, 2011 I just want to know what it really means to have a main. Whenever I see videos of high level players, they seem to have total mastery over their character. It might be because they are dedicated to mastering their character. Yet I can't shake the feeling that I have to know how to play every character in order to be good, so it kinda hard to find a main. Is skill measured by quality or quantity? Please help.
Manta Posted August 23, 2011 Posted August 23, 2011 It's measured by wins. You only get to take one character into the ring. Work it out.
Delrian Posted August 23, 2011 Posted August 23, 2011 Your main is the one character you've learned and play the most with, and are the best with. You can learn about the other characters without playing as them, rather you learn what they do and what you can do to beat their stuff. Find a character you like, and play that one character for a while. That's really it as far as having a main.
EmptySkyForm Posted August 24, 2011 Author Posted August 24, 2011 So what I am getting for this is that your main is someone you know the in's and out's of very well, have a dedication to learn, and through that you learn how to use those tools in order to wins out over the others. Right?
Star-Demon Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 So what I am getting for this is that your main is someone you know the in's and out's of very well, have a dedication to learn, and through that you learn how to use those tools in order to wins out over the others. Right? More or less - I personally don't think anyone is good unless they can play many characters, so I try to learn most - but it shows when you don't have a main, and My Main Litchi suffers because of it. It's like anything else competitive - you do your one thing until you're the best. That's mostly what the expectation is. Play however you want, but if you want to win substantially, you have to learn one or two characters HARD.
Pestilence Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 why would you need to learn more than one character? that makes no sense to me. you can only play one at a time so what's the point of learning more?
Delrian Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 why would you need to learn more than one character? that makes no sense to me. you can only play one at a time so what's the point of learning more? I'm thinking he was thinking something along the lines of matchups. If you know other characters, you know their strengths you need to avoid and weaknesses you need to take advantage of.
Manta Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 Also helps to play against your own character as someone else. You won't understand the psychology of defending against your character unless you've experienced it yourself. And once you do understand it, commence to mindfuckery.
Effenhoog Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 You can only play one character at a time, so technically all you need is to be good with one character. Learning other characters, at least at a basic level, can be helpful though, as it gives you a better insight into how they work and what they are trying to accomplish when facing you. If you just play one character and can understand how to fight against the other characters without actually playing as them at all, then that's fine too. A player who has mastered one character will never lose to a player who is merely good with many characters but has not mastered any of them Most serious players have one main character and then maybe one or two other characters that they are almost or equally as skilled with to play in casuals for the sake of variety or to cover their main character's worst matchups in tournaments that allow character changing. Skill is measured by success. Do whatever it takes for you to succeed, the learning process is different for everyone
Eshi Posted August 26, 2011 Posted August 26, 2011 (edited) If you're going to be a top player then you DO need to know how to play every character, essentially. However, you don't need to actively play as them all, you just need to stick with one. That way you'll know exactly what every character in the game is capable of, but you only need to practice your one character to figure out the best way to respond to their options. Spending an equal amount of time playing two characters doubles the number of match-ups one needs thorough experience with as opposed to having a single main. This is especially important for games like Tekken and SFIV that have way too many characters/moves per character. There's also the fact that top players get so much experience that they can naturally pick up and play other characters just by imitating what they've seen their opponents do (hence why kaqn plays hazama/noel/tsubaki/jin/etc. all quite well). Edited August 26, 2011 by Eshi
Airk Posted August 26, 2011 Posted August 26, 2011 To wit: You need mastery of one character, and theoryfighter mastery of the rest. :P (i.e. you need to know what they can do in all situations, but you don't actually need to be able to do it yourself.)
StarGazer Posted August 27, 2011 Posted August 27, 2011 You need mastery of one character, and theoryfighter mastery of the rest. :P this is all what you need, so pick up your favorite character and go deep with him its very rewarding and fun and please be loyal to him :p, i see ppl keep changing there characters with every nerf and buff.
excelence Posted October 7, 2011 Posted October 7, 2011 Well i found playing with multiple characters actually can help polish my execution with my main ... and to my surprise My Noel,Plat and Tsu actually have better win lose ratio than my squirrel
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