Hello everyone I made this thread to ask a bit of questions of those 3 topics in the time of my thread. I have never really been a fan of fighting games playing mostly RPG's and action/adventures games but, one day on internet I saw that Jin Kisargi was being added in a MMO I played called Lost Saga. After I saw him I became interested with Blazblue so on my birthday I bought calamity trigger(PSP) and was instanly hooked on the games characters and story. Soon I bought extend after and a arcade stick as suggested by my friend and well at first I did bad getting used to the arcade stick and stuff but after many matches with my another friend I got better at stick(stiil need work though). Soon I got into online and everything that people said would happended came. So today I come to ask some questions to better myself.
To start how do excel in neutral?( I use platinum btw love her) I got some general idea that you neutral is the phrase when you want to be in your opponents face but can't. Some problems I have encoutered in Neutral is that its hard to approch the opponent I try at the start of the match to make some space and summon a magical weapon but, I find its hard to just hit my opponent when they are constanly moving in the air rather than the ground because they make use of jumps I can't AA them and when they fall to the ground I get hit by their attacks. My overall problem with neutral is I don't know what else I should be doing beside using plat's 5B,3C or j.C.
Up next in terms of offense I notice that it's weak I can't open up my opponent. Whenever I Vs my friend I can never apply good pressure and he just reads it all I try to use 6C or 6A in pressure but at this point he knows I JC 6A so I can't use it to continue pressue even with the pan. Throws are out of options because I make it too obvious when my pressure fails so it seems I can only open my opponents if I do something super unexpected but, even then I if I make a hit I can't do a decent mid screen combo or make one up unless its from my AA. Finally my last problem in offense is I am aware that when you knockdown your opponent you have and advantage so I try to use the bubble oki or bombs what ends up happening against my friend is a moment later he throw counters me, if its anyone else it might work.
Lastly my defensive game, for this my problem is when I start getting pressured it's GG for me unless they have a weak pressure or if I know that characters gattling really well. Everytime I get pressured I just end up so stiff that even after the pressure if over I just sit there in the corner hold that low block or high block for dear life in the corner. I feel like when I started taking pressure I just sit there and have to take it but, I see other people jumping out as soon as its done and filled with life. The last problem with my defensive is I can't really predict when someone is gonna throw this is one of my major weaknesses as opponents notice I have a stiff guard and just throw me and if they can combo from it then I am in trouble.
In conclusion I feel like if I don't improve these problem areas I will never be as good as my some of my friends and especially my younger brother who is just so phoneminal at fighting game(or PVP based games). Oh and last thing is reading the situation also important cause I fail at that too.(sorry for long essay:()