I want to share my For Glory story since I used to hate For Glory because of spammers / taunters and overall cocky players who use cheap tactics to win and think they're good. For those reasons I refused to play For Glory and it actually made me quit Sm4sh for a few months, a little bit of a overreaction but I didn't want to play Sm4sh 3DS because I was convinced it was the crappy controller layout and I wanted to wait until I got a Wii U. Then I finally got a Wii U and Sm4sh but was still very scared to play For Glory, I didn't want another 20% win rate like I did on the 3DS, finally one day (like a month after) I decided to play For Glory and it wasn't actually that bad. A lot of it has to do with your own mindset and overall just having a thick skin (which may not apply for everyone). I've accumulated around over 150 For Glory games within like less in a week (I think 6 ~ 7 hours of play time in it overall?) which is something I never imagined myself doing because of my ladder anxiety.
As I said it has a lot to do with mindset and that day I decided to play For Glory, I just told myself, "Alright man, just remember this is a game. Just have fun." and I did exactly that. In addition that was during the time I felt like quitting the game yet again, not because of For Glory (I wasn't even playing it at the time) but because I felt like I sucked. I was stuck at a plateau as if I wasn't improving and I was very angry at myself because of that, and I realized that it was no ones else fault but my own because I refused to play on Anther's Ladder and For Glory just because of some numbers on the screen that tell me my win-rate. At that point I told myself as well to stop caring about winning or losing, and to focus on losing and fixing my mistakes / problems and trying to improve my game-play. After I did that, I just became happier overall, I was just happy because I stopped caring about these numbers and could play the game without a care in the world, and then this lead to me meeting a lot of great players as well. As soon as every game ended, I would change my tag to "Good game!" and the opponent would do the same, and if they didn't then I'd just leave unless they were really good and I felt like I had something to learn from that.
Just from a simple, "Good game!" I formed a mutual friendship with a lot of For Glory players. When I SDed, they would SD for me and I did the same in return. Additionally we felt comfortable around each other and didn't have to try so hard so we'd just pull out secondaries, random characters, do dittoes and just mess around. Also it was hilarious taunting each other because we knew we meant no harm and were just doing it for fun. Overall I'm glad I changed my mindset and now For Glory taunters don't bother me as much anymore, like believe me I still find it disrespectful to taunt after a kill / SD (it's like they're laughing in my face) and they don't bother with the good sportsmanship like doing good game in such but overall I stopped caring about taunters and just have fun with the game now. Okay actually I would be lying when I say that, I still get very mad sometimes on For Glory but it's more of at myself and not the opponent and also record doesn't absolutely mean nothing to me but that's because it's not something you can just do right away, and it takes time. Overall my mindset has improved but I'm still working on it, and it's also important to know to blame yourself and not your enemy. Sure the enemy is "spamming" but if it's working then it works, you shouldn't judge a player for using a tactic they deem reliable if they are constantly beating you with it and take it as a opportunity to learn and adapt.
on the table, that's their own fault for letting them go through their heads like that. This is suppose to be just two people having a friendly match no matter what happens and who wins or loses, not throwing unnecessary salt in your face and take the fun away as a result.