WT!
Smash Journeyman
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- Jan 5, 2014
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I went to Apex 2014 with a friend who was much less skilled at the time and still loses regularly. He doesn't know nearly as much about the game as I do despite being good, and... I'll get to the point.
He is convinced that predicting the opponent, not getting predicted and mindgames in general are the most import aspect of competitive Brawl. He denounces knowledge of options, technical skill, and spacing as less important, and claims that metagames are useless and stupid. The problem is he has no clear plan with his mix-ups, and they end up doing nothing but tack on a little damage that he would otherwise not have landed. They don't lead to other moves, put in in a better position, on lead to a kill (with the exception of the occasional RPG hard read, he's a Snake player) and whenever he fools me with one of these mix-ups, or does something contrary to the metagame like forward smashing for no reason, spamming various moves like the mortar, nikitas, forward tilts, up tilts etc, DACUSing back and forth, you get it, and I tell him that it is a dumb decision and it would never work in a tournament situation despite the fact that it fooled me, he says "then prove it" or "but it works". He's very stubborn. How do I get through to him? Any expert advice? He might listen to you.
He is convinced that predicting the opponent, not getting predicted and mindgames in general are the most import aspect of competitive Brawl. He denounces knowledge of options, technical skill, and spacing as less important, and claims that metagames are useless and stupid. The problem is he has no clear plan with his mix-ups, and they end up doing nothing but tack on a little damage that he would otherwise not have landed. They don't lead to other moves, put in in a better position, on lead to a kill (with the exception of the occasional RPG hard read, he's a Snake player) and whenever he fools me with one of these mix-ups, or does something contrary to the metagame like forward smashing for no reason, spamming various moves like the mortar, nikitas, forward tilts, up tilts etc, DACUSing back and forth, you get it, and I tell him that it is a dumb decision and it would never work in a tournament situation despite the fact that it fooled me, he says "then prove it" or "but it works". He's very stubborn. How do I get through to him? Any expert advice? He might listen to you.