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Greetings.
I am struggling with an issue right now that is affecting me outside of tournament and I would like some perspective on how to deal with.
In short, I main . Metaknight is considered a bad character by a lot of (uneducated) players. He's pretty solid and possibly high tier. Definitely viable. I'm madly passionate about playing this character. Anyone who has met me knows that I put my heart and soul into this game and improving with this character. I switched to him about 3 months ago from /. I just ended up picking him up and falling in love with the character. I do not regret doing this. During this time frame, I saw my skills increase and I've been placing somewhat well in my scene. I'm not quite Power Ranked in Michigan; I'm just outside of it. I've beaten many players on our PR.
My issue right now is that I only play because he's the only character I really enjoy to this level right now. But he has a lot of disadvantageous matchups with commonly played top/high tier characters. Most of them aren't "hella" bad but there's a good 6 or 7 of them that I have to worry about every single tournament. Most of my tournament sets are matchups like this. My scene is huge and I am one of the only three reputable players in my state who do not use top/high tier characters. I sometimes lose to people that I feel that I am more skilled than because of the MUs. The stress of having to play these uphill MUs almost all of the time, putting in so much work but still losing some of these MUs, and always falling just short of my goal for each tournament is beginning to get to me. I'm not sure how to address it.
Obviously, one route to acquire a secondary for my bad MUs. But I have yet to find a character that is: viable, fits my playstyle, covers my bad MUs, and is fun to me. Despite there being over 50 characters in this game, I can't seem to find one that fits all of that criteria. So I keep just using only trying to grow and get better. I see progress. But not at the rate that I would like to.
For all of those who main similar characters, how do you deal with this? Did you pick up a secondary? If not, how do you stay so positive even when you encounter "bad" losses? I guess I'm just looking from insight from people who maybe understand what I am going through. Ultimately, I have to decide for myself what I should do. But it'd be nice to hear from those who understand the life of maining a character that's viable but really hard to use solo. Thank you for reading!
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I am struggling with an issue right now that is affecting me outside of tournament and I would like some perspective on how to deal with.
In short, I main . Metaknight is considered a bad character by a lot of (uneducated) players. He's pretty solid and possibly high tier. Definitely viable. I'm madly passionate about playing this character. Anyone who has met me knows that I put my heart and soul into this game and improving with this character. I switched to him about 3 months ago from /. I just ended up picking him up and falling in love with the character. I do not regret doing this. During this time frame, I saw my skills increase and I've been placing somewhat well in my scene. I'm not quite Power Ranked in Michigan; I'm just outside of it. I've beaten many players on our PR.
My issue right now is that I only play because he's the only character I really enjoy to this level right now. But he has a lot of disadvantageous matchups with commonly played top/high tier characters. Most of them aren't "hella" bad but there's a good 6 or 7 of them that I have to worry about every single tournament. Most of my tournament sets are matchups like this. My scene is huge and I am one of the only three reputable players in my state who do not use top/high tier characters. I sometimes lose to people that I feel that I am more skilled than because of the MUs. The stress of having to play these uphill MUs almost all of the time, putting in so much work but still losing some of these MUs, and always falling just short of my goal for each tournament is beginning to get to me. I'm not sure how to address it.
Obviously, one route to acquire a secondary for my bad MUs. But I have yet to find a character that is: viable, fits my playstyle, covers my bad MUs, and is fun to me. Despite there being over 50 characters in this game, I can't seem to find one that fits all of that criteria. So I keep just using only trying to grow and get better. I see progress. But not at the rate that I would like to.
For all of those who main similar characters, how do you deal with this? Did you pick up a secondary? If not, how do you stay so positive even when you encounter "bad" losses? I guess I'm just looking from insight from people who maybe understand what I am going through. Ultimately, I have to decide for myself what I should do. But it'd be nice to hear from those who understand the life of maining a character that's viable but really hard to use solo. Thank you for reading!
- Technology