Declining, rather than plateauing.

[Nihongo-ookami]

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So, I've been slowly but surely getting better as I entered more tournaments and played more people. Starting about 08 or so.

A few months ago, I really started getting better and winning tournament matches.

But...whereas most players reach a plateau, I've begun to decline, and reach a slope. I'm slowly un-learning how to play the game. I suppose lack of practice contributes to this, but I still would like to think that there's a solid reason for it.

 

[Teran]

You could play CPUs and maintain your playstyle that you use against humans.

You won't necessarily improve but it does stop decline.

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

Practice against better people or something.

 

[highfive]

Play Melee

You could try and learn a new character. It helped me when I still played Brawl.

 

[Jim Morrison]

Play Melee

You could try and learn a new character. It helped me when I still played Brawl.

This is pretty good advice, helped me.

 

[Teran]

By new character, he means Meta Knight.

 

[MidnightAsaph]

So much Brawl hate.

Play the game. That's my advice. You also might be playing too much Brawl and getting unmotivated. Happened to me, and I quit playing smash. Of course, I at one point got hyped for it and got back in (to find that my Wii was broken. Yay).

 

[Fly_Amanita]

I've been going through a similar thing lately, albeit for Melee. In my case, I think there were two main factors at work: I didn't play for an extended period of time, and I didn't have a solid grasp of why I was doing really well in the first place, in which case I think it's easy for one to decline.

My advice is to try to go about improving the same way you had always done in the past; it worked then and chances are it'll work now. I would give advice on the whole not-forgetting-how-to-play bit, but I'm not very good about that myself. -_-