Does playing online help?

[AirFair]

The question might be a bight dumb, but since there can be a bit of lag on Dolphin netplay in some cases, I just wanted to ask yall's opinion on it. Does practicing on netplay when you can't go to a tourney or play against others help, or does it just harm your play?

 

[Y-L]

It certainly helps. Despite the minor lag (1-4 frames depending how close you are to the person), you get to play against a large variety of people with different playstyles. You shouldn't really pick up significantly bad habits. Playing against people is always better than playing cpus.

 

[Vorde]

Yeah I would agree, however the only thing I would say is that a match where two fox players are playing each other online, in real life it could go really differently. With the lag you get from online play, it changes the way people use tech. I wouldn't be able to use multishining the same way I would playing someone on a CRT, so it all comes down to play styles.

 

[Y-L]

Yeah I would agree, however the only thing I would say is that a match where two fox players are playing each other online, in real life it could go really differently. With the lag you get from online play, it changes the way people use tech. I wouldn't be able to use multishining the same way I would playing someone on a CRT, so it all comes down to play styles.

It wouldn't change multishining. The timing is still the same only the first shine is delayed.

 

[Haaaaadoken]

Its only an effective way of training if you have pretty good internet. I have a lot of fun playing online :D

 

[SAUS]

It doesn't hurt, I don't think. I know one guy in my area played online a bunch and was a nice chunk better a month or two later when I played him again (in person). You may as well play local players if you can, though. No lag and being able to talk as you are playing can be very helpful to your improvement.

The lag is also really annoying lol

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

The only way online play would be great is if you happen to have the perfect connection to be able to render the game in a full 60 frames per second without any drop in frames. However, a single second divided by 60 frames is 0.0167 seconds or 16.7 milliseconds. I believe a standard ping value is around this magnitude in time. That will have some frame delay and worse with spikes in the connection.

In most cases using the internet functionality of a game will result in you having relatively poor execution compared to not using that functionality. However, online play does help teach you basic principles. It helps put you in situations you probably have not seen before by the CPU.

In my experience with Brawl, online helped teach me basic ideas while CPU play was meant for execution.

But, I assumed you and your opponent at a respectable connection of minimal frame drops. You can learn absolutely nothing in severe lag.