Growing up with traditional fighters and Smash

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Would it be easy to grow up with Smash and then later on try to play a traditional fighter at a competitive level?

Would it be easy to grow up with traditional fighters and then later on try to play Smash at a competitive level?

Could Smash be ingrained to your brain to a certain degree that it makes it difficult to think of combos in a traditional fighter?

Recently, I've been playing Street Fighter Alpha 3 and while I can do some special moves, I find myself to be button mashing most of the time. I've seen what traditional fighters can do. There's a lot of combo potential and it's very deep. However, when I'm playing, I feel like I have this mental block where I don't know what to do. Is this a normal scrub phase? Does Smash have to do anything with this?

 

[Teran]

The core mechanics are a lot different, but if you're skilled at games which require reflexes and in depth knowledge, which to be good at Smash and traditional fighters you do have to be, then you'll be okay.

It's more to do with your skill as a gamer rather than necessarily what game you've been brought up in, being a skilled gamer will allow you to play a game well. With traditional fighters, you just have to realise that you can't rely on single button moves like you do with Smash sure they're complex sequences and require speed (especially so in Melee), but the basic input style for offense is vastly different. In a traditional fighter you have to learn your character in and out, which consists of a vast number of different combo sequences, so you're going to have to train your muscle memory to pull off vmuch more varied button sequences. Once you get that in your head, you should be doing a bit better.

 

[Ruuku]

To be honest I think your questions are much too complex for me to answer anything more accurate than "maybe" without doing some research.

 

[Darkshadow7827]

It's probably a normal noob phase and I don't really think Smash has anything to do with it. I agree a lot with Teran. Both smash and tradition fighters (ex Street Fighter) employ the same tactics: spacing/zoning, baiting, punishing, knowing match ups, knowing your main inside out, etc. Reflex and muscle memory come into play too. If you can't react fast enough to punish or your execution sucks, then you'll suffer in both games. If you want to get better at SF, practice your bread and butter combos - the combo you'll use in most situations. Just like in smash, zone and when you do a move, there must be a reason for doing it.