How to train a scrub

[DownWitDaWaveDash]

Hey guys.

I live in Covington GA, USA.

There is no one really around to play smash with me. Luckily my wife (bless her heart) decided that she would learn this game that means so much to me.

Teaching her is the most frustrating thing I have ever done in my entire life. Took 2 and a half weeks to get the controls stuck in her brain (and that doesn't include smash attacks, only tilts and specials).

At this rate it will be Super Smash bros 5 before I get to wave dashing and L-cancels.

I even went out of my way to buy a Wii so that maybe , just MAYBE brawl would help her with its easier everything.

Give advice, how do you train a scrub. Any exercises? Plans?

 

[EPsilon933]

Don't train them. Play with them

 

[V-K]

I don't think it's worth it. If someone plays the game just to please you, not because they actually want to get better at the game, you will not really get any good results at all, I remember playing with my sister.

The best idea is really to look for other Smashers in your area, there's gotta be some.

 

[ECHOnce]

I tried the same with my GF a few months ago, and it worked out terribly. My 2 cents: keep in mind that she's only playing because she knows it's what you want. That's her motivation. She's not playing it because of the competition, or the rush you get in tight sets, or noticing how those little improvements in tech and other stuff betters your game. And there's a pretty good reason for that...when most smashers start off, they start of casually. They play because it's a game they find fun and enjoy. Most, of not all of us on here started like that. Some of us were trained competitively from the start, but that only works for some who enjoy those aspects of the game from the beginning. For most people, that interest in tech and competition has to be grown over time; they by default are starting off playing with the mindset of "I'm bad at this game because my friend is so much better than me." It's frustrating, but it's not something that can be simply taught. No matter how long it takes, don't rush her or you'll kill her interest in the game and she'll give up on it altogether. Just play an hour or two a day, or just even half an hour sometimes if she doesn't feel like it on a bad day. Go easy on her and try to play on her level. Find others like your friends or her friends to start off too (if they show interest), so that they have someone to compete with, and realize there are others that play at a lower level closer to there's as well. It gives them a reachable goal to achieve, rather than trying to catch up to your months or years of experience. So long as she puts in time consistently, like a little everyday or every few days, leave it as it is, and don't do more than occasionally show her how to correct something if you notice a bad habit...but only tel her once, and demonstrate a staged example. After that, don't say anything on it further, and just punish it instead, until they're willing to ask any solutions you offer for it, and then demonstrate a staged example for that, too. (Although if they ask to be shown again, by all means do; only reason you wouldn't do so is in case they take it badly or aren't completely interested) Give then leeway and let them succeed in the change a few times; stimulating improvement in this way can help build that hunger we all have to progress our skill, and that's the only way she'll ever make any decent steps into Smash competitively in the long-run.

Sorry, that had no real direction and covered a lot of random things lol, but I hope it helps.

 

[ChivalRuse]

Yeah you can't teach someone who isn't motivated. It's like Apollo trying to train Rocky before he overcomes his fear of Clubber Lang.

 

[menotyou135]

Just play for fun with her. Turn on handicap and just appreciate that she is spending time with you. The people who you play with don't need to be the best in the game. Just enjoy playing with them.

Eventually though, she will get better at understanding how to avoid certain things just playing. Don't worry about ATs unless she expresses interest in learning them.