In for glory, do both players truly have the same amount of lag?

[Shuckle89]

I've read somewhere that when playing online, both players experience the same amount of lag/delay. I assumed this to be true, until I did a for glory the other day. The lag was truly... unbearable. I don't think I've ever had that much lag (at ~200 for glory matches atm). There was a constant... 1 sec delay or so. There were spikes and at least 10 times the game froze (the reconnect button appearing). I had absolutely no idea what was going on, because everything I did happened a second later. It was blind button mashing, because even things like recovery were inpossible, because I had no clue where I actually was.

Yet, somehow, my opponent managed to tech almost everything I threw at him. He perectly teched my side B with ganondorf everytime. When I smacked him against the edge of the stage, he teched that too. It got me really wondering.

Perhaps his internet was truly garbage and he was used to the lag? I don't know.

 

[ChikoLad]

If by teching you mean the "Ukemi" mechanic, then that is really easy to do under lag.

Some characters do handle lag better than others though. I know Rosalina and Sonic are seriously downgraded when there is lag.

 

[Shuckle89]

Well, I don't know. Like I said, there was so much delay/spikes and skips, it was already very hard to get to the other player. Maybe I should have started spamming warlock punch xD

 

[KingTeo]

I can say with almost 100% guarantee that both players are experiencing the same amount of lag. Since it's a fighting game, the best way to mitigate lag is by making it uniform: The entire match lags as much as the one person who is lagging the most. This helps both players stay in sync with each other. When games don't handle lag like this you get occurrences like what you see in Dark Souls: 1 person suddenly stops moving for 6 seconds and then suddenly flashes across the screen hitting everything in his path.

Some characters/people just play better with lag or get lucky.

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[Shuckle89]

Hmm. Well, most of the time I believe that to be true as well. Like whenever the game freezes, it's not like you suddenly died in the meantime. But, this made me doubt it. It's a shame I can't make a vid of it or something, because you wouldn't see the lag, but... well, maybe it was just me.

 

[XxBHunterxX]

You both experience the same amount of lag, perfectly teching isn't that hard to do in a laggy match because the lag gives you time to react to what happened, so spamming a button input should do the job and then some.

 

[Gea]

Whenever I see people still doing stuff in lag I understand it's because they are mashing everything out anyways. Can't eat every input.