Sukai
Smash Champion
Link to original post: [drupal=1338]No longer a scrub, I think.[/drupal]
March 28, 2009
5:30 am
Watching: Nothing.
Listening to: You Scratched My Anchor, by Ice Nine Kills.
You know, I was a scrub, and proud to be one.
I didn't like alot of things, at an earlier time I freely labeled several things as cheap, and I myself refrained from doing them. I was your cut-out, definition scrub, you could point to me and there would have been a shining example of a scrub.
That was before smash.
When I go into Melee, I loosened up a bit. I didn't like Chaingrabs, or Shine combos, that was about it.
In my later years I've come to get over Chaingrabs, but Dumb *** Melee Fox was the center of my hatred.
Then into Brawl, seeing all the wrong things about it, such unbalanced character design, and chain grabs and infinites up the ***, and laser/jab locks to add on to that. These were the two things that I hated the most about playing Brawl.
I got into a small discussion with SWF admin TheBuzzSaw about a scrub and the "cheap" factor of the game.
I accepted it, and that I was still one.
But I came to find some contradiction in the term and how it was used, so I did some research and some deeper insight on the term. I talked it over with him again, and he greatly contributed to clearing up my thoughts.
I've come to see that a scrub--a scrub who still plays to win and strives to improve~~the kind of scrub that I was--does not limit themselves by not doing such methods deemed as cheap in their eyes, but rather they find alternatives to said methods, and they do work, I can vouch for this. I don't need to chain grab my opponent to 30% with Falco to get an advantage early in the match, I find alternatives, alternative always exist.
I am not speaking for other scrubs out there, but I find alternatives.
But recently in some Brawls, I've come to realize, that I didn't mind being Chaingrabbed.
Or laser locked, or infinited, mainly because I figured, I know "X" character is capable of it, so I just need to avoid it, the how of it is a different case, but it's all apart of the learning process.
Although I don't do such things myself, I still find and use alternatives, I don't mind if my opponent does it, as a matter of fact, for good competition, I encourage them to do so if they have what it takes to catch me.
I feel like a weight that I didn't know existed was lifted off of me.
I don't know how to exactly interpret it, but I think I'm no longer a scrub by definition.
Feels good.
March 28, 2009
5:30 am
Watching: Nothing.
Listening to: You Scratched My Anchor, by Ice Nine Kills.
You know, I was a scrub, and proud to be one.
I didn't like alot of things, at an earlier time I freely labeled several things as cheap, and I myself refrained from doing them. I was your cut-out, definition scrub, you could point to me and there would have been a shining example of a scrub.
That was before smash.
When I go into Melee, I loosened up a bit. I didn't like Chaingrabs, or Shine combos, that was about it.
In my later years I've come to get over Chaingrabs, but Dumb *** Melee Fox was the center of my hatred.
Then into Brawl, seeing all the wrong things about it, such unbalanced character design, and chain grabs and infinites up the ***, and laser/jab locks to add on to that. These were the two things that I hated the most about playing Brawl.
I got into a small discussion with SWF admin TheBuzzSaw about a scrub and the "cheap" factor of the game.
I accepted it, and that I was still one.
But I came to find some contradiction in the term and how it was used, so I did some research and some deeper insight on the term. I talked it over with him again, and he greatly contributed to clearing up my thoughts.
I've come to see that a scrub--a scrub who still plays to win and strives to improve~~the kind of scrub that I was--does not limit themselves by not doing such methods deemed as cheap in their eyes, but rather they find alternatives to said methods, and they do work, I can vouch for this. I don't need to chain grab my opponent to 30% with Falco to get an advantage early in the match, I find alternatives, alternative always exist.
I am not speaking for other scrubs out there, but I find alternatives.
But recently in some Brawls, I've come to realize, that I didn't mind being Chaingrabbed.
Or laser locked, or infinited, mainly because I figured, I know "X" character is capable of it, so I just need to avoid it, the how of it is a different case, but it's all apart of the learning process.
Although I don't do such things myself, I still find and use alternatives, I don't mind if my opponent does it, as a matter of fact, for good competition, I encourage them to do so if they have what it takes to catch me.
I feel like a weight that I didn't know existed was lifted off of me.
I don't know how to exactly interpret it, but I think I'm no longer a scrub by definition.
Feels good.
