So there's this one player in my area...

[PootisKonga]

This guy makes me salty like you wouldn't believe. I have a lot of patience yet this guy seems to get on my nerves. Not because he always beats me, but because he always beats me effortlessly.

Just today I lost to the guy fifty times, no joke. It's really put a damper on my mood and gameplay. Before I fought him I beat someone else somewhat below him but well above I, and trounced his Pit with my first serious Bowser. I thought I was actually getting somewhere. But nope, here comes Luca beating me effortlessly with Olimar, Sonic, Snake, Link, Toon Link, Falco, Fox, and Ganon! The last few fights he opted to only use Link's Boomerang with the occasional Spin Attack for a finisher, and it worked on not only me but another player I had thought was his level. I swear he's a mind reader that sees this game in frame data because he's amazing at reads and seems to be able to punish anything with more than 5 frames of startup or endlag.

Now that that's out of my system, should I continue playing him? He's too high a level for me to improve upon, but at the same time he's the most consistent at showing up to play. And that's not taking into account the "Losers switch out" system we use, meaning he's playing 95% of the time.

 

[Fortress]

Base your progress on tournaments, not 'loser-switches-out-friendlies'. You won't prove to yourself that there are people below your skill level if you're going to just lose to the same guy for eight hours in a row every day. Go prove yourself in bracket before you pass any sort of judgement on yourself in friendly games of all things.

Also, if you're losing to literally only boomerang and spin attack, then there's something in your game that you've got to fix. That's simply something that does not work. Identify why he's getting away with things like that, and when and then change the situation that this player is taking advantage of. Consider uploading some videos of yourself playing sometime, too, and get help from the community around you to ask things like "why do you do that" to help you ask yourself so you can weed out habits that are keeping you back.

 

[MLGF]

**** the pride and keep asking people better then you for advice, when they stop giving advice it means they consider you a threat (and that's glorious).
I remember when people just constantly wupped me, I just kept trying to get better and figure out what they did. Now I'm considered a pretty strong player in my local scene.
Don't be mad at people who are that much better then you, consider it a goal to reach and use that person to help reach it.

 

[Hinichii.ez.™]

we should just date

 

[PootisKonga]

we should just date

I was not expecting that at all