new players are more likely to use very basic strategies, such as spamming Link's arrows and rollspamming
Does this make FG bad for learning?
... No, in fact, it's quite the opposite. If you can't beat basic rollspam, it's quite obvious that you won't be able to beat players "smarter" than them.
Granted, it is noticeably more difficult to deal with projectile spam online, but if you claim to be the better player,
why aren't you winning?
By the way, here are two posts that helped me improve the most with dealing with rollspam:
http://smashboards.com/threads/how-to-deal-with-a-rolling-opponent.375075/
http://smashboards.com/threads/best-ways-to-punish-rolls.376159/#post-18259166
Also remember, don't just keep going for hard reads. And play very, very patiently and very carefully.
Try to play against better players or at least someone at relatively the same level to you
Eyy! Now this is better. Maybe.
You need to also consider that the guy you're playing against who's on the same level as you... may be a WORSE player than the FG spammer.
Sure, they're doing things other than spamming, so like it because you think it's intelligent play. You guys play together, happy that you're able to consistently beat/lose to each other. The fact is, is that if you're having trouble beating FG scrubs, your partner probably has a hard time dealing with FG scrubs as well. You think you're on a higher level, when in reality, you are worse than the guys on FG.
Victors are going to be the people who played better in that round-- This is a FACT. The FG projectile spammer, however flowcharty and bad-looking as they may be, beat you. Why did they beat you?
-They found a way to deal with most tactics in the game, and you failed to figure out the counter-play in time.
-You got frustrated that you were "losing to the worse player" and started doing risky things, or started doing misinputs. (They have a psychological advantage over you, however unaware of it they might be)
lol, these are the two I can think of right now.
So people "just getting the game" found the optimal flowchart way to beat ~80% of people, and are beating you with said flowchart. It's natural that newer players will flowchart their way to victory-- it's a lot easier compared to the way higher-level players play the game. The problem with flowchart play is that flowcharting can only get you so far, and we realize this, so we abandon our flowchart ways.
Now, when we start out abandoning our flowchart play, we've literally abandoned everything we know about playing the game, except perhaps knowing your character's moveset, knowing how to move, typical tech, etc. etc. so it's natural that we lose to the flowcharters because when we choose to learn to play intelligently,
we start out as worse players.
99% of us don't realize that we are worse players than them-- because after all, we've TRANSCENDED flowcharting, right? That must mean we're better players!
No, lol, you're just bad at playing Smash.
Anyway, just accept that these scrubs are better at playing Smash than you and learn from the mistakes you make in your matches.
If you can win against the "FG scrubs", then congrats, you're the better player. You've transcended flowcharting and reached the level at which you can beat these scrubs.
FG is not the 100% most optimal way to get better at the game. Of course, there's the stupid "FD only" rule, and the fact that people on FG are different from people in-tournament, but when you're playing FG players, you can still build fundamentals (and learn how to not get frustrated while playing).