4 Ways to Become a Better Fighter

Fighting games, like FPS games, can be played for leisure or for sport, but when played for sport, what are some skills you will need to win? In this article, I will share with you some tips that helped me become a better fighting gamer.

1. Familirize yourself with the game

Number one is pretty self explanatory. You want to learn the “ins and outs” of any game that you are going to play. You don’t want to jump into a match against someone who knows the game and constantly get beat over and over again do you??? No! That’s no fun. So take the time to learn the basics, and get a feel for how the game plays.

2. Start with the “basic” characters

To me, “basic” characters would be someone like Ryu from Street Fighter or Terry Bogard from the King of Fighter games. Usually these characters are the easiest to play with because their moves are simple and they usually have good strength/defence stats. Once you get a good handle on the “basic” characters, move on to the “harder to use characters”. They will be a little easier to use because now you know the basic commands and already have a feel for how the game works. 

3. Learn combos and special tatics

Fighting games use a variety of movements to change the game play. There are a lot of different movements such as side stepping, tech rolling, and dodging. Get used to how the movements are best executed and then get a feel for the correct timing of them. Once you have mastered timing start incorporating attacks with movements. This will help out immensly against highly skilled competitors. Combos are also very inportant for two major reasons. One: Combos are a way to hit your opponent and inflict a fair amount of damage without taking any yourself. Two: Combos are a good way to build your special meter and a great way to link special moves. 

4. Watch good players

This is something that helped me out a lot. I would watch tournamet play as well as videos of really good players. I would pay close attention to how they used combos and specials to see how moves linked together. I would also watch to see how the players timed moves. After watching a video I would always try to incorporate some of those techniques into my game play and see how they worked with my style of play. If something didn’t work out right for me, I would try to “tweek” it a bit until it was something that fit my style of play.

With that being said, I hope you enjoyed this and found it helpful. Thanks for reading and I hope this article will help you become a better fighter!

Cheaters

As a pretty competitive gamer, there’s nothing more that I hate than a cheater. As games get more technologically advanced, it seems that they are becoming easier and easier to exploit and glitch out. Now do we hold the game developers responsible? Or do we hold the thousands of gamers that exploit these glitches responsible? I say both and here’s why.

As a gamer who plays online I don’t see the point in cheating. It doesn’t make you a better player, it actually hurts you. For instance, in Call Of Duty : World at War there are a few glitches where you can get inside of an object or under the map and take no damage but still shoot the enemy team. But what happens when you play on a map that can’t be glitched or gamers haven’t found one yet? You do bad and that’s because instead of killing with the ability to not be killed, you have to rely on skill, and skill is something that you will always lack against someone who plays fair because they know how to kill, take cover, and use real strategy. Now as for game developers, you have to realize that there’s no game that comes out perfect and they have to realize that not every glitch in the game will be discovered by their game testers. So here’s what they can do.    

Monitor online play. See how people a glitching the game out.

Listen to people in the gaming community by reading forums and wacthing videos.

Release updates often. Games on PC, Xbox, WII, and PS3 can all get updates that correct problems with games. 

With that being said, I leave you with one more question. With gamers becoming as skilled as game developers, will cheating ever go away?