Skill Retention

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if anyone has any advice for skill retention? RL is rather brutal on me (2 jobs and school) and I barely have enough free time to sleep let alone train in VF as much as I want. I am a Vanessa player (a terrible one at that) and I find myself spending more time in the dojo than playing because I forget combos by the time I get free time to play. I'm all for going online and getting beat down as a learning experience but I would like to be decent when I go online. Thanks for any help you can offer.

 

Go online and get beat down. Even if you don't have alot of time to play, you'll learn more from getting owned than you will from beating up the Dojo dummy. Just be sure to save and review replays so you can see exactly why you lost (or won, whatever the case may be).

Just remember to have fun...

 

You can also play against the CPU. I found it was one of the better ways of practising combos as opposed to dojo, as the CPU is (hopefully) avoiding getting hit. You would be practising combos in situations resembling a versus match.

Playing against CPU can be pretty beneficial as long as you are playing 'fair', as if you are playing against a live opponent. It can be pretty good practise doing defense techniques like fuzzy guard against cpu too.

 

Sounds good... I'll start to alternate between going online and playing the CPU (I'll up the difficulty to make it closer to a real match) and see how it goes. Thanks for the responses!

 

I had a similar problem, I don't play VF very often just at weekends usually, and it's always hard work playing catchup with everybody else, my solution was to make a flowchart to make it easier to remember some setups and other stuff.
Now if I go online I just practice the chart vs the CPU for a few minutes, and then jump straight into matches without having to think too much about training.
Most people hate flowchart players but it really makes life so much easier

 

I find CPU nice way to practice combos too. I have this dual online/human player syndrome, ie getting both the timing and correct combos in non-rehearsed situations is overall hard for me.

Special Sparring mode at very hard is the way to go IMHO, which has individually changing CPU tactics and movement which is nice for setup honing. There are several things to learn from CPU too, not bad at all for seemingly rushed 1P modes compared to predecessors. Also, CPU never rage quits.

CPU hardly ever does anything resembling max dmg combos though or max punishment. Some interesting movement and mixups are still there. Honestly, if online/offline looks murky I may play a dozen SS matches to get into mood - it often works. I just hoped FS had a net lag simulation like many namco/capcom games have.

 

Except for saving and reviewing replays, I pretty much disagree with this entire post. Dojo mode and playing vs the CPU is much better than anything online could show you. You won't have to get used to mistiming everything either. Like others I recommend SS and Dojo.

Gross. Online should simulate offline, not the other way around.