There's also floor 10 and 9 hell, where you are kinda newish, I am pretty new I am trying my best ot learn I-no, and I body all of floor 9 easily enough, get to 10, get picked on by people who simply are better, who are like you, just trying to get to celestial to get out of 10, and I get sent right back down to 9 in a siyphian loop. I need you to understand I play a friend who is celestial, he's great at the game but I can beat him if I keep playing sets,. but on floor 10 peoIple don't play you like that. You likely get 3 rounds and are done, you also don't want to risk going down a floor because it's fucking tedious. It's a system bad for learning, after getting stuck for a bit, my new plan is to just move to open park.

Says leff doesn’t get carried by hc meanwhile watching him get kk to half hp from full screen leff gets his ass beat in tekken cause he is pretty mid without hc

If my mom had wheels she would have been a bike

couldnt agree more with these points.

I'm a really mid player and I really like the system. Not because it's good (it's bad) but because it takes a lot of pressure off me as a player. I can focus on just enjoying my matches and practicing my strategy. It also helps that I play Baiken and sometimes can mash my way to victory over much stronger opponents.

WHY CANT THEY JUST DO IT NORMAL

I think it’s very funny so they should keep it. It’s obviously horribly designed but I think it’s very funny I can go from fighting below average players in floor 10 and then go fight leffen in celestial

Imagine a ranked mode that only had 10 ranks. Now skip 6 or 7 of those ranks because you beat the evaluation bot.

bad? yes. but the worst, definetly not, as long as elite smash exists

This was supposed to be a simulation of the arcade cabinet system where you have to know people or challenge to get into the room to play with the good players. I think it does a pretty good job of replicating that but also that system kind of sucks. It gives a player too much agency in tailoring their experience.

I actually like the idea of the ranked system. It makes ranking up feel more of a goal than something like lol. I honestly think this system would work better in a bigger game like street fighter. When your fan base is really dedicated then the only people left playing after years are really good so I think it creates the problems you outlined. I think if there were more people populating the lower ranks and in general I think a lot of the problems would be fixed.

Will always prefer anime fighter gameplay but the fact that i can just click 1 button in street fighter and be in queue for ranked, and there's a number that goes up or down if i win or lose means i will play that for much longer

Damn, I missed that one... Next year!

I started playing fighting recently and GGS was fun and everything but holy damn thats such a bad ranked mode I can’t even practice in the meantime

Being a SF player since II, i found modern controls to be very refreshing, Im hooked on them, it almost feels like cheating.

I use to body this clown in rev

The whole reason I haven’t dropped back into strive is because I think about how awful ranked is and I just say fuck it.

Surprised no one mentioned the weird “FT3 games” format they have like you can win 2-0 and there’s a weird random 3rd game you guys can play out regardless of outcome

I would actively play strive again if the ranked was similar to sf6. Finding good matches is so inconvenient, its just not worth my time when i could be playing sf6 and grinding mr.

They should have never combined their rank mode and lobby mode

something tells me that you are scared of hakumen trials

I never even had a relative idea of how good I was getting with Strive. When you get matched with Gods or scrubs it doesn't really tell you if you're making progress. I get a mix of skill levels in Tekken. Higher, same, or lower. At least that gives me some sort of reference

You should listen to Artosis rant about Brood War's ladder to make sure you've got the worst experience ever created.

God bless the Modern community. Stay lazy, my fellow kings.

Daisuke’s vision

Shouldve played modern >:) zangief nation will rise again soon

I don't know now, but when it released it killed the latam servers because most people went to North America and now i have bad ranking and lag

someone cover kobayans gief run in topanga

My shitty experience is that i get one win away from Celestial Rank and then lose, happened 2-3 times with Millia my old Main, i only love the game now because Elphelt is in the game that im Maining now instead, but i even got 1 win away from Celestial Rank with Elphelt now, it fucking sucks, and consistently i think i lose the first match, win 4 in a row, then lose, it fucking sucks, and i wouldn't even be touching Ranked but i just want to lvl up my Characters levels *sigh*, which Celestial is kinda required for unless you want your lvl to get stuck forever

An actual good game right here

"That's not what happened" Damn man if that isn't history most of the time, huh?

its fine jiyuna zoo law won marvel

jesus, i dont wish this on anyone

i wonder how it’d feel to use a leverless with a REVERSE incline, so your wrists don’t bend upward?

7:52 😂 true

The pain

I've been playing since day 1 and in the first year I used to do daily celestial challenges. I have yet to enter heaven.

They decided to buff zangief in every other way expect for adding a hitbox so lariat can anti air behind him. Which I always thought was important to keep the oppotent at the wall and never let them out. Be the wall.

Itazan is a monster! Have you seen old clips of his VF5 Shun Di?

Zangief may have layers and layers and layers of mind games/insights, but Akuma only needs MESSATSU to push through.

Super easy combo? No way!

Oh, man. Enough salt for Itazan

Strive ranked is a joke. It is your warmup area for your torunaments. there is no reward or goal for strive. EVERY OTHER VIDEO GAME HAS SOME KIND OF GOAL. literally every comp game i can think of has a "Silver>gold>plat>etc" EXCEPT FOR STRIVE

Too real. T_T

Personally, some times when I try to do his hellstab, it’s his medium punch that comes out 😅. Also why his double lariat can’t hit behind but Rashid’s spinning mixer hits on both sides?

Watched this live, was rooting for itazan, I screamed at the whiffed lariat, I screamed when he perfect parried the drive impact, I screamed when his own drive impact connected and then got confused as I was supposed to be shouting and cheering at his comeback victory. Imagine a grown man with a cup of coffee standing and screaming at his tv on a rainy evening.

Jiyuna poping off for Justin and Running around SBO with the American Flag sounds like a legendary fgc moment. Is there any footage of that?

"This is the best Zangief in the world." I mean Snake Eyez wouldn't have dropped that so maybe we need to adjust the ranking.

If you pause the video here you can see the exact moment Zangief’s heart implodes.

I often go with a character(Luke mostly) that I most rely on with and practice a combo (whether hard or easy) that I would mostly be familiar with. Itazan shoulda taken that to account and do a simple B&B combo that he knows and practice with rather than execute a combo he hardly does or even to showboat with in order to win. Hell I'm pretty sure with the amount of health Akuma has left he coulda just done lvl2 super into grab and finish him off right there and then. Still that was an impressive run for Itazan to make it into top 8 and made top 5th place in the tournament. I see why some players say Zangief is top tier tho I hardly believe he's top 5 as others say he is!