Why your rank doesn't matter

Your rank is accurate and means everything! Or does it?
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[@sputnikdx]

Brian_F: Your rank is accurate Also Brian_F: My rank is not accurate

[@fabiolean]

Seriously the comments on this video are extra funny today. Love it.

[@DavidKyokushin]

''Wow, he's only grand master'' - a Gold Rank Flowchart Ken player

[@Pokee154]

Yeah but I bet that gold rank ken has more confidence in that flowchart then I’ve had in my entire life

[@zonk834]

@@Pokee154 flowchart kens will exdp themselves to death and see you as the bad player for blocking. maybe we all need some flowchart ken confidence in our lives

[@Robert_D_Mercer]

@@zonk834 imagine if sfv had air blocking.

[@fabiolean]

Ahem. I'm stuck in SILVER thank you very much.

[@zephyr2k8]

@@fabiolean I’m stuck in super bronze, beat that hun c

[@superbnns]

Brian will make a 12 minute video explaining why he lost to a platinum player instead of just beating the player kappa

[@gierno4828]

Acting like you won’t watch it

[@PostProteusKitten]

TL:DR "I'm so good, ya'll aren't even worth the points." Unless it's Punk's Dan.

[@jonathansimard6790]

I was Super Diamond and ended up back to Gold after watching this video. Thanks Brian F!

[@johnny-mnemonic13]

super diamond here, let's play ft5 and we'll see if it's true.

[@JoshuaCruzado]

"Why losing to a platinum means I'm actually better than you" No hate, love the videos man

[@fabiolean]

I'm fucking dying bro :'D

[@quackduckpics]

I was trying to get to gold ...I've now downshifted my expectations to silver 😂. Thanks for the video, it's always important to remind myself that the journey is more important than the rank.

[@black8thelement8008]

Its all about growth in my eyes... i got better when i started watching my replays and noticed how much i jumped too much ...missed anti airs... dropped combos. Then compare yourself to more recent matches and see if you've improved

[@omarcostilla8863]

Yep and everyone's journey is different

[@mikeg4490]

51k matches? I wish I can find a girl to give me that level of loyalty

[@VoyivodaFTW1]

it's an abusive relationship not love.

[@biscuitguy4083]

The youtube voice gets me everytime, love it

[@uncleterri4965]

Clear your throat Brian lmao

[@Delicoms]

Bro I thought the same lmfao

[@danielobrien2998]

AKA your rank is accurate 2: electric boogaloo

[@yoinkerinos404]

jeez brian you gotta clear your throat, it’s making my windpipe itchy

[@LtSprinkulz]

I was wondering why I was compulsively going *AHEM* every 5 seconds...

[@alexroberts6950]

He needs to lab breathing more, just lab Brian, thats your responsibility

[@dongonzulman6478]

The moment I read this I had to clear my throat :O

[@momentarylapse1362]

As always, pointing out a fact intelligently, sound and clear. Great work.

[@bogartskim]

Brian upload?? Pog

[@masontem7526]

Bogart comment?? Pog

[@JustMK_1]

Mason TGaming reply?? Pog

[@Clickstop24]

He dont miss

[@cyni_mgs1959]

POGGERS

[@andsumtimes_y]

@@JustMK_1 JUSTMK replying to tgaming replay? Pog

[@Giraffinator]

my god, what a glorious mane on this man's head

[@TheloneOokami13]

Thanks for this. I’ve been leery about ranked ( im in gold) but this is a good mantra to have in my head. That in the end it’s not the end all be all. It helps take the anxiety I have about ranked away. Really thank you

[@TheRedhairshanx]

TLDR: Online SF and Offline SF are 2 completely games AT A HIGH LEVEL, to get high ranks you need fundamentals that apply to both games, but at a certain point online becomes a different game.

[@Apkooi1]

These videos help me a lot, Brian. I feel like I'm an alright player, but get really anxious and shit while playing, so exposure therapy has been helping a lot

[@HitVideos1]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6ikpoB4abWIfNk kzbin.info/www/bejne/rH7aoHWjpb6Kisk

[@thewho1419]

Ken always getting disrespected man...

[@justterrell956]

As he should

[@deep1012]

@@HitVideos1 59 seconds of my life wasted. Thanks by the way 😒

[@MagillanicaLouM]

@@justterrell956 sorasora, one more, sorasora one more sorasora one mo- SHOOORYUKEN

[@deep1012]

@@HitVideos1 Just the fact that the video didnt play. My comment has nothing to do with what the video was about

[@Batman56XD]

I call ken "the little ken that could" cause they always so random it looks like they dont know that there doing but try so hard

[@tonyhinojosa666]

And 5:08 that’s when Brian started reliving the glory days

[@NCsPride704]

This was pretty much "if you're stuck, you suck" pt.2

[@desupocalypse]

I can't like and subscribe unless I hear a "hey what's up youtube", thanks Brian.

[@darkrepulsor1204]

This man is bringing the insightful content for the FGC. Good shit, Man.

[@kaizo_kaim960]

6:23 That guy in the chat saying "cant believe 2017 was 4 years ago" 😂

[@shrikelet]

Sako's still rocking a Rookie account, IIRC.

[@Beldrakethen]

Enjoy your content so much!! You’re so underrated!

[@lofoten2223]

Today it is exactly 6 years since Brian_F won that tournament. Congrats!

[@djritchey8513]

Brian has no fear calling everyone out

[@HitVideos1]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6ikpoB4abWIfNk kzbin.info/www/bejne/jImqY6Wmr9Rmbc0

[@deep1012]

Thats one of the reasons i like him as a player.

[@djritchey8513]

Big facts deep, Brian lead us to the promised lands

[@doperas_]

Hey thanks for the fighting game advice there Al Pacino

[@mibbzx1493]

Rank doesn’t matter -Netcode has entered the chat-

[@Call555JackChop]

51k matches on SFV netcode, you are a stronger man than I

[@theterrorofdeath.]

Brian f I love your videos. I just wanted to say I feel that's it's hard to even take rank serious solely because every time I try to play rank and gain more experience I'm constantly put against Smurf accounts who are way beyond plat and it completely kills the experience of fighting someone at my level

[@Iandrasill]

Losing your rank while playing in tournaments is like mr Satan winning the world martial arts tournament while goku and Co are training to beat the androids

[@mushyrottenpeals9565]

I barely care about SFV, I just watch because I play fighting games so I come to you to hear about how to feel about salt/rank/etc. nice video

[@PomadaGaming]

Alright son,i hear ya. Currently facing a wall with the ranked thing,think it’s a good time to rewatch these from when they came out 2 years ago which was ironically that which got me into the game haha,your videos,THESE kinda videos,to which I’m not only grateful for helping me get into street fighter and street fighter five,but also solve one of my biggest issues with these games,which was the salt and frustration,through better mindset,conscience,and even attitude. Thanks (slightly younger) Brian!😁

[@TheCaptainPaxo]

All these kind people saying hi KZbin, thought I'd say, Hi Twitch! I feel like this is still accurate to someone like me who has only just reached bronze (context specific, obviously). I feel like I have the necassery skills to get out of bronze, and that process is more of a time investment rather than a showing of my ability to improve as a player. Maybe I do deserve to get stuck in bronze, idk. But from where I'm standing, it doesn't like as much like a mountain as it does a park, and I just need to walk it.

[@valueduser2746]

I realized rank isn’t my thing when anyone can play at their personal level thru casual matches (beyond rank indication). Rank just creates an “experience window” to compare among the total player count/exp points. The “thousands and thousands” is immersion-based. If I’m more casual, committing to ranked is difficult to do when inconsistently playing/accessing the game.

[@Ciobrando19.]

Didnt know you exsisted until last week. Loving your content like im a crack addict 😆😆😆 makes me want to leave the church of tekken and convert to Street Fighterism

[@HitVideos1]

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[@3549431587]

i play both :) great games bro. sfv and tekken are the hardest

[@Sakaki98]

@@3549431587 You’re being sarcastic, right

[@3549431587]

@@Sakaki98 nop. what actual game is harder than those 2 games? mk? dbz? guilty gear? ufc? pls. i like more teken but the player base of sf is waaay bigger bro

[@animeprofilepicture8855]

gg and tekken, virtua fighter why did you include dbfz lol

[@King-sd5vg]

On the surface this may look like a good informative video But after a very deep dive, I realised that he made this video for the soul purpose to say, that he lost to a plat because ACTUALLY it was his friend smurfing

[@SomeBlackDude26]

Brian's insight is great man. Love this channel.

[@MikeLiteraus]

I played in casual for so long and got demolished. I quit the game and recently came back for a month. Started playing ranked and still at bronze. I appreciate your bronze video and I am working my way to silver. Win rate at 38% still grinding 😔

[@eazythegreat4333]

Keep grinding 💪🏾

[@yobbiden]

good luck! remember, this is a game and if you aren't having fun, then slow down or take a break.

[@zonk834]

don’t worry friend, i feel like i have accumulated so much knowledge from hundreds upon hundreds of hours watching SF videos and tutorials, as well as my fair share in the actual game but i am still only at silver. we’ve got this 👍

[@deep1012]

@@eazythegreat4333 What this guy said 👆

[@deep1012]

@@yobbiden Sage level advice, by the end of the day a video game should be a source of pleasure not misery 👍

[@videogamesamateur]

I'm only silver rank, I agree it's my fault I can't do any better. Fair play Brian_F you play hard, high rank well done man. I don't think I take the game serious enough, although I love it loads, and confidence is such an issue, plus the technicality issues!

[@The4stro]

something i found interesting when playing tekken is that i fought pretty well against higher ranked enemies than people my own rank

[@no_nameyouknow]

He has addressed this before. Higher ranked players take less risks and play safe/play to the level needed to win. So while it might seem you "do better" against them, it's just because they are not taking huge risks and going all out, they play safe. If you were actually winning more against them, you would be ranked with them. The reason lower level players can beat you is because you don't have the basics down, can't defend against their tricks, tricks that don't work at higher levels. No offense, this is just what he said in the other video about rank. Higher rank, consistent safe play, lower ranks unga bunga aggro play.

[@russhl125]

@@no_nameyouknow there's actually a thing for me somehow that i seem to do pretty good against master+ players in sfv. and i mean, i have a pretty good winrate against them, esp the last couple of months. i 2-0'd a handful of them. still, im only at like 20k and yet to get any further, and lose a lot to basic diamonds. don't know what to make of it.

[@mythosinfinite6736]

The man's phlegm could clog a tsunami

[@DaQwan.]

I fucking Love this video. All part of it. Let's grow Brian

[@ZeludeRose]

how many cigs did you smoke before this stream man lol

[@WalterTimothee]

Great video, great quality. Thanks!

[@mangomane420]

2020 was the year I was gonna step out of my comfort zone and try to play in some tournaments, not necessarily to win but just to compete, to meet people and have fun. It really sucks covid kinda shut that down, I don't think my wifi is good enough to compete online so until things change I'm just gonna wait and practice but it sucks feeling like rank is all I have to show for my hard work

[@supernebula101]

This is one of the reasons I gave up ranked League of Legends. At lower ranks, matchmaking is such a dice roll that the actual key to climbing is to just be consistent yourself and eventually after enough grinding you will rank up. Eventually my delusions of one day being a top player wore off, and I decided the grind was pointless. I just started playing casual matches to have fun and my experience improved tremendously

[@JS-zz9lg]

Ranked is always just a warm up/muscle memory practice sesh for me. It helps warm up before tournaments but the long sets against the best players always is just so much more rewarding

[@Tysuna]

I haven’t played much SFV until recently during 2020-21 and I have been able to reach platinum because of all the very nice videos you have been uploading tysm! ☺️👍

[@MagillanicaLouM]

Brian KZbin voice can't hurt you

[@roarkviolet1912]

I think playing higher level players than yourself occasionally is good for your development as a player, if you have the right mindset you can look at what these players are doing against you and learn from it, its also a good reality check to cement that theres still more to learn and improve upon (and curb egos to an extent)

[@atilacorreia]

I'm stuck in Gold because: - I don't V-reversal - I don't cross-cut DP - I don't tech throws - I don't parry often - I don't optimize my combos - I don't know frame data (I go by eye, lol) - And the newly added, I don't know when to V-shift

[@squirrel1331]

I'm stuck in silver because im bad and the only reason im here is because my character carries me

[@gtaskstick2639]

What DP I'm struggling here and I'm not even rank

[@Dank_SomeOne]

"Look at this content that only people as good as me get to see, most of you will never be able to experience this! Next I'll make a tier list! Muahahahaha!!" Btw nice vid, I don't play street fighter but I rarely miss one of your vids lol

[@Pyrozoid]

what is that follow notification!? makes me laugh every time

[@cressida9882]

Brian reached me...

[@Jardonius]

You've summoned me with a Ken thumbnail~

[@Robert_D_Mercer]

Fighting games, the only place where being called a smurf is a compliment.

[@Clickstop24]

9:18 "Look Gary there I am!"

[@atmnwntr]

Man, I just want Brian_suit from Cpt 2020 Season Finale back. Looking fly in trousers and shirt.

[@Majinjef2099]

whether my rank matters or whether it doesn't, don't really matter, mainly cause i been swimming in ultrabronze booty for so long that it is just how it is now. i know what my weakness is, it's my lack of patience and respect for the health bar vs the time clock. i can't stand the manner of playing where they just sit there and wait and wait and wait. it's just now how i was raised. i love to run and gun the fk out of that character and i love when the combat is happening fast and my brain kinda goes into a meditative state and i don't even know what has happened until it's over and i'm like "WHO WAS THAT IN MA'H BODY"

[@jamesnubz]

Brian_F: your rank doesn't matter Monsterknight01 @2:46: so you get carried by Rog is the lesson?

[@mooncat3344]

Moba has the same issue. Ranks in there kinda measure "okay-ish" for casual players, but most pros don't have too much high elo, and most of them say that it actually hurts their training to play ranked matches aganist casual players, cuz competitive play among pros is different.

[@RhoFGC]

This is my OS now.

[@brutus9929]

I agree 100% that rank doesn't matter Mr.Foster. I'm an Ultra Broze Ryu and I smoke my Ultimate GrandMegazord ranked friends for FREE.

[@Sorrelhas]

Ranked Matches are literally crack cocaine

[@MelioUmbraBelmont]

Basic brian explained league of legends queue

[@foberdud7576]

Punished Throat Brian

[@ParagonFury]

I may be hardstuck Rookie, but I don't deny that I belong there. But goddamn there are a A LOT of Smurfs, lemme tell you. And they all seem to love Kage more than anyone.

[@StubenhockerElite]

Kage and Akuma, I'm there as well... Getting bodied by teabagging lvl0 shotos is real

[@voutespancar]

if you are stuck in Rookie, most people there will feel like smurfs to you, regardless if they are smurf or not.

[@rb1902]

Your voice in the start of the vid really started making me cough

[@GouShin1]

Oh boy, another Brian_F video! Makes popcorn :)

[@shinfitz]

Always love this kind of content!

[@trulydumb506]

Rank doesn't reflect my skill level because I don't play ranked. Casual matches are low stress for me. And if I were to play ranked I'm 90% certain I'd be either rookie or some variation of low bronze

[@javjuegos_8917]

I don't care about rank but "SUPER bronze" and "ULTRA BRONZE" sounds more like an insult than a better rank to bronze

[@dizzygunner]

this should called "why brian_f's rank doesn't matter"

[@petervarlas6678]

i love the persona music on the background

[@RockinGamma]

"playing offline when that was a thing" ...man

[@intergalacticdegengypsy6135]

The moment I started beating platinums as a gold consistently at offline meetups is when I stopped using rank to gauge skill

[@paultyson2303]

Love your Chun shirt!

[@Balloonbot]

Most peoples rank is accurate. Just not the pros.

[@LargeToastie]

I keep getting to silver and then getting smacked back down to bronze. Now Dan can carry me to gold as I haven't been dropped to bronze since I started playing him.

[@bunnyfreakz]

I mean if your rank disparity only couple hundred, that's do not matters much. But if your rank disparity is million, rank is matters.

[@lolcool37]

@Brian_F I've noticed with balrog's dash punch at exact distance you can get them to be -1 or -2 on block but the spacing has to be perfect.

[@omgdisfunny4852]

Im not REALLY bronze i just dont play ranked, instead i play lobbies and lose to silvers, but they're just smurfs with lag so im atleast gold

[@Miridia]

Love your videos man!

[@srseki]

you mean the rank doesn't matter beyond grandmaster lol

[@russhl125]

it actually does, though. there are some gm players who are not consistent enought to get to 100k (ugm). but a guy who has 78k points will be a ugm if he grinds enough ob v

[@EggOnBeansOnToast]

There's a certain... Patrick Bateman look about you, here Brian. Not in attitude, just in physical appearance Haha. Anyway, been watching for a few weeks now. Really loving this kind of content. Keep it up. Hope you and yours are safe.

[@Err0_Will]

So rank is the inverse of tier lists. Rank only matters at lower levels and means nothing at high level while Tiers only matter at the highest level and mean nothing for low level

[@lakeithlewis1343]

I realized this after hitting super diamond. Pre Winter update, I could tell that the shimmy and buffer tech was a must have and understand to advance. Currently relearning the buffer scenario since V SHIFT is in the building. lol

[@Seigfried9]

Yes

[@bighead7725]

Brain upload omg im bout to learn something 😎

[@Mateoski97]

This legit should also apply to CS:GO.

[@nawfanial]

Brian upload??? Pog.

[@BasicallyGoblin]

Hoo boy.

[@andrewc4929]

Brian isn't as high on his PC account because the sun was in his eye and people are smurphing

[@doumanseiman2645]

Allowing diamond players to match against every single rank upwards is the only redeeming feature of CFN. When I hit diamond and started getting matched to ProblemX, Phenom, Takamura (its rare but he does play ranked when there is a major patch, probably to gain experience fast), Infexious..... its awesome. I learn a lot from playing them, and I think I do better now vs the 1st time I got matched to them.

[@samuelalphabet5360]

Yet another reason why good rollback is needed. Better netcode = can play vs a wider range of players = easier to find players closer to your skill level

[@hoodglasses8237]

Why your rank matters until it doesn't.

[@deadfr0g]

Everyone has a rank until they get hit.