"Good" isn't good enough (Analysis)

[@SophistictaedDevil]

"First part of being a good player, dont fuck up" Drake Helps Lil Yachty With the Laptop.gif

[@ducklenin8161]

"tighten TF up" -Hotashi, 2025

[@arbaman4676]

Hey that’s me! The point of the vod is good: “good enough” will not take me where I want to be. The critique is harsh, but the direction I needed to go after seeing this is clear. This coaching style works just fine for me. The harshness comes from him having high expectations I think, which is a sign of respect. Thanks for the vod amigo.

[@toams5687]

you’re the goat never give up

[@arbaman4676]

To add on to this: I am capable of much higher output than this, and against weaker players you can see it. Against strong players though, the inconsistencies in my ability to convert into advantage give those strong players extra chances to exert pressure, which mental stacks me, and makes me play even worse. Small conversion issues that can be fixed with single player drills are snowballing into catastrophic signal flares of weakness against competent opponents. My strong consistent combos were literally taken away in season 4 (H cancels). Gotta replace old shit with new shit. Gotta trim fluff. Refine refine refine refine refine refine…

[@MarcosDanteGellar]

@@arbaman4676 that is the attitude. take it from a good coach and good nago. do your best and you are gonna get real f** good and even more! i wish you the best luck!

[@ryanstudham640]

​@@arbaman4676 I'm not even close to your skill level, but I am WITH you on this exact issue. I can practice DP punishes or c.S conversions until I'm blue in the face but when I get on stream at locals (locals! There's, like, five people total in that room!) I instantly default to 623H Fukyo c.S 5SSS no matter what. Then I play against my causal friends and I can do bloodrage off of any starter. Still climbing the mountain.

[@gurtygee]

Now we need you to upload content. I'll watch it.

[@blastingpew]

first rule to become a good player in the FGC, u need to beat ur self first and stop being delusional lol

[@RinaSheepdog]

title typo!! (Anaylsis)

[@br4tuna576]

(Please don't fix it)

[@lordmastercow]

the "why" behind every action is sooo pivotal to competing in anything even beyond fighting games, I really like the emphasis on that here

[@smuggles2124]

Bro I gotta be real, the first 2/3rds of this I think was a cap af vod review. The guy is messing up his mechanical stuff like hit confirms and oki, then he goes all in too much on blood, doesn't 6P spiral arrow enough. All you have to do is point him to the situation and advise he lab out his mechanics to be more consistent. You hit beyblade midscreen with no blood, what's the best combo you can find? What's the oki? You tell him that 5 times he'll get the picture that the reason he's losing is consistently dropping and missing value. What all does he actually get advised to do besides feel bad about himself when you spend 15 minutes saying "to me it just looks like you're fucking around, you don't look like you wanna win, you just wanna fuck around, and do some crazy shit." The last 1/3 of the video was helpful but I think it should've been the whole thing. At the same time tho your coaching is "Where is your combo? haha. why are you not doing the combo? why are you not doing good shit" lmfao

[@HotaruLikesDagashi]

I have to agree. Coaches need to walk a fine line between not sugarcoating but also not coming down like an asshole drill sargent. Most people will already feel embarrassed or frustrated just by someone pointing out their mistakes. There's no need to further antagonize them, and if you take your job seriously as a coach then your number one priority is to start instilling them with the tools they need to succeed (why something is bad, what they can do instead, etc.) Anything else is wasting time at best and demeaning at worst.

[@diesirae0_]

i mean it was mostly the same few issues showing up over and over and over again, idk how many other ways there are to talk abt them

[@HellecticMojo]

@@diesirae0_ actual demonstrations that work, alternative solutions/suggestions, just moving on when the issue is chronic.

[@Gibbs_300]

Feel the same way, mad respect to hotashi overall. But with people trying to learn you have to spend more time explaining why things happen vs judging

[@ivanayala2715]

That Nago vs Lady Maria draw at the start looks cool asf

[@ryanstudham640]

I think I finally understand the focus of your analyses. You focus HIGHLY on resources. Bad burst? Resource waste. (S1) DP RC on max hp? Believe in your defense. Suboptimal combo? Leaves tension, life lead, and entire rounds on the table. I admit I've had some frustration with your videos before because they're so far beyond what I feel like I need: how *do* I develop a gameplan, how *do* I get better conversions, how *do* I deal with fullscreen superjumpback elphelt projectile spam. You're focusing on strategy while I'm focusing on tactics, and all the other resources I've found are exclusively focused on tactics. No wonder you seem so blunt all the time! You've been talking about Strive as a resource-focused game since it came out while everyone else is still focused on tactics. Thanks for the videos.

[@MarcosDanteGellar]

hotashi i have left watching your channel for like 2 years because i live in argnetina and stive online is unusable basically from 4month on , but i really loved the game and i spent a whole year on it. but i missed these analysis as hell. now you may not believe it but the way you are coaching this guys is helping me be a better more practical programmer because im able to see how you analyze the overall match, not just the specific stuff which was what i liked th emost back then. so your coaching now is not even only making me want nago right now and believem i want, but i will finish the video because is like im seeing the matrix, your coaching is opening up my eyes in certain stuff about my own job. i guess these is why i missed you analysis. thanks man, THANKS.

[@Milanesa3032]

yooo wanna play some games? i'm argentine too

[@exo-t07]

Saw millia in the thumbnail and i thought it was about her 😭😭😭

[@igkewg]

Ok I really need the context here. Did they pay for thr coaching? Because this is probably one of the worst coaching I have seen. 80% are just "you are bad" "what are you doing?" with no actual useful advice or exploring options that can be done. Simple mistake instead of mentioning it once and be done he just go into personal attack. Is this coaching or just you boosting your own ego?

[@Hotashi]

what

[@Mattvieir]

Look at the form's name in the tab. Rough or not, It's free advice, and yes, there is lots of good information here if you look past the "you're bad" statements.

[@michaeldot3s544]

its free and a completely public use form people can submit their gameplay. also hotashi and arba know eachother

[@igkewg]

​@@michaeldot3s544 ok I see this is much more understandable and it makes sense now. I thought this is like one of the viewer paid coaching thing.

[@o.o.4238]

Communicate what the player is doing incorrectly and tell them what to replace, there is 0 reason to flame them in a way that doesn't give them something to improve upon. Cut out the ego shit we already know your better than the player you are analyzing, give them the help they asked for

[@CF565]

Yeah, gonna have to agree here- this was alot of criticism with relatively little constructive feedback. Just repeating over and over that someone made a mistake doesn't actually help, you have to offer solutions.

[@env3lop]

I would also agree, it would definitely help me to say you’re doing x and replace it with y because it does z better

[@arbaman4676]

Nah I know what I gotta fix from this

[@bluemoontide]

i think it was cuz the dude said that he's "high" level but struggles against top/tournament level players, and cited option rotations as the reason, but the real reason was he was just making errors. so Hotashi's critique was just like "how do you expect to be able to beat top level players when you're making objective errors"

[@night_ts]

That commission at the beginning is sick af, nice

[@MeanieBean]

i dig your analysis vids. It's mostly better towards the end where there's explanation to go along with the pointing of mistakes

[@gatr2897]

I feel like people (by people I mean other commenters, not Arba, Arba took it like a champ I respect the hell out of them, I'll be real I'm nervous to put myself on the chopping block like this unless I have no other choice but even as a non-Nago the concepts in this were helpful) just naturally recoil at negative feedback so they try to find a valid reason to have a problem with it, like accusing you of ego or being lazy or something, but really a lot of student-teacher relationships are like this, I think it can help put into perspective what exactly you're striving for, recognizing that it takes a hell of a lot to get there but if you're gonna do it you have to go all in. High expectations lead to a greater drive for improvement and Hotashi imposing his strict self standards on this review is like showing Arba what expectations at this level looks like. It's a reality check. Gordon Ramsey does not yell at people on Hells Kitchen because he has an ego, he does it as a reflection of his own self imposed standards, you can only imagine how harshly he grades himself, and yet look where it got him.

[@HellecticMojo]

This really could've used editing. It's hard to take good advice of "don't mess up and screw around" when the demonstrations constantly screw it up on picking up hits.

[@Baikenloverr]

It was made for the person in question

[@HellecticMojo]

@Baikenloverr yeah, but it's also a public video. Can't eat your cake and have it still. His Slayer defense video also sucked for the same reason of being a raw VOD footage cut. "Stand around here to not eat 2H" *eats fat 2H repeatedly* Also what is that guy supposed to pick up other than don't combo at all since it will drop? Or "gotta use clone" since that's the only instance where hotashi never drops. It's a muddled messaging because the words and reality are not lining up.

[@lizabeth529]

@@HellecticMojo "Can't eat your cake and have it still" ok ted kaczynski

[@HellecticMojo]

@@lizabeth529 okay imbecile

[@MonsterCC]

Heck yeah! Thanks for the insights!

[@Budzabit]

Hotashi is the Dr. Laura of fighting game review. No BS lol

[@ignis488]

I don't get why people are mad at this review, even a scrub like me can see some of what's Arba doing wrong without even hotashi noting it

[@indiigo]

why is no one talking about the absolute godsend of a commission you just showed? Nago in my Bloodborne? hell yeah

[@lament8719]

this channel got recommended to me yesterday

[@MarkRopern8strength]

around @8:00 Hotashi is saying more combo is possible but he went to the lab and combo'd with a different starter. Can you combo from a whiff 623H followup starter 623H?

[@lilith282]

basically hotashi is saying that instead of doing whiff 623h and betting on the followup landing, because you cant combo off of followup, they should have gone from 6p straight into beyblade instead of dp to get the full combo

[@Wakaraneeyo]

His point is that if he’d confirmed into something that gives him a full combo off of that jab he’d be in a much better position. It seems like the guy tried to do that but didn’t think dp would whiff, but failing to convert into meaningful combos/oki is a big hole in his gameplay in general, and Hotashi is trying to point it out whenever he sees it.

[@arbaman4676]

Two mistakes I’m making there: 1. I need to do a clean 2p 6p buffer if I’m gonna mash out, doing 2p “oh shit it hit” scramble 2p 6p makes it impossible to convert in a way that doesn’t suck. 2. When I do the correct hit confirm I should go into spin dp for the corner carry, unless burst is a threat to the blood management.

[@Wakaraneeyo]

@ yeah you get it. I think though if you ever get an awkward mash that’s hard to convert into a launcher, comboing into spin just for the knockdown is probably the bare minimum you should aim for. But whenever you can it’s definitely the right idea to at least try to take it to the corner.

[@MarkRopern8strength]

Thank you!!!! @15:20 and @23:36 is great to know.

[@MarkRopern8strength]

what is a better tool to controlling the ground than 6H? 6P?

[@Jordan-y4h2p]

2s would've worked there or even beyblade

[@arbyw.1889]

2S is your answer 99% of the time.

[@random_bmo8213]

2k 2s beyblade and occasionally 5k r ur best bets for poking on the ground as nago, id fugure 9ut which byttons r good where

[@HellecticMojo]

2S or 5k or 5H if high blood.

[@AshaFighterFGC]

LETS GO BLOODBORNE

[@MichealTommy-rm4cr]

Ngl I quit nago ive been pretty sad lately and when ever I lose a lot I get mad and don’t play good

[@wolfspreditor]

Meow :3 Yes Im gonna do this every video now

[@magnoUo]

Giooo :DD

[@charizardgamez447]

Neat

[@regularuser9613]

Woof :3

[@wolfspreditor]

Wait...

[@DidNotFinish]

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