Your Character Is BETTER Than You Think

[@PunchyMcSternum]

Evo was won by a Jack-O' of all characters and TWT by Kuma, that's more than enough proof

[@zbozu]

This so much! A bad habit of mine I had early on was getting annoyed and retrying the same thing over and over while thinking things like 'their move shouldn't work like that" or "my move should have worked". Nowadays its all , "okay, that didn't work, what should i try next time instead." As a fellow millia main that helped me improve so much. Great vid!

[@MikeyDLuffy]

@@zbozu yea that shift is so important and also just makes the game more fun because it feels great slowly figuring out your character more deeply haha

[@shaqthegr8884]

They did same with season 1 chun, everybody was saying she too technical or mid to be great until leshar's push the character to her maximum potential and people in the end saying she was top 3 got nerfed because of that.

[@MikeyDLuffy]

yeah exactly! So many people just didnt give her any thought for the sole reason of not having a throw loop too lol

[@shaqthegr8884]

​@@MikeyDLuffy and crazy thing that he did it again with season 2 Ed

[@eebbaa5560]

do you know who made your pfp

[@sagearmaggedon7307]

People sometimes mistake a character being good or not do good with the person using them. Its like when Minatos told kakashi the chidori was bad because its too predictable. But if you have someone with a sharingan…..then its OP. I think the same with chun li. If you have someone that has incredible skill or unique traits, they can make the character seem broken. But some characters by themselves just arent that great.

[@JeffRamos9000]

Rangchu's Panda in Tekken 7 opened my eyes.

[@mandalorianhunter1]

This is how i feel in a lot of fighting games. A lot of characters are either bad or have untapped potential. This is how i feel about my mains in Ultimate, Lucas, K. Rool and Lucario. Heck Justin Wong did this when Max asked to make his low tier team work in MvC2. Justin found some insane Jill set ups and confirms that were just insane.

[@Marci568]

The fact this has under 1k views is insanity to me. Fantastic video, well done

[@MikeyDLuffy]

Appreciate the support!

[@UnexpectedWonder]

It's like a Weapon. In the hands of a Master, almost any Character can be Lethal and Top Tier. Most folks wanna take the easy way out. Also, novelty is disruptive and destructive in any field of Competition: Sports, Business, Fighting, or Warfare. If someone comes with a Strategy or Weapons you've never encountered before, a lesser Fighter may win. Experience matters so very much. Sometimes, in Tekken, Super Smash Bros, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter alongside Soul Cal and other Games, folks will bust out Techniques and Strategies that I've never seen or performed before.

[@AkibanaZero]

I spent this entire season so far really looking at Punk and I am starting to realize that his core strength is what truly makes or breaks a fighting game player: button placement. Yes, that has been obvious since the SFV days but I don't think the average player understands how incredibly important it is to master this skill. The strongest players out there are varying levels of proficient at this with Punk being the genuine beast among them. How this ties into the rest of this topic is fairly simple as well: all buttons have a purpose and can lead to either damage or advantage. It's our job as players to uncover these for our respective characters and bit-by-bit master them. Until we reach a point where we can confidently place the right buttons in the appropriate situations, I don't think we should be concerned about how good or bad our characters are.

[@keeshuunedited5678]

Whenever someone in my smash group complains about tiers, it gives me an excuse to bring Mr. bottom tier for 3 games Ganondorf out to remind them that there's more to the game than just tiers :3 People that are good enough to beat that Ganondorf, know better than to assume "low/bottom tier = unwinnable" (That said, best smash player in our group is a Pikachu main that moves like ESAM's Pikachu, and the Ganondorf/Pikachu match up is absolutely horrid for Ganondorf) Anyways, I'm of the mindset of "the best character for you, is the one that gives you motivation to play". Kinda hard to be good at the game if you drop it after all =p 'course, if enough of the game makes you want to play it, you can live with an insufferable character, but even then it feels like a mental handicap if you're always distracted by suffering so you probably would be better off with a fun character = ) My Smash Ultimate main Sephiroth maybe going down the tier list as the game progresses for a variety of reasons, but I ain't going to let that stop me. = ) Other games my friends are afraid to try, so I don't play them as much, so it's just better for me to stick with one and improve with them. Elliana for Rivals. Ed for Street Fighter 6

[@anthonyfish8236]

Laughing at how you used Mewtwo of all characters regarding Smash Ultimate as they're actually my main in that game XD And despite the lack of results (bottom 5 usage), I still strongly believe this character is much better than people think. That and I unironically do better with Mewtwo than other smash characters (even top tiers like Roy or Pikachu). They just fit my playstyle that well and it's all the more reason I appreciate this video from you :3

[@Kirbeast]

Wish I had watched you when I still competed Your view is so fresh in FGC. I get tired of all the complaining and cope. I did it too. I love the mindset of how to effectively learn from failure to improve. I've been reading mindset and never thought to evaluate my mindset towards fighting games. This content can also apply to other areas of life.

[@ChaseTrent]

I share like every video you make to one of my buddies, but I'm sure he doesn't actually watch them lol. But this one he might since he plays Marth in Ultimate and has been saying this ever since release. I don't think he's actually ever even switched off of Marth in bracket before 🤔

[@MikeyDLuffy]

Ahah ha appreciate the support a lot 💪! Hope your friend enjoys

[@ChaseTrent]

@MikeyDLuffy He actually did 🙏 Rare friend W

[@MikeyDLuffy]

@ChaseTrent 😂

[@Sharky_0456]

this is why tier lists are bullshit, play who you enjoy playing and focus on winning hard matchups instead, i main hugo in sf4 and still find new and interesting things he can do yet tons of people dismiss him as a low tier character on their tier lists, hopefully if hugo returns to sf6 a pro player can pick him up and showcase just how good he is

[@loopys885]

Good dialogue. Youll get more views if you took this script of you talking with more examples playing on the screen while you voice over them. Or say make this of a history of bad character upsets in tourneys. Good vid!

[@SarahtoninSerum]

I think incineroar in SSBU has lots of potential. If Leo picked up incin i feel like he could take incin to new heights. Spacing is key in almost every character but you have to be especially careful around a good incin I'm definitely not an incin main uehhehehheh

[@Kaioshin9000]

I play Jamie in SF6 and even tho he’s very weak against the cast I really like playing with him

[@Sharky_0456]

jamie is really good once you know how to play him

[@Kaioshin9000]

@ I float around 1680 MR with Jamie , he’s still not good at high level play.

[@Sharky_0456]

@@Kaioshin9000 hes a monster when hes cornered someone his mixups are crazy. im sure ive seen some people hit legend with him so its possible but yes you probably have to work harder than most characters to get there

[@Easmodx]

Every time I see videos/posts like this I have to ask the ultimate question: Does this apply to Ganon? Not so much in Brawl where he's legit trash but Ultimate where he's a decent character compared to previous incarnations but powercrept by toptiers and DLC. Ganon is my litmus test to see if people who have this "your character is better than you think" take legitimately believe what they say or not.

[@oomer2]

Good thinkpiece

[@gentlekef8653]

Awesome video!! I wonder if you had a tip for the moment you learn all combo routes for a character what to improve at ?

[@MikeyDLuffy]

Matchups and neutral for sure. The nice thing about that is that you get to brush up on both by just spamming games and watching vods with an open mind haha

[@deadfr0g]

But Mikey, I’m also trying to believe that *I’M* better than I think! Can I have both??? 🤣

[@MikeyDLuffy]

Haha 😂, you can but then you might get a little extra tilted if you lose to someone you think is "bad"

[@Andrew_the_Worthy_Shield]

Could this thought apply to life as well?

[@nexusgalaxy9249]

I dunno, Ganon is a struggle to use even if you know how to use him. And yes, this is a skill issue on my end but tell me who is gonna pick him over someone like the King K or Ridley?

[@XXNemesisXXXX]

Called out at already by the third second of the video smh...

[@Witis9]

Why’d you remove Ryu from the thumbnail bro he’s bottom 3 rn after the nerfs😢

[@sagearmaggedon7307]

Some characters really arent that great. When people find ways to win with them, its that player that is a beast, not the character. Chun li for example is really lacking, and the only reason I can hang is due to character mastery. But I have fought people that will beat my chun li after a difficult fight on my end, and then easily lose to my ryu or ken, who I have no idea how to use outside of ultra basic punishment (123 tatsu knockdown).

[@MikeyDLuffy]

@@sagearmaggedon7307 I have the opposite experience. I have beaten people with my rusty Chun after losing with my hundreds of hours Cammy. In either case, we are both likely not playing Chun Li even remotely optimally, and should focus on trying to get closer to that!

[@sagearmaggedon7307]

@ I get what you mean, but if you have to do that, it doesn’t make the character good. It means you, the player are good. And truth be told, some people are built differently and are positioned better to use certain tools better. Whenever I fight chun li, I get to jump for free, and my opponents get to do the same to me when I pick her. But then you watch Moke, and people get anti aired the moment they leave the ground. Every character has the potential to be useful, but some you have to work much harder to get there, which to me makes them “bad”. But thats why I dont give up. Im hoping something will click that will allow me to take chun li to new heights.

[@MikeyDLuffy]

@sagearmaggedon7307 yeah, we're reaching the same conclusion here just from a different perspective. In the video I say that I'm not trying to say that your character may be a secret top tier, they may very well end up being the worst character in the game, but regardless of that, if you choose to play them, you need to know that there is more to explore, so we should focus on that and improving ourself and how we handle situations with our character. Believing that our character is holding us back does nothing but stop you from improving as a player and developing the character further. So even if the character is bad, we should remind ourselves that they are better than the level we play them at currently.

[@sagearmaggedon7307]

@ It is true that characters are often unexplored. Sometimes the way you think about certain moves can make things better. But when people find ways to do well with lower tier characters like Yoshi, Heihachi in past tekken games, etc, it shows humans potential to rise above problems and difficulties more than anything. Perhaps a video titled “You are Better than You think” would go a long way.

[@1TheMIU]

I play Ken in sf6. He's not 😊

[@gwen9939]

Broski also said that he might try Honda after the buffs. What's in the water and why is it only AKI players drinking from it? On the topic, when Snake Eyez won a tournament witrh S1 Gief he said: "is Gief good? I don't know". If Mr. Zangief himself doesn't know if Gief is good at a particular point why is your average plat 3 Jamie player so convinced that their character is bad? If you're blaming the matchup, your character, or the system mechanics, and all you're doing is looking for confirmation bias for those things, what could you feasibly do to improve your fundamentals to make up that perceived difference? If you can only win when your character is strong and are never able to gap the opponent with a worse character, what does that say about you as a fighting game player? because actually listening to top players they always focus on what in their fundamentals and character usage they could have improved on. If there is an answer to a situation, even if that answer requires some near-superhuman level of prediction, execution, timing, reaction, etc., there's 2 responses to it. One is "this is really unfair they should change it" and "this is really unfair but I'm gonna practice it anyway because it still practices my fundamentals that can be applied in other areas of every fighting game".

[@NyukiFrost]

Please tell this to all the downplayers in the back

[@AddyIsaac]

First man here

[@MikeyDLuffy]

my goat

[@sandycrash8868]

In other words play lame win games. Unfortunately that’s the price you have to play in order to win fighting games especially when not manning a top tier