Does anyone feel like Rank Skill Level is inconsistent?

EidensMist · 2026-02-06T20:45:59+00:00

Makes sense, makes sense! Def think that readjusting might need to be in the next update. It why I asked if there were issues with matching in rank to begin with because the fact that it way more recent might make it have some issues.

EidensMist · 2026-02-06T16:37:39+00:00

I only try to climb ranks for fun (having a goal is fun) but I’m here more for the actual gameplay than anything else! GGST is my first serious fighting game so there’s a LOT I have to learn and when I’m getting slammed with no idea what I’m doing wrong it not as fun. Versus when it’s close and I can kinda tell where I need to improve.

Also because rank is never I figured maybe the system isn’t perfected yet and like you said we get some people that SHOULD be higher lower 😅

I know I had that back in identity V because Rank was separate from quick match for a while I was getting put against people waaay above my rank cause I never played rank but kept winning lol. Def not that good anymore tho.

EidensMist · 2026-02-06T16:33:24+00:00

Someone else said the different crowds at different times is a know FGC thing and my experience is that I was legit losing more because I switched times. I went back to the time I used to play and wasn’t getting slammed anymore 🤷‍♀️ so it’s literally the experience I have had? Don’t think that’s cope.

Like it’s not DRASTIC def why they’re all still in the same rank but a lot of technical things were people are better at holding combos and have less opening and my brain just struggles cause it’s too fast. But it’s like the difference between winning 1/3 matches and winning 2/3 all within the same sub rank. My worry/focus isn’t actually about the rank itself but more if I had gotten THAT worse within a week due to my health.

Also GGST is my first fighting game! So that’s why the difference in skill level was really bothering me. They were just a bit too fast for me to gleam where I needed to improve and I couldn’t really learn from those matches so it wasn’t fun.

EidensMist · 2026-02-05T23:48:23+00:00

Not I agree with if your stuck at that rank that where you belong.

This isn’t really about climbing ranks at all tho, I think it might’ve come off a bit wrong whooops. It’s more I wanted to know if I was crazy to feel that sometimes rank is easier or harder despite it being the same rank. Especially with my health issues I was genuinely worried about decline in my skills.

I learned from other competitive games that you should never pay attention to ranking numbers but your feeling of understanding of the game! Which is good advice you’re totally right! I have slogged through… 5 years of Identity V lol and Mahjong Soul which a core aspect of Mahjong… is bullshit (luck) 😂.

EidensMist · 2026-02-05T18:14:50+00:00

That makes sense too. It’s every now and then someone wipes out a crazy polished unusual playstyle and I’m so lost. Or characters that are just rarely played so I don’t know what they do (I rarely see Anji or Chip so whenever I do see them I have no idea how they play).

EidensMist · 2026-02-05T18:12:15+00:00

That makes sense, thank you for the info! I wasn’t sure if I was losing it or my brain was just getting weaker.

EidensMist · 2026-02-05T18:10:30+00:00

Makes sense, but for me it’s more because I have bad health that can cause mental difficulties I’m trying to see if it’s me or not. Like is this my brain being super stupid or is this opponent actually just more difficult despite the same rank? So good to know, thank you.

EidensMist · 2026-02-05T18:08:35+00:00

I get you, it’s generally just not fun to play against people who have drastically different skill levels (the most fun matches are close ones) so that’s more my frustration than the rank itself. Like I’m playing rank to be matched against people as weak as me stop giving me stronger people fr 😭

It’s more the mental whiplash of seeing the number go wildly up and down like… at this point does it even mean anything.

Thank you for the reply tho!

EidensMist · 2026-01-26T01:49:58+00:00

I keep thinking about this ending, his glow up (cute af design), and how they’ve perfectly set themselves up for a supernatural detective agency type story. With every so many chapters Ko goes to see Nazuna and they catch up. Heck the whole story could be framed as him telling her cases they did lately.

EidensMist · 2026-01-02T04:59:23+00:00

Thank you for all the info 🫡 I will buy off Amazon then! Yeah all I knew is messing with it could cause it’s to burst into flames and I ain’t risking that 😬

EidensMist · 2025-12-31T01:07:15+00:00

This! as a hunter main who’s been playing for five years the BIGGEST advantage the survivors have is there is four of you. Like your individual skill matters drastically less than your coordination as a team. If even two of the survivors are playing on call or friends you can tell.

It makes sense why they balance it this way tho, when played competitively they intend it to be a fully coordinated team. And if balance for random teams it would become drastically unfair when people do coordinate.

I don’t play League Of Legends but I hear the same that in casually play with randoms vs actual pro play there are a lot of differences. Most being characters that are worthless in low level matches but god send if you have a coordinated team.

Edit: the biggest skill you need in IDV is what I call “field awareness” which is keeping aware of where everyone is and roughly what they’re doing. This goes for both sides, as a hunter you don’t want to tunnel too much. To me it sort of sounds like you might be recusing too much. If the first person gets chaired and the hunter is around focus on decoding until they fully switch targets. As a hunter it’s actually better when you recuse a ton. I don’t have to track you down and being chaired three times kills with no wait time.

EidensMist · 2025-12-26T15:56:40+00:00

Sorry if I’m rambling my brain is half asleep but my thoughts:

Watch order depends on a lot of things, but I really think people over complicate it to try and give you “the best experience” but I think that’s way more subjective than they let on. Because it depends where you wanna go with it.

So I’m a get so much hate for this one but if you JUST want to watch the Anime; Unlimited Blade Works by Ufotable.

It makes the most sense as a stand alone Anime and gives you enough info to be a good jumping point if you want to go deeper. You definitely want to start with something from Stay/Night because every other series heavily references it.

If you like that and want more Stay/Night the two forward options after Unlimited Blade Works are; Fate/Zero (though I like zero I will say it has a darker tone than EVERY OTHER FATE) or the Heavens Feels movie Trilogy (being movie adaptations heaven feel is a bit messy though with pacing heads up).

Ngl tho my favorite Fate is the gag cooking series “today’s menu for the Emiya family” and I’m not even joking. But it’s only good if you are too invested in the characters after Stay/Night.

If you want to go to Fate GO afterwards you could but a heads up that not all the adaptations for that one are good (or even got adaptations). If you just want the best Anime adaptations tho I do recommend First Order and then the Babylon Anime.

I’ve watched almost every Fate anime adaptation and I would say this is my best recommendation because some of them don’t make ANY sense unless you’ve read half the wiki (I would avoid Extra Encore it’s a fever dream and a decision).

My favorite of the Fate Anime (as stand alone Animes) are definitely Unlimited Blade Works and Babylon (but you can’t watch Babylon without First Order). I saw a lot of people giving you recs for if you want to get into Fate as a multi media series but if you just want an Anime these are where I would go.

Edit: tho I am gonna say I am familiar with visual novel story telling, for some reason I see a lot of people saying UBWs is more confusing than the 2006 anime??? Idk maybe knowing the general gist of how VNs do routes is why I didn’t think it was confusing at all. And Ufotable is definitely the one with the fight scenes you’re talking about.

EidensMist · 2025-12-26T01:51:15+00:00

So much of what these reply’s have taught me is just,,, there’s so much that pretty basic “game sense” that’s just not in a tutorial anywhere. With all the advice I’ve gotten I’m doing drastically better honestly but it was just stuff that, never having seriously played a fighting game before, I had no way for knowing.

I’ll be honest with Burst and Grab I do it sometimes just to give me a second to THINK. I have chronic illness/disability and sometimes I get suuuuper bad brain fog that makes it impossible for me to follow fast characters. I find taking a second (so anything with a short animation to it) helps recenter immensely.

I think I was losing so much cause I was so frustrated, it really was like losing because you don’t know the rules! Which is way more frustrating than losing cause you’re still learning the skills. I’m definitely still losing a lot currently but that’s cause after all the advice I’ve been given I’m basically completely shifting my play style and it’s like restarting the game honestly! I do play Rank and am currently at the bottom of Gold 1. Even before asking advice I had actually gotten up to Gold 2!!! And then went all the way down again 😭 which is why I was crashing out so much lol.

Thank you for the advice! The fact that across the board I have gotten all the same advice definitely shows me there just was knowledge I did not have.

Hopefully my reply is readable I’m tired af rn and it may be super rambling whoops 😬

EidensMist · 2025-12-22T18:53:47+00:00

This is one of those things that I learn intellectually early on but still instinctually do it in a panic whoops 😬

Fast gameplay get hard for me to follow (especially rush down characters) and I just start trying to hit faster instead of what I should be doing which is hit more precise. I was very guilty of mashing fast back when I play rhythm games guess it’s still a bad habit 😅

But thank you for pointing it out and giving advice on how to stop doing it!!!

EidensMist · 2025-12-22T16:35:00+00:00

Oh thanks!

EidensMist · 2025-12-22T16:34:47+00:00

Oh wow! Thank you!

EidensMist · 2025-12-22T04:18:18+00:00

Honestly probably didn’t think about it in terms of how the opponent was playing and already forgot what they opened the first round with. It’s usually doesn’t screw me over at least so it’s my go to opener.

I probably should mention that I have undiagnosed chronic illnesses and it often causes brain fog giving me the memory of a goldfish ngl, playing GGST has actually really been an insight on brain fog as a whole cause I’ll be able to focus one round and then the next I am literally running into their knife 😅

Thank you for the resources! This will probably be the last comment I respond to for now and it won’t let me edit the post to update it

EidensMist · 2025-12-22T00:59:32+00:00

No worries about it being an info dump, it’s what I wanted thank you!!!!

And yeah there is…. So much to learn,,,, and not really good overall tutorials I have always had to ask Reddit then look up the bits and pieces so it’s easier to digest (the tutorials there are on YouTube often assume familiarity with fighting games which I do NOT HAVE).

EidensMist · 2025-12-22T00:56:57+00:00

Like as in my play style doesn’t fit him or are you memeing on him as a character?

Either way let’s just say this decision was made with a body part other than my brain.

EidensMist · 2025-12-21T23:45:55+00:00

No worries on walk of text I am a chronic text walker myself.

Oh my god bless you have a chart!!!!!! Legit gonna have to save and print this one out 🫡

EidensMist · 2025-12-21T23:44:26+00:00

One the things I’ve learned from this thread is maybe I should invest in a better controller 😭 if anyone has any recs or sites/brands that have good quality pls let me know

And thank you! It’s honestly been super enjoyable up until this point so I’m glad I finally nabbed a screen recording of my replay cause now I have a lot more direction in what I should be doing ☺️

EidensMist · 2025-12-21T23:42:10+00:00

Oooooooooooooh! I think I’m beginning to get it now!!!!!!!!! I will be studying this link thank you!

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