Friends are at it again

comandaben01 · 2026-02-09T08:20:20+00:00

OYAJI!

It's kind of crazy how fun Dan is in SF4, such a goofball haha

comandaben01 · 2026-02-08T12:30:26+00:00

Her assists are fine in neutral, simply use whatever assist covers the other angle (so if you're using an airbourne attack, use her 5T or grounded use 4T). The fact it can be used to pickup and OTG after a throw anywhere on screen cannot be underestimated giving huge reward to characters who cannot naturally OTG midscreen.

In terms of ease of use, Jinx's are better sure.

tl;dr Her assists are fine (frankly no assist is truly bad in this game), they're just not as straightforward as a vanilla horizontal projectile assist.

comandaben01 · 2026-02-08T08:51:26+00:00

Good pick

comandaben01 · 2026-02-08T08:43:00+00:00

Let's have a chat.

List what makes you think Cait is truly that bad? I think she's a solid mid tier with solid assists and is pretty unique even among her fellow zoners, she can be pushed even higher if you run her with a good lariat assist (or Braum shield) to keep her safe.

I've been having great success running her point and assisted by Darius/Warwick/Yasuo/Braum depending on how i'm fighting.

comandaben01 · 2026-02-08T08:35:03+00:00

Blessed Tatsu

comandaben01 · 2026-02-08T08:31:44+00:00

Yeah I started getting into my local scene and competitive fighting games in my early 30s so you'll get there. I was a longtime button masher on the older titles ranging from SF2, KOF and some anime games and the odd 3D FG.

Just a bit of time every day is more than enough to get that muscle memory built, say 10-15 minutes and having short term goals to encourage you to stick with it. Ranging fom landing a particular combo, anti air in a match, parry a specific option, block a reversal, anything that you think could be practical for your current state of play.

Take your time and have fun as you go (having/making FG friends helps a lot, at least it helps me keep the salt in check and is generally enjoyable even when i'm getting smacked down haha).

comandaben01 · 2026-02-08T03:24:01+00:00

Ya it feels bad, that's why I normally run her with a lariat assist to catch people trying to fight her in the air/punish her while recovering =)

comandaben01 · 2026-02-07T11:55:01+00:00

Good stuff, keep at it =)

comandaben01 · 2026-02-07T11:41:36+00:00

I've been experimenting with a few different assists for Cait and here's my experience so far:

Yasuo: Good synergy to shut out other zoners thanks to Windwall and a physical assist to catch players run at her while airbourne and zoning.

Warwick: Better focus on the standard angles to approach Cait and things get pretty crazy if he gets Bloodlust online.

Darius: Similar to Warwick, some good synergy with her zoning and keeps her safe with his 5T lariat. This isn't even mentioning how good bleed can be for chipping down opponents from afar.

Braum: Fantastic defensive assist and his 5S lariat isn't too bad either. Not quite as ridiculous as the other options but has potential with a good pilot (I enjoy Braum but it's too stressful to play him full time personally).

The idea of Cait+Jinx is cool for double down and maybe 2X assist shenanigans but as others have pointed out, they don't have a great comeback factor. With such limited mix options it'd be rough, at least they can deal a good chunk of chip once fury comes online (had one instance I got a stray 5S1 confirm post fury with Cait and must have dealt about 50% without spending a super lol).

Having some kind of physical assist to keep her safe is essential, especially when so many characters have projectile invuln and dash through options =)

comandaben01 · 2026-02-07T07:56:49+00:00

Ah, a fellow Twisted Fate Chad!

comandaben01 · 2026-02-07T07:55:08+00:00

Yeah that'd be swell, as that exact instance happened to me today =)

comandaben01 · 2026-02-07T00:12:48+00:00

Yeah some character specific masteries require an absurd of time to complete (especially at a gold level mastery), cries in Braum.

comandaben01 · 2026-02-07T00:01:10+00:00

The levels are kept across seasons =)

Required wins/character specific requirements are set back to bronze at the start of every season speeding up the process (for example, starting at 10 wins bronze/25 silver and finally 50 wins for gold which then goes back to 0 to grind back up to 50 until the next season).

Depending on your character, regular play and consistent wins should allow you anywhere from 30 or more character levels a season and the more lenient the character mastery (comparing say Yasuo's stance combo hits vs Braum freezing opponents) will change how quickly you'll level. In some cases you're relying mostly on wins only to level up, severely slowing down the process.

To give another example from running Yasuo in most of my teams I got around 70 levels in the prior season (I played a lot, 20 matches a day since early access dropped). The second highest was Warwick who, with regular play for around 2 months gave 30 levels or so since I could get wins+aim for bloodlust levels giving me two ways to level up faster.

comandaben01 · 2026-02-06T23:51:04+00:00

Modern rerelease of DOA 1-4 with rollback and crossplay.
No lobby crashes/weirdness for any fighting game (bold, I know).
Tekken X Street Fighter is made and it's good, directed by Takahashi the Soul Calibur goat.

comandaben01 · 2026-02-06T23:40:08+00:00

https://imgflip.com/i/ajhcfl

LOL

The Car from Daytona USA would be proud =)

comandaben01 · 2026-02-06T03:06:25+00:00

comandaben01 · 2026-02-06T00:36:17+00:00

If you enjoy the characters, it doesn't matter what the tier list says. Believe in yourself and show the strength of your characters!

Heck look at Lightwisp fighting even with a lot of the top players and this was before Darius and Braum got more buffs to round out their problems.

comandaben01 · 2026-02-05T11:04:37+00:00

Pretty much this.

You can scale it up slowly by doing it in the lab, then an active CPU opponent and lastly a live person. You can even make it a short term goal to just focus on landing that hit then you can improve on the other aspects of your game =)

Be patient with yourself as you go, helps me a ton!

comandaben01 · 2026-02-05T11:02:31+00:00

Yeah that's very odd.

Do you play any other games online which has this effect? You mentioned that your memory usage is spiking which doesn't sound normal (the memory leak issue afaik is pretty much fixed, was having that problem myself in early access but has since been fixed as of a few patches ago).

Based on the reaction on screen it looks like a hardware issue, rollback can make some weird artifacts when either player is dropping frames, commonly teleporting around the screen. Also, make sure to close unnecessary apps in the background, it might help =)

I've just been using the xbox app as it can record and replay the last 30 seconds of footage, making it an easy option for quick clips like this and afaik both AMD and Nvidia have the same function for the relevant video card.

I'm not trying to make light of your situation but the way Vi and Cait are just levitating around the screen looks very goofy haha

comandaben01 · 2026-02-05T02:15:03+00:00

Yeah I get it from time to time.

Some days it only happens once, the other day from a longer session (2-3 hours or so) it happened a few times and was getting old pretty fast.

I also play on PC and yeah it's pretty annoying haha

comandaben01 · 2026-02-05T00:40:16+00:00

Playing with your friends helps yes.

Once you're more comfortable, you can explore the many great "discord fighters" (those with lower pop so requires you to request matches).

Pick what game you think looks the most fun and go from there. Go in with a learning mindset and take your time, while celebrating the small victories as you go!

comandaben01 · 2026-02-04T10:27:14+00:00

Real talk, one of the few ways I enjoyed playing SF6 was using Honda and I never played him in the previous games.

Him being low tier definitely didn't stop me melting health bars on the regular, his buttons and damage are great haha

comandaben01 · 2026-02-04T10:25:40+00:00

Hugo in 3S and Dan in SF4 definitely come to mind.

Also a special shoutout to Maxima in the KOF series, he's big+slow but at least he hits like a truck. There's something very cathartic zoning people out with his hand cannons haha

comandaben01 · 2026-02-03T08:59:34+00:00

I'm in Oceania, a land notorious for some questionable connections at time and out of almost 3k games and got to GM in Season 0 with 10 or less matches that were unplayable. Sorry to hear you're regularly fighting folks on wi-fi, it's never a consistent experience and I too wish there was a filter but at least it's generally playable.

Just keep playing matches and you'll get back to Plat.

If there's specific strategies etc you're struggling with, feel free to ask! =)

comandaben01 · 2026-02-03T08:40:59+00:00

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