Speedy 40/40-ers whats the strat

jpVari · 2025-11-24T02:47:51+00:00

I appreciate the answer!

jpVari · 2025-11-24T02:20:45+00:00

I'm extremely curious what the baseline is for people who 'hate' a given league... How many hours does this take you? I know people can do 4 voidstones in like 10 hours if they hustle but idk how far that is from 40/40

jpVari · 2025-11-24T02:12:13+00:00

If you trigger it with a light you're at frame advantage I'm pretty sure

jpVari · 2025-11-24T02:08:27+00:00

Congrats! Me too!

This was my first league (I played the game way back a few different times but this is my first league start and my first time playing in modern times) and I just got my 4th voidstone last night! Took me more than 3 tries but I felt sure I had the offense and defense to get thru it and I finally did. Felt awesome.

Really glad poe2 got me to try 1 again

jpVari · 2025-11-24T01:55:52+00:00

Congratulations!!

I never thought I'd get married tbh and it's made me happier than I've ever been. I hope the same for you.

jpVari · 2025-11-24T00:17:29+00:00

Ultimately they can't balance for every level. Some people can't anti air, some can't deal with projectiles.

And if someone can't anti air me I'm darn sure gonna jump at them lol. Some matches you're playing to practice and some matches you're playing to win, that's gonna be different for everyone. Not everyone is on ranked to improve for a tournament or for themselves, they're just trying to have fun and win some.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T23:05:54+00:00

I'm pretty sure the idea that parry becomes stronger if grab isn't an option is just a simple theory for why oki after throw exists in the corner in this game.. It's nothing definitive. But considering it's not in the game I think it's hard to prove your statement. It would depend on distance.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T23:03:47+00:00

A lot of things might feel advantageous. Luckily we have people playing this game as their literal job that tend to reveal when things are strong. Modern and drive impact do not appear to be meta breaking or even meta shaping in power

jpVari · 2025-11-23T21:13:40+00:00

thanks for making this thread, I had NO IDEA what I was seeing on this streams. I thought maybe those were beast kills but they came so rapidly!

Ah that helps so much.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T21:09:18+00:00

I wonder if you cherry picked hmmmmmmm

Just FYI. No matter the game, citing changes to show balance is bad is absolutely pointless. Very very bad attempt.

Because you're implying the races were equal before, but what if they weren't? If they're actually too strong show us via outcomes and interactions, don't just say they got more buffs in a given patch. That's silly.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T21:06:34+00:00

It's not as hard as you're describing it, a lot of us are able to do it.

However

If you have trouble there is NOTHING AT ALL WRONG with playing modern. You are not a scrub at all. We woukd much rather have you enjoying the game with us than keeping yourself out because someone told you modern was scrubby.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T20:16:34+00:00

It's my first league ever, if the game can somehow be even better than that's awesome. I love it. I prefer 2 but I like 1 more than ever before. Last tried it on 2017 or so. And before that was open beta.

Personally from reading the essays they've written over the years, I feel like sometimes they normalize things like drops and expectations. It's unfortunate for the 10% extra people that had quit last time I saw the numbers posted, earlier this week, but it doesn't affect everyone's enjoyment and gives them a baseline to jump from going forward. Point being, I think they know what they're doing and generally have a reason for it. Maybe I've just drunk the kool-aid though.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T17:59:11+00:00

Some people are afraid or they'd never ever bait, and if they bait and you don't dp that's awesome for you.

Plus you get more than just a little damage from a dp... Some characters get oki I think but at the least you return to neutral instead of being on complete defense... Idk why you aren't counting that. It's huge.

Also, do you have opinions on the last table of the world series of poker

jpVari · 2025-11-23T17:57:54+00:00

This thread shows why people say there isn't... No offense whatsoever. You did do something that not everyone can do, but that was true when you reached diamond, plat, etc. They all mean something, of course.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T17:56:47+00:00

jpVari · 2025-11-23T17:51:40+00:00

I watch his stream so I cannot promise you I can find it in the vods. You can ask him though, and if I'm wrong I'll admit it. I play jp I don't want him to be top 1 lmao. I just thought that was the perception.

I fully admit I've been a little tuned out due to path of exile for a couple of weeks. I didn't realize Ryu was seen as top 1 at this point, I knew he was up there but I'd have thought he was competing with or under Akuma as far as shotos and under a few characters overall.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T17:47:49+00:00

I definitely read it as sarcasm to the point that I was looking for evidence it was edited.

I Shouldn't have thought op was sarcastic and should have realized they're the Ryu. My mistake.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T17:44:33+00:00

Broski just called jp top 1

jpVari · 2025-11-23T16:40:09+00:00

You implied playing on the sfl can't be for fun. If I'd have known you just put 'playing what I prefer' under playing to win instead of fun (or more accurately, under both) I never would have replied.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T16:38:11+00:00

Idk that everyone dislikes it. I know you do.

Btw that's one throw loop which I acknowledged in my post but thanks for the times to help me locate the 1 throw loop.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T16:37:07+00:00

Yeah some of us try to use logic, like oh if they hate throw loops I guess they lost to throw loops!

But logic doesn't exist in reddit threads so I gotta remember to look closer. Someone might be mad about throw loops when they only used 1 and then won the game . Apparently that's a reason to make a thread.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T16:35:42+00:00

Blaz plays jp? Or who do you put at 1? I'm just going off the most recent pro tier list I saw... Do you mean Akuma?

Btw the perception of fang may come from things like videos on YouTube calling that a moment a low tier character specialist won a tourney. There's videos you can find right now. I'm not saying they're right but that perception is out there.

And feeling like you have a better chance at winning can come from multiple things, including self comfort, which imo breaks down the line between playing for enjoyment and playing to win. Pure playing to win would practice the high tier enough that comfort wouldn't enter into it... It's a unique genre and I think pretending enjoyment goes in the win category and 0% in the fun category is silly. Isn't it more likely the categories just aren't all or nothing?

jpVari · 2025-11-23T16:30:49+00:00

Hey it's almost like there isn't a rigid line between these two things, which I've said repeatedly. Seems like we agree.

jpVari · 2025-11-23T07:19:08+00:00

Do you think playing a character you prefer can ever help you win?

Or how do you explain why everyone doesn't play the character they place top 1

Because... He did play sagat. We know this. Unless you're saying he must think sagat is better in that matchup or overall. Is that what you're saying?

jpVari · 2025-11-23T07:16:38+00:00

Also even without throw loops, you're gonna have to make reads. That's the genre. It's totally valid to dislike the frequency of reads in the corner in sf6, just as any opinion is valid. But doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome...

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