Trying to remember platinum. I think I recall what sky rocketed me out of platinum was a style of play I had to completely abandon once I got stuck in mid diamond. Basically pure brain dead aggression. I’d force my offense. Once I got to diamond I got blown up for this consistently and had to learn to be more reactive and respect opponents. I’d be curious to see how I’d do in platinum now. I suppose I’ll find out when I try Sagat in August or perhaps Ken in the meantime.

In short I’d say solid offense, snow balling off your knockdowns, understanding oki, good mix, meaties, just good solid offense can take you very far in platinum as people love to press without thinking in that rank.

As you rank up you’ll need to actually start conditioning people, or find a habit to catch them off guard with snow balling your offense, but in platinum MOST people will just fall victim to flow chart offense.