Juri anon Akuma diary day 4
Today I had a bit of a mental breakthrough. In chess, you practice apertures, you should already know all the possibilities until mid game. Similarly, instead of practicing a combo over and over, you should also practice the entire sequence post oki until you do 100% damage.
Every combo ends with your enemy in the ground. On the ground he can mash, reverse, grab, block, super or jump typically you can can cover about half the options by either grabbing, shimming or meating, so you need three routes for every oki you make
It takes typically 3 interactions to kill, so in the end you have 3x3= 9 things you should practice in every combo to guarantee a game win from start to victory in absolute brainless mode, basically, its writing a bot to do every move who will do a perfect 1/9 times but in your head.
Im not sure if my idea is clear so I will give an example of what I did today.
Today goal was to practice a particular combo, lets call it "combo 1". Instead of doing it over and over again, I just simulated an entire match from start to finish.
A common opener against Juri when fighting Guile for example, is that he counters your OD projectile with his own OD projectile. So, if you think the guy has Juri related trauma, you throw a DI to counter his own projectile round start, like Nephew does here:
https://youtu.be/VYlMk_zQZ_E?t=639So, in my hypothetical round, I do the first move: DI. Next, I do the combo I want practice. It ends up in oki, but turns out if the enemy roll backs it ends up at perfect distance and frames for a dash+5hp meaty. I combo1 off that and when its done he is on the floor and in the corner. .Now I can reach him perfectly with a drive rush + combo1 starter creating a meaty setup, and end that one with a level 3 which guarantees a kill.
I practiced the combo 3 times and also practiced and an entire set from start to finish, it's a win win of multitasking. Once I feel confident enough, I will practice the same setup except I will put a shimmy somewhere, and then practice the punish from there. By the time am done with the 3x3 I would had practiced every possibility so I don't need to think a single time from start to finish as long as I guess correctly every time.
Now I understand this is exactly what Marisa players have been doing do but with 2 interactions, but no one told me that. Every time I finished my combo before I just started thinking and maybe letting it reset to neutral when when I could just have practiced the entire round and not have to had a single though during the match, like Ken players do. I can now think 2 or 3 steps ahead before the round even starts and let Jesus take the wheel afterwards
I think what I just said might be obvious for pros and else but no one ever mentions it. Practicing scenarios turns the game into an actual rock paper scissors as long as you have perfect execution. With some knowledge of your opponent you can basically know what he is going to throw beforehand and apply statistics to make the guesses more accurate.
Of course it all goes to shit the second I get hit instead but as Mike Tyson says everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
