Iāve had a drink or four and reading this post again brought something to mind.
My wife has been playing the Far Habor DLC so Iāve had zero access to the Xbox - thus, Iāve been playing some SFV on my PS4 to keep my basic execution in tact while I wait for access to KI again. After having played for several days now, Iāve come to agree with a commonly made observation about SFV:
That game is quite heavily skewed in the favor of offense, and jump-ins are crazy ubiquitous in the current state of the game. Playing defensively in SFV really seems to be an uphill battle. Playing footsies almost seems to distract you from Anti-Airing too much to bother; and the fact that anti-airs are about 1/8th of the damage of a jump-in combo at best (unless youāre Cammyā¦ god bless Cammy) so you playing a solid ground-game might likely lose the match for you unless you are 98%+ accurate with your anti-airs.
Itās really funny that KI gets called out for being YOLO and whatnot, when playing defensively in KI is actually far more rewarding than playing defensively in the current iteration of Street Fighter.
I have been focusing on SFV lately due to a tournament I was practicing for, but from now on I am aiming to have two dedicated KI streams every week; thinking Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Had fun watching you play @INDIxion. Donāt sweat having a rough go of it - Glacius definitely isnāt one of the easier characters in the cast to use. Keep at it and youāll be cracking fools consistently before long
I also enjoyed your stream. Iām glad youāre having fun, despite you admitting you have a hard time breaking (everyone does, really) and then you repeatedly fought the hardest characters to break in the game, over and over. Itās pretty easy to just say āI donāt know whatās going onā because, wellā¦ those characters are designed to be confusing during combos.
Learning to play the combo game in KI (not just doing combos, but picking up on when is a good time to break and when isnāt) takes quite a long timeā¦ you will probably still be learning it after you have applied your SF fundamentals to the rest of the game and are succeeding.
My main advice is to sprinkle in a few counter breakers here and there, especially on opponents who are very clearly mashing some breaker strength as soon as they get hit. You can try to vary the strength of your combo to get a lockout, and this will work pretty often, but counter breaking is also a good idea here. The player wonāt be good enough to punish you if youāre wrong anyway, and it will give you opportunity to practice some counter breaker combos! Iāve listed all the max damage counter breaker combos on my ki.infil.net site, and they are all very easy to remember (usually some variation of heavy auto-double, light linker x 2, then do a shadow move, then do an ender).
Basically, if you are playing an opponent, you get a hit, and then you notice them immediately mash breaker (whether they are right or wrong), I would store that information the same way you would store āoh this person likes to mash DP on wakeupā in SF4. Next time you hit them, block the DP (ie, counter break them) and hit them for 50%. Seeing that your opponent mashes breaker is very important information to a KI player, and it shouldnāt be that hard to sprinkle a counter breaker or two into your game here and there.
And in addition to Infilās solid advice, I recommend just kind of watching people combo you and trying to see if theyāre ever varying strength. Several of your opponents on Tuesday were pretty consistent about only doing a single strength within combos. If you see the same autodouble come out again and again and again, then start breaking those as best you can. If nothing else, itāll give you some experience with looking for particular combo patterns in opponents, which is one of KIās more important āsoftā skills.
I also recommend only trying to break heavies when starting out. Theyāre slow and reactable for the most part, and help train the āI recognize that, I will break nowā part of your KI-brain. Itās also much easier to break in general if youāre looking for a particular strength, so this method should help minimize unnecessary lockouts. As you get better at this skill, soon youāll be able to pick other strengths to look out for and break, and eventually youāll be able to kind of just do it on the fly. And donāt get discouraged when you make the inevitable mistakes within the breaker game - breaking is hard, and something weāve all had to work on (a lot) to get better at!
Iāll be Windfoxx in your chat today, to avoid any further confusion Looking forward to the stream
Lol. Yeah, thatās me. Itās kind of funny, because I generally always recognize you guys, but know that you probably have no idea who I am and just think Iām some random Hisako aficionado who doesnāt actually know anything about the game
I personally love the visuals of KI and do not understand how people cannot see whats going on with individual characters. I mean its not like SSB Wii on 8 player smash which can truly be confusing.
The audio when connecting hits i understand what your saying. I been playing KI since it was originally released so im use to it now but i do remember when i 1st played, i too thought the hits sounds were underwhelming as well so i get it.
Well hope you enjoy KI as much as a majority of us in the forums do.
Gawd my stream yesterday was balls because my room mate had switched out our default modem for an inexplicable reasonā¦ Streamed for about an hour and then everyone was getting mad buffering. >_>
Today itāll go better though. Still working on my Glacius, I feel I wanna learn a little bit more with him before heading to Thunder. :>
Starting 21:00 CET (5 minutes from now). Hope to see some of you in the chat.
(also sorry if this is a bad thread to post the stream in, if there is another one to do this in, refer me there)
If this is something youāre planning to do pretty regularly, it might be worth creating a separate thread for it, and you can tag those members who are interacting with you here or in the stream in your OP, this way they are aware of the new thread.
Looking forward to the stream 
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