Mashing

[HiImKeith4776]

I mash all the time on stuff in SFV to get the next link then mash out the next link to continue when the timing is tight.

[xSkeletalx]

Let’s keep off-topic arguments to PMs, please.

[JEFFRON27]

Nashing in my definition is pressing every button you can. Personally I think it’s harmless because all I have to do is stand back and watch my opponent hang themselves.

Personally I don’t think games can get dull (unless they’re like SF and take the whole all human cast route as usual) But from a gameplay standard you will always have varying degree of skill

@STORM179

I think this chart fairly accurately sums up how much you can trust the average FG player:

Less flippantly, I agree with @DEClimax. “Mashing” isn’t an inherently bad or scrubby thing to do - context matters. Against Kim doing MP dragon katas, mashing out DP is almost certainly the correct choice the first time she does it to you. Given her options out of that string, she’s almost guaranteed to NOT drop it into a block, and DP’ing her in the face is a great way to suggest to her that maybe she should avoid doing that particular string and its follow-ups. Similarly, my suggestion to many to Hisako players is that they should train themselves to “mash” counter in certain situation - either they can’t cancel into it there and they get hit, or they get their counter into full combo punish. There are certain things that mashing beats clean; context matters for whether it’s a “good” or “bad” decision.

On the conditioning piece, to condition someone isn’t to suggest that they will always do what you want or are conditioning them to do. It is never certain. But it exists all the same (people react to stimuli), and the human element involved is just a part of what makes FG’s fun. Some people are easier or harder to “teach” to be sure, but that itself is also a data point to be exploited.

I am ALWAYS inthe top row in fighting game, that’s always my thought process