I think it’s because of that fact that your opponent isn’t respectful the act is generally used to gesture that, thus it’s why people become angry.
While I get annoyed with it. I stop caring after awhile because I just as quickly realize that it doesn’t matter.
Also I know it’s off topic but GG, You keep on teaching that story. More people need to know that staying positive against a bleak outlook can carry you a long way.
Every taunt people complain about used to be a comical and awesome way to represent a mascot. Who here doesn’t love Crash Bandicoot?
Omg no Killer Smash Instinct Brothers ever
Hey fellas, how about we leave the potentially serious subject of mental health for a medical forum and just talk about KI here?
Don’t tell people they need therapy. Ever. It’s not helpful. Different people have different tolerances for aggravation. If running into stupid people online is more aggravation than it is worth to you, then It is a perfectly valid decision to not go online. It doesn’t necessarily indicate a self esteem issue. We can all try to help each other get better at KI, but no one is coming to this forum looking for an armchair mental health evaluation.
well said Andy.
He said the same to me a coupe weeks ago earlier in this thread. I was like wth??I just dont like encountering trolls online.. period.
I’m actually shocked this post is still going on.
Attention please:
cough
That is all.
I taunt because it’s part of the game, I tea-bag only when my opponent is trying to make for a cheap victory and I ultimately beat him. I also heard it’s courtesy to end an Ultra with an ultra ender (mp+mk) so I have been doing that.
The only taunt I use is spinals.
And I only do it after absorbing a shadow move followed by a throw.
People still get salty.
What precisely do you mean by this?
I just got TB by a Jago jumping bean bum in ranked… he barely beat me and i swear to god if i could play him again Id destroy him. That sheet ■■■■■■ me off.
I sent him a nice message and told him to have a good night… added him as a friend too… Im going to annihilate his shadow every day if he has one.
I mean spamming the same move over and over when players are killer or gold.
That’s a really classy way to handle it! I wish it didn’t bother me to be t-bagged or taunted, but it does. Every time someone does it, I think “What a jerk!” or “d-o-u-c-h-e-b-a-g”.
Sadly, it messes with my head, which is arguably the point, but isn’t it better to know that you could beat an opponent because you were actually better, rather than because you were juvenile and ticked them off?
sigh… /end rant.
I think I will try this suggested method though. Sounds like a great way to handle it. 
Sooo… after reading a majority of this thread I came to the conclusion that a majority of people are against the act of tea-bagging and it does to some degree upset you. On the other hand, the minority, we have people who don’t understand what tea-bagging is and how it effects a player.
I’ll say this right now, I think it is disrespectful for people to teabag, more so in a fighting game. With that being said, no I don’t need therapy and no I don’t have a low self esteem. Let me lay it out for those who don’t understand the effect of being a complete douche online.
I tend to play about 80% of my potential, I normally like to be a fair competitor without discouraging the opponent so that they can catch on to their own mistakes and grow from their matches. Some competitors can be a great advisory but in that case I only fair up to 85% of my potential. It isn’t until I am taunted that I will play a little more fierce, I often take the taunt as a gesture to take the match more serious and try harder than usual or maybe that I am not catching on the the mistakes I keep making. Still, it isn’t until I am tea-bagged that I will use all the tech of the character and knowledge of the match to pull off the win. As said by @swordman09…
In a perfect world, you will triumph over all who prove to be the douchioust and get the revenge you rightfully deserve. However, not everyone is a Gutter, Swordman, Maximillian, etc. with all due respect it may be a matchup similar to Rico, whereas you simply cannot win even when playing to your full potential after being tea-bagged.
This is where it makes a difference and is damaging not only to the player but to the community. You, as a person who teabags, may not see anything wrong with the act but to someone who invests the time and becomes a passionate player it will hurt, simply put, it stems from pride and payoff.
Alas, the controversy makes an appearance, how can someone be upset it’s just a game right? Yes, obviously a majority of us are grown men and women who can process the fact we are participating in a virtual representation of imaginary characters combating against each other in a fictional universe. That isn’t the point here.
Usually when someone teabags, they are “trolling” or in most cases just being a douche - there isn’t anything too it besides that. You are disrespecting someone because lets be honest here tea-bagging comes off as “hey f-uck you”. You can rationalize it any way you may choose to but the intention is always to antagonize the other person which is simply being rude.
Now, this is different for many people and many situations sooooo…
So, are we as gamers too sensitive and have low-self esteem? At this point if my rant/argument has only persuaded you that I, as a gamer, am too sensitive and have a low self-esteem then let me provide with a better example. Maximilian Dood, a great fighting game player who has attended tournaments and passionately invested the time into the game also finds tea bagging disrespectful and completely unnecessary. I have watched several streams and his frustration with being tea bagged. I wouldn’t see anything that can be considered as him needing therapy or having low-self esteem considering how well off he is in his own world. I simply see someone who understand the rudeness of tea-bagging and is passionate enough to label the action unnecessary.
Anyway, I have ranted long enough. Point is, don’t be a douche. If you do it and think others are sensitive, you’re a douche that’s all there is too it. If you don’t find disrespectful then maybe you aren’t as invested nor feel as passionate as someone else. However, if you are just as passionate and still don’t feel the effects of three full ultras followed by a flurry of teabags then you just have the patience of a saint and I salute you.
Is there a way to like this comment 20 times???
This right here.
It’s rude, yes..but
It doesn’t bother me since well all games which have online have the disrespectful people. From people who swear down the mic, to teabaggers and taunters to those who scam or insults ones mother.
It just makes me happier when I get a good fight so I appreciate it more, if I lose to a teabagger get or taunted I really don’t get too annoyed it just makes me think how immature they are behind the screen to think it’s funny…i much more despise spammers or exploiters who do it for a cheap win against a newbie (when I picked up ultra street figher 4 that’s what happened)
Definately something which is rude but what can anyone do? People are like this and this is how they picture enjoying themselves or winning is like to them or online gaming in general
so noble from you to hold back if you don’t need to, are you a dragon ball character? I said it before and I say it again. I don’t teabag unless im playing against friends or if someone teabags me first but it baffles me how people will start crying and block people because of that. Don’t get me wrong, I get upset to when its done to me and I might say you stupid sohn of a b… (no, not in the mic, I just say it to the television) and that’s it. The next game i will feel ok again.