I played a qualifier today, who was new by the way he played and judging by his player and character level.
I just went back and forth: let him do some combos and then I would do my combo. Just enough for me to not lose and for him or her to have a nice experience to try out combos, breakers, etc.
⊠Then he won a rd, teabagged and left?
That kind of behavior happens but luckily it happened just once or twice to me.
Not for nothing, but if he did so what? I mean, how much do you really need to demonstrate youâre superior to new players? If you let a guy win and he is a bad sport about it, that says a lot about his lack of character and nothing about you.
I know itâs a competitive game, but every single round doesnât have to be treated like some sort of â â â â measuring contest. He doesnât get to run off with your prom date just because he stole a round at KI.
I would rather lose to a CAM assisted player and have an interesting match than simply wail on a practice dummy for two rounds. At least CAM lets me work on my combo breakers.
Ill be activating my live account in the next few days and will finally fight some human players, so I am kind of excited and its really cool to see how much this community wants to and is willing to help new players. I think I will have to all out on everybody I come across though since I myself am still newb tier in this game XD
Yeah online practice would be great. MKX has it and me and this one guy sat in it for like 3 hours practicing, it was a lot of fun.
Welcome to KI sir! I probably wonât be playing you anytime soon (on account of the aforementioned âI dodge newbiesâ preference 
), but I wish you the best as you get into playing this awesome game 
Thatâs too bad 
but thank you! Hopefully ill level up even faster after playing real people soon and we can play one day 
do your best @Blade4693! if you want to spar with me add me. my GT is same as my forum username. ill play my rookie sabrewulf. i am picking him up again because i want to try new things. dont have a working mic though. bring your A+ game and weâll see whats up, ill throw you messages to suggest things
Anyone who wants to fight me, add me - same as my forum name on here. Preferably bring a microphone if you have one and we can talk through strategies and the like.
I wonât go easy on you at least until I realise what level you are or if you ask me to go easy on you for a while. Then again I learnt that not holding back on players is how they seem to learn best around me
Thanks man, ill be sure to do that. Itâs probably gonna be a few days before I activate my Live account though but we can definitive play when I do 
@SightlessKombat: Ill add you too if you ever want to play. I donât think ill be much fun to fight against though if you are really good lol but im willing to try my best and see what happens.
Thatâs why I said bring a mic - I will be happy to try and teach you what I know and work through things with you.
I agree with you. I donât like frustrating newcomers using a main and beating the hell out of them, itâs not rewarding. Ok, I may have bad days, but I donât crush them if they are respectful. If they are new they wonât even tb, but they may taunt, not to insult you but just because they thinks itâs funny or itâs ok to do so.
But Iâve faced âstealthâ killers too, which is bad if you didnât choose your main because you saw a low level. Itâs a good trick though.
I think everything is based on what youâre doing when you come across the new player - in Exhibition, with a friend, or a âfor funâ lobby, I have no problem playing easy or picking a character that Iâm not as familiar with, but if youâre playing Ranked the gloves are off and I will go all out with my main every time, because Iâve tried to âplay niceâ against a new guy and then lost to what is clearly a smurf account who decides to throw excessive taunts and teabagging into the mix.
I used to sometimes go easy on people who are qualifiersâŠ
Until I met one of THE BEST CINDERâS in QualifiersâŠI was using orchidâŠ
Now, I go full throttle always!
SPARE NO ONE! MWAHAHAHAHAHAH! cough cough cough
I agree that when we talk about ranked you have to play with the best you have, like when I was at the arcades. I wasnât going to miss my âcoinâ, I would defend it. Ranked means the same (to me) with the freedom that I donât have to worry about coins (however losing many times in a row means I need to make adjustments before keeping on, or frustration levels will get high) . However, if someone is too green thereâs no need to use the best you have with your main to beat them. But also no need to let them Win, because the next guy will crush them. Itâs like a balance. In Spanish Iâll use the expression " bajar la guardia" , a Little =)
My general rule is play to about 70-80% of what Iâm capable in any given match, which is generally more about the setups Iâll use than about anything Iâm doing in neutral. Against newer people Iâll tend more towards damage enders, while against more experienced players Iâll typically prefer setups and hard knockdowns. The additional leeway I grant via less than tight oki is about the only sop Iâll make to a new player, though I will also pull back on overall aggression a bit if theyâre just getting mauled. But in general Iâm just more of the mind that Iâd rather move on to my next match and let them do the same than try and somehow make an uncompetitive match competitive.
@MaruMDQ, curious if youâre available to play this evening. I know (or thought) you said you were looking for some Hisako practice, so if youâre up for it Iâll probably be on sometime this evening after work. Let me know.
Yes, I have a lot of difficulties with that match up,thanks
If its a player whoâs spamming jabs into blown out light combos, heâs going to get the treatment unfortunately. It shames me a little to whoop them really bad, but I get over it by telling myself that Iâve shown them whatâs possible without spamming jabs all the time 
I do try to send messages with ggs and little tips on what they should do better. Most donât reply but the few that do say thanks so thatâs good.
In ranked, I have to play to my best, simply because I canât tell what level the other player is or how many points I have (@TheKeits Online stat tracking via a website is a feature that would greatly improve the quality of the whole game as an experience for blind and VI players such as my self, @Blindperson and @Blindgamer102, as well as everyone else). Being able to track stats online while youâre away, including for example who is in the top 32, how many wins/losses they have, how many points they have, etc shouldnât be that difficult as all the information is already in the game and it shouldnât be that hard to sent it to a server with a few scripts.
But that asside, I have to play my A game every match in ranked. If a new player was willing to raise their voice and say âhey, Iâm a new player, can you give me some tipsâ, then Iâd behappy to based on the match. However, with the rise of combo assist amongst lower level players the game has got about 10 times harder for me as they can just jump in and mash buttons like never before, with no rhyme or reason and as a result be even more unpredictable than before (thus also making my climb to Killer even more unlikely).