MiyazakiHatesKojima
Banned
Step one is to stop giving a shit about your rank.
It's literally meaningless, it has absolutely no bearing on your gameplay and, not to be a jerk or anything, but no one finds mid green ranks impressive so it's not like you're going to lose bragging points if you rank down.
Step two is to change the way you view yourself as a Tekken player.
The hard truth is that you are hot garbage. I'm garbage. 99% of this subreddit is garbage. We're all bottom feeding specks that wouldn't stand a chance against the upper echelons in this game. This in turn leaves you with two options; if you want to become the best of the best or whatever, the only way you're going to get there is through accepting that you need to lose in order to learn and that it's going to take a shitload of time. If you instead accept that you're not going to reach that level and that that's not really your goal, then accept that you will improve at your own pace without any pressure, which of course will also mean losing a lot of games.
Step three is to change the way you approach losing/playing ranked.
As stated above, your rank is utterly meaningless. It has no benefits, no one cares about it but you, and it can be super misleading, so it's doubly meaningless.
What you should do is view your rank as a measure of your improvement, nothing else. If you are playing to rank up, that will incentivize you to avoid fighting players that are better than you or characters you are unfamiliar with. Instead, you'll look for players that you can beat, either because they are worse than you or because they don't know how to deal with your character/gameplan. This will make you a worse player, because it will reinforce all of your negative habits without ever letting you learn new skills.
When you play, you shouldn't be avoiding tough opponents or difficult match-ups. Play them and instead of just focusing on winning and getting mad when you lose, think about why you're losing. What is the opponent doing that is giving you trouble? Which things that you are doing aren't working? What could you do instead? Dare to experiment in the match. Every move has a weakness, the stronger it seems, the bigger the weakness. Try different things to get around the opponent. After you've played a few games, head into training mode and set the dummy to do what your opponent was doing and figure out how to beat it. Explore your own character's options and moves in order to vary your gameplan.
Sometimes you get unlucky. You run into a bunch of characters you don't know how to deal with, or players that are better than you, and you go down a few ranks. If you view these as learning opportunities however, you'll shoot back up through the ranks you lose.
I used to get really mad when losing too. It's inevitable. If you care about your rank or you tie your self-worth as a person or as a Tekken player to losses in ranked mode you will get super upset, because a lot of times you get blown up by things you simply don't understand. You know there's something you could be doing to beat the opponent, but you don't know what it is, and you know they're getting away with murder. These losses are the worst if you have the wrong mind-set, but if you change the way you think, they'll be the most rewarding, because you'll always know what you need to improve.
It's literally meaningless, it has absolutely no bearing on your gameplay and, not to be a jerk or anything, but no one finds mid green ranks impressive so it's not like you're going to lose bragging points if you rank down.
Step two is to change the way you view yourself as a Tekken player.
The hard truth is that you are hot garbage. I'm garbage. 99% of this subreddit is garbage. We're all bottom feeding specks that wouldn't stand a chance against the upper echelons in this game. This in turn leaves you with two options; if you want to become the best of the best or whatever, the only way you're going to get there is through accepting that you need to lose in order to learn and that it's going to take a shitload of time. If you instead accept that you're not going to reach that level and that that's not really your goal, then accept that you will improve at your own pace without any pressure, which of course will also mean losing a lot of games.
Step three is to change the way you approach losing/playing ranked.
As stated above, your rank is utterly meaningless. It has no benefits, no one cares about it but you, and it can be super misleading, so it's doubly meaningless.
What you should do is view your rank as a measure of your improvement, nothing else. If you are playing to rank up, that will incentivize you to avoid fighting players that are better than you or characters you are unfamiliar with. Instead, you'll look for players that you can beat, either because they are worse than you or because they don't know how to deal with your character/gameplan. This will make you a worse player, because it will reinforce all of your negative habits without ever letting you learn new skills.
When you play, you shouldn't be avoiding tough opponents or difficult match-ups. Play them and instead of just focusing on winning and getting mad when you lose, think about why you're losing. What is the opponent doing that is giving you trouble? Which things that you are doing aren't working? What could you do instead? Dare to experiment in the match. Every move has a weakness, the stronger it seems, the bigger the weakness. Try different things to get around the opponent. After you've played a few games, head into training mode and set the dummy to do what your opponent was doing and figure out how to beat it. Explore your own character's options and moves in order to vary your gameplan.
Sometimes you get unlucky. You run into a bunch of characters you don't know how to deal with, or players that are better than you, and you go down a few ranks. If you view these as learning opportunities however, you'll shoot back up through the ranks you lose.
I used to get really mad when losing too. It's inevitable. If you care about your rank or you tie your self-worth as a person or as a Tekken player to losses in ranked mode you will get super upset, because a lot of times you get blown up by things you simply don't understand. You know there's something you could be doing to beat the opponent, but you don't know what it is, and you know they're getting away with murder. These losses are the worst if you have the wrong mind-set, but if you change the way you think, they'll be the most rewarding, because you'll always know what you need to improve.
