Elric of Grans
New Member
I cannot remember ever feeling so helpless in a fighting game before. There is obviously something very fundamental in DoA's defence systems that I am failing to grasp and it leaves me utterly helpless. I am frequently being Perfected by the easiest AI, so this is clearly an issue on absolute fundamentals rather than something that requires any amazing experience to do.
Firstly, I try to Block (Fighting Games 101). This works about 70% of the time, the rest I guess the attack was Low and I misinterpreted it as Mid. The percentage is improving, so I guess practice is helping me to better read the level of the attack. Often I think the AI has finished its sequence and try to open my own attack (simple jab) only to suffer a counter attack. I guess this is an experience issue. Once I get more used to reading the basic attack sequences, I should be able to better understand when I can attack. I also almost never successfully Throw Escape. I suspect this is also an experience issue as I just need more practice to get the timing.
Where things go horridly wrong is when I am hit and cannot Block afterwards. I try to Hold like the Tutorial teaches you. I can do this 100% of the time in the Tutorial; 0% of the time against an AI. Even guessing the wrong Hold to use most of the time, I should have some small success rate! Every single time I get hit and cannot block afterwards, the AI is free to hit me around like a ragdoll for the rest of the round. This seems to be where I am missing something, as I cannot seem to do anything after the first stun.
I also almost never successfully do the speed-up recovery technique, even in in the Tutorial. I have replayed that Tutorial several times, spend 10 minutes holding Block and spinning the joystick as fast as I can. I fail repeatedly, only to suddenly succeed when I did not seem to do anything different to the umpteen failures. I have no idea what is happening here! My inability to ever do this is likely a significant part of my problem.
Are there any other fundamentals that I have missed that may lead to my complete inability to defend?
Firstly, I try to Block (Fighting Games 101). This works about 70% of the time, the rest I guess the attack was Low and I misinterpreted it as Mid. The percentage is improving, so I guess practice is helping me to better read the level of the attack. Often I think the AI has finished its sequence and try to open my own attack (simple jab) only to suffer a counter attack. I guess this is an experience issue. Once I get more used to reading the basic attack sequences, I should be able to better understand when I can attack. I also almost never successfully Throw Escape. I suspect this is also an experience issue as I just need more practice to get the timing.
Where things go horridly wrong is when I am hit and cannot Block afterwards. I try to Hold like the Tutorial teaches you. I can do this 100% of the time in the Tutorial; 0% of the time against an AI. Even guessing the wrong Hold to use most of the time, I should have some small success rate! Every single time I get hit and cannot block afterwards, the AI is free to hit me around like a ragdoll for the rest of the round. This seems to be where I am missing something, as I cannot seem to do anything after the first stun.
I also almost never successfully do the speed-up recovery technique, even in in the Tutorial. I have replayed that Tutorial several times, spend 10 minutes holding Block and spinning the joystick as fast as I can. I fail repeatedly, only to suddenly succeed when I did not seem to do anything different to the umpteen failures. I have no idea what is happening here! My inability to ever do this is likely a significant part of my problem.
Are there any other fundamentals that I have missed that may lead to my complete inability to defend?