Greatly Improve Your Defense And Reactions With 1 Easy Tip 

Thank you. My MR just increased by 300 and I'm getting DMs from e girls on Twitter as we speak.

He says "just take thr throw" with the confidence of a man who hasn't been thrown 5 times in a row

1 min in: yep that's a sub. Not one fucking big name player has once explained something this well to me to understand in a video I've seen. I always felt like there was some things I've been missing in my gameplay that others have that I couldn't understand, or what I was doing wrong. Thanks bro, this was fucking game changer

That's actually brilliant. My defense is usually shitty because I panic and don't know what to do. Just committing to something straight up frees me from that stress.

Mikey just showed us a Jedi Mind Trick way to reduce our mental stack… 😮

This is most valuable lesson I've seen in my SF6 journey, I've never thought of that the problem is how I distribute my attention.

Option Select is a great tech that not many pros and veterans teach newer people nowadays, this video is 10/10 folks listen to this man

Ah that first tip is called an Option Select in the Fighting Game Community. Good tip though, I didn’t know this

This just blew my mind, maybe this is the knowledge i needed to get me to master from diamond 5

I think my mouth dropped on the DP buffer through the throw attempt animation so genius lol. Damn. All of this is so genius you really learn something new about fighters all the time

Most excellent stuff, Mikey. You're able to identify, articulate, and explain a very common scenario that us noobs really didn't understand was happening. Dude can teach!

Great breakdown man, describing option selecting at a basic level. This is going to help so many people.

Bro, this is an insane knowledge bomb to drop in a 10 minute video. I've always wondered how they're able to react, this explains a lot. Also the DP buffer on grab is mindblowing. You're doing great work.

This seems such an obvious way of thinking when you say it but Id never considered this process. Thanks for the explanation

The most useful video on defense I've watched for any fighting game by far. Thankyou.

this might be the best sf6 tutorial video ive ever seen. very clear and concise. thanks bro.

Dude, this is exactly what my teacher was explaining to me but I just didn't quite understand what he meant at the time. As a Gief player, taking the throw is really no big issue. (especially if I have a life lead.) I'm definitely about to untrain some bad habits and level up. Great video!

So that's why it seems like people are absolutely cracked or mind readers, buffering their options, I'm gonna start using this

I’ve been playing street fighter since a little kid and this is one of the best advice videos I have ever seen up-to-date. Great job everything you’re saying here is 100% accurate and will help so many players get so much better thank you.

genuinely some of the best advice I've ever seen.

Damn this really opened my eyes and completely changed the way I view games. I always felt as if i was slightly behind but i never understood why. Thank you, i appreciate the content.

This is one of the best videos on defensive mindset I've seen in a while. Thank you.

Y’know my lil bro has this exact same mindset but instead of sf6 it’s with guilty gear strive where he doesn’t even look at his character he always looks at mine and I couldn’t for the longest time figure out what he meant by that. So honestly I’m really glad you posted this video👍 Btw the mindset of being fine with messing up and just moving onto the next step is something that can be incorporated into anything in life, so honestly I wish to get better at this and improve in a lot of aspects, not just with fighting games.

great video really a good spin on the concept of being in the moment. especially something I need to work on since I boom all day with guile

Waoooo, a so simple concept that was never explain, Thank youuuuu. I just hate that I can click like once and that I've already subcribed. This channel deserves better.

I knew I was right to commit to OD DP on wake up and not think about it! Real talk though great video. Excited to try and incorporate this mindset

I’ve heard this dozens of times. I thought I understood it. Now I know I never truly did, until now. Great job on your part.

I now realize i've been playing this game a few seconds in the past, when I should have been looking moments into the future! thank you for this eye-opening piece of information!

This is brilliant and not something I've heard about before - thank you!

Bro u videos are so based and straight forward these are great

dude that amazing "tech" this tip help u to reduce your mental stack by a lot

Dude, this is the piece of information I've been searching for without knowing. Thanks a million.

This is such a simple concept, yet it blew my mind! I'm implementing this moving forward

this one of those things that you know about through experience playing for years and watching pros play all the time. you know that's what you gotta do but you thing it's somehow magical so you never try it. to hear you actually break it down and introduce for newer less experienced players andand confirm for others who play a lot but are a bit lazy (like me), it makes it more realistic a option in defense. this was a very great breakdown, and I will be subscribing

I will not be proud of myself if I’m not subbing after such an amazing coaching session… waouh, superb work! Hope to see more ! 🔥

Awesome video! I’m working on my defense and this video explained things pretty clearly! Ty ty!

I'm so grateful for this video! I always thought I was just too slow but that would naturally happen if I'm trying to account for infinite possibilities. Limiting the scope to know WHAT to look for does wonders 😅

Dude the intro is on POINT. Great video

Great advice bro. Thank you

Amazing man. The throw/dp motion is so good

Dunno why I've never figured that out by myself but thank you for this video, everything clicked now.

Great tip, thank you!

great video, i think you explained it well! ive just started to grasp the neutral game a bit more and doing input buffers on hit confirms etc so this is like an extra layer onto that which i didnt really think about, so thanks!

I figured this out too. Nuanced things like this is how I get better so fast and usually learn them after watching replays or simply thinking about them. Made like 2 adjustments and went on a 10 game win streak. Keep content like this coming 🔥🔥

Dude such a good point of there's only so many things to look for when u commit to something. Makes it feel so much simpler. Although practicing it will take a lot of time

Thank you, this got me to ascendant.

super solid advice, wondering why no one else explained it like this, instant sub :).

Very informative, thanks !

All those decisions are why I am losing so much. My brain stops working completely. When you watch pro players, it feels like they react to everything. It is hard to tell yourself you have to take some hits, throws and not try to do anything.

Your amazing man im a longtime madden player and finally playing fighting games. I see defensive focus applies to fighting games. Can stop everything gotta commit and live with the results

great advice 👍

This is fantastic

This is actually awesome stuff. People panick in the corner when they get throw looped. The idea of it happening a 3rd time almost baits a whiff throw or dp every single time.

Excellent video, backslide from Platinum 1 to Gold 4 after patch as Ryu, got lazy. Back on the horse today, no fear.

I’m getting serious in my goal achieving master rank and I couldn’t have seen this video at a better time. I made it to diamond rank 2 yesterday and this will definitely give me a boost. Thanks for the amazing tips!

Holy shit hes a genius. Thank you so much🙏🙏🙏

Strong guide!

Thanks for sharing bro ! Great Video

Im adding something to this advice. Learn the timing of your combos. You'll have a better flow of your combos if you press the right amount of buttons, instead of smashing the button until you see the attack come out.

This will take some time to apply, but I see the value.

Great video.

This is a stretch but it kind of reminds me how lower level players watch their battles in starcraft where as better players, beyond what they need to a tively control, know when they can look away to do other things with their actions per minute. Great and extremely helpful video. Thank you. All your stuff is really helpful, well spoken and clearly explained.

Awesome video I can't wait to try and implement some of these strategies into my game and see how it goes

Damn this was super helpful, thanks

I had to comment man. I seen this video yesterday and applied it just now while playing. Even though I sat in the corner and just held back, I committed to that waiting for my opponent to switch up (he didn't lol) so I lost. But I swear the mental fatigue it was taking me to be like is he going to throw me this time idk aww shyt mash grab aww he didn't IM FUCKKKEDD lol was draining. THANK YOU FOR THIS TIP MAN KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! This just shows you can learn from anybody.

Thank you! Videos like this are AMAZING for tekken players like me trying to git gud at Street Fighter!

Damn this video is so good

Great stuff

This is good advice, can apply to tekken too imo cause I play both

Back dash chilling in the corner: 👁️👄👁️

I just realized by watching this video in situations where I was able to react to things it was because I was actually committed to whatever I was doing and looking ahead at what my opponent might do. This is really good and is a huge game changer because this is easy to overlook while you are playing in the moment. This going to help a bit more with controlling chaotic players who like to jump and mash buttons.

Love the video and has a lot of great ideas but did you say what to do if someone decides they are going to do an endless throw loop for the rest of the round like if they 10 in a row?

I have been trying to improve my neutral in KOF(I don't play sf6), and I just noticed that yjeres some moments where i have to buffer my DP if i want to be able to react (as kof has short jumps and theres no so much time to DP as in SF). and I have been trying to imrpove on that, I practice every day, and right when I though that maybe I was being delusional and or weird with my thought traing this video appears, not only to tell me I'm right, but also to show me how widely can this concept be applied, and how big of an idea it is. The ones that think this is just explaining Os's got it wrong, this is so much more than that, is like compresing your mental stack so you can storage more moves than before, my oponents are going to think I'm reading their minds or I'm just god damn lucky. Thank you, deeply.

This has changed my life

These type of inputs are called "option select."

This video showed me another level of how to think in this game. But it sounds easy, but its not. Still nice video.

Yes

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I didnt play during street fighter 5, but I played a lot of 4. I hear a lot now about "taking the throw" but that wasnt really a thing back when I played 4. I have just a strong muscle memory of teching while crouching because it would option select a light kick if you didnt need to tech and it was a great combo starter. I find myself doing this all the time in 6 and getting shimmied >.

they gotta take out throw loops though. it’s one of the last ‘have or have-nots’. Sadly, shoto privelege has somewhat returned lol.

i feel like the analysis of nephew's juri is a bit off. he is +2 after a blocked st m punch, but there's too much pushback to go for a throw afterwards and certainly not a shimmy. i think he expected dcq to press a button because juri players often try to condition you into not pressing after blocking st m punch so they can walk in and reset pressure. he expected dcq to try and press a light button to keep him from doing this, so he preemptively pressed st h punch in order to whiff punish him. dcq expected that though and jumped out. i think he knew that nephew was trying to hard commit so he could get big damage off of a punish counter and end the round immediately. since juri's only real frame trap in that situation is st l kick, which wouldn't have killed, dcq took the risk and went for a jump. if things go how he planned, he gets a a full jump in combo, and if they don't, he likely only eats a light into special into knockdown. the risk reward was in his favor. honestly an insanely smart play. that's the kinda shit you do when you've seen that situation a thousand times. that gives me a bunch of ideas for counter playing certain characters actually.

Thanks for the tip. One thing I feel you need to work on is speaking a bit slowly, unless your videos are only meant for native speakers.

Yamato Juri skin goes unnecessarily hard

man I always wondered how everyone was dping me when I jump in the corner after a throw

You missed the fourth option. Backdash. Being invincible to throws, if you don't recognize it you could just be DPing for nothing, and end up eating at *least* 30%, without resources. It could spell the difference between a W and an L.

Nice nice

Is this just instinctual to good players? Ive never heard it mentioned and certainly never organically developed any of these habits. Even when i jab someone out of pressure i never even considered to follow my choice with a drive rush combo. As a sim “main” who can barely get to diamond this gives me some good food for through to improve my terrible defence.

Before i can start thinking about what my opponent can do in different scenarios. I must first learn the art of.... "Thinking" Right now. i can go into a match as rashid. press light whirlwind shot. and instead of thinking "is my opponent going to jump over it? is it going to hit? are they going to block it?" etc. Im instead thinking about:

i get hit with the throw bait after being thrown 2-3 times then im dead

So that's why you see people hitting buttons on their joysticks when nothing is happening. I've always been like "why are you mashing on the ground/being grabbed/getting knocked down, you're stick in an animation, dummy. Is he stupid?" They've been buffering the whole time. My god, I never realized.

You saving my winrate with content like this. Im the avergae player that need some help lol.

how can deejay do this (offensively) and even defensively as a charge character? (Since we cant input DP immediately)

Must be nice to have a DP

I'm going to lab this until it becomes second nature. So simple yet so freaking powerful. Thank you!

What I want to do is I stay in neutral and 100% counter everything that comes my way. anti air all jump ins, check every drive rush, counter every drive impact, whiff punish every button. Never gonna happen, sadly.

If you're gonna have a text box pop up more than once, PLEASE proofread it lol Good info though.

Ok but why Akuma's pants are vibrating like that?

Hopefully this will get me from 1300 MR to 1500 MR

2:30 interesting

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