This is what happens to me 1. I usually get tilted when something "wrong" happens. Like if there's lag, or I run into a move that looked like it wouldn't hit me **cough** Ikes F-smash **cough** but did. And then I just spiral down into madness. 2. Afterwards, I'll probably run into someone really good at the game, while I'm here raging. Once they destroy me, i get mad at myself for not being as good to even give my opponent competition. I then cut off the game and won't play for a while, out of fear that I'm gonna get angry again, and i don't want to view smash as salt simulator
Hero Same thing happens to me... I just avoid online play now and stick to playing with physical friends. Online play tends to send me down a spiral of depression and self loathing.
I feel that, except the second part, when I get my ass handed too me on a silver platter by a good player, of course I'm annoyed, but I lost to the player not the character. Knowing that, I can properly understand what I did wrong an build off that newfound knowlage.
@Hero I feel that so hard, especially when I'm playing offline and it feels like the game's input lag is really high for some reason. I've died more than once to my jumps not coming out and raged pretty badly
It's not a guy, it's a bot. Proguides loves to put games against bots WHEN GAMES WITH REAL PERSONS ARE JUST WAY BETTER WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT PROGUIDES???
@@Jem-Fury It's not easier or faster, they can just play online and record/download the game like thet were doing. And also it's not the same person who is every games
I think this guide might be very helpful to practically any level that the player is on in Smash Ultimate. I recommend you like this video and put it in a watch later to restudy it if you’re in a bad mood.
Normally, I keep my emotions in check. In smash however, I can lose it quick depending on the situation. Just seeing my opponent hover over Ness with the selection hand gives me a slight aneurysm. Because of my perfectly ultimate great rage toward Ness. When he locks me up with pk fire and does literally everything from edgeguarding to attacking with a controller made of gamecube b buttons and a control stick, it's a herculean task not to lose it completely. In public, it's a lot easier to keep myself in check, because I know it's not socially acceptable, even if I'm having the worst day of my life, and for some reason it's just easier to keep a level head while I'm out at the mall during a local tourney. At home it's a different story. I nearly smacked my tv with a rubber prop axe I was so tilted. I'll also roar like a demented lion if I see something particularly unacceptable that happened to me, see my example with Ness. I have some issues with characters and some mechanics I can't seem to grasp, as well, seeing GSP drop to whale poo tier due to a teabagging pk spamming Ness is soul crushing. I have some work to do, and normally I'm a pretty happy guy. I should be taking to heart the lessons I've learned here today. One day, I'll refuse to lose it when a ness inevitably hits me with their 7000th pk fire bullcrap, but it may take a while.
So then just do what's best for you and either play another game, or take a break from smash. Hell, just try doing something else other than playing games.
The ironic thing is that most high level ness players don't spam PK Fire. What does that tell you? Also, all you have to do is SDI out and shield. If they start grabbing, oos option. Simple and easy
I played against a ness that just kept spamming Pk fire over and over and over again... I believe that might’ve been a day I broke one of my controllers
@@PrinceTrexus what just made me quit playing smash competitively was the lag. Nothing infuriates me more than pressing a button and watching my character stand their like an idiot. I'll just play smash offline from now on.
@@Rider-fl4gf If only people listened to what we say. Like, learn to SDI. Look up training videos other than the Ganon meme montage for the hundredth time. Listen to advice from people who know what what they're doing rather than calling them a sweat. It's so simple to do, and yet people online, even some over 20 years old, have problems doing so. I don't understand people sometimes...
i'm glad that this kind of topic have so much meaning even in pro guides, this game can bring all kind of emotions and personal issues but it also can be a tool to fight the real world, i like to think that the world is like smash, you will have epic battles, you will face despair and anxiety, you gonna have ups and downs, but if you want to get good and reach the top you must be patient , grateful and cofident that you have the tools to face anything.
Tip: Quickplay will just get you frustrated. Losta lame-os on there that play super skilllessly. You might even lose to them cuz you can't punish due to lag.
That's why Elite Smash sucks in general. I don't know what's more unbelievable: a Ganon fishing for f smash and warlock punch in neutral being the "world's best" or Marth somehow being extremely busted, according to my siblings and their friends
@@survivorofthecurse717 when I still played Ultimate, I found it much more enjoyable to find a discord and play with people that are for sure near me geographically.
I feel like there is an extra point to be said. You say "recognise what you have control over", which is correct, but we also must recognise what we do not have control over and accept it in an attempt to not get tilted by it. For example, we know that when Palu hits us with that nair that we are taking 50%. For many, this is a pet peeve and will start tilting us. This is also a pet peeve that we cannot realistically avoid, like the mention of playing online. We need to recognise that this is an element of the game and Palu is considered by many a top tier because of her high damaging tools. We should attempt to prepare ourselves, and tell ourselves that we will likely get hit by this move and take a ton of damage, so when it happens we can stay on top of our emotions and fight back. Getting tilted by these types of moves and scenarios is not going to help you get better, but accepting that these scenarios are a part of the game will help in staying calm and help prevent a salty mindset, keeping you more focused and allowing you to stay in the game.
“If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?” - Epictetus
I wish this video came out earlier. Last tournament i was in i was up against my bracket demon round 1 and it was an even game until something crashed on the switch and then we moved to a different setup and he bodied me
What tilts me the most is getting combo'd by somebody like Ken or Pikachu. I'm an extremely vocal person, so I usually have to let my anger out by cursing (I only do this when playing online, so I'm not doing it in my opponent's face, at least). This video will probably prove helpful in the near future, when I start going to locals again after the hiatus I'm taking to finish uni!
They left out violent anger. The kind that boils your blood on the spot and makes every cell in your body treat this normally unimportant event as a literal fight for your life. If you find yourself in this camp, as I do, then it's actually good to let it out mid match. Punch your thighs, smack your head, beat your chest. It might look terribly salty, but these people usually cant afford to wait until the match is over. It's better to end up on a saltier moments list than end up in the slammer for assault.
I was watching this video while raging being destroyed by annoying inkling in my own arena. But by the end of the video I got HIM TO RAGE QUITE! Thanks!
I can't express enough on how helpful this was! Sometimes I focus too much on winning and let the dumbest thing get the better of me. I ain't no tournament player, but I am a decent player that plays a lot of online matches. I never act out in anger by down smashing my controller ( *controllers ain't cheap you know!* ) when I lose to a laggy Snake player or a spamming PK Fire Ness that T-bags you after every stock. I'm more implosive and I admittedly just close the game mid match when I get really salty, then I usually take a break by either playing another game or work on my drawings to cool off, but sometimes I just keep thinking about how my opponent did so-and-so to me when I know I should've won, which keeps me angry ( *and i'm NOT one of those people that log into Twitter ranting about a character that should be nerfed* ). It does hurt a lot seeing you GSP go down, and getting that notification that you got booted off Elite, but I do know that the end of the day it's just a number. But anyway, in general I do take control of my emotions even before I watched this video, and I agree that it is unhealthy to hold in emotions.
2:21 Who knows how many times that guy opened the down B menu looking for Thwack? Who knows how many times he threw Thwack until it finally killed at 0%? I'm pretty sure his actual reaction at that moment was the complete oposite of what we hear in the video.
Good video. This is something I've rather had issues with lately. Not necessarily only in the game, but also in real life. It's good to have some help reflecting like this
Since ive been working on my mentals my gameplay improve immensely and is still improving and repressing your emotions is bad, I've learn to accept that when I'm salty I accept it and try and figure out why I am salty and how I can change it to happy or determined
Honestly, this is the best video I've seen on this channel in this format, the Smash Ultimate Guides. Sure, you can learn how to ledgetrap and the Top 10 lists are pretty entertaining to see the choices in, but at the end of the day, the thing keeping your gameplay in check is your mind. If that's in a bad state, your gameplay will only get worse, and worse, and worse, until, yes you really did break that controller just from squeezing it too hard. It's not an easy thing to change, mentality, but this guy isn't kidding, it works. Just don't go near quickplay and instead use some of the Smashcords if losing gets you down. Quickplay can go off a cliff
This is very informative. I definitely relate as playing online is often very mentally deteriorating for me. You definitely feel like the worst player in the world if you lose. I’ll try to keep these things in mind. Although, I cannot quite say I agree with what you were saying about how emotions originated. There are many problems with the theories behind and they’re all just assumptions based on the evolutionary model (which also has tons of problems). For instance, what you said about guilt, which is what we get when we know we’ve done something wrong. I agree with that but if that emotion is really evolutionary, what then sets the standard of “right” and “wrong” that the guilt emotion goes by? I know that isn’t what this video is really about, it’s about how to keep calm when Ness PK fires you to 80 percent and back throws you, when sonic uses his neutral B over and over again on you, when Luigi or Dr. Mario uses their very stupid invincible down B’s, and when you go against hero, sephiroth, or pyra/mythra in general
I'm usually a calm, rational and controlled person. Smash is the only thing in this world that can get me tilted so damn fast. Like, Dragon Ball Z levels of tilted. If smash had voice chat, I'd probably be in jail for personal offendings or something lol
I really needed this. Yesterday I was on a custom stage as donkey kong (one of my mains) with my little brother as toon link(who he just picked up around 7 minutes ago), the stage was super unforgiving because it only gave a high ground that my brother camped me out on and after both our first stocks the stage just made me fall through the gaps it had that looked to be smaller than pichu after doing a neutral get up off of ledge. I got terribly angry and yelled my head off at how unfair the game was. I ended up almost having my mother ground me and I couldn't play the game for the rest of the night. though I don't think my anger may be anything less then justified, this vid gave me the advice I needed to get back into the game and not get too carried by my anger which comes out a whole lot like that. Thank you!
Breathing is also free! And my personal outlet is kicking the crap out of every opponent I come across after my GSP drops by 2mil. “Oh you just started playing smash 2 days ago? Aww that’s cute. Allow me to introduce you to the game by stomping you into oblivion.”
Hidden message at 12:19 that the narrator doesn't say and is visible only with the captions turned on: "Anime could be a good idea! But if you're super sad maybe skip Evangelion and watch Jojo instead
Speaking truth here! In my personal battles, I have found "venting" doesn't help as much. You just relive the event without a solution. Maybe watch a replay of the match until you figure out what went wrong and come up with a game plan for the future. This can be applied to life too.
Smash online brings me to a point of anger I never knew I had (glad I own a punchingbag). In person I can look at them and say GG's and not feel bad because they were just oblivious better but online I lose to lag, lag switchers, and spammers that you can easily beat offline but can't online. People are less toxic in person because you can easily put them in their place because most of the time online players are the quietest and "pussies" you meet and this goes for every other game too.
For those that struggle with aggression keep some folded up pieces of paper in your pocket and tear one up when it gets to be too much. It is far far better than punching a wall or another person.
This is the most important thing I teach my friends, asides from moving fast of course. However, I told them that being intimidating and not being intimidated is the goal to winning. I keep tilting my guys when using stupid characters like Yoshi shouting shit like "HERE COMES SATAN YOSHI" While I repeat that over and over again. I told them I don't think when playing, I do things instinctively. However that brings up the fact that my skill level is also inconsistently, in the group I'm either top 100 or top 1.
For me I mainly get annoyed when I lose to lag or a character gimmick or just sd like a dumbass, but I never find myself getting too salty when I get dropped by a better player, because I know I can learn from them and use that to better my performance What I learned after a while is that you get salty when you feel as if you lost to the character and not when you lose to the player
I just broke my controller and I feel so angry and ashamed of myself. I'm a fairly good player, but lately I've just been losing A LOT, from the simplest things, to lag and latency. I turned the game off and walked away at first, but immediately came back, telling myself I'm not this bad, just try harder. In a match, I read Sephiroth's F-air, hit the dodge button, and still got hit cuz it didn't come out in time and lost. I threw my controller down and now I'm just mad at myself because I knew to walk away and take a break. Online isn't perfect anyway, but I feel like I should've adjusted or change playstyles. Or again, take a break.
Holy shit I didn't know repressing your emotions can mess your shit up. Welp... uh. I gotta go to the doctor and make sure I'm good lol. Mostly anger...
One thing: always accept a loss. Disconnecting in the middle of a match shows weakness, and your opponent will be even more confident if you get matched again.
My problem is that I'm the player among my friends and I myself am somewhat casually great player but really just beginning to understand competitive game. As a best player among my friends I'm thinking high of myself and I have noticed it is really damaging for me. So whenever I get my ass whooped by online I say stuff like: "Nah he is not that great player." I'm really ashamed of that even though I constantly do it. It might reflect on my insecurity and fear that I will never be competitive because it feel like I should have started competitive earlier when I was younger. Now I feel I can't never learn how to play competitive smash.
Im here from a spammy mario in random battle arenas that kept doing neutral b to dash attack for some reason. And everytime godamn tIME I WAS AT the gODAMN LEDGE He sAiD "f SMASH WILL WORK WONDERS" AND IT gOt me everytime.
6:45 except Pit, hes the most honest character in the game. What can you hate about the guy? Dark Pit you can technically hate his "cheap" side B killing you at the edge at 60% but Pit? come on
@@merijns3446 dont think thats considered cheap. Young links arrows are way worse. Strong, fast, lagless and combo to a kill move. Pit's arrows dont do that =P
@@juanoshigeru no, but that's not my point, they can still be frustrating to play against and can feel very cheap if you get gimped by someone spamming arrows at ledge
I'm not a fan of the nair spam and then they wait with an arrow when you knock them off the platform so I dont even get the pleasure of properly styling on them for their dickheaded behavior
Luckily I don't get tilted.... but I do blame myself for everything wrong to the point where it can make it hard to concentrate on improving on the thing that I was doing wrong in the first place. Eventually with this happening long enough it just makes it feel like it's pointless to continue playing Smash. This is something that just happens no matter if I'm playing against bad players, or players who are extremely good. I feel that the "focus on what you CAN do" would help with this mentality greatly though just as it would with being tilted. It's hard to get into that mindset though because if you think you will do bad, then it often leads into a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's been keeping me locked out of getting better at Smash for a few months now.
This jiggly puff has been edge guarding me for the past 3 hours and I have mixed up my recovery MANY times why does it feel like I can do absolutely nothing against this I air dodge he reads it I go high he reads if I go low he reads it anything I do even if I change it a lot does anyone have tips to help that
I was listening to this after a rough night of getting teamed on in ffa arenas and getting tbagged until the timer ran out. At some parts of the video, I almost began tearing up when talk of mental management and possible outlets came up. I can’t use some methods due to my total lack of friends. Do I need therapy?
Absolutely! As silly as it sounds, it's actually a lot more effective than many people think. I never knew how effective it was until I tried it myself. Just some personal advice, don't hold back on your scream. If it helps, you can also yell what's annoying you into the pillow. This helped me a lot after facing one of the most toxic Snake players I ever seen. I just grabbed one of the pillows off my bed, and just screamed to the top of my lungs and I'm pretty sure I swore like a sailor. Normally, I don't get that mad, but my God, this Snake drove me to my breaking point after losing to him 15+ times in a row (I was in a friend's battle arena)! But yeah, screaming into a pillow can definitely help. Not just for video game frustration, but for frustration in general.
Hopefully this video helps because whenever I do lose like yesterday I was having a really good smash player coach me and give me tips and I got pretty emotional and raged over my loses.
Im not gonna lie i barely play online because i get mad with all the trash people, spammers, laggy connections, toxic characters , trolls, t-bag ughhhhhh i nearly break my switch whenever i fight that people
I’m just dropping quitplay. I notice I’m much happier when I’m on arenas and not playing against some degenerate mario who spams cape and f-air trying to get those “sIcK cLiPs!!!!”
