What everyone gets wrong about NEUTRAL. 

Good video to help my friends understand fighting games more. Most people just assume it’s all about combos and dmg but the real meat and potatoes is the neutral game.

Great vid, Kizzy. Definitely appreciate hearing a different model to explain neutral rather than the reactionary/preemptive/aggressor one that gets used so often. IDK if you're looking for high level topics to talk about, but I'd love to hear your approach to high level defense. Strive has taught me a lot about structuring my offense around my opponents habits/character, but I don't feel as confident with my guesses/options on defense.

RU-vid needs a "love" button for stuff like this man.

this video was so helpful holy shit please do more content like this it was so easy to understand and seeing the examples of different fighting games was super interesting, I just got so much useful applicable knowledge in just 12 minutes thank you

Idk how exactly, but recontextualizing neutral as “zones” made something instantly click in my head, like it made it all suddenly make sense. Being able to organize things like that in my head made me realize “okay so maybe i need to stick to this set of options in zone one and be on the lookout for these options from x or y character in zone 2”. Youre a great teacher man, keep up the good work and i hope to see more videos like this in the future

Yes please! I'd absolutely love more content like this. This video is so helpful. I used to only think about space as having more or less of it. But thinking about things as 'zones' really helps me to break down the stages of interaction. One of my biggest problems is dealing with the mental stack, and I've learned that compartmentalizing things so i only focus on what happens in the situation i'm in at the moment has helped me the most to deal with it. I'm immediately sharing this video with all of my fighting game playing friends.

before this vid i always thought of zoning just as “distance”. like oh axl’s a zoner so he plays far away to keep you out of his space. seeing it broken down into like “there are four spaces on the screen” really helps to understand like, this is where X character wants to be and this is where Y character wants to be and WHY they want to be there

This video was fantastic, thinking of the neutral as zones has given me a lot more insight into fighting games. I really hope you do more videos on fighting concepts and fighting game strategies

Keep up these videos Kizzie! Videos like this talking about neutral, footsies, escaping the corner, yomi/how to read your opponent. Anything you'd be willing to share from your experience would be awesome!

Would love more videos about neutral and strategies in general!

Good video with a great and concrete way to convey the subject, thanks Kizzie. Also the new editing is sick with those littles animations and thumbnails, great stuff all around !

I'd love to see more videos like this. Even if there are many educational fighting game videos out there, your perspective is unique.

Best explanation yet! Thank you for this clear video.

If you're a veteran fighting game player you're already lucky to have this in your subconscious and it's something you react to. People new to fighting games have to think about this first and visualize it before they can do it and that's a much longer road.

Love this video! Partner this with James chens concept from his first attack series about picking the right attack in a given situation is like picking the right utensil to eat food. Mash potatoes you can use a fork or a spoon but cereal you got to use a spoon. Keep up the good work! Much love! ❤️

I would definitely appreciate a video about ky kiske's neutral or other characters that you're very good at. I'm pretty new to the game so learning what moves that he can use to win you advantage or trades in neutral would be very interesting!

When the sponsor bit dropped I wasn't looking at the screen and since you were talking about zone 2 I thought you said "and now the game's street fighter 2" and I was about to freakin lose it xD

Yo those annotations went so hard for this video and really helped a lot.

Kizzy do more content like this,it’s really helpful.

Starting from fighterz definitely played a big part in my learning of the neutral game. You'd think not, because of how little you play neurral in that game, but honestly, having to deal with stuff at that speed turns you into a neutral god

4:55 "I miss this game" I only been tryna get a set for forever 😩

3:55 OOOOOOOOOOH

Really appreciated the perspective!

I really like this kind of videos, it would be great to see more tutorial videos like this. Its always awesome to see how different and deep are fighting games even in their fundamentals.

8:13 ooh fax

Neutral is honestly the hardest part in FGs but also the most fun one imo it's here that you use your pokes to whiff punish or just use it and there's nothing more satisfying than a perfectly spaced button or a well timed whiff punish. Neutral is awesome 🙏 (ofc there's more to it than the 2 things i mentioned but y'all get the idea)

0:02 fax

Fighting Games are science, man. I thought after "Mexican Uppercut", "FrameData", "MatchUp-Knowledge" it won't get that much more complicated. Now I'm learning about "Zones" which is some sort of Meta-Knowledge. I gained insight!

Kizzie with the college level fgc info 🙏 working toward that degree

Man, run-up throw is the bane of my life XD

i need more of this analytical content! love concept that are fuzzy in match but get highlighted visually through analysis

Your bread-and-butter is your fastest standing attack. Rely on that and you will definitely increase your win percentage. Anyting slower and you're giving your opponent the advantage. For instance I main Baiken and her slash is her fastest standing normal. I use it as a poke and as a lead up to any combos. Her forward kick is a little slower but has more reach. The best thing you can do is go to Dustloop and look at your characters frame data (look for the attack(s) with the fastest start up and hopefully longest reach) for whatever games you like to play.

Thanks for the informative video I was wondering if you would consider a coaching session I'm having a hard time passing 8th floor in strive I bounce between 6/8 but can't seem to break through. Lmk thanks Kizzie

Your insight is always amazing kizzie, you're my goat. Thank you 🙏🙏

I've been playing fighting games for five years. I knew what neutral and footsies were, but NO ONE ever explained the four zones to me. Thanks for making this video.

this video is actually godlike

4:56 " I gotta say I miss this game" I still play it, but seeing the majority of the FGC ( primarily in the west) lack of interest in the title isn't that surprising to me, since despite many FGC content creators trying to define what objectively makes a good fighting game, the reality is that the answer to that question is going to change depending on WHO you ask, EVEN among pro players. For instance, they are are pro players that only like fighting games that are primarily footsie based, so games like Street Fighter and KOF are games that they are most likely going to love and hate airdashers like BBCF, GGXRD, and MBTL. Personally, I prefer airdashers over purely footsie based ones, since the extra movement gives you more ways to approach the opponent during offense and neutral, but I'm aware it's an opinion that definitely isn't shared by everyone. Though this fact isn't surprising to me, since fighting games are still art and art IS subjective, and what is good or bad is going to VARY from person to person. And one of the things I value in the fighting game is unique characters that set them selves apart from each other, whether that be in terms of movement speed, defense, and ESPECIALLY game plan and unique system mechanics ONLY available to that character. It's one of the main reasons that I didn't like DragonBallFighterZ, since when that game launched the game felt very homongenized, and in that way didn't feel like an Arc System works Title at all, especially when you compare DBFZ to Arc System Work's earlier titles like GGXRD and BBCF where the characters were JUST AS complicated as the universal system mechanics themselves. And it's not just a problem I have with Arc either, since even more newer titles from other developers suffer from this issue I have with Homogenization, with games like the new Melty Blood, and even Tekken 7 suffering from this exact same problem ( infamous FGC Content creator Aris himself ADMITS that Tekken 7 is homongenized). Currently, games like BBCF, GGXRD, and SC6 are my favorite fighting games since all three have what I'm looking for, with BBCF being my number one, since that currently is the most unique fighting game currently out on the market IMO. I say all of this because if your love for the game is not there your chances of wining are MUCH lower, and those people will always be behind the curve of those who ACTUALLY enjoy the game. (High prize pool or not). So as someone who doesn't particularly care for footsie based fighting games in the first place ( like KOF, Street Fighter, DNF DUEL, GBFVS) the recent million dollar announcement for SF 6 doesn't do much for me in terms of motivating me to play the game. The only positive I see is that other fighting game developers may feel the need to have prize pools, to match their competitors to help keep interest in their games for casuals outside a particular community. That being said, I'm happy for Street Fighter fans , GBVS fans with the new update, and footsie based fans in general though. Overall, seeing a solid BB player make content for the game is always a treat. Keep up the grind Kizzie!

keep em coming Kizzie

Hi kizzy if you see this I would like to know how to beat characters with bigger buttons as a brawler based or strike throw characters for instance like Nago vs Gio

Great job!

Hey my brotha congrats on getting 100k I hope sf6 or a new blaze puts you to a milli💪🏾💪🏾

yoo this is great i would love to see more

As someone who's new to fighting games, I really wish strive had an option to toggle hurt and hit boxes in training mode so I can start understanding distances better.

I really appreciate this video, thanks a lot !

this was really helpful

aight kizzie gonna be my new coach

what about a midrange fighter what ranges does the character use i play kof luong , isla and sf3 elena

What about Melty blood what zone is it

keep the theory videos comin brudda

Neutral is easily my weakest part in fighting games rn. Combos i can practice in a lab and such but Neutral is really hard for me

I love videos like this

Love this style of content

Talk about neutral in tekken next!

Mofos in tekken when you get past mid level be trying to play zone 25 for like half the match.

Nice :)

I have trouble playing against players who are lame af and just counter poke.

Great vid! would love one of these for kof (100k subs?!?!?! we almost there)

SF duel sucks, but Kizzie rocks!!!!

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Neutral is so boring 😴😴😴 im just pressing buttons and got hitconfrim