You Don't Need Reactions to Whiff Punish 

> anime fighters and games that are far less neutral/footsies focused What does this even mean? All fighting games have neutral and of course they have a focus. Both players start a round not hitting each other, and in every fighting game you have to get an opportunity to hit them to reveal itself. You have to open up your opponent to get hit, how does this differ in Anime fighters? Just because it has an air dash?

@@Taziod He probably means that anime games sometimes have instant teleports, running, airdashes for everyone, air blocking etc. Of course they have neutral but there are more ways to skip it

@@Taziod Play DBFZ and tell me that game has a focus on neutral. When I say focus I MEAN focus. Something like DBFZ or even Guilty Gear XRD has much less emphasis on neutral/footsies and much more on one party having an advantage and many ways for characters to entirely skip the neutral game (i.e DBFZ's superdashing, Guilty Gear Xrd's YRCs, etc). Something like Street Fighter has much more focus on neutral, and especially footsies, than those games. That's not to say anime fighters don't HAVE neutral, but they sure don't have nearly as much of it. Street Fighter 6 is the only game I've played seriously that has frequent moments of both parties just moving back and forth rather than attacking at all.

@@Taziod They mean that, by and large, anime games give you stronger tools to transition from neutral to offense. A poke in Street Fighter is usually minus on block and either uncancelable, or has limited combo potential. Whether my poke hits or gets blocked in SF, the most I can typically hope to do is a short combo or frametrap with a fireball or something, and then return to playing neutral. Pokes in anime games are often designed to be easier to convert into pressure or full combos ending in an oki setup. People refer to anime games as "less neutral/footsies focused" because they are usually designed around tools that allow you to consistently and safely begin offense off of a single neutral interaction, as opposed to games like SF where neutral interactions often reset back to neutral unless you're taking a larger risk like a jump in. Is it kinda reductive? Sure, but so is being a pedant about it when what people mean by it should be pretty clear.

​@@Taziod I feel it's cause canceling moves in anime fighters is more lenient so usually blockstrings are longer, there are safe special moves you can cancel, staggering is different; you return to neutral more often than not at the end of it. Stealing turns is more common here than in anime fighters.

It's say it's more because Punish Counter is a thing. The pressure and frame data in SF6 doesn't seem too much different from SFV if I'm being honest, particularly when you add in Drive Rush and burnout which makes things more plus. The fact that punishing someone leads into a easy to confirm big daddy combo is what's different. In SFV and Strive you needed to counter hit them to get that.

I think a lot of newcomers to fighting games are intimidated by terms like frame traps or spacing traps or throw loops when those things aren’t exactly nuclear rocket science that you can only use if you’re ascended to higher spheres. They’re the opposite, they’re tricks you use so you have to think less about those parts of the game. They are handy shortcuts everybody can use, and so can you.

@@GriFFonRec4 This times ten. Neutral in SF6 is super stressful, especially against characters like Ryu, Marisa, and Zangief. Getting caught by a spacing trap and watching them make me pay for it with 50%-60% damage makes me wince so hard. The risk/reward ratio in SF6 is wild.

Damn he's good

Some of yall who say this need to play more tekken lol, so much about tekken is baiting your opponent to do a move and whiff punish

@@zharifafiza5550bro missed the entire point of the video

Yeah this helped so much with my juri I am stuck in platinum trying to elevate my game (been playing fighting games, specifically sf6 for only 2 months) and now I am trying to implement this because I am really bad at footsies and going into a opponents space and punishing there whiff, to the point where I get punished so much for trying to bait but not doing it right but this made that step seem so much easier.

​@@bruselsproutgaming7615bro how do i tell you im experiencing the same thing, i just recently saw the machaboo triangle the other day and i was like "sweet, now my neutral can start to improve" and then suffered. Here's hoping with the implementation of this that it works out better

@@bruselsproutgaming7615 *their

Thanks for the hint!

This is what we did before when there was no frame data available.

Anime players don’t need to learn that lesson, we practically invented it

That split screen gave me the biggest smile

Clutch edits for sure

Multi verse (HUE HUE)🤓

Parry does not shorten pushback, it adds a push to the attacker, the distance between you is the same.

P.S. when you covered your eyes, I hope that was enough evidence that reactions are not needed to convince people XD

You only get to really play the game after you leave the early ranks, until then it's just waiting for the other person to do something dumb and punishing them Neutral in Bronze is just standing still

Or wait for my opponent to burn out from spamming DI. "Oh cool, I can play the Street Fighter video game now."

If you’re using a safe enough move after the spacing trap you can still DI back.

@@EasterDude Also if the button is special cancellable you can just let it rip

@@Sorrelhas In diamond it's still like that

Short answer, yes, long answer, you'll find tools that work on 3-4 characters and cycle those in on a need basis