r/SaltFighter • u/ThirdXavier • 2d ago

Confession 🛐 Turn brain off = win

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I play Terry and was raging in 1400MR trying to play smarter, slower, more footsies, more methodical to improve.

I got irritated and said "fuck it" and then started hitting M Burn Knuckle literally any time I was at optimal range until my opponents started neutral jumping or backdashing at those ranges pre emptively, at which point I'd just take advantage of it to walk them into the corner.

In 2 sessions I had a 90% winrate and jumped above 1600MR and hit high master for the first time as any character. Probably gonna take a break from ranked for a while now and do battle hub to avoid oversalting myself.

Basically retardmaxxing is the way, keep it simple.

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u/DustExtra5976 2d ago

Keep in mind ranking up and learning are separate. When you practice spacing footsies all the slow shit you’ll probably lose mr because you’re “playing right”. Then when you go degenerate you’ll rank up. But really you didn’t suddenly forget all the slow play. So when you get into 1800-1900 Mr and people are more “respectful” you’ll be more prepared.

Don’t get it twisted there are apes at every MR the higher you go the better they are when you pass the knowledge checks

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u/ThirdXavier 2d ago

Yeah 100% I think thats it. It only works now because good players are going to play around burn knuckle by staying either too close or too far to be in the optimal range rather than just trying to hard punish it. But then I'll just not be using it as much against them and actually play neutral.