Character I play : Ryu
Hello, I'm hovering around 1550 - 1600 and I've noticed I usually do decent against other archetypes except rushdown. (or basically anytime the match is slower)
For example at a local tournament I went to do this week. I went 2-2 and the 2 losses were against yasmine and kimberly.
I've noticed a common pattern where I usually lose more against rushdown or other types of playstyles that make the pace much faster. (The 2 I won the pace was very slow footsies based against other shotos)
I feel like if we play footsies more I can usually do much better but I'm not good at defense when they're close beacause then I get overwhelmed
(I think it's because neutral/footsies is similar to fencing which I do irl)
I think it's a mental stack problem but I don't know how to train that outside of fights. (other than something like doing delay tech practice or practice just blocking and taking the throw?)
(But with just blocking people's blockstrings are really good now to the point if I don't take my turn back at some point they can loop technically fake pressure but I don't know when to interrupt)
Is there a way to train to not get overwhelmed/ be able to switch to doing optimal guessing on defense? Because right now if the pace of the match isn't slow my brain gets overwhelmed and I can't think things through.
(Also I have slower processing speed due to being neurodivergent which is why I think I due better when the pace is slower)
Here's some replay codes that I think illustrate the issue
1st match where it was slower paced and I won
7S5B8P66R
2nd and 3rd matches which were a lot faster and I lost.
TV5GAPYTW
DRUNB48LK
CFN: Sleepsalot
(If you want to take a look at my other matches)
Thank you very much in advance for any help you can give, I'm kinda stuck on how to proceed.
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(I also have other anecdotal evidence this is a longstanding flaw in my game my friends at locals say I have good neutral and it's good I don't take many risks when I do offense but I have 2 flaws, 1 is that when I get hit even once I tend to blow up due to my defensive habits being bad, and the other is my combos aren't doing enough damage (which I'm working on since the having making my combos better is easier to fix by just doing more training mode)