>a newbie at a fightan game is somehow more difficult to fight

>>383571350
Talent, much like IQ, is mostly genetic.

they're unpredictable

Fighting games are for faggots who can't be bothered to learn to fight in real life.

>>383571387
this, if you're playing a shitty fighting game like sf4 then you have to turtle against unpredictable players

Sounds like a lowtiergod excuse

It's not true

With experienced people you can usually take some things as a given. The old mindgame of "if he thinks I'll do X he'll prepare to respond with Y but I'll actually plug his butthole with Z". You'll probably find yourself thinking along those lines if you have the experience, only to get fucked when scrublord suddenly goes for option B instead of anything that anyone with half an idea of what they're doing would go for.

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>>383571350

>>383571709
this

You need to be thinking on a lower level to play with lower level players. The best thing to do against a novice is to NOT get in their head, do not try to predict them and instead punish them on a fundamental level: If they're mashing, wait for something unsafe and punish. If they're spamming, Counter accordingly. If they're not doing either, they're probably slightly above novice level so they might be somewhat predictable, but don't over think it.

Think of it this way, if you're talking to someone whose retarded or hard of hearing, you want to talk slower and clearer, and use simpler words than if you were talking to an employer for instance. Talking at your full capacity to the retard or deaf dude will only make things harder for you.

This is likely the reason why people say you should play with players of equal skill

>>383571387

This exactly, they'll do unpredictable, unsafe attacks that catch you off guard. You have to play defensively and just punish.

>>383571350
You're trying to play mind games with someone who's mindless. As with any game where mindgames play part, you beat newbies by not doing it but instead fucking them up with your superior fundamentals.

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>>383572242
>You ruse that you are a newfag who can't be predicted for the first 10 seconds
>Then you punish the other guy's focus on fundamentals

>>383571350
Bad game design

they arent

if you have more trouble beating scrubs than people who are slightly above scrubs, it probably means you dont think at all when you play and have just found some autopilot pattern to follow rather than actually trying to find out how to beat your opponent

>>383572346

lel at anyone this works on.