A Street Fighter Rant

I love the Street Fighter series, I love every aspect of it. Except the following the gimmick and lamer players.

I don’t know if these are words used in the SF scene, frankly I don’t give a shit. I’ll anyway explain what I mean by gimmick and lamer.

 
Gimmick

Gimmick players are the ones you realize straight away that they’ve practiced the hell out of one or two combos for their main character. You notice it by their turtling and the way the always hang back, waiting for you to whiff a move so that they can punish you in their most stylish way: only using special moves, and their combos practiced to hell and back.

Now, I’m not saying these guys are good, nor do they beat me very often, I just find it so fucking boring to play them. They stand there, moving back and forth within an inch, and they crouch and stand back up rapidly, just to try and catch you jumping in on them or whiffing a move. Meh, it’s as boring as playing turtles.

Do not mistake this as a player knowing his footsies. Footsies is a good thing. This is different.

 
Lamer

The lamers, now they’re something entirely different. They are the ones that are good, but have extremely poor sportsmanship. Only hunting for the Player Points, Battle Points, rank and achievements/trophies. You’ll start noticing the lamers when you fight them in ranked matches. They’ll beat you silly, and are constantly coming back to fight you over and over, because they know they can beat you and rack up some easy points.

Excessive use of taunts after realizing you are little to no match for them is also common for the lamers. I myself also do taunt. I don’t do it often, and I only do it after whiffed Ultras and Ex-Specials. I’d rather want a good match than taunt excessively and be fucking stupid towards other players.

 
These factors have now made me only play a ranked match once per player, per day. This applies in my case both as a challenger and being challenged. Win or lose; it’s one match only, then on to the next challenger.