This was way harder than getting to Celestial with Potemkin the first time.

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      It was harder to get into Diamond than it was to get into Master, for me. Have this clip from the previous round with this Chun-Li.

      As much as I hate the sentiment that “Master” doesn’t mean “good player”, you can make it in there with some pretty big knowledge gaps, as you can see. This was the first Master I went up against, but since getting in I’ve had people lose to even sillier shit, myself included.

      One thing where I was kinda lucky to have it click somewhere in the middle of Diamond was that I started tapping my parry button along to the beat of people’s combos/blockstrings and that started giving me tons of bonus perfect parries overnight. Prior to making that minor adjustment I didn’t really use my parry all that much outside of matchups with a lot of projectile spam.

      TL;DR: Perfect parry is pretty good, and occasionally be willing to bust out the dumbest plays you can think of, cause people don’t do well against wild playstyle switches.

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      Here’s the outline for the super oversimplified guide I wanna make.

      Please ask me any questions you can think of.

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          Small note: for whatever reason I misremembered which combo was her bnb. It’s intermediate 6, not 11.

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              I meant combo #6 from her intermediate trials. (I get the notation joke, in case you were joking, but I like to be sure.)

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                I wasn’t not joking! I didn’t know people reference the combo trials like that!

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                  Idk if people generally do, but since it’s the most important one, I just happen to have it (evidently poorly) memorized, to be able to tell people where to learn it in-game.

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    Wow congrats! What will you do now?

    I recently got into platinum but have taken a bit of a break from the game. Will probably start up again soon. I’m a bit afraid of climbing up from platinum tho lol.

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      I wanna make a ridiculously oversimplified guide to both Manon, and more importantly my learning process with her as a whole.

      Also I’m looking into going to my weekly locals, cause I’ve run into a couple of those guys on ranked and I didn’t get completely destroyed.

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      It really is. It took me way longer to make the adjustments to get out of Platinum than to get out of Diamond.

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        I’ve heard that. I think I’m stabilizing finally. My biggest improvement came simply by giving myself “tilt breaks.” Meaning, if I lose two sets in a row, I just log off and do something else. If I don’t do that, I revert to flow chart mode and it’s ugly. 🤣😂

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          It’s also incredibly helpful in the long run to train yourself to get hype over little wins that have nothing to do with whether the results screen says you won or lost.

          Example: I still suck ass at anti-airs, but rather than get upset that people can jump in on me all the time, I’ll pop off for myself if I even correctly react (meaning I recognized the jump was coming and I started to reach for the button), let alone if I actually successfully anti-air them.

          Same with any time I learn a new combo or new interaction like jabbing Cammy out of her heavy target combo. Even remembering that I CAN jab is a win. Then actually jabbing her out was another win, and then when I realized I could jab into light hit grab that was another, then actually executing that was ANOTHER win.

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            Thanks. I’ll keep that all in mind. I know what you mean. All along the way I’ve had little wins even while losing (especially when it comes adding drive rush to my game and reacting to drive impacts). I’m two wins from Platinum 4 after being stuck in 2/3 for awhile.

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              especially when it comes adding drive rush to my game

              On this note, if you’re not doing it already as your primary combo, do her intermediate 6 combo trial, but with 5MP starter instead of 5MK. Then you can buffer drive rushes behind your pokes and confirm into it for free medals. Or if they block you still get to DR in and command grab the shit out of them.

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                I’m playing Ken but my friend who I’m trying to get into SF6 is playing Manon. I’ll pass this info on.

                I finally cracked platinum 4 last night 💪🏼