It's like what my music teacher says: You don't practice until you CAN do something RIGHT, you practice until you CAN'T do it WRONG.

To me Realizing how to do a quarter circle was the equivalent to being a toddler and suddenly gaining sentience. I just woke up one day and knew how to do it.

i remember when i first found out about motion inputs... i was in the cafeteria in HS, playing bbtag and mashing when suddenly i did Rubys hyper shot. I was astounded that i did something different so i kept fiddling trying to find out how i did it until i figured out how to do motion inputs... it was like a caveman discovering fire

babe wake up new gekkosquirell video just dropped

5:30 as a body player it isn't me staying calm and having solid mental, its literally pure muscle memory while i panic

When GekkoSquirrel drops it’s always good

The folly of considering execution a downside reminds me of Exdeath in the psp Dissidia games. His shtick was he could parry almost any move in the game, but his best parry is only active fir a couple frames, balanced right? No, because if you were the kind of person who would practice his parries to excess, he was actually untouchable. This is why I think his slow movement and attack speed outside of counters was justified. He was very good if you got his execution down, but still had flaws before you got him in a winning position. To have execution be your only downside is distilled "the only people playing this have been playing since launch five years ago" syndrome.

Over a decade into the genre, and I can easily say that I love my execution, I love my strategy (with most characters I play... I'll get back to that), and I'm not the best at a heart play style... Now... The exception to me liking strategy is when I play Naoto in BBCF... I literally just wanna hit you and attempt to confirm into combos that should simply not be attempted in real matches... Like... Naoto HAS some seriously messed up tech that I could loop... Or I could just run in and funny execution showcase by going for combos even most other Naoto players don't wanna learn much less try in real matches... And needless to say... My Naoto... sucks. Edit: Spelling.

Btw Naoto Kurogane is easy. At lower levels due to not needing to learn his optimal stuff to perform his game plan. It’s once you get serious with playing him he becomes hard. Edit: another character who falls into a similar category too Naoto gameplay wise is Jubei. (I don’t main him so take this with a grain of salt) Due to some of his most important specials requiring super inputs and are constantly used mid combo and as starters. Also the unique movement he has access to makes him quite mobile and harder to learn all his approach options. (Not that much harder) He also has an instal that changes his moves fundamentally making people learn 2 different sets of offence. Last big thing is having one of the worst defences in the game due to always being in the crouching state. However his game plan is a really simple one too understand and having a Jesus Kick of his own (2B) and a few other strong buttons. He is essentially a glass cannon.

Body Players: "I spent 20 hours in training mode to learn these perfect combos" My ADHD ass: "Have you guys ever heard of the definition of insanity?" But seriously, there's no way in hell I can sit in a training room for hours on end and just lab out combos like that. I can barely sit myself still do wash the dishes ffs

Finally the last of the trilogy is here! Personally, body is definitely my weakest area of the 3 types. I'm mostly a brain and heart player. What character/game I'm playing and how the opponent plays will effect how much brain/heart I am. If I were to rate myself, it'd be 8 for heart, a 7 for brain, and a 3 for body. Very bad at inputs which limits my options and often forces me to adapt to my fingers messing up, but my mental game usually lets me condition/read my opponents like a book. Whether I just pulled off something I've been practicing for months, or witnessing someone else's effort they've spent years on perfecting their inputs, I just feel nothing when seeing someone properly doing some crazy combos. I just sorta feel like you're expected to do these things because they are in the game, and they are needed to even start the more complex sides of mental games which is actually the really interesting thing to me. I think this is just because when I was growing up I'd just "master" a game and move onto the next, and the execution barrier is very low for most genres of games compared to fighting games, which made me not care about execution barrier. If you can't care about something, then it's nearly impossible to be interested, which makes it significantly harder to focus on it to improve. With that said, I'm trying to improve in that area now, I've neglected it for too long. I normally play smash and it does have some execution barriers if you want to optimize your character so you can contend with the best. However I get distracted by the mental game too much in it (also since I can only play opponents online without rollback in smash, it's hard to feel rewarded for practicing those combos/inputs). So I've been putting up traditional fighting games when they go on sale lately since they have a harder emphasis on execution usually, hoping to find a way to enjoy the learning process of combos and precise inputs. Tekken 7 gave me a morale boost when I was able to do Electric Wind God Fists since everyone talks about that being so hard to do. Dragonball FighterZ sped up my fingers a lot since it lets you be very spammy with auto combos. Getting fingers used to the speed required for speedier inputs in other games, and if my emotions start dipping when combos aren't working, at least I'll still be beating up a guy so I don't feel quite as demoralized. I have a strong mental game, but the moment I start doubting myself, I fall apart really fast. Other people can't make me doubt myself unless I perceive them as not a threat and I make mistakes at them like they are a training dummy. Guilty Gear Strive I just barely got but I've been wanting it a bit so it'll keep me engaged in the traditional fighter gameplay style. This might not make sense, but it seems like the most "smash like" traditional fighter to me. Gotta pick a main now though, it's the only fighter outside of Smash that has given me trouble to find someone I can call a main. Was originally going to go Jack-O since she had the strongest and most reasons to main before I picked up the game, but after playing everyone, they are just too different to compare with each other and I love them all so I might be going back into the main crisis for Strive.

Is anybody gonna acknowledge the cat-ear Giovanna in training mode? At 4:35 to be more accurate.

Allow me to share the story of my first time dedicating myself to a fighting game. It wasn't long after my birthday, I was probably somewhere between 11 and 14 at the time, and went to spend my birthday money at a local gamestop, in which I wound up buying Marvel vs Capcom 3. I was already interested in street fighter and figured the best way to introduce myself to the series was through something that had spider-man in it. So I quickly fell in love with the game. I don't know if it was by default, but my controls were set to the easy-auto mode allowing me to do cool combos just by mashing the same couple buttons. After a few days I noticed that the moves list had so many more attacks and supers than I had been able to pull off, so I went to the training mode and started practicing, trying to figure out how to throw spider-man's web ball, or use Akuma's raging demon. After a bit I realized I had to use the more difficult playstyle if I wanted to use the better abilities, and so I switched and began memorizing the specials of my favorite characters. And that is what led me to today, being a Body based fighting game player who knows a bunch of cool combos I can never pull off in a real match

**me as a 3D fighting game player still running away from motion inputs**

Johnny's Xrd theme over the Daigo parry made me feel things. Man I love that song.

So this is why it feels Difficult to pull off some moves after Character Nerfs are implemented; The Execution changes (Be it Duration or Range or Both) and that makes The Moves feel more Off than they should be.

My man really made an entire videos for lab players to tell them learn basic neutral

I like how Juri’s theme for sfv, first part at least, works as background music for a video

no they don't need to be top tier, but they need to be better than the average

Funny enough I had spend 3 days to re learning to walk when I was like 8 BC I woke up one day and couldn't use my legs

That edit of Evo moment 37 is amazing. Makes it look even cooler than it already is. Pleeeeeease, release that one as a short.

i learnt how to do a shoryuken input from my dad! i could not get it down, until he told me "just tap forwards and then do a hadouken input" and ta-da, consistent shoryukens

Been waiting for this banger to drop

A lot of your vids inspire me to keep trying

3:03 reminds me of back when I first started playing fighting games and I learned one optimal combo and nothing else and would get mad when I lose

It only took until now to realize the voice saying "heart" "mind" "body" after the intro is the lain titlecard voice.

The video was amazing. But did you *have* to cut off Stand Unrivaled just before the bridge?

Isn't body also about crazy reaction, like not only punishing a fireball from verry close with a move that goes under or is proyectiles invul, but also being able to whiff punish moves that have an ending lag that's doesn't looks like it should be punished with consistancy on hit, I just feel like execution is only the front cover of the body player.

I still remember the day when daddy sakurai taught me how to play fighting games while basically making his own KoF

The Trilogy is complete!

Heart based players aren't mental at all,they're emotional. It's about the feeling.

I've waited months for this goddamn video

Outside of Implying that HC is balanced, Great Vid

Yoooo new gekko vid

I just watched all three of your videos in this series, and I never really thought about all this. I've been playing Fighting Games for about a decade and only have been semi-serious about it for about half. After watching this I realized that I am 95% a body player. I bought Guilty Gear Strive just a couple weeks ago only because the moding scene for the game is amazing( including GG Strive Plus since I hate Strive's base gameplay) and because it was on sale. ALL of my time since I got it was spent in Training Mode trying to perfect combos like most fighting games I play. While I do, do well this made me take a deep look at myself and realize that I need to break the habit of putting so much emphasis on combos and execution of those combos. This series has seriously helped. Thank you so much

I just finished watching all three of your videos on this topic, and I want to make some observations about myself and my friend group. [Swerve] Heart 4/5, Mind 3/5, Body 0/5 I have made attempts to address all three aspects. I do not like to spend time in Training Mode, but I gain a lot of experience through playing with those stronger than me. However, if something is confusing or complicated, I will spend time in Training Mode, and find completing Combo Trials very satisfying. However, I am almost consistently unable to commit my combos to memory to the point that I can pull them out on a whim, and I have NEVER been especially good at responding to pressure. I am at my best when I am able to calculate what my best next option is, using Knowledge Checks very often (Uzuki will learn to play 2-3 characters per game and know JUST them, Bane sometimes struggles with complicated mechanics), and when something isn't working, I change up my game plan. However, at my core, I tend to approach situations with the Heart mindset, in that I oftentimes will just throw things out to see if they work, and that I am at my best when I can learn the enemy's playstyle and respond to it. Nevertheless, when I cannot think because of the enemy's pressure, I rely on my instincts and fundamentals. I am prone to shouting and chatting during a match, reacting bombastically and reaching for the hype, but usually having fun unless I am forced to remain silent (or play the same character exclusively). I tend not to feel defeatist unless I feel like I have no options at any time, I am getting infinited, or I am playing YuGiOh. I gravitate towards gimmicky characters and mid-to-low tiers. [Bane] Heart 5/5, Mind 0/5, Body 2/5 Very strong pressure game, tends to rely on fundamentals of a game, but uses them to the level that if you try to get fancy, you will get burned. If he finds that something is working, he will not hesitate to use whatever tactic he can to win. However, he sometimes does not understand the games he plays well; He does not understand what a "quarter circle" is, but knows how to use the special moves of fighting game characters regardless (Ex: When playing Skullgirls and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. He will circle camp in Smash Bros and calls it "Playing like a survivor," but oftentimes doesn't even realize that there is a timer in the matches he does this with. Despite this, even though he will usually stick to the very basics of the games he is playing, he will use them optimally; In P4AU he uses characters with fast disjointed pokes like Sho and Ken, and will keep you just out of arm's reach, then simply autocombo you until you're KO'd. If you start to block or counter him, he will start to mix in throws or add a projectile to keep you guessing. When he isn't doing well he gets into a defeatist attitude regardless of the game, but if you underestimate him or his fundamentals, or you leave him aside for too long, he will get a lead you can't come back from shockingly fast. Gravitates towards characters that he has a personal taste for regardless of tier, but tends to stick to high tier, low execution characters. [Arkos] Heart 3/5, Mind 1/5, Body 3/5 The biggest gorilla out of my friends. Arkos is all about reaching for that hype. Arkos does not lab out techniques. He does not learn long combos. He simply fights. And he often wins. He will often know the most about the games he plays and will have the mechanics figured out to a t, and he is a master of throwing out moves you aren't expecting even if you're waiting for him to use it. There isn't as much to say about Arkos because he does not play as wide a range of fighting games, but in Smash Bros he is the master of the mindgame; Using Charizard, he will demolish you with the unexpected Flare Blitz, then condition you into expecting it, then while you are waiting to counterplay it he will up his pressure to attack the new weaknesses you've opened up. I have virtually never seen him get upset at a fighting game; he is happy no matter who is winning, and he is happiest when something completely off the wall or hype happens. Gravitates towards characters who are hype, regardless of tier. [Uzuki] Heart 0/5, Mind 5/5, Body 2/5 The player I know with the biggest focus on learning the game, but also the most silent. Uzuki is a very skilled, very impressive player that I find myself losing to most of the time, because he will pick up 2-3 characters per game and focus on learning them to their deepest point. He does not learn long, difficult combos, but he gravitates towards higher tier characters and uses every tool available to him to become as skilled as he can. However, because of his tunnel vision on the more metagame centric characters as well as who he chooses to play, he often has no idea what the other characters in a game are able to do, so he is susceptible to Knowledge Checks when playing against low tiers that aren't often used. In Smash, he does not enjoy playing with items and hazards (though he does share my love of Palutena's Temple), and lacks adaptability to non-sterile enviroments, but his ability to read and learn other peoples' playstyles is exceptionally good. Tends to make excuses when he loses, and is often completely silent in concentration when playing unless something completely bizarre that makes him laugh happens. Gravitates to high tier characters that he can reliably win with; he has occasionally dabbled in lower tier characters, but if he starts losing he often returns to high tiers.

Never noticed that the name thing was a no more heros reference until now lol

This commentary brings me joy

Glad to see this is finally here! Time to become the master fighting game player!!

Ahh, EVO moment 37. A beautiful example of godlike execution combined with top-notch mental play.

Shit, I started playing fighting games (GGST) just like a month ago :-D still have yet to learn to understand the fighting game lingo So I have yet to reach the level when I can input a move without mistake or consistantly, I mostly press what I just feel like and it works sometimes, althrough I ofc try to learn the inputs, and it get rly satisfying when I manage to use a special move on first try :DD btw great vids, they got me to play the game! Keep it up

Body players aren't just execution and nothing else. Reaction speed is another big aspect of what makes body players stand out

I actually had to relearn how to walk when I broke my leg as a kid. It was the most frustrating experience.

Unrelated, but I can't hear the first song without thinking of the "Balls in my jaws" song lol

This has always been my hardest part. I do not get nearly as much off my successful interactions as I could in any game I play because I'm wired to play counter poke characters, not combo but just use a big, hard hitting normal to wiff punish and then maybe beat out a wake up option with fast buttons or punish a wake up DP.

my brain isnt registering the background music as from guilty gear is it akira otoishis theme from allstar battle?

awesome vid! now can we get a video on BASED fighting game players?

“Discombobulate” “Head empty, no thoughts” “Think Mark” That’s how I see the three

Music of 7-30? Great video btw i have a friend that is this type of player literally xddddd

"conditioning enables your doing what your heart feels and checks where your mind sends signals." - Capacity 😊

Jokes on you I practice combos until I'm dead, it's 4:30am, and I still consistently drop combos because "AHHH IM GOING TO DIE IF I DONT LAND THIS" Basically I get to anxious when playing real people xD

this is literally how to behemoth typhoon 101

I'm surprised iceclimbers were never mentioned

wait you guys can do motion inputs consistently?

i love ur outros so much}

I never had a problem with fireball input, I got it instantly, but man DP input took me like 2-3 months before making it consistently on ONE side.

Anyone know the song @7:30. P.s. nice vid

I did lol. I remember going from a masher to middle or high level nago player

GEKKOOOOOOOOOO[OOO I JUST RAILED A LINE IM READY DONT 4GET THE PERSONA MUSIC AT THE END MY DUDE WOOOOOO

I'm sure this is a stupid question, but is there a conversation to be had about supers in fighting games? I've seen every other inch of fighting games talked about except for supers (aside from ha ha look at the funny super)

Are longer combos such as in BBCF hard to execute or hard to remember due to it's length?

HOLY SHIT IT'S HERE

So basically this is the player who didnt practice 1000 combos once but the player who practiced one combo 1000 times

So, as far as I get it: Players of heart - I care about fun! Players of mind - I care about interaction between our characters. You could even say our matchu- no wait come back Players of body - I care about MY character. I wanna look good, that is all.

So... are we just not talking about the dog ears on training room Gio?

0:20 I bought MK11 on Switch Back Forward Button *WHY* AM I FAILING THAT?! I play KOF and BBCF, fr crying out *COUNTER!*

I'm constantly thinking about how I breathe LOL

At last, the Holy Trinity is complete. 🙏

anyone got the song that starts at 4:01 ?

I just do what feels right in my hands only slightly moderated by my brain saying hey don't do that option 7 times in a row

sick vid

How does someone fast RC without having the character do a move like at 9:18 ?

and here i am still trying to figure out how to do 623 inputs consistently

LETS GOOOOOO

I’ve seen all three videos, and I’d say I’m roughly 66.6% Heart, 33.3% Body, and 0.1% Brain. I am full Unga Bunga all the way.

Me: *watching some long very informative video on YT* > GekkoSquirrel uploads Also Me: Fuck this noise. LET'S GOOOOOOOO BA-BEEEEEEEE GIMME THE MEMES!

anyone know the song starting at 6:26 ? this is killing me.

Lol been playing fighting games for 20 years I think I'm a mix if body and think wen I have to player lol. Work smarter not harder

howd you come up with the name gekkosquirrel anyways? is that your sona?

0:12 i am 10 % angrier now

Imagine naoto with a dash button

As a floor 2 chaos main I make my way to floor ten and literally try to see what works and what doesn’t work against the pros and lemme tell you..I get bodied like there’s no tomorrow..at least my blocking is ok.

ya boy uses his body and heart (brain not included)

as a naoto main I agree but counter agreement ehm DP

I still cant do dp

So I wonder will you make a gimmick character video or something?

wild

My first fighting game was mk and I had no idea what -> v meant

execution is fun :D

I've never personally understood the struggle of using motion inputs. They've always just clicked as a natural thing, but i did grow up on thps so idk

6:49 - 6:53 *sees the 2S spam speed* I hate it. I despise it. Why did they do that? *cries in UMA*

going to watch different videos, I am definitely not a body player *:). Nice one tho, quite informative

Imagine all fighters since forever with tough hard execution control systems and mechanics but now imagine those fighters but with simple pick up and play control systems and mechanics, it would transform the genre since forever. Just think motion inputs probably would have never happened. It's sort of fun imagining the fighting game genre in a different light, well we have DNF Duel now and that's a clone of fighters with simple control systems but have solid game mechanics, I wonder will we get anymore?? But maybe these "body" based fighting game players will not want them because their love is for the execution....Just have to wait and see the next era of fighters??

Took em 3 months to complete the trilogy. Was it worth it?

Using the Moon Theme for a horrible accident. DuckTales noooo

after watching all the trilogy I can summarize that I'm a body/heart player. 'Cause I'm a Gio main and I'm a fool.

My god awful coordination is what truly prevents me from gettin into FG (i panic ult in shooters ALL the time, fuck i cant get consistent special moves after tens of hours), body players are what i aspire to be

Naoto is my go to BlazBlue character cuz I love characters with way too many consecutive motion inputs. It's just really satisfying, physically, to pull off. Am I good? Lol, absolutely not.

No love for XX I-no?

I remembered something that happened while I was playing Dreamcast DOA with my neighbor friends NF: I forgot. . I FORGOT "What?" NF: I forgot... How to do... THE IZUNA DROP! He said .. as he performed THE WHOLE SEQUENCE. XD Ooh, another one! Me playing JoJo fighter on PS1 I got full meter... Maybe I could do Jotaro's... "ROAD ROLLER DA!" Me: o_O [I blocked. It] Star platinum ZA WORLDO Instant recall from PANIK WTF XD