Did I really find this channel? Or did this channel find me...

i'm glad you brought up "mental time" because i feel it's more important than the actual time on screen you can notice in yourself and in other players that when people are on the defensive, there's always a jeopardy timer going on until you go "... fuck that shit i'm going in" --- the short/long fuse you described. the opposite is also true, when people have been scrapping for a while they want to take some time to chill and eat lunch it's super interesting, kind of how you need a moment to build confidence and get back into the action i dedicate this video to Fox players who'll laser 4 times then realize they've become the very things they swore to destroy, as in campers, and attempt the dumbest approach ever.

What an amazing video on such an overlooked mechanic. You've opened my eyes to new possibilities!

I think the one game I've played that times out more than any other is Pokken Tournament. Even at top level and high level play you see time out driven situations extremely commonly, and the time still ticking down during many cinematics only emphasizes how menacing the time really is as an element in the gameplay in that game. I genuinely like it.

Heritage For The Future: “ITS TIME TO S T O P”

7:45 Loved the Tekken transition, "so in tekken right?" lmao

How tf do you have so little subs??? This is legit top tier fgc content

Isn’t 300 seconds 5 minutes? Does the timer in dbfz count down slower than 1 per second?

There was a point in TFH where the game still had the skullgirls timer, which MikeZ specifically made work like the Marvel timer, so time outs literally were not a thing. The Devs then changed this, and it proved to be a boon to characters like Velvet, Tianhuo, and Oleander who are content to just run the clock if need be, and it happens a LOT more often then you'd think at high level play.

Timing your opponent is one of those concepts I heard while training for martial arts but never really saw quantified quite like this. NOW I get an idea of what timing someone means, check their fuse, how aggressive they are, about how long they spend in between movements.

i think Touhou 12.3 is an interesting example of a timer in a fighting game. the way it works is that, rather than just counting down and ending the match, it changes the weather, and weather has a big impact on gameplay. in theory, sure, a game can go on for infinitely long. but because of the way the rest of the game is designed, it almost never becomes an issue.

...and then there's JWong who seems to be able to time out in any game he plays...

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It’s funny, because I used to think that long timers encourage aggression by allowing for the player to not worry about it, but a short timer would also do that because of how a player would want to capitalize on a short time

In the topic of time, something I noticed a while ago while playing competitive Smash Ultimate was how the Spanish ruleset affects it. The community is so afraid of time outs that it was decided the match timer to be 8:00 long, what makes them impossible to attain, as you mentioned. This, in fact, creates an interesting scenario for my main, Robin. She has limited uses in her stuff, but when something runs out, she recovers it after a few seconds. So, when I run out of items in neutral, I just play defensive, even if I am at a disadvantage, cause I know I don't have to be worried about the timer. This, in fact, makes Robin better, since she doesn't have to commit to offense when not fully equipped. I found your channel yesterday and I am having a great time and enjoying your videos a lot. I am now learning sfv and your videos are the perfect background to keep motivation and feeding ideas to think about at work while i wait to arrive home and play again.

I wouldn't say Dark Souls is a weird point of comparison to make when talking about fighting games. I think alot of mentalities that go into Soulslike PvP is decently applicable to certain aspects of fighting games and these similarities are something I have considered for a good amount of time. One of my friends was interested in getting into fighting games, sparked by my rediscovered passion for them, but found herself nervous about getting into the headspace. Knowing that she had played around with Dark Souls 3 PvP alot before, I refer to it as a baseline to help her understand certain concepts easier. Footsies, block-stun, framedata/advantage, wiff-punish, baiting, understanding hitboxes, hurtboxes and I-frames, alot of these ideas apply very directly to DS PvP.

Ha! In Soku, the timer goes faster than real seconds and is influenced by gameplay! Not that it functions remotely similar to other fighting game timers anyways. The timer doesn’t end the round so there is no hard cap on how long a match can take, but it’s also not feasible to run away or block forever.

Hisoutensoku's weather system is a kind of timer that doesn't outright end the game but just makes turtling nearly impossible through changing the rules of the game. Granted this is completely different to your average time system but it functions as one. Assuming both players can block perfectly and noone can break the guard, suddenly weather rules that there is no longer the ability to block and you both have super armour. Or removing the ability to tech and making wakeups deal damage to the person who got knocked down. If you can't find a reason to approach, there's some kind of weather that can change the game *just* enough for you to have an opportunity, and there isn't a problem with turtling. Who's going to say no to securing a win when you have a health lead and you both cannot block

Love the use of “Ain’t nothing like a funky beat”

yo your vids are legit amazing - not a lot of fgc creators on youtube so im surprised youre not more popular! loving your vids

I love your sense of humour, and these videos are a fun way to explore the cool fighting games concepts. Thanks my dude!

A lot of the FGC community takes these concepts for granted, but I'm glad you take the most important aspects of fighting game culture and get us to think about them critically without sounding patronizing or on the opposite end of the spectrum - snobby. This is why you're the best FGC content creator atm

this kind of videos are worth at least 100.000 subscribers , the quality is top-notch .

I was hoping you’d talk about UNI’s grd system- the way it makes you think about the round timer is super interesting

Dude, I can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers, your content is great. Keep it up.

I feel personally attacked 6:19

This is such a great video! Subbed!

Man, I really love your videos. Found you the other day and I'm binge watching these videos. :D

Very interesting topic (that I don't think many people have talked about before)! Also I recently discovered your channel and I've been binging a lot of your videos, great stuff!!

I like how you put in words I understand so naturally. Great video dood.

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Your vids are modern classics True gems

Great insights, well presented. Thanks for all these quality videos!

good stuff, glad to see you've been growing pretty quickly recently, your content is solid and you're engaging to listen to. looking forward to seeing more stuff from you in the future man

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God, wtf this channel is so criminally underrated. Instant Sub. I really hope to see this channel grow.

I absolutely LOVE your content. Your video came across my recommended the other day and i haven't stopped watching you since! Truly amazing stuff 🤩. I would like to make a request for your next video tho, can you please cover "vega" or "claw" and his performance throughout the street fighter games, you know, how he went from the most over powered charecters to low tier? Anyways thanks alot! ❤️

I N-E-V-E-R properly understood fighting games before finding this channel!!!

Love this. Was thinking about how differently I approach timeout as a wincon when I don't have set play tools or when there's great spacing + defense tools.

I just logged in to tell you how awesome your content is. I just found you, saw a few videos, and was like: damn, this might be my favourite content creator. no, really!

I can't believe so much time(haha funny) has passed and I've only now noticed in the clips at 1:00 and 4:13 that that is a match I had when I was playing Ultra 4 a month ago, Very late GG, I guess? Other than that though, great video! It's fascinating to see an analysis of things we usually don't really notice, your other videos are really good too and I always like watching them.

goddamn dude the stuff ive seen from these videos have been extremely high quality and entertaining, the information you present is always delivered so well and i appreciate the guilty gear content that scratches that itch for me, cheers!

I love it when you talk about Tekken

What the fuck, sub-500 subs? I thought this was some big name FGC channel just by the quality of the video. Keep up the great work man, this was stellar

Or Virtua Fighter's 45 sec timer that makes you feel like a bomb disposal agent making you think that if you're going to die anyways at least put some effort into it.

Considering yourself lucky! In Virtua fighter, they had 30 second timers!

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This channel is like the more chill version of Core A Gaming and I like it. Don't forget us when you make it big soon bro

Your channel is a gift. Thank you

I adore weird gimmick characters, (in all sorts of games) so this video made me think about characters with abilities that revolve around time. Like, imagine a heritage for the future sequel or something where all the time stand shenanigan stuff actually messes with the timer, for instance.

You are an incredible youtuber you need more Views and subs keep it up

Great channel, glad I came across it.

I have never played Teken but the 60 second timer scares me...

Nice moves Leon, keep it up!

Pokemon Gen 4 lake music respect Also very nice video

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What an amazing video, please god keep going so I can be like haha I watched u with only 473 subs and also to keep enjoying your content

Diamond/Pearl music is underrated

The timer is part of the reason I love UNICLR. The GRD cycle plays into the timer in an interesting way, where there is now a sub-timer on top of the regular round timer.

Im not that good in fighting games; I just play mostly single player content but damn, do I love your content It feels like content in FGC KZfaqrs is just Tier lists that actually provide no value Thanks and Cheers We will watch your career grow

Wasn't ready for the smöl 🧠 into 4d chess at the end Chief.

An example of a character using the timer to their advantage is Geras from MK11. He has a move, and I kid you not, that makes the timer go down faster. (He takes time away, not making the timer go faster)

I think it would be very cool to see a game implement a very short round timer, but instead of the match ending upon that timer ending, the player with a life lead is granted a very overpowered resource which would make the win ALMOST certain, a game with that system tuned specifically enough might have a certain “zone round, unga round” vibe which might have interesting implications for its cast, where nearly everyone has decent zoning options, but neutral skips are a rarer resource; making them very important for a grappler, for instance.

Good video essay fr

6:20 eh close enough

Sips in Geras's Time Manipulation moves

I'm so surprised by your sub count and view count, I thought it'd be way higher since the video was so well made.

That lethal league music tho

MVC2 Announcer : " Hurry Up ! "

"Look at the timd! Look at the time... Look at it!"

these views are criminal, subbing

I wonder how a fighting game where you and your opponent have a ticking life bar instead of a time limit. It would be really interesting giving someone 99 seconds and it ticks down faster for every hit.

You've transformed me into a defensive clock spammer

Makes me wonder if a variable timer would be good. Like so long as you are engaging with the opponent the timer freezes or slows down. Or conversely you could do the opposite. Wonder how that would play into games.

I HEAR that LLB OST in the background my dude.

I feel like you intended the title to be click bait, but I left much more satisfied then if it was a click bait video, you earned my sub

Lolas in arms: HAHA TIMER GO DOOOOOWN

Ahh I love a good time win! Some people (smash players) hate it, but I think time outs are super hype, cause it shows how rewarding a good defense can be, and the mad scrambles at the end can be really exciting.

Geras in MK11 has a move that can raise or lower the timer by 20 secs once

Kinda surprised you didnt mention Under Night's GRD based mechanic, as its one of the only times I've seen a built in game mechanic built on a timer that happens repeatedly (some cases have things to encourage aggressive play when the timers lower). Since whoever has the advantage gets "Vorpal" which has a number of advantages to it, it kind of encourages similar "low-time" play every 18 or so seconds. Though I'm not an expert on UNI, and I imagine this kind of mechanic being so unique is probably why it wasnt mentioned in the video as it wanted to focus on just the timer generally speaking. Still a cool video though. Its something that not alot of people would think about

Extremely interested now in a fighting game where the two players have separate timers and can eat into their own for extra meter/burst/etc.

Timer goes down grades go down

Hey thatsa funky beat

Man, you gotta look into MK11's Geras. Who actually plays around the Clock with his meter. Either adding or removing time. I find this "time manipulation" quite unique, and im a bit surprised you didn't mention it!

Samurai Shodown 5 Special is a special nutcase because timeouts can and will happen like every other or third round.

fun thing, in fantasy strike rook's charge is actually unsafe on block, you get a free throw or fast move

Nicely done

Melty Blood has no doubt has the best timer mechanic than any other game. The game can usually time out, using meter you can use your burst to stop time for a few seconds and recover your blue health. Which is why the game has so many comebacks its amazing.

I have been playing dbzf for three years and I have never seen the timer go below 100 seconds and I never realized that till now

UNICLR is probably the only FG where I care about the timer, while combos do good damage I think everyone has beefy enough HP and the timer goes down fast enough that it's somewhat common to see a match getting close to timing out and timescams happening. Also infinite blockstun.

0:25 The chances of this are very low as I wouldn't think this phrase is very well known at all in Japan, but this is actually a pretty funny reflection of the "Comic Book Time" phenomenon.

Justing Wong approves

Could've also mentioned that one clock guy from mortal combat who uses the time as one of his main win conditions

You know there’s an MK11 character that manipulates the timer

A great example of how timers are necessary is a particularly infamous game in smash 64 where superboomfan, one of the most respected players in the history of the game, deliberately plays in a defensive style that is almost impossible to approach to call attention to the problem, and his opponent, Gerson, does nothing, so the single match of a best of 5 takes an hour A GODDAM HOUR

I know that i should'nt say this but that yellow square Dragon Ball FighterZ gameplay hurt my eyes

1:43 "Dark Souls 3 isn't even as good as the first one." a man of culture i see?

Ive actually seen a ton of timeouts in GG . Goddamn patient johnny players. I also timeout quite a bit in blazblue. My character enables me

I see cerebrawl in this vid i like and sub.