The Misadventures of a Loli and Her Bucket

Lesson #1: Playing Persona 4 Arena (P4A) while drinking makes me less stressed out during matches, but I seem to get really reckless in what I can do. Not to mention any sense of performing combos seems to go right out the window. I still won a couple matches, but man, I ended up losing a lot of matches, too.

My win/loss ratio in P4A is nothing to marvel at, especially since most of my matches have been played while under the influence of alcohol… or have been played by my friends when they’ve just been hanging out while we’ve all been drinking. Most of my best matches have been on Tyler’s PSN account. My win/loss ratio with Teddie on there is better than on my own personal account. I’ve also noticed that I can play better as Teddie on his account, but I do a lot better with Yukiko on my own personal account.

I’m really starting to like playing as Yukiko. Even though I was so bad at it with Lambda-11 in BlazBlue, I seem to do a really good job of it with Yukiko. I love setting up traps, I love tricking the opponent into falling for my traps, and I love endlessly harassing my opponents with Yukiko’s fans. It’s almost, in a way, worse than me trolling online as Teddie. Teddie’s unblockable is annoying for sure, but few things annoy people as much as me not letting the opponent get close to me because I’m endlessly pelting them with Yukiko’s fans from every direction humanly possible.

I also actively started using my anti-air attacks with my characters, which has also effectively improved my game just a little bit. It seems like a lot of scrubby players were catching a lot of people off guard just by air dashing in instead of just mashing A. Now I seem to be doing a lot better against people who just mash A and people who just air dash in then mash A. At least this is somewhat comforting.

I ended up doing a lot of research on the mechanics of the game on Friday before getting some training in. This was probably one of the most beneficial things that I’ve done since getting the game. Since I understand a lot more of the mechanics of the game, I have a better idea of how to play against other characters. It is still a lot to think about, and I do still freeze up when I’m trying to process a bunch of pieces of information as rapidly as I need to, but I’m feeling good that I can take the knowledge that I’ve obtained so far to apply to my game. I just need to take the time to feel it out before it becomes second nature.

I’ve been a little distracted since I recently picked up Sleeping Dogs, but I can’t let my training falter any time soon. Gotta keep reading, gotta start practicing the combos I researched, and I gotta keep playing other people to get a better feel of what I can get away with. I should probably start watching more match videos and streams, while I’m at it…

Tags: FGC, P4A, Video Games

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