Why can people play like terminators

[Tyeanisbae]

Something has to be done about the constant phone booth fighting in this game it is a real problem for me. It’s like the only options are to go backwards and get screwed by a cage takedown or fight in elbow range unless you are Stephen Thompson or Jon Jones.

[Brutha_E]

You could try to either cut them off before they come in with leg kicks or straights (stopping power) or try to get a better grasp on the weave and slip mechanics. A lot of people are spamming knees and elbows which i think could be tuned but it is possible to avoid damage from pressure players. Better still if you can effectively punish with clinches they will back off.

[micmuted]

the reason everyone plays like this is because there isn’t enough defensive options to deter the from doing so.

almost all my fights is me just making them miss and sapping their stamina for like the first half of the fight and it just gets boring. the game doesn’t give you any real tools to punish, hence the ‘meta’ being sticking to your opponent like glue firing off nonstop combos

if you’re trying to the patient fighter using skill, timing, movement and defense, you’re seriously fighting an uphill battle. you dodge 99 of their uppercut hook combos? well if the 100th lands and you get flash rocked/dropped all your good work goes down the drain

[BigSmoke]

Get a character with oblique/side kicks to the knee. Been using these against players Jon Jones style and never realized how good they are for keeping pressure fighters off you. Time a couple well and they'll be alot more cautious getting in to range to strike and will give you space, at least from my experience using and experimenting with them the past week or so.

[BigSmoke]

Quote: Originally Posted by micmuted

the reason everyone plays like this is because there isn’t enough defensive options to deter the from doing so. almost all my fights is me just making them miss and sapping their stamina for like the first half of the fight and it just gets boring. the game doesn’t give you any real tools to punish, hence the ‘meta’ being sticking to your opponent like glue firing off nonstop combos if you’re trying to the patient fighter using skill, timing, movement and defense, you’re seriously fighting an uphill battle. you dodge 99 of their uppercut hook combos? well if the 100th lands and you get flash rocked/dropped all your good work goes down the drain

Fighters simply aren't punished enough for walking forward into strikes, until that changes nothing changes.

[micmuted]

exactly there is just 0 reason to NOT march forward

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by micmuted

exactly there is just 0 reason to NOT march forward

Its funny because a lot of top players say its suicide to just march forward.

[micmuted]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

Its funny because a lot of top players say its suicide to just march forward.

i would like to hear their reasons why because i have never seen a top player fight moving backwards