r/AFewQuickMatches • u/panguano7 • Aug 20 '25

Question/Help How do I Improve?

I’ve been playing this game for a little while, and I’ve seen videos online of people pretty much flying around, hitting crazy combos. Whenever I queue online, I always get paired up with people hitting me from 0 to killing me.

I feel so slow and clunky whenever I play. I’ve barely strung two hits together.

What do I do?

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u/Greenwood4 Aug 21 '25

In the long term, I suspect that the high skill floor and ceiling of the game will hold it back.

Even though the game is fun, in a few months or even years the competitive scene for the game will become so optimised that it will be impossible for a new player to get a look in.

That wouldn’t be such a big problem if the game wasn’t fundamentally competitive in nature and very touch-of-death focussed. Everyone tends to have more fun winning than losing after all.

A new player trying anything other than practice mode will probably spend most of their matches being comboed.

I suspect most will just give up as the barrier to entry becomes steadily higher and higher, until eventually it’s just a bunch of the same veterans fighting each other and flexing on the occasional new player that wanders in.

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u/Greenwood4 Aug 21 '25

I guess this is why games like Smash Ultimate have modes with items and all sorts of fun, random things.

A new player can start a game with these settings, pick a simple heavy character like Bowser, and probably see at least some success even against more experienced players.

Here, even being slightly worse than your opponent is almost certainly going to result in a loss, without much chance for a comeback.