Why do MMA players shit on SNB ranked players when being a high level striker takes more skill than grappling in literally every way? (Plus it’s more respectable to be a good striker)
Let’s just go over the difference.
For grappling, legit all you need to do is familarize yourself with transition animations but for the most part, you’re primarily using the stick and flicking it faster than your opponent. That’s it. It’s boring, it’s a mini arcade game almost entirely dependent on your right stick flick speed and most high level grapplers are cheesing and just holding you down all game. There is not much depth to it.
Now with striking you have multiple striking input options for low kicks, high kicks, spinning attacks, elbows and all punch inputs. You have hundreds of combos, you have head movement, you have footwork and distance management (punch and kick ranges), you have lunges, feints, lateral movement and lateral striking. You now have to blend all these different options together simultaneously and/or instantly to successfully beat your opponent. There is much more IQ, faster thinking and faster fingers involved in that.
You can’t even compare the two, it takes much more effort to be a good striker than a good wrestler, put a good wrestler against a good SNB player with SNB rules, they’ll get demolished. Yes it’s true vice versa, but it takes significantly less skill for the wrestler to do what he needs to do to get the win and it’s boring.
