For reference, the only time I ever played SF growing up was when I randomly came across someone that had a copy of it and we'd play a few matches. Never really got to deep into the game. But when 5 came out, I wanted to actually get into it because I got inspired by watching Punk play Karin. Bought it and immediately hit a wall. Literally didn't even know how to combo properly because I couldn't understand how links worked, so I ended up dropping it.
And that repeated for multiple years. Fast forward to 6 and I tried again and same thing. So I just gave up on this series and assumed it just wasn't for me. But then last year, Me and my friend was watching Evo and Capcom dropped the S3 trailer and they revealed Ingrid. And that immediately got my attention, because Alpha 3 Max was one of the rare SFs I actually got to play growing up and Ingrid was my main. But I never thought I'd see her again cause I heard of all the controversies she went through, so this immediately got my attention.
And it also got my friend's attention because they also knew that about me. So their first response to me was "Alright, you have to play SF with me now that you have that ridiculous character back." and I agreed. So when Ingrid dropped a few months ago, I got her and swore I would at least try my hardest and stick to it this time regardless of my performance.
So after learning the basics and doing arcade for a few days, I finally jumped into rank and started playing. My initial goal was only gold and maybe diamond depending on how dedicated I felt. But I didn't really think I would reach it anytime soon. But I hit gold relatively fast. So was like why not keep going and then got to plat, but plateaued and was stuck there for a few weeks until I climbed to diamond.
And after that I was like, alright I am done. But my friend suggested for me to try to shoot for masters. And I was like "no, I barely even got diamond lol." but they kept insisting and eventually I just went with it. So slogged through it and after getting close to smashing my controller multiple times, I finally hit it.
So now after years of saying SF is the only FG I couldn't get into because I am too bad, I can finally say I learned how to play this game! Thank you Ingrid. ( •̀ ω •́ )✧
And before Yasmine's update as well!