u/Actual-Beginning-726

How am I supposed to enjoy ranked

Maybe I'm just seething and coping right now, but oh my goodness the amount of unfun characters to fight is insane to me. I play Katalina, to start. My anger is partially because I have no clue how to deal with some of them, but it's also just the design of these things. Earlier today I kept getting queued with the same Nier player, and eventually figured out how to beat them every time, but before that, they just stayed away, crouched and blocked and if I jumped to do one of my like 2 overhead attacks they'd just stand up real quick. Then they would use Death and pull me into that STUPID slash combo that they can just do 3 times before she goes away and does a whole third of my health with no escape. Then now I go against a yuel who when I attack her and she blocks, she can punish my attacks, but when I block or even dodge her attacks, and try to punish hers, I somehow still end up being the one who gets hit??? Then a Verususia, who also just sits there and blocks, I try to break, she counters, I try an overhead, stand up, I try to chip her with my projectile, she uses her ground beam and my porjectile is gone, then she starts spamming the one that goes under me and if I try to dodge away I still get hit, block, chip damage, there's nothing I can do. It just feels so annoying and everyone fights so cheap and dirty I can't stand it. I know I just need to "get good" and learn how to deal with things better but at the same time it feels like nobody has to learn how to deal with what I can do because there's nothing absurd like that in my kit and I don't play like a bum loser who resorts to cheap tactics.

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I want to start off saying I don't hate the developers of either of these games, nor do I hate the communities. It irrationally annoys me to see that people are still THIS rabid over GTA 6 when they have delayed it countless times, because I know it will do well regardless of it's actual quality because it's building up MORE hype the longer it takes rather than the hype dying down, meaning it might make other companies follow in delaying their games. I know there's a reason and they want the game to be perfect, I respect that, I just find it hard to understand how the community wants it this badly, but I didn't get into GTA 5 like that.

Silksong, probably the bigger example here in a way, got announced, then we barely hear from the devs, silksanity follows, memes carry the hype, game releases and while it's good, people ignore any issues with the game and all criticism purely because they've been waiting so long, claiming everything to be a skill issue and nothing else.

u/Actual-Beginning-726 — 26 days ago