Epidemic of players whose entire gameplan is to walk away and do nothing
I want to start by saying that this isn't an especially EFFECTIVE strategy. I beat these kinds of players about as often as I lose to them. But is IS exceedingly fucking annoying. Basically from round start, their first and only prerogative is to walk backwards as far away from me as possible. It doesn't matter if they do or don't have a projectile. their main objective is to maintain distance from me and then do nothing. The idea, of course, is to make me press a button first. As soon as I whiff, they're on me like a shark that smells blood, and after the interaction we reset to stage 1 ie: fucking nothing. I remember dealing with this "you press a button first so I can react and punish you" shit back when I played smash ultimate, and it was a decent part of why I stopped playing that game. It's a real shame to see the same kind of behaviour here. It's a fucking fighting game, people! FIGHT ME!!!
And if you're curious, this is occuring at master rank (1300-1500) with a variety of characters (Ryu, Marisa, Mai, Sagat) so this isn't just a case of noobstrats either.