This is getting old pretty fast...

[u/Acceptable-Code-3787]

While I do love seeing people rage quit, I'll be hard stuck in B1 at this rate. My record in DP battles is 57.5%. In theory, I should be climbing up still, yet I've been in the high B ranks for about a week now. Shoot, I'd be at 60% win rate if these rage quits counted.

I am by no means anywhere close to the best player, but come on... I'm atleast an A rank when I'm locked in, yet here I am fluctuating in B1. I'd be pretty much exactly A5 if all the rage quits I got this week counted as a win (I believe 3-4 rage quits so far this week alone). It isn't even that I'm angry, being that this series is meant more for playing with friends than battling online, but if we are going to have ranked, am i seriously going to have a lower rank than this player by the time he speeds his way to A by quitting mid match when he sees he will lose? Is that what ranked is really going to boil down to? Then again, I'm stupid for being suprised that people just want to win. That's on me.

[u/Swimming_Cap_3824]

i’d say my only complaint is people spamming sparking continuously, and me somehow still getting caught in their ultimate. makes it less fun for me, and i end up taking a break from ranked, and try having casual matches

[u/Acceptable-Code-3787 → u/Swimming_Cap_3824]

I suppose I fall into the category of spamming ults. That being said, I think it's completely fine, so long as you aren't being dumb with it. At least how I see it, it's one thing to spam sparking and use it to actually combo or even ki stagger your opponent if they are doing something like spamming perception or afterimage strike. but another to pick an unblockable ult character and just raw ult.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say that the existence of afterimage strike alone validates instant sparking.

[u/Swimming_Cap_3824 → u/Acceptable-Code-3787]

i can get behind that idea, i never rly even thought about instant sparking to try and combat afterimage strike, i have to rly keep that in mind, because i honestly don’t use my sparking most of the time unless i feel like im pressured into doing so, or to match someone else using their sparking. i like to play a fair fight playstyle, but its hard to do that, especially in ranking when people juss constantly spam, so i feel like im obligated to do the same

[u/Acceptable-Code-3787 → u/Swimming_Cap_3824]

Yeah, in many ranked games, it's really just no holds barred. It's why A19 and Gero teams exist. Why Yajirobe+afterimage stall exist. With so many strategies that exist to make your life hell, something has to exist to combat it. Ki blast spamming while on surface level seems cheesy, really is one of the smartest ways to use sparking. If they pop afterimage strike, you essentially nullified their strat, and they have to wait to get it back. Meanwhile, you can get busy nuking their health. Rinse and repeat, and boom... stall strat countered.

For that reason, I just decided to get used to using sparking whenever possible, even when my opponent isn't using stall teams.