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Street Fighter Strategy: Fundamentals and Priorities

Street Fighter Strategy: Fundamentals and Priorities

Adam Atomic:

At various times over the last couple years I know that I’ve read articles that talked about the importance of spacing, or the importance of defense, but it wasn’t until very recently, when I started thinking about these things as a hierarchy, where each layer enables or makes possible the layer below it, that things started to feel kind of different to me as a player. In its simplest formulation, good spacing enables anti-air, good spacing and good anti-air enables effective defense, and good spacing, good anti-air and good defense all enable you to punish effectively. With this foundation, I find myself much more capable of engaging a wide skill range of players, and more importantly, I’m having a lot more fun when I play, since I find myself in better situations more often.

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