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Broseidon Rex
Its complicated.
There are things that one can do but there is no easy solution...
I'll just list in number format the things one can do in my mind to overcome a plateau... Some are obvious few are easy:
1. Put down the flowchart. Everyone has one, and when you get comfortable in yours is when stagnation sets in.
2. Play against DIFFERENT players. Make sure to steal their tactics if you can apply them to your game. Case in point Arturo Sanchez or even nki going to japan and leveling up via the hyperbolic time chamber... Thats really pro talk for stealing other peoples advanced shit.
3. Record your matches. When i record my my matches i look for 2 different things: what did i get opened up by and why was i in the position to be opened up. After that i look at the opponents tactics... Does it work from a certain range only? Can i deny them that range? How can i space better against them?
Its also important to look at the opponents starters and see if they are punishable via pbgc... Remember that pbgc is rather easy of you are pbgcing into a jump, or into a qcf invincible move like a super. All i do is pushblock then mash qcf+pp like i was being combod... It works. In your case you could use your 360 against multihits, making sure to pushblock the multihit early so there is no pushback.
4. Work on your neutral.... Try and find more ways of moving around with your character, even if those ways arent necessarily optimal, just the threat of a new form of movement can open up other things in the opponents own neutral. Like i remember i said that the tactic of super jumping with bella then doing a max charge glide into coming down with an attack is good. It is but only of used a few times/once per round... But that means find out where you could use it to good effect... And that doesnt necessarily mean at obvious places.
5. Try and learn a use for moves you never use, or a new use for moves you already use, or optimize a combo that you dont yet have optimized. Work on 2 hit hitconfirms instead of 3 hit hitconfirms.
I'm always theory fighting up shit to use... Teams/assists/optimal spacings/setups/resets etc etc etc
6. Realize that much of the problem is you. The WAY YOU THINK. I'm not calling anyone out, but when a plateau is reached that means there is stagnation in thinking. Usually this is because people are thinking in terms of what will always work, or is optimal. But a lot of times what is inoptimal is actually optimal...
In other words simply breaking your own pattern is the optimal thing to do. Let's look at some easy math:
Your optimal thing wins in 90% of all situations.. Ok its good, very good. But what if your opponent see this and says "I'm going to live in that ten percent" well now your optimal thing is inoptimal.
Its at this point in time that you need to reassess and do things differently and thats where the recorded video comes in.
7.esoteric stuff like putting parasoul on record and just having her do f+lp overheads over and over and over again... Just practice blocking them in the correct timing over and over and over again and you will start to find that in game you will be better able to block them on reaction since you've trained your brain muscle memory to block high when given certain subconscious cues such as parasouls over head hands right before she strikes...
I've never done this cause i dont have the patience... It would take a looooooong time. But I'm not trying to break out of any plateaus... Yet.
And if none of this works:
8. Git good scrub
:)