Spectate Your Game
Be sure to watch other players play the game you’re competing in, you’ll definitely have plenty of things to learn from it. Take note on players that play your character, watch what they do in comparison to your own playstyle, maybe they’ll do things that you can implement. It’s also an opportunity to watch other players play different characters. Think of it as a time to meditate, or to discuss with others how characters play. While you might not make a character switch while right at the event, you might consider changing your main character that you play for future events. You might be able to exploit new weaknesses in characters that you didn’t see from your own personal practice sessions. When playing fighting games, you’ll come to recognize that no matter how old the game is, it’s always evolving as players get more creative. Combos get rediscovered and then changed ever so slightly to output more hit stun, damage, or reset into another even bigger combo.
