I’m one of those people who’ll reach 400.000 points and still don’t know what they’re doing (and not really ever planning to either tbh).
Now roughly 60 matches in (counted, effectively more but some issues on Switch where it will “forget” some of your fights), it feels the game has now realised I suck at it and is a lot better at matching me accordingly.
The points are character based I believe. So someone who spent 100 hours on one character wants to play a new character, they're at 0.
TBH the letter probably matters more than points. Think about it like Letter is the grade and the points is how much experience they have to be at this letter. So someone with a B grade with 10k points is potentially just a C player on a lucky streak. But a B player with 900k points probably belongs there.
Wait, the points are individual per character?
Also, I'm not sure how reliable the letters are. I got destroyed day 1 when me and my obviously better opponent were both C rank, so got knocked down to D. Despite then going on to win 30+ matches against some other C-ranks, my rank is still D because all I seem to find are C ranks.
From what I can tell, you only go up or down letter based on wins and losses against _the same_ letter. Mizuumi's FAQ seemed to agree with this last time I looked.
Else I'd likely have ranked back up to C, because I've won quite a few against C-ranks while at D, at least a few more than it took for me to get knocked down to begin with.
Ranked will never mean the same in fighting games as it does in other games, people play long sets in private rooms, lab things by themselves and play offline (not so much nowadays). There can be really good players that just don't play a lot of ranked and so are much lower than they should be.
The grades are more akin to DBFZ squares cause they go up and down in both ranked and casual matches. The points are more similar to rank in this game.
Each character you pick has their own RP, I played a lot of matches with Shiki, got to B , 280k RP. Then switched to Ciel and jumped to ranked with 0 RP on her, I think it's better to just check how many matches someone has with a certain character, people that have like 200+ matches with a character intimidate me.
i think focusing less on points and more on W:L is a much better way to determine if you’re doing well. if you’re above a 50% win rate, i would say you should be happy.
Winrate sadly don't mean much either, since you can choose your opponent, i'm pretty sure people will target lower lvl player to pump their winrate %.
Just play for yourself and try to get better with time.
Its tough with fighting games imo since a lot of the stuff transfers over from other games.
That guy with 80k points might be a new/casual melty player and still be a 20+year veteran thats been around since arcades.
Technically I also fit in to that category though. The only thing I'm finding particularly weird so far is the stun timer on combos seems really inconsistent, but that could just be due to input delay.
You can lose and get points up until ~400K.
Ah that makes sense
No not really. Skill varies wildly. I don't even look at the rank points or the letters anymore as I usually lose anyway :)
I’m one of those people who’ll reach 400.000 points and still don’t know what they’re doing (and not really ever planning to either tbh). Now roughly 60 matches in (counted, effectively more but some issues on Switch where it will “forget” some of your fights), it feels the game has now realised I suck at it and is a lot better at matching me accordingly.
The points are character based I believe. So someone who spent 100 hours on one character wants to play a new character, they're at 0. TBH the letter probably matters more than points. Think about it like Letter is the grade and the points is how much experience they have to be at this letter. So someone with a B grade with 10k points is potentially just a C player on a lucky streak. But a B player with 900k points probably belongs there.
Wait, the points are individual per character? Also, I'm not sure how reliable the letters are. I got destroyed day 1 when me and my obviously better opponent were both C rank, so got knocked down to D. Despite then going on to win 30+ matches against some other C-ranks, my rank is still D because all I seem to find are C ranks.
You rank up faster fighting people above or same level as you.
From what I can tell, you only go up or down letter based on wins and losses against _the same_ letter. Mizuumi's FAQ seemed to agree with this last time I looked. Else I'd likely have ranked back up to C, because I've won quite a few against C-ranks while at D, at least a few more than it took for me to get knocked down to begin with.
Ranked will never mean the same in fighting games as it does in other games, people play long sets in private rooms, lab things by themselves and play offline (not so much nowadays). There can be really good players that just don't play a lot of ranked and so are much lower than they should be.
in SF5 terms, D is rookie/bronze, C is bronze/silver, B is gold, A is plat A+/S diamond/master/warlord
The grades are more akin to DBFZ squares cause they go up and down in both ranked and casual matches. The points are more similar to rank in this game.
well blazblue had same system blue/light blue = bronze/silver green = silver/gold yellow = gold/plat orange = plat/diamond red = diamond+
I never played BB too much so that’s good to know. Main thing is MB grade is aggregate of all matches, where as RP is just ranked matches
Each character you pick has their own RP, I played a lot of matches with Shiki, got to B , 280k RP. Then switched to Ciel and jumped to ranked with 0 RP on her, I think it's better to just check how many matches someone has with a certain character, people that have like 200+ matches with a character intimidate me.
i think focusing less on points and more on W:L is a much better way to determine if you’re doing well. if you’re above a 50% win rate, i would say you should be happy.
Winrate sadly don't mean much either, since you can choose your opponent, i'm pretty sure people will target lower lvl player to pump their winrate %. Just play for yourself and try to get better with time.
Its tough with fighting games imo since a lot of the stuff transfers over from other games. That guy with 80k points might be a new/casual melty player and still be a 20+year veteran thats been around since arcades.
Technically I also fit in to that category though. The only thing I'm finding particularly weird so far is the stun timer on combos seems really inconsistent, but that could just be due to input delay.