Reached floor 10 as Bedman? today. Probably won't keep good footing there for long and a combination of doubt in Strive's ranking system as well as my own personal self-doubt is making my brain tell me that actually this was a fluke and I just happened to get into a couple matches against people who suck at the matchup but I'm trying to avoid such thoughts for now and just enjoy the win. The moment I went into a floor 10 match I got mulched by an incredibly high level Ram and yyyyeah that felt like ass and I figured it was time to take a break.
Playing Bedman? really truly feels like an uphill battle. He feels SO fucking good when the stars align but then you trip over one of his many glaring problems and it all just crumbles and that amazing feeling gives way to agony. This isn't an individual issue obviously. Nobody feels good about getting pulped into a fine mush by Ram, but it stings a lot more when so much stuff seems to be stacked against you.
Plenty of it's my own skill issue of course - my defense still sucks (not good when Bed as a character has a weak defense to begin with), I burst at bizarre and stupid times, I've still got some bad muscle memory to clean up, I still cannot reliably input half circles to save my life (how many times have I lost because I was fighting my demons in the corner instead of installing or doing 2H/5H instead of pondering the orb??), the list goes on.
That's fine though. It's easy for me to forget all the awful problems I had before that I moved past without even fully realising it. I used to enthusiastically beyblade into blocking opponents at every opportunity, for no real reason. No idea where the muscle memory came from but after I'd fully acknowledged it as a problem and begun to stop myself from hitting that input so much it just kinda stopped happening before I'd even realised it. Unlearning muscle memory is hard as hell though, especially when my brain's panicking and telling me to slam down on the slash button while I'm blocking. Ouch. It'll take some time.
Still, regardless of how much of it is my own fault, I wouldn't mind seeing Bedman? get some much needed love as I've said many many times before. Like I said, he feels fucking AWESOME when you can get in that groove and can just start wailing on someone, terrifying them with your pressure to the point they don't know what to do but sit there and block. If he could feel that cool more often, it'd be beautiful.