what do you think are the skills that take a mid level fighting game player to a high level one?
(context for anyone who only knows me as a game developer: i was a competitive fighting game player for a long time and i won evo in 2021)
that's a great question!
the most general answer i can give is that getting better at fighting games is just a matter of playing matches, analyzing those matches to see how you could improve, putting in the time to commit those improvements to muscle memory, then repeating the process. it's okay if you play more matches against those same opponents and lose again, as long as you don't lose the same way that you lost the last time. high level players are just players who have been through that process more times than the mid level players and who have patched more weaknesses in their skillset and gameplan. but that's a dull answer so i'll attempt to be more specific.