https://youtu.be/AKtx4Jn06D8?t=2h9m32s

i feel like this is me playing at my best. confident, patient, the right kind of risky, and thinking about my wakeup defense for once. VT2 is a complementary piecce to my play as opposed to the thing that grants me massive comebacks. i'm mostly winning in neutral, which to me was a highly coveted and seemingly impossible to obtain skill about 16 months ago

the stream host and my opponent is the guy that wins most of my locals. his yt channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/TulpaVision/playlists) is pretty nice. he has some unique tech on lucia and a lot of zeku knowledge and tech. and he's very good at fighting games. check out his read in the rashid match after his match with me. in fact me beating his zeku online was the thing that inspired me to attend my first local

i post this not as a stunt but as testament to the progress i've made over the past 18 months. i have saved replays from very early matches when i was learning the game and kolin and there is marked growth since then. the discussions here helped immensely, as did checking out the kolin discord (bravely ignoring all the pepe emoji contained within), watching a ton of momochi and uosuke matches, and learning some basic frame data from fatonline. throughout all the losses, and the steep learning curve, and the bullshit of ranked gold and platinum matches, and the rage uninstalls, i persisted because i wanted to get better. and i did!