A Strategy For Winning At Virtua Fighter

VF is a fighting game right? The object of the game is to beat your opponent up right? Reduce his health bar to
Zero and you win right? WRONG!


Switch the script! Instead of trying to get your opponent's health bar to Zero, look at the game as a competition to see who can score 200 pts first. That will change your approach while practicing in the Dojo and duing game play and will ultimately lead to more wins.

Look at VF this way you have 2 goals


goal 1: Score the points needed to win before your opponent does.

goal 2: Prevent your opponent form scoring points to the extent possible

All that beat-em-up stuff is for noobs and intermediates. VF is all about maximizing points on offense and denying points on defense

Of course as you score more points your opponent's health bar does go down, but if you realize the game is about who gets to the magic number of points first, then you will naturally maximize your combos, you will try to deny your opponent from getting off the moves that score them high points, Change your entire focus to getting the magic number of points first and denying your opponent's scoring points when you can. You will win more matches.

 

A step to getting better would be disregarding the above.

Health is now 221. Even then, you get to 200 damage on the opponent, a turn around is more than possible (depending on the opponent, your skill, and who is fucking around more).

WTF are you on about now?