That thumbnail is too good LOL Here's the music used in this video! 0:00 - Pacific High School Black Gate - Rival Schools United by Fate 1:19 - Dubb Bossa - Capcom Sports Club 2:12 - Golonzo Island Edge of Providence - Granblue Fantasy 3:02 - Ravi Island Winds of Fate - Granblue Fantasy 4:01 - Coffee Shop - Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[St] 5:13 - Titanic Tower - Spark The Electric Jester 2 6:37 - See You Again - MegaMan Legends

You’re telling me I need FRIENDS!?

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

RIVALSSS (usually friends but can be anyone)

@maglock1857

7 ай бұрын

Damn, then I’ll never get good at games 😅😅😢

@teaboy0996

7 ай бұрын

​@@IHeartJustice damn bro i aint gon do shit😭

@The-Determined-Ninja

7 ай бұрын

Ahp ahp! No one said your rival had to be your friend (⁠ ⁠´⁠◡⁠‿◡⁠`⁠)✧

@Robert-gn7ec

7 ай бұрын

@@The-Determined-Ninjathey could be your worst enemy, then you cry when you lose because they will bully you

I'm literally that one hard drive article "man too good to play against friends but not good enough to play competitively"

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

hahaha

@NotMaxr3fund

3 ай бұрын

Literally me in Brawlhalla 😭😭

@retrox2776

3 ай бұрын

​@@NotMaxr3fund what's your peak elo my brother 🤝

@NotMaxr3fund

3 ай бұрын

@@retrox2776 idek my bro but the highest I've been in ranked is the rock bottom of Plat. Like still knee deep in gold 😂 I haven't played ranked in a while tho, just friendly 2v2s

@retrox2776

3 ай бұрын

@@NotMaxr3fund That's above average so you're simply just the goat 🐐 (My peak was 2218 and I hate/love the game. Ranked is cursed)

Whats super cool is that most of this advice works for a lot of things in life. Im a racing game player and i can confidently say I wouldn't be very good if I wasnt always racing my friends

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

that's awesome fam I'm glad to hear that!

I actually do consider myself to have a rival. My boyfriend. He plays Gio, and I play Sol, and we both push each other to be better, despite the fact that he was very much better than me for a long time. It took a lot of pushing, but I gotta say, from personal experience, I agree.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

that's such a goals relationship!!!

@fordgt5383

7 ай бұрын

Enemies to Lovers arc is real

@haku_68

7 ай бұрын

SOL GANG

In fighting games, you need 100% a rival to push you to your limits, but in racing games, your rival is consistency

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

that's so true!

My rival is anyone and everyone that I sit down with to grind out matches. Especially myself, I'm not trying to be better than anyone but myself from yesterday.

I play a lot of MVC3 with my friends and I can confirm. They love to mash buttons on knockdown but every time I will punish them with bionic arm. I kept it up until they finally learned to not mash and actually be ready for it.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

hahaha PUNCH em

I agree 100% that you need someone there to motivate you. And who better then a close friend to not just have matches with but make you better at what you love to do. So who's your Rival Javi. Who pushes you to be the best you can be.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

a few people actually! right now in content, it's Lythero =)

@Urekkato

7 ай бұрын

@@IHeartJustice Yeah we gotta beat that Lythero in content. Who does he think he is making these epic master cuts from his streams and adding animations. JK JK we love you Javi and what you do.

As someone who absolutely cannot do well with traditional fighters no matter how much I practice (motion inputs, even simple ones, are generally beyond my capabilities, and I have trouble with directional blocking), even a rival won't help me there. But, I used to casually play Smash and Pokken, and having a rival was really helpful for all the reasons described here. I really need to get back into it and play with my friends more, build a rivalry again since it's been so long.

@IHeartJustice

2 ай бұрын

I hope you can achieve that!

This can be applies to racing games or speedrunning too overall. If you have someone as a goal you see yourself equal to. Your performances can grow off of eachother extremely well and improve times scarily much.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

very true!

ive never had a true rival, i was the only dude growing up that liked fighting games as much as i do so ive been kicking it alone on FGs as a result. i definitely feel the message of the plateau since grinding ranked just doesnt hit the same. Its harder to justify the journey. But on the other end, ive been slowly but surely finding people around me that were willing to pick up fighting games, and even if i am the only one who can really grasp the higher level concepts of play and improvement currently and dont have my own "rival" within this group ive built to grow with, ive at least been able to make sure that everyone ive pulled in has someone to play and i can still help them all grow as a group. and its felt just as rewarding. its really helped me look at it from a different perspective, personally tackling issues many have with getting into the genre, and helping these friends stick with the genre.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

That's an amazing read fam good for you and ty for what you do!

This is very true. Back in the arcade days of MvC2 our small group were all rivals. We'd roll up every Friday after school and punch it out till the arcade closed at 10. Eveyone came with new tech, new teams or strats and was just fun improving with one another. Got my longest win streek of 49 one night, just on the cab, the one to beat, from when I got there to close. And they were alway close fight sometimes down to the last two. And this was before the gods had really formed and became the norm. So seeing characters like that girl with the bones or the cactus throw down some sause was grand. Some of them went on to be my gaming buddies long past that and too this day we trade blows but for funzies nowadays.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

those must've been the days man, how sick

@ReikuYin

7 ай бұрын

​​@@IHeartJusticeSuper miss it. Coming around and seeing the level go up. Wondering who would unlock next. What tech your friends would bring? Would they adopt the new character? Will they learn them on the fly? (Most didn't have the home ports/they weren't out yet so training modes weren't available. Any learning was hands on or visiting shoryuken) How did their team change for synergy? And because the game was evolving no metas had a chance to settle. Saw everyone get experimented with rather then what top level mvc2 is now. I even retired a character in my team (Cyclops tho I would break him out for those that only knew the meta and flowcharted that playstyle) cause he was such a strong anchor for me and we wanted to push ourselves. Lead me to my favorite team of Rogue Hyato Strider and the 5 level dump it has for style. Some of the best months in a game I've ever had.

Love this, always wanted to see you elaborate more on your threads in this kind of format!

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

YEYEYEY 2024 BABYYY

@TheMrShanmao

7 ай бұрын

Heef! You best believe I'm comin' after you! You and your Goku's have had it good for too long!

DUDE HOLY COW, I'm so lucky I discovered you guys. Without IHeartJustice, I probably would not be having this much fun playing DBFZ or rlly learning a game in general. Thank you so much for all the advice brotha.

@IHeartJustice

11 күн бұрын

that's amazing fam ty for sharing!

As someone who has occasionally played a fighting game and is considering getting more serious about it, this video came at a great time. Thanks, Javi. 👍

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

YASSSSS that's awesome fam!

the closest thing to a rival i have is a guy who needs to bring that shit (reference to hit game Yakuza 1 on the PS2)

I found having someone who's newer to a game and who's training, inserting my self into a teacher role helps me because I don't want to spread any misinfo or contribute to someones poor in game habits. Being on top of my shit and learning matieral for this newer person before a meet up. It gets me studying stuff for the newer player and forcing me to explain clearly how a character and the systems works. Having to explain something and actually teach someone well shows a full understanding and when I'm forced to explain something I don't fully understand I just find the answer while playing or at anothet meet up. Apologizing when I gave the wrong impression about XYZ character for this newer player and showing them how to get around XYZ move they think is busted that week.

I need to deal with other mental issues and blockers that make it difficult for me to deal with failure in a healthy matter first... but I will definitely keep this in mind if/when I try to get back into fighting games ^.^

@IHeartJustice

4 ай бұрын

hell yea!

I remember having a rival bully in a community server that used to be better than me and over time due to having to adapt and have to fight them every time i learned everything from how to fight em eventually being better than him in every way, while we both hated each other i won’t deny… i was motivated and i actually got incredibly good until he got banned for toxicity… and then i got bored and didn’t have a motive to push even if it was me wanting to win over them and prove i was better (i think it was a weird toxic hate train relationship lmao)

@IHeartJustice

2 ай бұрын

that's heavy LOL but I'm glad you guys pushed yourself as hard as you could

You know what's crazy. I don't even need to watch further than the first statement. It's true. None of my friends want to really be rivals with me and i'm a huge scrub because i play around, but i never have someone to want to take down in particular, so i just don't really sit there and invest as much as i probably would if i had a good friend to play and really learn with. That said, i still love fighting games :v

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

fighting games ARE love

Shoutouts to Compton Falcon on Vsav, everytime we play I feel like I improve ten fold and it feels great to come back with new tech and surprise em. If you ever see this bro, thanks for the games homie.

@IHeartJustice

2 ай бұрын

What an awesome comment

I’m gonna have to agree with this. I had a high school teacher who I would (and still do) play smash with during lunch. I learned the most by playing during lunch, because I had someone that was learning new strategies with me. I learned when to be aggressive and when to start playing defensive, while he learned to break some habits. I eventually decided (because of your and Lythero’s videos) to pick up DBFZ and recently Marvel. I have multiple reasons why I haven’t grown much on Marvel (mainly PC issues), but I have grown a lot on Dragon Ball. I’ve got a few hundred hours playing by myself, but a lot of my growth was because I have my brother as a rival there.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

high school teacher that's fgc that's SICKKKK im happy for ya!

its interesting how, ive had a rival for quite some time. but its only until after watching this video that i realized they ARE my rival, and after ive realized that i am finally able to grow.

@IHeartJustice

6 ай бұрын

that's amazing to read!

@Zel-Veraan

3 ай бұрын

I have a couple and we run long LONG sets together. First to 100s left and right.

This is actually so real. Fighting games are like my favorite type of game but none of my friends really have the same passion for it. I have friends who i've played fighterz with for awhile, but it was never rivalry just casual gaming and frustration so I've been joining discord servers to try and find people to play with. The most frustrating part is I can tell just how much I get better at any game when I have someone of a higher skill level I need to keep up with, it's like the goku and vegeta.

It just dawned on me how blessed I am to have the friends I do. We're a group of 5 dudes(although 2 of em have moved out) and only 2 of us are deep into fighting games. But whenever we do come together, we're always duking it out in some fighting game, mostly Tekken but there are days when we wanna play other fighting games as well. Anything will do, MvC, GG, BB, Melty, Skullgirls, The Last Blade, Martial Masters, Blade Aurcus, you name it, we've played it. . The other three of em aren't very good, they do not know how neutral works, how to combo, they mess up doing qcfs half the time. But it's always amazing to watch them play, how they adapt to what's going on in the match and that usually brings some of the most intense rounds I have ever witnessed in my life. The other guy, however(the one besides me who is also into fighting games), never fails to keep me on my toes. We randomly met way back in 2016 in the school hallway and opened our conversation with KoF, and the rest is history. It's always a blast to play against him, I get to pick up a lotta knowledge whenever we fight. Playing sets, adapting to his habits and then talking about everything after feels liberating somehow. "Bro, just sideroll Kunimitsu's ff2. What are you laying there for?" "You should NOT have told me that." Me, playing Morrigan, trying to soul fist spam him as his Haggar slowly approaches trying to pipe my girl instills some heavy anxiety into my brain. I treasure these little moments in the group dearly, and while we're not the best at this, it's easy to see that everyone wants to beat the other and I love that. With that being said, great job on the video, man. I can see that a buncha people really connect with this video just like I did and it will certainly connect to more in the future.

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

amazing story fam and thank you so much for sharing

My rival is my friend and most of the time my teacher SpaceDinoPanda. He's always helping me understand mechanics and also is really good at sitting back at times and letting my neurons blast!

@IHeartJustice

4 ай бұрын

that's so awesome fam!

Friends are lofty, what you need are enemies

@IHeartJustice

6 ай бұрын

lmao

i actually am an above average fighting game player in my circle. i can see my flaws, and know where i need to improve but i am much better than many. i have almost never hit the training room. all of it comes from me needing to adapt and match my brother and his skill, and as i improve he does too. me and him have been close forever, and have been playing fighting games together on and off for 20 years almost. we know how we play better than anyone, and push one another. he is my eternal rival, and he makes me get better at fighting games

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

that's an amazing thing to read fam good for you!

@rpzamer1218

7 ай бұрын

thank you. that means a lot!@@IHeartJustice

I always admired fighting games. Played a lot of FighterZ and GG but mostly just labbed combos and nothing ever stuck. But then I found one guy IRL that plays and it changed everything. Fighting game Veteran. Got my ass handed to me. But it was so fun. I got so motivated to learn tech. I got motivated to learn my win conditions and setplay. I distinctly remember giving up advantage everytime I finally got it, cause I got scared of fucking up my inputs. Im still not all the way there, but these days I can take games and even sometimes sets from him. A rival is so important.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

Well said!

This is totally the case, and I’m glad I could watch this video. I’ve been down about my play for a while, put a lot of time into my game with very little visible improvement. But someone moved in who’s 6 mins away from me and we became friends. He kicks my ass and convinces me to go to locals with him. And I think finally I’m seeing a little improvement because of it.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

That's awesome fam!

True story man... competition invites improvement. Sometime ago, we begun to play mk9 together with my highschool buddies, and it was really fun. Suddenly, we all got better at comboing, reading, punishing, etc.. It was really cool to see how much we begun to improve out of pocket.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

Such a sick vibe!

I’ve have that rival/villian stances with multiple people I grew up playing fighting games. I play individual games with different friends that they want to be good at (sf, Mk, guilty gear, dbfz, etc) and I can go either toe to toe or dominating match’s. But watching them grow is the greatest thing to see, and I only got this good from getting my ass handed too by my cousin and them teaching and introducing me to the FGC

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

you gotta lose to learn!

YES YES YES THAT'S IT, HE IS SPITTING, A PARTNER CAN MAKE YOU GROWN SO MUCH STRONGER HE GETS IT

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

LETS GOOOO

Ive been playing sonic the fighters with some of the best players in the community, and god the improvement ive seen just by playing them is insane, play players better than you, you will improve faster, and play better with a rival.

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

you already know!

Hard agree with all of this. I didn't know how much a rival motivated me until I looked around and I no longer had one. Used to be my brother, we would do at least 10 matches of Tekken 7 whenever he had time or was around, but more and more he got on with his life while I was content with mine. He moved out, getting married this year, more active in activity planning and his job, and there's just not that same bond between us. We still get on great, but Tekken isn't much of the factor anymore, and I lost my one regular person to throw hands with. Nowadays I just do ranked in games, or try and work up the courage to ask my online friends, but it just ain't the same...

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

I feel that fam I really do

Truer words have never been spoken. Iron sharpens iron people

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

there ya go!

A very wholesome video Javi, keep it up my man. I dont play fighters anymore cuz my wrist is all fucked up but i do concur... the fact you get to have someone that may be better than you by your side just to have an attainable goal in sight does makes wonders into pushing yourself a little further beyond

Honestly it feels so awesome to see my content being used in your video, your match with KBR is my most watched video and I think it's honestly the biggest reason I'm known in the Marvel scene now. Thanks for being a part of my journey my dude.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

aw man that's awesome to hear fam!! you guys held it down keep improving your content I appreciate what you do =D

It's hard to think about rivals since I'm usually a menace to so many in FighterZ and I go up against people who have gotten top 100 at evo for said game; but I wouldn't consider them rivals since they're so nice and we just play. There is a few that come to mind, but one man named Rose' stands out among them. He was the one to push me to go to the lab and learn combos, the one who keeps up with FighterZ as much as I, the one who's grown with me the entire way, even learning my habits and silently coaching me through the punishment; as long as I can remember, I've wanted to beat Rose'. After a while we finally started having more even matches and during rollback we experienced a situation of trying to take the other's square with neither of us budging; even when he would win 3 games in a row, I'd win the next 3. I have gotten a pretty good track record as of late with me winning most of our games (and even taking his square) but I'm expecting some push back. Cause I know that man won't just quit, I'm hoping he won't, he's gonna learn my nonsense and win back all those games; I can feel it.

this is what i've been wanting for a long time but the game i play people's egos are wayyy too crazy

@IHeartJustice

6 ай бұрын

word??

I gotta give a huge shoutout to my hero もも. Seeing the insanely creative stuff that guy does with my character is just what i need after a bad week of losing to generic players getting 5-0'd by his stylish Alice is way better for me mentally than going even against the more generic members of the cast.

@IHeartJustice

5 ай бұрын

that's awesome to hear man!

I play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the competitive level. Well, it's been a while, since I've been really busy. But there are some local players that I often go up against, and they give me genuine advice on how to play. One of them outright trains me. Before I met them, everyone was way out of my league. Nowadays, I can run 2-1s with the best players in my region. This advice is absolutely true. Thanks, iHeartJustice, for this fantastic and true advice.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

we love to see it fam! good job on the growth =D

The thing is I do have a rival but we just play fighting games very casually. We not looking to climb ranks or anything, just to have fun. Except he only fucking plays GRAPPLERS!

@IHeartJustice

5 ай бұрын

LOOL I'm so sorry

I have a rival in one of my best friends since grade 10. They go by the tag "Overdrive" and we've constantly gotten into fighting games at the same time. He tends to be better than me at most games, But there are a few titles I've definitively pushed ahead in.

I decided to part ways with a lifelong friend of 15 years late 2022. We shared a lot of interests together and that was VERY apparent in the games we played. He was my Smash Bros rival since the Wii U version and we went to tourneys together… usually to get bopped by the really REALLY good players lmfao. We would spend the night at each other’s house and run matches until 5AM sometimes. When our Friendship ended, I noticed my passion to improve diminished. The hours that I spent in the lab practicing various tech became more and more infrequent. Nowadays I usually dust off my controller if there’s a set up at a social gathering. I really resonated with everything you said in this video Javi! Even though I was an intermediate player (depending on who you ask), I can definitely attest to the benefits of having a rival! Looking forward to the vid :)

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

Hell yea!! and glad you got to experience that feeling of having a rival

My brother taught me how to play smash, and I remember one day being so mad I kept losing, that I legit grinded for 3 hours straight and learned my character just so I could kick his ass. I am now 2nd seed in one of the best high-school smash teams in my state.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is honestly true; I only got good with For Honor after constantly doing duels with someone who was in the top 1% of players for a while. While I'm not a super competitive or high-tier player, I am more than capable of giving even some of the best of the best a hard time getting their dubs, so my skills are nothing to snuff at.

@IHeartJustice

2 ай бұрын

that's hype! love to see it

"Zambambos" reminded me of the super best friends 😢

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

definitely a shoutout

@is4ias

7 ай бұрын

@@IHeartJustice Will have to continue watching your stuff. Have a good one brother 👍

Dude, you remind of something. I got into fighting because of the shop owner when i was ten, he teach me how to do supers and combos. Quite late but it's a nice vid of how to improve yourself. Cuidese mucho Javi.

@IHeartJustice

6 ай бұрын

that's awesome to read fam! shoutouts to that guy for sure lol

This speaks to me. The only fighting game I've ever been able to get decent at was Skullgirls, and that's solely because I had a friend who pushed me to play him! I learned Cerebella and Big Band and his Squigly and Beowulf never failed to infuriate me into NEEDING to be able to beat him!!! Love the content, yourself and Lythero have made me really love UMVC3!

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

TY SO MUCH THAT'S AWESOME TO READ

unironically kinda true i used to play skullgirls with a friend and we'd run hundreds of matches adapting and learning but he kinda moved on from the game and now all my friends play way more casually so i'm both rusty and don't have competition

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

glad you had a rival at one point though!

I never had a bully or anything. Maybe my rival is some sort of demon ghost in my brain, embodying depression, anxiety, etc.

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

that's real

Having a rival was what allowed me to win a MVC2 tourney between my friends. For context, my friend found the game for cheap for the PS2, which he had, so whenever we had the chance we played. Everyone else chose characters that seemed like they were busted or, since a few people had UMvC3, were equivalent to teams that they knew, resulting in everyone but me having high tier characters, with me using a team composed of Felicia, Ryu, and Cyclops. Naturally, I had a hard time winning, but upon the announcement of a friendly tourney, which in the end had a few prizes, I ended up starting to view everyone as a rival, which made my gameplay go from simple 4-hit combos to stringing together combos that dealt pretty good damage considering the characters had low compatibility with some of the assists (although the triple full screen Hyper Combo was stupid in everyone else’s eyes but beautiful in mine), and this rapid improvement made me the favorite and inevitable winner of the tourney, which just goes to show that rivals truly do allow for better improvement with fighting games. And yes, one of them did have Sentinel as an anchor, and yes, I did have to time him out.

I’ve been looking for a rival for months and knew i needed one, cuz to be frank i SUCK at fgs, but unfortunately it’s not easy to find one when you also suck at being a person. I can’t just ask someone “want to be my rival?” after playing a few games, and everyone else around me is just so beyond my skill level to even consider asking that in the first place. If you’ve got someone, cherish them, because not everyone can find someone

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

Don't gotta ask let your actions create the answer for you! Be a rival by getting better every time yall play

Amongst my friends I’m unquestionably top dog, despite that my buddy David never gives up never backs down. He has dropped my win rate against him from like 80% to 60%. I’m happy to consider myself a rival to all my friends because while they don’t all pose a challenge to me currently I see them improving I see them learning. Another friend Ale is quickly reaching the point to match what David has done against me as well. Fighting games are best enjoyed when you are learning and breaking down ever fight, every punch, every move. Side note we are all quite trash on ladder and none of us are competitive players. I know I sound prideful. But the top won’t be lonely much longer I can promise that.

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

well said!

I’ve been playing Strive with a group, three of us are very much head to head in terms of skill which is awesome Having someone I can always have a good set with, exchange tech, try out strategies, and learn with does wonders for my motivation

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

it really does!

I had a somewhat of a rival when SF6 came out, we decided we'll go to the biggest tournament in the country later in autumn and had some best-of-20s regularly, this was my first SF ever and without him my learning progress would've been much slower. And even if we didn't make it far in the tournament I felt super good, too bad he returned back to GGST after this :(

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

not GGST =( jk jk lol sorry to hear

Just tonigth... one of my frieds in a smaller discord FG that I am just retired from the game... we played so much, yet at the end he decided he can no longer grow or be better, and just left after I beat him again... I felt really sad... and maybe he really neded a rival... Mayba I wasnt that person, but damn I really hope he and more people start finding their rivals to keep growing and feeling more satisfied with themselfs... Thax for the great Video, Justiceman...

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

ty for your words and your story!

I really gotta suck it up and tell my roommate. "Hey! Bet you can't beat Mr in Sf6 rn." Amd have them go "OK bet."

@IHeartJustice

6 ай бұрын

BETTTTTTTTTTTT

My rival is a per game basis (all my fgc friends play diff games), but its either someone im near equal with, or someone who kicks my ass constantly

@IHeartJustice

4 ай бұрын

hell yea!

Honestly I needed this Recently I’ve joined a thing in my college that have smash tourneys and I’ve wanted a way to figure out how to push myself This vid revealed that the answer was in my face all this time cuz I have a friend who is way better at smash than me, I can take a few games off him but he’s really good and knows what he’s doing. The funniest part is that he knows I can do it cuz he knows damn well what I can do cuz he’d always give me tips and sometimes it works when I’m willing to learn and grow (and not be petty). Thanks for the motivational vid IheartJustice

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

That's what I like to see fam. You got this!

Found my best friend because of asking if a, (at the time), friend of a friend wanted to play Jump Force of all things. Fast forward nearly 5 years and a move across the country; and just this last week he started playing crossplay GGST. Got told by the third friend back then not to play fighting games with him, he was too good the guy said. Shot for shot, hes my Rival, but also a dear friend i wouldnt have if it wasnt for the FGC. I wouldnt have it any other way. Side note, good job on these videos. Been listening at work and its helped get me in the mindset for those GGST sets after a long day. ~Peace be with you all this day~

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

what an awesome read fam! really glad you have someone like that in your life

Shoutouts to my man Stylo for getting me to push myself in Killer Instinct. Actually got pretty decent because of playing against him in tourneys and otherwise.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

that game is sick and RIP the goat

So i found out a Mexican friend who plays JP on SF6 and Bison on SFV, i might consider him my rival, he pushed me into SFV and helped me improve with the characters i play in those specific games

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

that's awesome to read fam!

This is a very very unrated topic In gaming in General Thank you mr Justice

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

you are welcome!

I don't know if he really considers me a rival but I definitely do. I have a friend that I met in a melty blood server where one day I asked about Tekken cause I got it on sale and it turned out he played it and is quite good at it. So we started playing together and he showed me the ropes and now a less than half a year later I'm somewhat consistently taking rounds and games when before I could barely touch him. Playing with someone I can consider a rival of sorts has allowed me to improve way more than if I tried only improving by playing ranked mode. I was hardstuck low bronze in SF6 but after playing with him in private match a couple times he showed me some things I didn't even think to try improving on and now I'm middle to high silver. maybe not the most improvements to some but for me that was amazing seeing how much better I've gotten in such a short span of time. And I can thank my friend for that :)

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

that's an amazing read fam!!

I remember, my sister had a friend, and he was the only guy I could find to play CvS2 with. I could never beat him, but all our matches were close, usually coming down to pixel health. I knew I was getting better just playing him. Though the guy eventually stopped coming over, I never took that experience for granted. It was the best time I've ever had playing fighting games. Also CvS2 is the best Fighting game ever, don't @ me. For the curious, my team was Sagat, Vice, and Yuri using the basic Capcom style super bar (the only style that allowed air blocking).

My rival is my cousin, we play mortal kombat 1 together a lot, he mains johnny, and i main omni man, basically the basic info needed is johnny is almost never negative on anything, and after fighting against my cousin for so long i basically have johnny cage on lock, i beat 2 johnny cages online 2-0 in a row, it made me happy.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

GROWTH

As someone who has never played fighting games before, and learning how to play DBFZ, I have a homie who spars with me every Wednesday evening. My man has hundreds of hours over me on fgs in general, and his progress on DBFZ is leaps and bounds ahead of mine, but even he says I got great potential. I've told him on multiple occasions I'm glad to have him there, because without someone to be there with me I wouldn't still be learning fgs. I so badly want to be up there with the big boys, but doing that alone was something I know for a fact I could not do.

For a while now I've felt very lost bc the person i considered my one true rival moved away and i lost contact with them.

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

dang! any chance they might be on social media?

I really wish I had friends as into fighting games as I was

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

find one they might enjoy! meet them there

Great video! and so true. I remember losing to you in Strive made me want to get better. Keep it up big dawg 👏

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

and you sure did you're a gamer now!

Dang i really agree with this. I'm really lucky in this regard. My rival has always been my twin brother. We both start a new fighting game together and as you can imagine we end up being at a similar level of skill throughout our sessions, improving more by playing other people. When my family and friends say they don't want to get into fighting games because they're too difficult i wish they did have a rival to try new tech on or a new combo or beating down their bad habits. But like I said, i do feel lucky in that regard. I kinda doubt i would have loved fighting games as much as I do if i didn't have a rival to share the experience with

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

that's so true! gotta find at least one person to share it with to really find that value

i have no marvel3 rival except the hubris of my evo dreams

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

mood

My best friend and rival of 7+ years, man. He is the man who I challenged to a 1v1 in Smash 4 against his Captain Falcon, got my ass whooped and wanted to keep fighting him. Became more acquainted with him, adapted, improved. Fast-forward, I get into more fighting games and we really pop off on our fights. He is often a lot more skillful than me, but I always give him a run for his money the more we fight. He is a rival and a friend that I truly cherish. Little Mac VS Captain Falcon (Smash) Cody VS Vega (USF4) Arizona VS Paprika (TFH) No matter the game, us fighting at our peaks will always be a joy to me.

(00:33) Perfect summation to the entire Ace Attorney Franchise.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

BASED ATTORNEY

I think having my friend as a rival is why I dont notice when I have a high skill floor with in the games we play. My bardock, Gohan and base goku team came from seeing how my friend plays bardock and just slapping the sun family im there. We've been recently going ham om ggst and the new loops with KY and Bridget that I've learn with him has been pushing our skills for the best

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

that's awesome fam!!

i wish i had a rival i play so many fighting games but no friends who usually have them

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

start reaching out to good players for games!

i don't play any fighter games much anymore other than the occasional dbfz, but ty for making this video because you can really have this mindset towards any game you take seriously. I play the Pokemon VGC and I'm always trying to get friends to play me so I know different matchups and can learn really weird habits from players that you just would not expect when you're just solo queuing on ladder. i'll try to follow your points to a tee(?) and be a better player, ty

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

TCG games ftw!

Having friends to play with is so much fun and I can always improve against and it’s always challenging and we get so competitive for fun

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

damn right!

Awesome video Javi, and i personally agree. my rival was a random ditto match in sf6 with jamie. i cooked him, but afterwards we both talked about the character and went into the lab. to this day, we have played multiple different fighting games and push each other every time we play. sf, mk, mvc3, even them's fighting herds. but no matter who wins or loses, we have a great time goofing off slamming out controllers like gorillas

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

That's what I like to see!!!

I feel like this doesn't just apply to fighting games, this applies to any game, really. For some it's playing Tetris better. For me, It's Halo. I didn't have a rival at all until recently, and I feel like my skill has massively improved since sparring and playing with them. I'm one to admit i'm much worse at the game than them, but I hope to get to the same level soon so I can hopefully do for them what they are doing for me.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

you got this fam and Tertris is SICK

First I get Allied Orders in the one "fighting" game I play, and now I am being told I need a rival to expand my actual fighting game skills. All in all a great video and helped me understand why rivals are important!

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

Hell yea ty!

"I fear not the man who has fought 10.000 opponents, but the one who fought one rival 10.000 times."

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

sage wisdom

I actually have a rival, the only guy in my friendgroup who plays fighting games. There was a time where i got 5 of my friends into fgs but they all dropped it. The only one eho sticked to them is now my rival and besides hearing him complain about the fact that his characters are always the hardest and most complex (he ususlly learns 1, tops 2 chars in a roster) its fun

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

blessss

Friends that also play fighting games? Like that'll ever happen!

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

yea no way!

I have a good friend named Dustin that I met randomly in a discord one day because he saw i liked Blazblue and sent me a message asking to play. At the time neither of us were that good (i couldnt even do my favorite character, Susanoo's bnb) but over the years we ha e played so many games from BB to GBFVS that now im in S++ rank just because of how far we grew together. Reminds me of the old saying "Iron sharpens iron"

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

that's what's up!

My closest thing to fighting game rival is my friend Subzero7 who I make videos with (he bodies me in Street Fighter on the regular). He's been a great friend to learn where I'm lacking in fundamentals on. As for outside fighting games, the local scene for a TCG I play has given me many friends/rivals to learn from.

@IHeartJustice

6 ай бұрын

this is awesome to read!

I don’t have a rival yet, but I try to teach my friends around me. I see them getting better and better every time we fight, and it almost makes me proud. It makes me hope that the people around me soon will be able to beat me.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

that's the ticket! if you don't have a rival, CREATE one!

I guess this is right by all means since most of my time I had played dbfz all alone against bots and when I played with a another who played as much as me I finally felt defeat which made me feel I need more practice and knowing that I should play with others is pretty strong so thanks for this vid

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

you're so welcome and that's good to hear!

I think my rival would have to be my best friend. I got him into fighting games through dbfz and we go toe to toe in just about every game we touch. Dbfz, skullgirls, blazblue, Granblue, SF, you name it we play it. We know each others style so well but always find new ways to surprise each other. We’ve done a FT100 before and it was a very close score and took 7+HRs. He’s my best friend, rival, and soon to be coach for when we head to some locals or monthly tournaments

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

that's awesome to hear!

Well damn, now my salt has some evidence behind it. Thanks lawer man!

You know I always played fighting games with my brother and I found his ticks, I am way better at footsies and he is better at combos/team games so it's less of a matchup thing but more of a whose better at this game thing However I picked up SF6 and this is my first online fighting game. Got humbled and started in iron and slowly rose to platinum. Then I met this guy named DevilMayCry on NA 4. He was a plat Ryu. We've hung out and had huge sets around the 30 match mark. He's slowly learning when to contest armor and Im getting around projectiles and reversals (I dont play characters with invincible reversals). One day he said he didn't want to do ranked because of a lost streak and I pushed him to keep going. Now we both have a secondary that's also plat (he has ken, I have zangief) and we just had another close set I think it was 17-14 but man are those games fun

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

Hell yea fam!

YEEEESSS I LOVE THIS VIDEO, I dont know if it's wholly applicable to me, but I'll edit if it is. For me, I'm Just at a point where my reactions and hitconfirms need to be upgraded a lot, and I dont have the time to grind somethin like that. Yeah, cause I've got a group of guys I play with all the time, but they're all much better than me, and I don't motivate them to push themselves because they dont have to try when I can't whiff punish or we're not even playin the same game...

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

you'll get there!

Incoming wall of text, but I actually do have a rival: my younger brother. We've been competing in video games since we've been able to hold controllers. While I tend to have more experience and knowledge, we're about even in skill and are still amateurs at best in everything we play. We've competed a lot in games like Smash Bros, Pokémon (even if it's not a fighting game, the same philosophy still applies) and Pokkén Tournament. We've always done simpler games like those because he couldn't fully grasp motion inputs like hado, tatsu, dp, etc., but he's not a total stranger to them as we've played other fighting games like Street Fighter 2 on the SNES mini and Dragon Ball Fighters, to name a couple. Recently, though, he decided he wanted to learn MvC3 (vanilla not ultimate, so I can't school him using Virgil :p /j), so we've been playing a lot of Marvel 3. He's learning the basics fast, and despite all the light smack I talk with him, I'm happy that he's learning games like this because it motivates me to improve as well, plus it's always fun to have someone close to you who you can play with and talk to about games like these.

@IHeartJustice

4 ай бұрын

that's awesome you have a little bro like that!

i remember thinking one of my friends was my rival, but in reality, i dont really have a rival when i think on it, cus i never really have anybody that plays, unless its dbfz then its my brother

@Giadanadragon_Gaming

5 ай бұрын

also, a random add, i would actually enjoy just saying i got beat by a phoenix, phoenix is awesome

I’ve had some rivals and it definitely made me a better fighter because of it, great vid. Low key, I wonder if Javi played DOA, cause that would be another rival 😂

@IHeartJustice

6 ай бұрын

DOA2 ultimate on the original xbox was my first fighting game I was good at!

@XDEE_SENSEIX

6 ай бұрын

@@IHeartJustice Yes!! The classic DOA! Same brother! 👏👏

I love UMVC3 but i got no rival nor one to play rip i loved playing (trying) phoenix wright, and zero (i personally find them working) well I found phoenix wright can work with chun-li and morrigan (imo) for some reason i can manage some air combos with all of them but i can never adapt to him and i need a rival. But by watching lythero and IHJ and the crew makes me want to go back to playing and actually try and git gud. Love the videos keep it up!

@IHeartJustice

3 ай бұрын

kind words fam ty!! consider joining my discord as we just had a small beginner tournament even just yesterday! People still love to play the game

@jedinamenlos

3 ай бұрын

@@IHeartJustice will do sir #justiceforever

Im not sure how my friend sees it, but he is by far my biggest rival. He labs far more than I do and put ways more effort into getting better, but I always still come back to face him. He pushes me to get better and I appreciate it. He doesnt like it when I decide to keep facing him even when Im clearly not very happy or doing great, but I always end up learning something or improving from it. His skill has pushed me more than any amount of labbing really could, and Im thankful he puts up with my shit.

@IHeartJustice

7 ай бұрын

Rivals will bring that out of ya fam =D