"Spamming"

What is Spamming?

  • Same input over and over again

    Votes: 34 81.0%

  • Strings/Combos that don't let your opponent move

    Votes: 3 7.1%

  • Using One string/combo many times

    Votes: 17 40.5%
  • Total voters
    42
  • Poll closed .
South Of Heaven

South Of Heaven

[10] Knight
Does it annoy anybody else that when you beat somebody they decide that you were "spamming"? There seems to be so many different definitions for the word that I feel I need to clarify on what is and isn't "spamming."

For instance, if your inputs are, say, while using Mitsu, 66BB, 66BB, 66BB, 66BB, 4B, 4B, 4B, 4B, I'd call THAT spamming. I grew up with the term meaning "Using the same move over and over again".

However, I've noticed a surge in the amount of players who, when soundly beaten by your combos and strings, will say "Wow you spammer". I don't believe pulling off combos and strings to be placed in that category.

So we got any funny stories about Spamming? I'll start us off.
I joined a player match lobby, the name of which was "no try hards." So, noting the lobby's name, I pick a character I am not-so-great at - Siegfried. I proceed to spam his 3:Bh:, B and after I miraculously after 44K-ing him for a RO a quarter of the way across the stage, I get kicked. I think it was pretty obvious that I wasn't trying.
 
Spamming to me would be the same input over and over, or perhaps the same couple of attacks in sequence. However, it's the opponent's duty to defend against it.
Spamming can be a strategy like anything else... often not a great one, but still, it can be used to bait a specific response or sometimes it's just the only option. For example, a Viola at maximum range would be 'spamming' B+K 6B+K, but this is because she has very few other options at that range and this allows her to keep the opponent under pressure so she can close in more easily.

I find spamming a strange complaint because I see it as their fault for not making me do anything else... Why would I not rely on the attacks that are working, if they aren't going to make me use anything different?


Also:
Who's really at fault here? :P
 
Magnificent Ken gameplay.

This spamming controversy reminds me of poker :
They say if you can't beat a calling station (ie a person who keeps calling your bets and whose moves are thus predictible), you can't beat anybody.
 
A story... Well I was fighting this B ranked Xiba who only used his long ranged pole jabs (forgot the input) and a slow horizontal swing. I gotten into the habit of stepping back with patroklos against him which is normally a horrible idea, side stepping and then going in for 66B, 66A BE, 11B bt B+K, and 3B. He kept rage quitting every time I fought him because I never took a single bit of damage after the first fight.
 
Can I just point out..?

Same input over and over again
14 vote(s)​
82.4%​
Strings/Combos that don't let your opponent move
1 vote(s)​
5.9%​
Using One string/combo many times
6 vote(s)​
35.3%​


82.4 + 5.9 + 35.3 =/= 100? Of 21 votes, how is 14 82.4%?
14 should be 66%, and 6 should certainly be under 33%
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i've never understood the complaint either. we have this magical mechanic almost exclusive to SC...the just guard and/or guard impact.
 
If they are getting predictable with certain moves or strings, a good Auto-GI usually does the trick to make them afraid to touch that move they thought was effective.
 
I think maybe it used to always mean the same input over and over but in current usage it more often means over-reliance on a certain move. As though out of politeness you shouldn't keep using the moves that work against your opponent and should throw in some less effective ones too. People who cry "spammer" are often oblivious to how you are actually trying to train them to block low (for example) so then you can mix them up with launchers or other attacks - other attacks that you sometimes never get around to actually doing because your opponent would rather just refuse to ever block low and call you a spammer.
 
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