I disagree, with such poor controls you will not perform consistently the above person must have never heard of M2K which makes me question their reliability as a source.
Firstly, M2K's johns are legendary. Don't even try to source that at me. Have you ever heard him talk about a match he lost where he didn't have a reason? I love the guy, but it's always his bad controller, or not getting sleep before, or not practicing enough, or not feeling it that day. And the controls are just something you gotta adjust to. They're kinda ****ty but there's no reason for you to consistently flub inputs on them after some time with them.
People can definitely have bad days. Whether it is due to lack of sleep/food/energy or something hindering performance, it happens. EVERY great player at sometime in his career have had games/tournaments where they haven't shown up like they should have. "Worse? Absolutely." - An even game can go to a crush fest for one person because of someone having a bad day + tilt ontop of that.
You're wrong.
While I admire the spirit, and respect the way you ended the post, you're missing a few things.
Going on tilt or having a bad match =/= getting destroyed for a day. It's completely true that all players have bad days. But there's an inherent difference between having a bad day, and being flattened by everyone you play for a day. If you suddenly and inexplicably can not take a game off of anyone, that's a psychological barrier, partly formed by that thought process of "I'm just having a bad day".
I go to weeklies for Melee, and one of the best tips I got from that was when I was playing against a guy and I would go even for the first half of the game and then get **** on the second half. After getting frustrated as hell I told him I wasn't really feeling it and was going to hit up another set up, and he told me to sit my ass down.
My problem, and what I think this problem a lot of you are voicing is, was that I would focus in the first half, and then lose a few exchanges and lose a stock early. From there I'd feel I needed to play aggressively to get that stock back, and I'd lose the game. The guy didn't let me leave the set up because I wouldn't have learned anything from those games if I left. I would've said "I just wasn't doing good in that MU today" and stayed bad at it.
Really competent players from
all fighting games will tell you that one of the most important times to practice and grind out play is when you're really not feeling it, because that's the barrier. That's the wall you have to break down before you can continue to improve. Setting it off to the side is only parlaying it getting on you again.
Part of my agrees with this but part of me doesn't.
I agree to the last part mainly. I need to hit the lab more and play more. but lately I have had days where I really don't feel like playing smash. Mainly due to Personal reasons though. And because of that I'm not consistently improving, I'm basically sliding down the hill that I've been climbing up.
I disagree with a lot though. I don't think that just because your a great player you won't have an off day. A player could go from amazing to just good. Don't get me wrong, "good" is good, but its not "amazing".
I'm not saying I'm a good player by any means, I actually think I'm pretty garbage at smash (all iterations) but I can still notice when I'm playing well(ish) or not.
The disconnect with your disagreement is that this thread is people saying some days they can't win. They just get bodied by everyone. Great players have off days and go from amazing to good, but good doesn't lose to everyone. Good goes on tilt sometimes, but good doesn't lose all sense of fundamentals. It's a matter of extremes.