Sparring - Going positive

About me:

Hi my name is ReD, I've been playing iClassic since late 2012 and sparring since early 2013, I have participated in 5 guild spar tournaments (4 iDevice and 1 Mixed), by 4000 wins my iDevice was completely broken and my only option was to make the jump too PC.

Intro

In this guide you'll find tips and a few tricks on going positive with your W/L ratio, I will be covering other sparring topics later on but this guide is built to help you with your sometimes long and hard (well not hard if your decent) Journey to going positive.

Index

• Tips
• Tricks
• Techniques
• Keeping a positive ratio
• conclusion
• Additional sources

Tips:

The main thing with positive ratios is finding a way in which you'll be comfortable sparring, focus on learning how YOU like to move, don't let others influence you completely, a little tip from someone is great once in a while but copying someone's style isn't always the ideal choice, learn to predict your opponent and when or when not too hit, once all of this is done its time to apply this inside the Battle Arena, Just remember its always a good idea to warm up before going ahead and sparring for long periods of time, streak rooms are great but if your in desperate need of going positive go ahead and spar in quick spar rooms, these are great for practice and also provide a good amount of wins, and barely any losses (considering everyone in quick spar rooms are generally really really bad), however if your looking for a challenge the mixed room is full of sparrers from old pros to talented rookies.

Tricks: Often you'll come across "delaying" or "lagging" players, try different ways that you feel will help you combat these sorts of players, often walling is the go to choice for many but its not always the best, as getting trapped on a wall will get you a loss, keep moving around and predicting where the player will be next (if their warping this works well) generally the player lagging will lose to this technique.

Keeping a positive ratio:

Keeping a positive ratio means you CANNOT lose, so don't be afraid to cheap-shot an AFK player or use a technique that is hated by others, after all its you who matters in this situation, try your hardest in every match, have the attitude that your unstoppable and you'll have an easier time winning.

Conclusion

, I have to say, this guide is kind of crappy and probably doesn't make sense but sparring is my thing and I love to share info and talk about it I went from 100-300 to 6500-3100 with the attitude and actions mentioned in my guide, I hope that at least 1 or 2 people will use some of the little tips mentioned in my guide , positive and negative feedback is all welcome! just try not to be offensive thanks and good luck sparring!

some additional things to help you out on your journey to positive!:

• For a PC sparring guide by thallen try his spar school website: http://sparschool.blogspot.com
• For a iDevice sparring guide, try Angel Roses thread here: http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25577

 

Cool guide
I agree with you on trying your hardest on every match. At least give some effort to respect the other player. I find annoying when the opponent is 'acting' or really not trying. I join spars to prove myself as a skilled sparrer and always try my best.  

lmao You should make a thread about how to boost like you did for all your wins
GG OG  

Jesus

Posted by Sardon

lmao You should make a thread about how to boost like you did for all your wins
GG OG

Nobody really cares about your posts.  

Posted by Sardon

lmao You should make a thread about how to boost like you did for all your wins
GG OG

orly :0, don't see you doing anything but talking **** and going afk lmao

oh and btw, ask the other 2 who posted on this thread, I'm no booster lol

Posted by Zetectic

Cool guide
I agree with you on trying your hardest on every match. At least give some effort to respect the other player. I find annoying when the opponent is 'acting' or really not trying. I join spars to prove myself as a skilled sparrer and always try my best.

ditto

Posted by Sardon

lmao You should make a thread about how to boost like you did for all your wins
GG OG

Also, I wrote this guide to help people, no need to act like an ass over some information I've provided to the community  

Posted by OG

orly :0, don't see you doing anything but talking **** and going afk lmao

oh and btw, ask the other 2 who posted on this thread, I'm no booster lol




Also, I wrote this guide to help people, no need to act like an ass over some information I've provided to the community

Its caled Guild chat while standing on the gmap
I have a guild to run I chat with people and have long conversations

Lol the only information youve provided to this community  

Posted by Sardon

Its caled Guild chat while standing on the gmap
I have a guild to run I chat with people and have long conversations

Lol the only information youve provided to this community

if your going to be rude, you may as well just not bother replying to this and/or writing on my thread  

Posted by Sardon

lmao You should make a thread about how to boost like you did for all your wins
GG OG

I demand you series him and see who's the best. All talk no action you are!  

I remember when we first met and you werent positive just like me ; v ; sigh good times, ANYWAYS! Nice guide m8 i like it & dont worry sardon is just a bit salty today  

Posted by Bryan*

I demand you series him and see who's the best. All talk no action you are!

thx brotha <3

Posted by Vicipower

I remember when we first met and you werent positive just like me ; v ; sigh good times, ANYWAYS! Nice guide m8 i like it & dont worry sardon is just a bit salty today

salt  

Posted by Sardon

lmao You should make a thread about how to boost like you did for all your wins
GG OG

You think everyone boosts because you are upset about how poor your record is.

I've seen him spar against numerous good people in both singles and guild spar, only thing I see you doing is losing.

Good guide, it should help noobs like Sardon improve a bit.

Posted by Zetectic

Cool guide
I agree with you on trying your hardest on every match. At least give some effort to respect the other player. I find annoying when the opponent is 'acting' or really not trying. I join spars to prove myself as a skilled sparrer and always try my best.

Yeah the only time I didn't try is if it was a really bad person or new player usually let them hit me to 1.5 so it was more fair for them  

Posted by OG

so don't be afraid to cheap-shot an AFK player

Idk about this. Just makes you look like a prick when you do it, but it is their fault for idling to begin with I suppose.  

Posted by Fulgore

Idk about this. Just makes you look like a prick when you do it, but it is their fault for idling to begin with I suppose.

precisely, I see it as their fall, if its someone IK, take primetime (WAR) or respect like Inevitable (Alumni) for example, I'll wait but if its a random I'll just hit them  

Posted by Colin

You think everyone boosts because you are upset about how poor your record is.

Good guide, it should help noobs like Sardon improve a bit.

cmon dont say that thats rude even if sardon was acting like that you shouldnt do the same riight?  

Posted by OG

precisely, I see it as their fall, if its someone IK, take primetime (WAR) or respect like Inevitable (Alumni) for example, I'll wait but if its a random I'll just hit them

If they do it on purpose I don't wait, but if it wasn't intentional I would wait until the standing still timer runs out.