[Jotaku]

Before you directly buy $200+ expensive fightstick to play fighting games such as Hori Alpha or Qanba Obsidian, please consider this before conducting your impulse purchase. This guide will help you save huge amount of money and time.

Watch 3:27. This guy makes basically 1 wavedash (6n236) per each of 0.27sec. In total 11 wavedashes in just 3 second.

If you can do that at the same speed after a month of practice, I am pretty sure you are very much gifted in your gene for using fight stick. In that case you should use fight stick for any fighting games. Otherwise, try different thing like keyboard and hitbox and see if you can perform that with those alternatives.

You don't have to own latest Tekken game to find yourself being able to do that. Just go https://www.retrogames.cc/psx-games/tekken-3.html and try in practice arena.

Of course not all fighting games require you to do that as only Tekken has wavedash thing. But this is one of the hardest techniques that requires talents throughout whole fighting games in terms of highlevel micro-control of fighting game genre in general. This means, if you can do this, there will be no problem in motion handling of all fighting games in the future. Thus, you can consider that accomplishing this motion is like the most basic and fundamental gateway to entering into the fighting game. Effort isn't enough but a gift is required, and for that reason, I saw people who can't do it at that speed even after practicing for 7 years of Tekken games with various fight sticks, which is totally waste of huge time and money. It is a field of talent rather than effort, which means that you should consider switching to different input devices other than fightsticks.

Without knowing this, you will someday struggle with unknown thing that you can't even sense the problem as it is actually because of your gene that cannot be adapted to fight stick. Fighting game shares many commons with ryhthm games which requires you to get used to sensibility or feeling (instinct) over intelligence or theory such as warfare strategies that perhaps used in MOBA, RTS, card, games with builds, etc. And your input device will be pretty much affected by such sensibility or feeling.

And of course if you can do this with your $10 keyboard stocked somewhere in your house, then you don't even have to consider getting a fight stick for playing fighting games since you already accomplished one of the hardest techniques throughout the whole fighting games in terms of micro-control, or micromanaging.

So it is important that you find your best input device first for fighting games before you buy $200+ expensive fight stick just because you want to play fighting games in depth. Others might work better for you while fightstick wouldn't work for you.

* Bonus - If you still want to use fightstick but not be able to perform the wavedash that fast shown in the video, HitBox CrossUp is probably your ideal fightstick. This will bind another button for direction, so you can easily use both the button and lever to perform that easily. But make sure that device is expensive.