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How can people say netplay is not real Melee when people like @iBDWSSBM and @C9Mang0 are top 10 players who mostly practice through netplay?

ibdw is probably the only player to get good through netplay that i'm aware of, and a lot of his weaknesses as a player are probably a direct result of that upbringing mango could play melee 0 times for the next year and within 2-3 weeks of practice top 8 his next major lmao

having a foundation for the game that exists outside of netplay can allow you to view it properly when you play netplay, but a lot of melee's most important facets can not be practiced via netplay barring extremely good connections

I just very much disagree with "melee's most important facets can not be practiced via netplay." With 6 buffer, or 8 with a good monitor and a stable connection, you're not limited by much. You get the 1 frame dif of lag every 12 frames, and then slight sound delay.

And most of the top 10 are clearly practicing those important aspects via netplay. Sure, they have good foundation, but you're telling me all these guys are mostly upkeeping these various skills through just their foundation?

yea absolutely their foundations are plenty strong enough to know exactly how the game "typically" plays out Either way, there's 0 evidence that netplay is actually helping anyone upkeep, its just easy. If most top players did good vod study/solo practice it would help way more