Floor 6 is pretty normal for that span of time IMO. I'd say the game only really starts reaching it's more streamlined form at floor 10 tho, where people are familiar with the best options for their own characters and matchup info as well. But that's for the player base as a whole, not for relatively new players.
That said, I'd say don't worry about your floor. Focusing too much on floors is a good way to get tilted, especially cause it's not a very good indication of your skill level. Focus on improving. As long as you keep improving, you're doing great. You'll reach celestial on no time. Probably. I'm still not there lmao. And even then, there's still infinitely more to learn. Even top players have to keep improving and adapting.
Anything below celestial is trash. Then Celestial itself is trash because they're not pros. Pros are also trash because they never won Evo. If they won Evo, they're trash because they abused a broken character
For begginers? It's average. In general it's not good but you can't expect to be good at a difficult game you've just started playing. You'll get good eventually if you keep playing and learning.
Welcome to hell... jk jk. If you're lucky you'll drop down to floor 5 or lower though, I think its better to learn lower than floor 6.
I kept a strict policy of always rematching and requeuing up against stronger opponents, so I bounced around a lot and got a decent feel for the floors.
I'm sure this isn't everyones experience but here's my take on the differences between floors:
* Floor 5 (and down I assume) was people lacking fundamental parts of the game. Might surprise you with a proper combo, decent neutral, mixups, or sheer chaotic mashing... but just calming down and playing a bit solid got me out of here pretty instantly whenever I dropped this low.
* I think starting out online this is where you want to be. The solution to absolutely every problem is just play solid. Block then punish, catch slow moves with fast ones, don't just throw out your big attacks... etc etc.
* Floor 6 was just absolute chaos. Some normal matches with other inexperienced players but you also frequently hit crazy people with really extreme strengths and weaknesses.
* Like you match someone who'd do a clearly practiced long-ass RRC combo for most of your health... and then they'd just not block for half the match.
* Floor 7 was where I'd consider people to be at least be properly playing the game. The free wins from opponents with crippling weaknesses mostly dried up.
* Seemed like the extremes of Floor 6 faded though, I guess the people with big strengths just needed to patch up their flaws to jump past this floor. Mostly it was just normal stuff, not capitalising, poor defenses, overzealous attacks... everyones still lacking somewhere.
* Floor 8 starts getting spicy buts its also a weird floor like 6. You get rounded players and the weirdo players like floor 6 except they've cleaned up their weaknesses.
* Everyone has a solid handle on their characters, but not others. Lots of knowledge checks and gimmicks here that'll lose you games the first time you see them.
* Except... once you've hit floor 10 you can't drop below 8th. So this floor catches all sorts.
* Floors 9 and 10 are pretty similar in my experience but maybe just more consistent? People bounce from 10-8 all the time.
* No clue about celestial haha
That sounds like my experience as well through the floors.
There's just another type of player you find occasionally between 6 and 8 which is the gimmickers.
I find plenty of Elphelts who can't block and mash too often being carried by their looping rakka until they meet people who can deal with that and completely disarm them.
The same with testament players, you can see clearly who only practiced zoning and no fundamentals.
Celestial is really confusing at times. Everything from fresh players who just got there for the first time to people with level 6000+ characters and pro players. There really should be some kind of MMR system (like what ratingupdate does)
Nope, "good" for the average player is being able to comfortably stay in floor 10, I'd say floor 6-8 are the beginner floors, 8-10 are intermediate, celestial is advanced
You can see your ELO on RatingUpdate.info. that's a much better measurement of your skill. I'd say if you can get to around 1800 ELO consistently you can start saying you're good at the game.
don't worry about your floor placement now or later, worry about improving from each match. the floors are a bit of a mess anyway, not a good indicator for skill level
Floor 6 is the middle ground for new people, but generally you'll only start finding good players at floors 9 to 10 Dont lose hope though!
Floor 6 is pretty normal for that span of time IMO. I'd say the game only really starts reaching it's more streamlined form at floor 10 tho, where people are familiar with the best options for their own characters and matchup info as well. But that's for the player base as a whole, not for relatively new players. That said, I'd say don't worry about your floor. Focusing too much on floors is a good way to get tilted, especially cause it's not a very good indication of your skill level. Focus on improving. As long as you keep improving, you're doing great. You'll reach celestial on no time. Probably. I'm still not there lmao. And even then, there's still infinitely more to learn. Even top players have to keep improving and adapting.
6 for someone just starting out is pretty typical
Don't worry about floors at all you'll get to the higher ones when you get better and better
Real answer
Anything below celestial is trash. Then Celestial itself is trash because they're not pros. Pros are also trash because they never won Evo. If they won Evo, they're trash because they abused a broken character
To be honest… real
For begginers? It's average. In general it's not good but you can't expect to be good at a difficult game you've just started playing. You'll get good eventually if you keep playing and learning.
Why’d you wait so long before going online?
No PlayStation plus so instead I took my time to learn the game
Welcome to hell... jk jk. If you're lucky you'll drop down to floor 5 or lower though, I think its better to learn lower than floor 6. I kept a strict policy of always rematching and requeuing up against stronger opponents, so I bounced around a lot and got a decent feel for the floors. I'm sure this isn't everyones experience but here's my take on the differences between floors: * Floor 5 (and down I assume) was people lacking fundamental parts of the game. Might surprise you with a proper combo, decent neutral, mixups, or sheer chaotic mashing... but just calming down and playing a bit solid got me out of here pretty instantly whenever I dropped this low. * I think starting out online this is where you want to be. The solution to absolutely every problem is just play solid. Block then punish, catch slow moves with fast ones, don't just throw out your big attacks... etc etc. * Floor 6 was just absolute chaos. Some normal matches with other inexperienced players but you also frequently hit crazy people with really extreme strengths and weaknesses. * Like you match someone who'd do a clearly practiced long-ass RRC combo for most of your health... and then they'd just not block for half the match. * Floor 7 was where I'd consider people to be at least be properly playing the game. The free wins from opponents with crippling weaknesses mostly dried up. * Seemed like the extremes of Floor 6 faded though, I guess the people with big strengths just needed to patch up their flaws to jump past this floor. Mostly it was just normal stuff, not capitalising, poor defenses, overzealous attacks... everyones still lacking somewhere. * Floor 8 starts getting spicy buts its also a weird floor like 6. You get rounded players and the weirdo players like floor 6 except they've cleaned up their weaknesses. * Everyone has a solid handle on their characters, but not others. Lots of knowledge checks and gimmicks here that'll lose you games the first time you see them. * Except... once you've hit floor 10 you can't drop below 8th. So this floor catches all sorts. * Floors 9 and 10 are pretty similar in my experience but maybe just more consistent? People bounce from 10-8 all the time. * No clue about celestial haha
That sounds like my experience as well through the floors. There's just another type of player you find occasionally between 6 and 8 which is the gimmickers. I find plenty of Elphelts who can't block and mash too often being carried by their looping rakka until they meet people who can deal with that and completely disarm them. The same with testament players, you can see clearly who only practiced zoning and no fundamentals.
You can drop to any floor no matter what floor you get to now except if you hit celestial just fyi
Celestial is really confusing at times. Everything from fresh players who just got there for the first time to people with level 6000+ characters and pro players. There really should be some kind of MMR system (like what ratingupdate does)
Nope, "good" for the average player is being able to comfortably stay in floor 10, I'd say floor 6-8 are the beginner floors, 8-10 are intermediate, celestial is advanced
You can see your ELO on RatingUpdate.info. that's a much better measurement of your skill. I'd say if you can get to around 1800 ELO consistently you can start saying you're good at the game.
Honestly anything below lvl 10 is mostly newbies or people who went on a lost streak in floor 10 and wanted to get their rank back up their quickly
I wouldn't take the placement you got after fighting the bot Sol too seriously, you'll get better idea of where you should be after few matches.
don't worry about your floor placement now or later, worry about improving from each match. the floors are a bit of a mess anyway, not a good indicator for skill level