[This essay was funded by my generous Patreon supporters. If you liked this and want to see more, please consider joining the crew!] When fighting game players decide to start learning a game, their first steps typically include playing through tutorials, looking up videos, asking for advice on Reddit and…

[This essay was funded by my generous Patreon supporters. If you liked this and want to see more, please consider joining the crew!] Every now and then I get asks from people who are lucky enough to have questions that don’t require whole-ass essays, so I save them up until…

[This essay was funded by my generous Patreon supporters. If you liked this and want to see more, please consider joining the crew!] Hi Pat, I’m writing to get your opinion on the choice of control style (Classic v Modern) to go with in Street Fighter 6 as a brand-new…

[This essay was funded by my generous Patreon supporters. If you liked this and want to see more, please consider joining the crew!] Ever since I started TOing events about four years ago, I’ve been constantly experimenting with different kinds of event formats and play flows to see how they…

[This essay was funded by my generous Patreon supporters. If you liked this and want to see more, please consider joining the crew!] Ayo Pat, I’ve always found I wanna help my friends who don’t understand fighting games to try and understand them, and I feel I can explain it…

Hey Pat, I’ll be the first to say I’m not particularly good in the grand scheme of the FGC. I’m beyond flailing but get caught up in the all too common “I would like to play the game now” to my detriment. I have a particularly difficult time IADing or…

[This essay was funded by my generous Patreon supporters. If you liked this and want to see more, please consider joining the crew!] Patrick, Really appreciate all the work you do. I’m primarily a KOF player and I have a problem. Yashiro’s 214P is his main combo starter from lights…

[This essay was funded by my generous Patreon supporters. If you liked this and want to see more, please consider joining the crew!] These days I think a lot about how absolutely ridiculous fighting games are, and the fact that people are willing to devote themselves to playing them is…

[This essay was funded by my generous Patreon supporters. If you liked this and want to see more, please consider joining the crew!] “Neutral” in fighting games is the state where both players are capable of moving and hitting. Since both players are capable of using their full moveset in…