It depends on the fighting game of your choice, actually. You will win by mashing in Soul Calibur, but you will lose in BlazBlue.
But yeah, it’s kind of why fighting games and musou-type games are my favourite – I love mashing <3
It’s not like I ever played online multiplayer….
Actually, it’s only button mashing if I don’t know what I’m doing. Which I kind of do. But I still manage to die by throwing my boomerang when trying to spin attack up as Link.
Worst is when you have those games that have auto-guard and the other player demands it………. Are you so pathetic that you will just use a ranged fighter and given them auto-guard!
Unless you’re reading from left to right, in which it’s in the correct order, which is most likely what she intended. If you’re reading up-down then yeah, it’s incorrect. Dunno, makes sense from my point of view.
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I had a nice little experience like this, but it was the opposite. Playing Ryu, some kid picks E Honda back when SF2 was still new and in the arcades. He tells me left and right all about how he couldn’t be beat, had a perfect strategy. Mashes the punch button. I cross up. (For those not in the know, a cross up is where you do an air attack so close to a behind attack it negates any defenses for a fraction of a second.) E Honda had a very brief window between Hundred Hand Slaps. And I slowly demolish him. He starts whining and moaning that I cheated and how I owed him quarters for cheating. When he didn’t get them, he ran off crying.
Button Mashing can work depending on the fighting game, but be prepared for it to blow up in your face depending.
Last time I played a button masher, I hit random and got the “HIT SQUARE TO JUGGLE OPPONENT AND WIN EVERY TIME AND IF THEY ESCAPE USE R2 TO DODGE” character :3
This is just -exactly- what happens every time I try to play a fighting game against someone. I try to pull combos, they hammer the punch button. They win EVERY time.
THIS IS YOUR FIRST STRIP EVER THAT DOESN’T INCLUDE GAMERCAT… THANKS! YOU SHOULD MAKE MORE STRIPS THAT DOESN’T HAVE HIM MORE OFTEN.
DON’T TAKE ME WRONG, I LIKE GAMERCAT, BUT WATCHING HIM ALL THE TIME IS KINDA BORING
Ehhh…. Dark days indeed… I remember doing this EXACT same thing with my bro in several different games… It’s always been a battle against mashing and spam… :I
huh that reminds me of my first time playing smash bros. at my preschool im the masher and people i fight pull off combos
(by the way, my name is a play on my usual usernames being thegamerguy)
Pretty much me and friend (and other friend), when playing on his… PS3 I think it was? It was a Mortal Kombat game. I was completelly unused to the PS3 pads (I hate them) and didn’t remember a single command input for character I like, not to mention that on this version they could be diffrent. I still won all the matches of the day xD He wasn’t too happy about it heheheh~
‘The worlds best swordsman does not fear the second best swordsman, he fears the fool who’s never held a blade in his life, because there’s no telling what he’s going to do…’
Hm~ I guess you are right here. I mean I know a bit how to play Mortal Kombat but at this moment I was…let’s say 80-90% of what you say, random sword swinging and only 10-20% of skillful sword swinging… My left thumb however was 100% stabbed by sword swinging…thing…
He is most definitely a natural. Glitch can and will win every single video game in the world and be the VIDEO GAME CHAMPION!!! Glitch, can you hire me? I’ll be a fifth player! I swear that i’m a cat! I’M A TUXEDO, WITH A RED COLLAR AND A THOUSAND VIDEO GAMES. PLEEEEAAAASSSSE ACCEPT ME T_T
i was playing super smash bros and i just downloaded it. my friend offered to play with me, and i just mashed the buttons. i was playing on a floating island as the battlefield and i just jumped down and got killed like 10 times! (now im much better at it and beat my friend 6 out of 10 times. we’re pretty even.
70 thoughts on “Mash Up”
Amy
When you go <Prev, you can't get back to this comic without using the browsers back button. What's up. Also I love gamer cat comics.
CelesseAdministrator
Works for me. Maybe it’s your cache? Try refreshing the page.
F.B.I.
sweet you are going to jail for pulling a kitten’s tail!
glitch The buttin masher
I love ur art go celesse
glitch The buttin masher
I love your art, go celesse
glitch The buttin masher
mack a roblox comic abawt piggy
glitch The button masher
Celesse did u see my new profil pic its glitch mashing button
IngeX
Yes, it’s working, you should clear your cookies
ValentineVxx
B-But i have more than one quadrillon right now…
fdshfudh
cccccccooookkkkkkkkkkkkkiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeesssssss!!!!!!!
Immo
yum
LinkOfDoom
Do you even know what cookies are? In computer terms? Look it up, bro. But COOKIES…
Carlosfer2201
Almost happened to me in Mortal Kombat 3, this friend of mine would only down kick, it was so annoying but funny. XD
anonymous
i knew my strategy of just mashing absolutely every button would work on at least one comic
Zombie Chaser
Having the same issue with not being able to use the forward button.
SwAg MaStEr
awwwwww
Zombie Chaser
I’m fucking stupid
Daboielek
Kids are reading these
KutheRaver
That comment was made 4 YEARS prior to yours, and this is the internet. Get over it.
Immo
dude, i am a kid but i know ‘STUFF’ but like my sister checks this ou and she’s 6
Button Mash
RIP
Button Mash
(Bronies will understand)
Sweetie Belle
Nooooooo! Buttons!
Potion Seller
I am the Potion Seller and neither of you can handle my strongest potions!
My strongest potions will kill you!
supercomputer276
The best swordsman in the world fears the worst, because he has no idea what that idiot will do.
johnson
wise words my friend, also i really like these comics, keep it up :D
Tronfiend
I read Johnson’s comment and instead of reading these I read cheese stupid brain.
Da Golden Golem
I do that sometimes in super smash bros
NecroFerret(PokeGeist)
me too! Just mash A and/or B, and boom! Your character does random stuff and falls off a cliff!
SStefania
It depends on the fighting game of your choice, actually. You will win by mashing in Soul Calibur, but you will lose in BlazBlue.
But yeah, it’s kind of why fighting games and musou-type games are my favourite – I love mashing <3
Once in a blue Mew
I button mash in Smash Bros
Andrew
I greatly dislike you.
Once in a blue Mew
It’s not like I ever played online multiplayer….
Actually, it’s only button mashing if I don’t know what I’m doing. Which I kind of do. But I still manage to die by throwing my boomerang when trying to spin attack up as Link.
Once in a blue Mew
I was lying. Sorry.
Once in a blue Mew
I just meant to send one message. This is a fail.
Katy Eleanor
Lol almost same here, but in Street Fighter. I only don’t button mash when I play my Chun Li and use her special attack! :I
cmd1095
Poor sweet, he doesn’t realize that skill-based playing only beats mashing at the top levels of play
Andrew
Worst is when you have those games that have auto-guard and the other player demands it………. Are you so pathetic that you will just use a ranged fighter and given them auto-guard!
ColdFusion
This totally happened to me once in an arcade. Same exact scenario, big fat older kid.. the game was samurai shodown.
Aninimon
Glitsch, so damm cute as ever <3
Charlie
I think the last panel is messed up. Based on the text, I believe it’s supposed to read:
“CAN I GO NOOOWW?!?”
“NO!”
“NOT UNTIL YOU SEE YOU CAN’T JUST MASH BUTTONS!”
But the placement of the bubbles reads as:
“CAN I GO NOOOWW?!?”
“NOT UNTIL YOU SEE YOU CAN’T JUST MASH BUTTONS!”
“NO!”
Pika
Unless you’re reading from left to right, in which it’s in the correct order, which is most likely what she intended. If you’re reading up-down then yeah, it’s incorrect. Dunno, makes sense from my point of view.
twilight sparkle
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OldmanGaming
I had a nice little experience like this, but it was the opposite. Playing Ryu, some kid picks E Honda back when SF2 was still new and in the arcades. He tells me left and right all about how he couldn’t be beat, had a perfect strategy. Mashes the punch button. I cross up. (For those not in the know, a cross up is where you do an air attack so close to a behind attack it negates any defenses for a fraction of a second.) E Honda had a very brief window between Hundred Hand Slaps. And I slowly demolish him. He starts whining and moaning that I cheated and how I owed him quarters for cheating. When he didn’t get them, he ran off crying.
Button Mashing can work depending on the fighting game, but be prepared for it to blow up in your face depending.
Some dude
that can be done in pretty much any figthing game Except super smash bros.
btw Celesse are you gonna do a smash bros comic when it comes out?
Panda gamer
Do you think of making a gamer cat animated series I could do it
trobl
I’ve always mashed buttons, on the rare occasion i DO somehow learn a combo, I almost never use it.
BUTTON MASHERS FOREVER! :D
Brian
I like this comic but I think it would of been better if the second to last panel where they were pressing the buttons their paws moved in a gif.
Ninny
I feel like this is what would happen if I tried to learn how to play a fighting game vs my boyfriend – me being Glitch.
shaelyn
haaaa this is what happened when I picked up Soul Calibur against my fiance. he got so frustrated…
Cats_55
Last time I played a button masher, I hit random and got the “HIT SQUARE TO JUGGLE OPPONENT AND WIN EVERY TIME AND IF THEY ESCAPE USE R2 TO DODGE” character :3
Eevee Freak Of The World!!!
My friend no longer lets me play mortal combat with him because of my button smashing antics! MUAHAHAHAHAH
r0b3rt
This is just -exactly- what happens every time I try to play a fighting game against someone. I try to pull combos, they hammer the punch button. They win EVERY time.
Miss Squib
Am I the only one who thinks of the board game Smash-Up when I see this?
Link
Scrub. Learn to block and wait until they do a punishable move.
ROJO Y NARANJA
THIS IS YOUR FIRST STRIP EVER THAT DOESN’T INCLUDE GAMERCAT… THANKS! YOU SHOULD MAKE MORE STRIPS THAT DOESN’T HAVE HIM MORE OFTEN.
DON’T TAKE ME WRONG, I LIKE GAMERCAT, BUT WATCHING HIM ALL THE TIME IS KINDA BORING
Jaron
Ehhh…. Dark days indeed… I remember doing this EXACT same thing with my bro in several different games… It’s always been a battle against mashing and spam… :I
theGamercatguy
huh that reminds me of my first time playing smash bros. at my preschool im the masher and people i fight pull off combos
(by the way, my name is a play on my usual usernames being thegamerguy)
HyliaGirl42
I consider myself a button masher… >_< ya I need to work on that
Cormier720
I feel like if sweets was voiced it would sound like the comic book guy from the simpsons
SuperDoom1
I’m like Sweet and my sister’s like Glitch. Except I always win.
amazingly true
Well this was amazingly true.
Kiiro Yakumo
Pretty much me and friend (and other friend), when playing on his… PS3 I think it was? It was a Mortal Kombat game. I was completelly unused to the PS3 pads (I hate them) and didn’t remember a single command input for character I like, not to mention that on this version they could be diffrent. I still won all the matches of the day xD He wasn’t too happy about it heheheh~
JaronKitsune
‘The worlds best swordsman does not fear the second best swordsman, he fears the fool who’s never held a blade in his life, because there’s no telling what he’s going to do…’
Kiiro Yakumo
Hm~ I guess you are right here. I mean I know a bit how to play Mortal Kombat but at this moment I was…let’s say 80-90% of what you say, random sword swinging and only 10-20% of skillful sword swinging… My left thumb however was 100% stabbed by sword swinging…thing…
Lock@Shock@Barrel
He is most definitely a natural. Glitch can and will win every single video game in the world and be the VIDEO GAME CHAMPION!!! Glitch, can you hire me? I’ll be a fifth player! I swear that i’m a cat! I’M A TUXEDO, WITH A RED COLLAR AND A THOUSAND VIDEO GAMES. PLEEEEAAAASSSSE ACCEPT ME T_T
ThatRetroGamer
Sweet, You’re not right all the time.
ZeldaGameNerd3101
My dad just started playing super smash bros ultimate and he was kirby. He had no strategy, just mashed buttons. I haven’t won since!! ;D
StruckZeus
i was playing super smash bros and i just downloaded it. my friend offered to play with me, and i just mashed the buttons. i was playing on a floating island as the battlefield and i just jumped down and got killed like 10 times! (now im much better at it and beat my friend 6 out of 10 times. we’re pretty even.
GaMERCat
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