I - You Can't Play Neutral

A lot of players either tell or are told that they need to work on their neutral, and a lot of players try to then go into a match and play a neutral focused game, but realise that they kind of, can’t. They try and focus on the neutral game, maybe outspace their opponent, or look for a whiff punish, only to get hit by a jump in, or a DI, or a drive rush, and suddenly they’re not playing neutral anymore. It’s easy to get mad and complain “why won’t my opponent play footsies with me?” But this misses a fundamental aspect of playing neutral.
Everyone says that neutral is just “playing footsies”, and while that’s correct, it fails to explain how to actually put yourself and your opponent in a situation to play “neutral”.

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