wait, no, I thought of a better analogy. China is spamming a difficult-to-block combo and obliterating the US who is just button mashing, and the US is holding back tears while screaming YOURE CHEATING, THATS CHEATING
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as combo, is in fact, true/combo, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, true+combo.
That is what is almost always referred to as a 'combo', though. Non-true combos are just a result of players failing their knowledge checks in specific cases and are entirely eliminated if you
After aerial jousting for some time China has finally made the US block in the corner. The US attempts a pushblock but China read the late pushblock and responds with a late empty trydash into low. After a 30+hit combo America is let out only to be hit by meaty Doom missles post-back tech (a terrible tech direction in the corner). China uses the missle pressure to tri dash high twice and empty dash 1 frame grab. Pops x factor and kills. Now to see what mixup they do on Europe's incoming.
The US is still saying "...I was holding back..." in disbelief as Europe eats a 4 layer incoming mix.