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Guide posted...

This isn't true for fighting games. Not knowing what to do is going to get you murderstomped in 3 seconds, unless it's mahvel or somesuch, where you get stuck in a 100+ hit combo for a minute.

I've seen matches where people are playing an expected meta and -only- an expected meta, but that's an amateur thing to do.

It's absolutely true for fighting games, though the degree of how true varies from game to game. Unfamiliar matchups and off meta champs are one thing, but the big issue is fighting games are very heavily about mind games, and those only work when the opponent knows what they're doing to some degree. A random attack at the wrong time can connect and be a big threat, though you're very unlikely to kill because, as you said, combos are huge.