well. i think that button mashers are just a last resort for people that are new to a fighting game or never played one before. but however as i am used to the fighting game system i try to learn the moves before looking up on how to do the moves... i usually beat everyone at school anyways the thing is that since i use emus to play those sorts of games, the limit of buttons pressed is always passed and usually newbies hurt me plenty, it would be a different story if we had seperate keyboards/joysticks/gamepads or played on console so in a nutshell, i hate button mashers