How important are prediction sliders?

[teyoken]

How important are prediction sliders? And if you get them wrong slightly will it highly affect the way you fight?

[Antary]

There's a bonus to defense against actions that you set a high percentage for on the predictions, and a penalty for low ones, though nobody knows how much exactly. Presumably, checking Adapt to Fight lets your fighter adjust the prediction sliders himself over the course of a fight, but if you're only afraid of someone's takedowns for example, you can set high takedown predictions and leave it unchecked on purpose to keep the bonuses against it throughout the entire fight even if your opponent doesn't do them often. So doing "wrong" predictions can be a viable decision.

According to Mike, having Adapt to Fight checked while having 0% on the See How It Goes slider doesn't do anything. My guess is that in this case SHIG affects the margin by which your fighter adjusts his prediction sliders in response to the opponent's actions.

Also, if you don't set any prediction sliders at all, the game sets them automatically based on the opponent's performed actions from his previous fights. That's from the wiki.