[0:00] with the upcoming release of Street
[0:03] Fighter VI in just a few days a lot of
[0:06] new people are going to be playing
[0:07] fighting games again for the first time
[0:09] only to once again get thrashed by the
[0:12] existing and Niche fighting game
[0:13] community that has long been the
[0:15] greatest obstacle to new players joining
[0:18] the scene namely because of their
[0:20] complete inability to explain how to
[0:22] play even the videos you see that
[0:24] attempt to explain what to do often
[0:27] approach the topic from the complete
[0:28] wrong direction often throwing you into
[0:31] the deep end and expecting you to
[0:32] understand terminology that only they
[0:34] know
[0:35] I however want to correct for that and
[0:38] teach you the very basics of how to
[0:40] learn any fighting game and get good
[0:42] regardless of the game so that you can
[0:44] finally go from being a button-mashing
[0:47] noob to an intentional button pressing
[0:49] Chad
[0:50] to do this I will explain what not to do
[0:53] what you should do how to think about
[0:55] fighting games and most importantly I
[0:57] will not be using any fighting game
[0:59] terminology whatsoever so that you can
[1:02] better understand what exactly it is
[1:04] that I'm talking about and please keep
[1:06] in mind that while this video is
[1:08] intended for teaching the complete
[1:10] beginners that doesn't mean that there
[1:12] is an information here that isn't also
[1:14] useful for more experienced players as
[1:16] well so for starters what is the
[1:19] conventional wisdom you'll typically get
[1:21] from the fgc on how to play and why is
[1:24] it wrong ask just about anyone in their
[1:27] community and they'll tell you that you
[1:29] should just learn a basic combo and then
[1:31] play a bunch of games where you try to
[1:33] land that combo and this is terrible
[1:35] advice
[1:36] why because they're telling you to run
[1:39] before you can walk
[1:41] you can't just run into a game with a
[1:43] random combo move and spam it hoping
[1:45] that it lands that's idiotic and doesn't
[1:47] teach you anything about fundamentals
[1:50] so what are the fundamentals and how do
[1:52] we learn them
[1:54] for starters forget about combos for now
[1:56] you don't need to know even a single one
[1:59] and try to memorize a big flashy combo
[2:01] at this stage is only going to hinder
[2:03] your progress and be completely useless
[2:05] without knowing how to actually land it
[2:07] consistently
[2:09] instead I want you to learn all of your
[2:12] basic moves and specials first and
[2:15] practice with performing them by
[2:16] themselves in isolation again no combos
[2:20] right now once you feel like you can
[2:22] both remember most of your moves and
[2:24] execute them reliably it's time to do
[2:27] some sparring you can do this with
[2:29] either a human opponent or the CPU and
[2:32] the goal is very simple all you have to
[2:34] do is land some heads but don't try to
[2:36] combo and don't Mash buttons instead
[2:40] play defensively try to block your
[2:43] opponent and look for openings try to
[2:45] remember the moves that you practice and
[2:47] attempt to land one where you see an
[2:49] opening think about an action and
[2:51] perform that same action
[2:53] again don't press buttons randomly doing
[2:57] so you'll eventually start to see which
[2:59] hits will land in certain situations as
[3:02] well as slowly build up your muscle
[3:03] memory for executing those certain moves
[3:05] maybe your opponent jumps and you throw
[3:08] out an uppercut which knocks them out of
[3:10] the air or they try to throw out a heavy
[3:12] kick so you jab and interrupt it this is
[3:15] the core fundamentals of any fighting
[3:17] game knowing what techniques you have at
[3:19] your disposal and in what situations
[3:21] those hits will land there isn't any
[3:24] magic combo that will make you win even
[3:26] the best combos in the game are
[3:28] completely useless if you lack the
[3:30] fundamentals on how to actually land
[3:31] that hit first if you can master that
[3:34] you're already better than most and yes
[3:37] you can actually win matches with just
[3:40] good fundamentals alone without throwing
[3:42] out even a single combo the whole game
[3:45] of course we do eventually want to learn
[3:48] how to combo but don't think that just
[3:50] because you have some fundamentals down
[3:51] that it's time to jump into memorizing
[3:53] some and hit super combo if you do then
[3:56] you'll just end up spending all of your
[3:58] matches constantly trying to throw out
[4:00] that one combo and making yourself
[4:02] completely predictable and even if you
[4:04] land that first hit you're almost
[4:06] certainly going to fail to perform the
[4:08] whole thing in a real match by trying to
[4:10] do it all at once
[4:12] instead you need to build on your core
[4:15] One Step at a Time start by learning
[4:17] just one move extra that can combo off
[4:19] as your first hit and try to do this for
[4:22] each of your different techniques it can
[4:24] be as simple as throwing out two Jabs
[4:26] instead of one that both connect it
[4:28] might not be flashy but it is still a
[4:30] combo practice doing this in some real
[4:33] matches and soon enough you'll be able
[4:35] to reliably pull off that extra hit
[4:37] every time then add a third and a fourth
[4:40] so on and so forth and each time treat
[4:42] it the same way simply learn one more
[4:45] step of the combo and practice that
[4:48] extra step in real matches until you can
[4:50] reliably execute it every time
[4:53] eventually you'll be landing full-on 10
[4:56] hit super combos and stealing your
[4:58] opponent's lunch money but that all
[4:59] started by learning good fundamentals
[5:01] and knowing how to learn it does take
[5:05] practice and it does take time but yes
[5:08] anyone can learn to be good at fighting
[5:11] games
[5:12] they just have to know how to start and
[5:15] now so do you
[5:17] I understand that for experienced
[5:19] players this may all sound redundant but
[5:22] that's only because you already have
[5:24] that core experience that everyone else
[5:26] is lacking and I hope that with this
[5:28] video both new and old players are able
[5:30] to learn something about the way we
[5:32] approach learning so that we can all be
[5:34] better about expanding the fighting game
[5:36] community and teaching newcomers how to
[5:39] play
[5:41] thank you all so much for watching if
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