Kzaoo
Active member
Well, this game is over a year old now and a few of you may be wanting to pick up a new character to make the game fresh. Share your ways of learning a new character here. I'll go first.
Research
The first place I'll go is testyourmight. I'll look at all the gameplay related threads there to see what problems people face when they're using the character so I'll know what to expect. Then i'll look at the guide for the character so I have knowledge of my character before using them so i'm not stuck in a match not knowing basic knowledge like anti airs and getting blown up because of it. Then i'll look at BnB combos to see the damage output for my character. After that i'll look at the frame data so i'm not in a match and then use an unsafe move without knowing and lose because of it. With this frame data i'll also construct frame traps.
Training
I'll try out what i've learned in training mode and with a friend and i'll also try out the whole movelist to see what position i'm left in. Also if the character i'm picking up hasn't had their frame data released i'll try out everything that looks useful to see if its positive or negative on block, i'll do this by making my friend standing block it, let go of block on the last hit and hold crouch and see who crouches first.
Observation
I'll watch some high level play and analyse it, i'll ask myself questions about what is going on. Some questions i'll ask myself are:
How does the player deal with situations?
What do they struggle with with the character?
Why do they do certain things?
How do they position themselves?
If I was the opponent, what would I do to beat them?
I find it is also good to watch matches where the player isn't successful to make sure I don't make the same mistakes.
Play
I'll test out what i've learned against real players and then recognise what I did well and what I didn't do well.
Ask questions
The first person i'll ask is myself, its all well having the answer fed to me, but its 1000000x better if I can solve it myself because that is testing my knowledge of the game more.
Repeat
I don't just mean do the same thing again, I mean do the same thing again at a slightly higher level, making solid progress one step at a time. If I go and learn 15 setups in one day its likely that i'll forget them in a few days and won't have intergrated them into my game yet, I just take slow and steady steps each time.
Research
The first place I'll go is testyourmight. I'll look at all the gameplay related threads there to see what problems people face when they're using the character so I'll know what to expect. Then i'll look at the guide for the character so I have knowledge of my character before using them so i'm not stuck in a match not knowing basic knowledge like anti airs and getting blown up because of it. Then i'll look at BnB combos to see the damage output for my character. After that i'll look at the frame data so i'm not in a match and then use an unsafe move without knowing and lose because of it. With this frame data i'll also construct frame traps.
Training
I'll try out what i've learned in training mode and with a friend and i'll also try out the whole movelist to see what position i'm left in. Also if the character i'm picking up hasn't had their frame data released i'll try out everything that looks useful to see if its positive or negative on block, i'll do this by making my friend standing block it, let go of block on the last hit and hold crouch and see who crouches first.
Observation
I'll watch some high level play and analyse it, i'll ask myself questions about what is going on. Some questions i'll ask myself are:
How does the player deal with situations?
What do they struggle with with the character?
Why do they do certain things?
How do they position themselves?
If I was the opponent, what would I do to beat them?
I find it is also good to watch matches where the player isn't successful to make sure I don't make the same mistakes.
Play
I'll test out what i've learned against real players and then recognise what I did well and what I didn't do well.
Ask questions
The first person i'll ask is myself, its all well having the answer fed to me, but its 1000000x better if I can solve it myself because that is testing my knowledge of the game more.
Repeat
I don't just mean do the same thing again, I mean do the same thing again at a slightly higher level, making solid progress one step at a time. If I go and learn 15 setups in one day its likely that i'll forget them in a few days and won't have intergrated them into my game yet, I just take slow and steady steps each time.