Why You Should Play Fighting Games - And How

[@copilots3159]

When he says learn all your characters moves, he means to the point where you don't really have to think in order to do them. This part can take a while, don't be discouraged.

[@ElTequilla]

Co Pilots and also: I think there’s an exception in order for a lot of Tekken characters. Their move lists are not meant to be memorized in all their varieties

[@bonelesscommunism4031]

Øjvind Rasmussen I feel like you’ve never looked at any of the DOA move lists

[@ryan6172]

I know the no hado like I know my no hado. I DoNT...

[@jennytulls6369]

I can relate. In Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle, I played a match where I preformed an air combo ending in Buzzsaw Blast without even thinking, or being able to stop my hands. That felt great

[@bonelesscommunism4031]

Robert Clark he probably means in neutral

[@omgdisfunny4852]

"combos makes you feel like a main character" explains why im side character

[@Lightrider-oy2qb]

I’m the joke character

[@Liliana_the_ghost_cat]

I'm more than the main character because i'm the skilled rival (in some anime the rival is more skilled than the main character with the main character being only able to reach on max the same skill level as the rival that generaly become his friend like akko and diana where diana was always better than akko and ended the series still being better but akko also was able to do things that diana coudn't do but as soon as akko lost her chosen one powers for finishing her task diana became clearly superior to akko but diana became friends with akko (some may say that they are more than friends though) and it's trying to help akko at least know some basic magic like litteraly everyone else)

[@omgdisfunny4852]

@@Liliana_the_ghost_cat sounds like something the useless joke rival would say

[@Liliana_the_ghost_cat]

@@omgdisfunny4852 the reason i called my self the skilked rival it's because more because whoever is my rival at the moment suck because i'm the only one in my family or friend group that's into fighting games in a more serious level Edit:i accutualy have a static rival and the reason for that it's because he sucks less but he's still just a pathetic button masher

[@aspekt7631]

Oh come on guys, combos are not that hard. It's basically playing DDR with your fingers.

[@timmysun1234]

Too bad for you I already like fighting games

[@Tomchatumadre]

Dang it

[@tjryanspeaks]

jfffffffffffffffffffhfffffffffffffTomas Gomez fffffffffffffffffffffhf

[@tjryanspeaks]

we

[@user-Jay178]

Me too

[@ayindephulgence4950]

Then like them more

[@qualityart4004]

Few years ago I watched this, now I have over 500 hours in smash, learned street fighter, and am currently learning guilty gear. Thanks man

[@nerdydude1465]

How’s guilty gear going?

[@lincoln_nn]

@@nerdydude1465 for me is going nightmares

[@qualityart4004]

@@nerdydude1465 I have almost 300 hours in from playing with friends

[@derekmaullo2865]

@@qualityart4004 Were people rude when you fought them in these tournaments?

[@qualityart4004]

@@derekmaullo2865 I don't play in tournament, although I'd like to

[@Phailup]

"You just watched an insanely long video telling you how to play a vide ogame so I think you have at least a little bit of free time." How dare you.

[@clue8265]

Lol it was at least entertaining I really thought he edited the footage nicely too

[@Zephaniah700]

I hate the idea of doing drills and all the memorization.

[@ToastedAndButter]

@@Zephaniah700 Try it though! Its actually fun!

[@c4nvm]

@uniblacksister well as long as you dont get salty, you can make it fun

[@UNKNWN96]

literally as he said this I read this comment lol

[@joaquincoronel342]

Every once in a while I come back to this video, and realize it’s quite possibly my favorite video on this platform

[@Casedilla73]

Why?

[@joaquincoronel342]

@@Casedilla73 it’s what introduced me to everything I love about fighting games and sent me down a spiral of content searching for the context of all things he mentions. Found a new hobby because of it!

[@neoken7356]

Same thing happened with me

[@Eddielovesparties]

Huh..... I was actually having the same thought earlier. Actually one of my favorite videos on KZbin and something that revived my love for fighting games I had as a child

[@Gakki_Aniki]

Truue

[@TypetwoAbsolute]

Fighting Games are therapy for those that suffer from being pissed off from team competitive gaming.

[@photoshopedcountryballs5094]

League of Legends, Dota 2, Paladins... Uh memories

[@heroawesomereal]

EXACTLY! I literally feel the exact same way

[@Waffersforever]

So accurate it hurts. Motherfuckin' League, man

[@UshankaMaster]

Damn right, saying this as a 9 year competitive team player after trying Tekken 7 out

[@seralith]

@@photoshopedcountryballs5094 any competitive shooter aswell. R6 gets me so heated sometimes...

[@roxyisabadname]

31 year old mom here. Never been much into video games before but my family got me a switch for xmas and this video has convinced me to try some fighting games!

[@Azure9577]

W mother, some games that I will recommend trying out are 1. skullgirls, a great fighting game with great singleplayer content and tutorials 2. Smash bros, not a traditional fighting game but it's very good, beginner friendly and family friendly

[@naejimba]

There are many REALLY good older fighting games you can play for FREE on Fightcade! My favorites are Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Vampire Savior (aka Darkstalkers 3). Both are pretty easy to initially pick up but truly mastering them can take a lifetime. One of the largest benefits of one of these older games is the communities are usually VERY excited to have someone new pick up these games... they realize if new people don't pick them up then eventually they will die out. I've tried a ton of the newer games, but nothing has come close to the experience of the golden age of fighting games so I prefer them... also, unlike new titles where every few years you will have to buy a new game and relearn everything, and every few months now there is a new patch that changes the balance and meta, you don't have to worry about any of that so everything you practice and learn is always useful.

[@naejimba]

@@Azure9577 , good choices!

[@florianneumann9441]

my fav. fg story is, when i took my ps to my gf moms home - shes going through a though divorce and out of a joke we decided to ask her to play a round of tekken with us... her mom never even held a controller and told us later she only tried it, so she could say she can't do it/ doesn't like it and we stop teasing her - she had so much fun just mashing some matches with us, she even asked to play next day. My gf told me she hasn't heard her laugh like that in months.

[@Tarrabah]

fuck this is wholesome

[@sethurott9927]

This is beautiful

[@Somatisandro]

I am in tears right now

[@MB-bz1qx]

"Fighting game is something so great" Tokido 2017

[@KillaCheeto56]

*cries in James Chen*

[@ziforyu]

"learn all their moves" *side eyes tekken and their 100+ move list

[@SaikouShiva]

They're not hard to learn

[@jays.6843]

You don't need to learn them all, you just need to learn the best ones. Can't have good moves without bad ones.

[@jackfish297]

What's an understatement 200+ is the lowest 300 the average

[@justdplmao8749]

jack fish cap of the century, Hwoarang and Steve have the longest in the game and are both under 200

[@Starrky923]

Tekken is more about matchup and knowing other characters moves so you need to learn like most used moves of 40+ characters and how to counter them with your character. Attacking in Tekken is the easiest part of the game, movement, defending and matchup knowledge are the biggest ones

[@24FramesOfNick]

I love just spending so many hours with my friends playing fighting games. Whenever we all collectively find a game we love we’ll play it for months on end almost every day

[@KailReborn]

This is the best feeling ever. Me and my friends love Soul Calibur especially, and from there we fell in love with Blazblue, all picking our mains and sparring with each other, helping one another to improve.

[@niespeludo]

Surprised to see you here, love your content as well.

[@Matthehuman]

The FGC is my shit

[@RobinNashVideos]

I feel like you're everywhere Nick. And from all of the times I've seen a comment of yours, only one has been related to high school musical 2. And that is not alright.

[@M4TTYN]

this. do this!

[@Levyathyn]

Two years ago, I watched this video on the heels of a decent FighterZ fascination that, due to the circumstances of my work life, I flexed a bit at the very casual level and didn't play for very long because I didn't have the time. Now I've come back to watch it again. I've been out of work for a while, after that very same job landed me in the hospital (more than once) and left me with almost a year of nerve damage, during which time I slowly descended into and slowly crawled back out of being bedridden. For a time, I couldn't turn on a light switch. I couldn't pick up a drink, lift a remote, couldn't even grab the edge of a blanket and drag it up over my legs with my right hand, not for many months. It's been a long road to recovery, and I'm still not at 100%, but heading into this Christmas season I've bought Tekken 7 on sale and started my first fighting game in quite some time. I haven't even played a match yet, not even against the AI, I've just spent many hours of a few days in training trying to relearn how controllers work. But goddamn, I won't lie; getting to where I could reliably and continuously land the Hunting Hawk combo almost made me cry. I just wanted to say, I appreciate this now more than ever, and once more this video has helped remind me of why I've come to love fighting games over my life, and keep coming back to them. I'm anxiously awaiting my first online match where I hop in against a California professional Yoshimitsu with 8k hours and a foundation of 300 ms lag easy, it's gonna be fun.

[@skibididapadada]

Hey, please tell us what happened at your job so we can learn from it.

[@poopyfartboi]

I love how special fighting games are. Sure, every other genre of video game is too... but not quite like fighting games.

[@lityfity4197]

holy shit, you're literally the goat

[@vangoghsseveredear]

"However, I did like Cammie" dammit Capcom you managed to get all of us with one goddamn woman

[@Mr3DLC]

Juri is more my type:)

[@TheLuconic]

You mean God blessed woman. And I am also into Cammy, Juri, Lucia which is new to me and I am loving her. And yes Chun Li.

[@Mr3DLC]

@@TheLuconic lucia now comes across as a harley quinn knockoff albeit without clown makeup Ever see that 90s cartoon ep. Where joker got rich and dumped harley? She got her revenge posing as a guard "Welcome to the club":)

[@TheLuconic]

@@Mr3DLC lol. I know all them jokes and teases towards Lucia. I don’t care. I love her, that’s all she needs. Plus leaving the joker was the biggest best choice she has ever made. Hehehe.

[@Mr3DLC]

@@TheLuconic true

[@SaoPauloOrBust]

"If you're playing Ken and you can't shoryuken, you're only using half the character." I feel personally attacked.

[@pierceherron6768]

I feel like the absolute most accurate thing about the shotos in Smash is that they're dragon punch machines.

[@peep9636]

Lmao it’s ok I always mis-input shoryuken

[@polybent9748]

SaoPauloOrBust you just gotta be quick with the input

[@pauldelol]

"Please, do not, for the love of God, use auto combos as a beginner." Auto combos that were made for beginners: "Am I a joke to you?" No, seriously. I get what you're saying, but you just contradicted yourself. Auto combos are made for beginners and accessibility.

[@chalachouchou]

here's what works for me to do clean DP inputs imagine you are carving a Z with your stick/analog/pad

[@AndyMacster]

Fighting games feel lonely without a local scene. Real lonely.

[@mauricioadv451]

Tell me about it... i live in a small city with no local scene and i cant get my friends to play fighintg games, all they wanna play is mobas and fps...

[@aroperdope]

@@mauricioadv451 I play by myself and I live in one of the biggest markets for fighting games and that's California.

[@dreamusmenus3759]

Not for me. my Girlfriend, Best friend and her two closest friends all play together so I suspect thats why.

[@valpodesideromontoya2097]

You could get some buddies and host a small tournament. Maybe that'll help your local scene. You gotta start somewhere.

[@blessup367]

@@mauricioadv451 same. all my friends just keep on playing mobas

[@toaster_boi]

"Combos make you feel like a main character." Man, I love being Arthritis from Blazblue

[@vennece]

LOL naoto

[@xenobestx8423]

Once you master him like me, you’ll feel like a God.

[@Jirudoggu]

Man, I love being snek from Blazblue

[@karmiccrotal3480]

Literally every Blazblue fan: Good ol Naoto Kurogane😩

[@TrueUnderDawgGaming]

Oh damn, I'm in this video...never noticed that before. That was a fun combo video to work on :D

[@Griffon-lh4lp]

TrueUnderDawgGaming hey one of my favorite youtubers commented on another one of my favorite youtubers videos that’s pretty cool 😎

[@FueledFromFiction]

Timestamp??

[@wilsein9443]

Exactly, timestamp

[@jeprox718]

trampstamp

[@wilsein9443]

Trapstamp

[@c3powned848]

"If SF is classical music, then Smash is jazz" Thank you for this analogy. I'll be using this often.

[@ZunaZurugi]

Use a shower instead ! :D

[@dumithegreat3892]

TsunaTsurugi EEEEEEE

[@nameputhpong9041]

I’d say smash is more like synth-pop.

[@astashasta1]

smash is more like pop. tekken is the jazz if anything. that game has odd rhythms and takes years to learn I still suck at that game.

[@SpikeSpoogle]

He stole it from the documentary

[@tyrupard7227]

Marcus: "Fighting games are anime. The Fast series is anime. Tall Girl is anime. I. Am. Anime."

[@lucs028]

Not yet

[@depressedbreakfast2614]

*Every thing is being consumed by weebs*

[@travioli_yeah4270]

?? Wtf- when did he ever say that Tall Girl was an anime???

[@neazy9925]

Anime is Anime.

[@Matthew.Morcos]

Vtuber marcus when

[@samhackworth7951]

This really has got me into fighting games, I have had a passing interest for a while but this video helped me get into them and understand them more. So thank you for making this video.

[@broadstrokespro]

(first 30 seconds) nice Toonami ad.

[@youngnigar525]

Hi

[@glendarjj3991]

@@youngnigar525 hello there

[@glendarjj3991]

@Dariel Ruben nope. No one cares.

[@vennece]

It was epic, along with Heat Haze shadow music

[@parrotplays7]

lol

[@Ari19904]

Core A Gaming is one of the most underrated channels out there

[@justinlose4913]

Both of these channels are!

[@Oceanatornowk]

Shoutout to Core-A Gaming. That channel is so high quality it’s almost unbelievable.

[@guy543215]

I agree, Ive watched all their videos more than once. So entertaining

[@gamer5007]

@@guy543215 Their videos are so great I always feel like I'm learning something new. If you rewatch them after you level up a bit, you see the same videos in a new light, which is what makes them so awesome

[@koumorichinpo4326]

nah he sucks

[@Riskofdisconnect]

They bad

[@Professor_Utonium_]

For sure

[@launch_2552]

Just wanted to come back and say thank you for making this video, I started playing fighting games because of this, and now its one of my favourite things. Got in top 16 for the UK CPT, made a bunch of friends with really strong players, if anyone else sees this video and is considering it, just do it, you wont regret it

[@yoshitsune5691]

Man this is why I want to move out of New Zealand, and go to the UK, just because how big the UK FGC is. Also hitting top 16 in the CPT is huge congrats, I’m just a lowly 1500mr player in sf6, in a small playerbase

[@matthewviq32]

Melee as a "fighting game" changed my life. Not only is there the intensity of insane tech skill and 1v1s, but the community as a whole is so satisfying to be around and makes you feel a part of it. Fighting games really are so great, whether you're a Street Fighter guy, a Tekken guy, they're all great.

[@sgtwolf7391]

@@PuddlesinZalem Well technically it's a fighting platformer.

[@tooglianprimus15]

Matthew Viq same dude!! Okay so who do you main? Who is your favorite player? And what’s your favorite set?? Nice to talk to another melee player!

[@matthewviq32]

@@tooglianprimus15 For me, I main Falco and secondary Fox. For me they're the most fun characters to play at a competitive level due to their immensely high skill ceilings and their approaches to both punish/neutral game. Favourite player has to be PPMD for me, followed by Mango. They're among the best Falco players to ever play Melee! Favourite set always changes per major/super major due to there always being a possibility or chance for someone to completely upset the bracket, but if we're looking at the game as a whole I think the Armada/HBox GF at EVO 2016 has to take it. Not a huge HBox fan myself but you can tell just by looking at clips that it really was the opening to a new era of Melee.

[@Kplehn]

I hope you it didn't change you enough to not take showers. hygiene is important

[@M00P35]

the smash scene is so underrated, happy to see you give it justice here. Long Live Melee!

[@viceanterra3]

I picked Lil Mac cause I thought he was cool. It's my first smash game. I regret nothing.

[@viceanterra3]

@Teutowolf 🤔 with or without soap? Thatd be a deal breaker.

[@zetton1374]

Pro tip: spam smash attacks with lil mac. The hyper armor properties will beat almost anything and low tier players since they dont understand neutral, spacing or punishing will just become so tilted that they practically SD. Works online like a charm lmao.

[@piccolo9365]

Little Mac the best character in Smash 4

[@ollyoboomer7671]

The same happened to me when i played with Sonic OOOOOH BOY my friends were trying to kill me after some battles

[@mariusspadasinul]

Me Too brother

[@dedmanwalking.-.2037]

Marcus: "not their other team mates, not luck, it's all on them" Me: *turns on smash, picks hero*

[@ate-leftnocrums]

BlazingPenguin 52 Gets a nine with Game and Watch

[@patapon646]

Gets a stitch face Peach

[@bluetrash8090]

Gets a Misfire with Luigi

[@dr.godfather8250]

Gets a bob-omb from peach

[@ElementShoota]

actually hits something with King Dededes jet hammer

[@imanoljesusdelpozo4907]

It's crazy how the way you described Core-A Gaming is exactly the way I also feel about this video, every now and then I just naturally rewatch it because of how damn good it is. There is something more to creating a video than making it understandable, concise and clear. I'm not quite sure what it is, but it's just so fulfilling to watch and rewatch. Maybe it's just the outright passion this video is made with.

[@b39_]

I've been big into fighting games my whole life, and for as long as I can remember I've been trying to get my friends into the genre all throughout that same amount of time. After years upon years of them not understanding the appeal of a game where I just beat the crap out of them, they dropped the controller, said fighting games weren't for them and they had been reluctant to play them ever since. I've tried for years to get them to understand the appeal of these games and had never really understood how. Until January 2019, where I discovered this video. Where you explained exactly what I've wanted to share for years in one convenient package. And through sharing this video and Core-A Gaming's videos, my friends have grown to love the genre as much as I do. For that, I am thankful that you took the time out of your life to make this video that let me have fun playing my favorite games with my friends. Thank you.

[@senarodrigo]

Why would you beat the crap out of them if you're trying to teach them???

[@unknownchristian341]

Excellent story

[@DrapoelWons]

Try not using the game to show off next time. This is the biggest problem on the fgc, people saying "more people should play" and then beating the shit out of new players as they're playing against pros

[@b39_]

@@DrapoelWons Yeah, I've learned from my mistakes thanks to exposing people to why these games are cool and them actually developing an understanding of them, instead of just whaling on them and thinking that fighting games aren't for them.

[@DrapoelWons]

@@b39_ i used to show off as well, but I ended up alone all the time, so now I play on the level of the person I'm fighting against. This makes them stick to the game, but there's the downside that sometimes people get so good that I'm the one who ends up being beaten over and over again. Most people don't know how to adapt to noobs

[@lckaboom6810]

I love how MK11 has an incredibly complex and informative tutorial. I’m pretty experienced, and even I learned some new things. It’s also great for newcomers.

[@lj_maestro3391]

100% this! I'm still very new to fighting games and I felt so comfortable learning the mechanics of mk11 because they didnt feel so archaic like some other games like Tekken 7 (still love that game but damn that learning curve is real...). Plus if there was something about mk11 that I wasn't familiar with the game gave me an in-depth explanation of it and let me train with it. And on top of that, despite the fact that it has the potential to poor lots of salt because of the fatalities, I feel less frustrated with losing because it feels easier to pick up where i went wrong and how to fix it or understand the playstyles of certain characters and the kinds of people who play them. I just cant get enough of mk11, Netherrealm killed it with this game

[@UNKNWN96]

Another game with a very detailed tutorial is UNIST, literally explained almost every game mechanic from beginner to some of the most complicated stuff in the game. I think more FGC titles need to help bridge the gap with better tutorials to ensure that newcomers don't feel so intimidated by everything that they have to learn.

[@musetangolazorus1875]

Not to mention confusing and time consuming if you’re bad at timing

[@dogfighterzssjb3182]

LC Kaboom i learnd alot with scorpine the game is really complexed but the more i do things the more i find things out im also learning things with liu kang

[@dogfighterzssjb3182]

Grognak the Destroyer Attorney at law Esquire MD buddy you just need to look at frames per move and see when your oppent recovers not really that hard once you see it ive struggled for 5 10 min at most till i relized some combos have to be done fast and insyanc and some combos have to be done with well timed perceion but you need to know how your charcter is going to move in the game or youll never be able to do the kombos or speacel moves

[@pascalsilvestri6319]

One huge reason why I mostly play fighting games now is the lack of time. When you grow up and have to devote a lot of time to life , it's really hard to play open-world games that usually require a lot of time. I can't really play an RPG or an open-world game for like 20 minutes in a day and really make any progress there, but I can do a good amount of matches in the same amount of time in a fighting game.

[@strikesubmit]

Absolutely! Fighting games are about as casual as I can get when gaming...especially since we now have a 1 year old to tend to. My usual gaming window starts at like 10pm to about close to midnight for weekdays, and on the weekends, I try to go later, but am usually too tired to, LOL.

[@khanman9146]

Doesn’t it take time to learn a character tho?

[@strikesubmit]

@@khanman9146 depends on what you're learning it for. I don't play online, nor I do play competitively, I just learn pick up the basics so I can actually have fun with it. I don't have time for all the in depth crap for a game. Besides, aside from things I need to do at home as a father, most of my evenings during the weekdays, as well as mornings on the weekends are devoted to training...stuff I'd much rather learn, because y'know...I like real world fighting.

[@educn6830]

So true

[@capnbarky2682]

@@khanman9146 you can space out learning more than other games. I can learn a new combo in about an hour max, or a tech skill, or just drill things. Its kind of like working out where any time investment can be beneficial to overall growth. Meanwhile, learning a raid boss in an mmo can take literally a whole weekend, and you cant really do much individually.

[@m.s.3121]

Soulcalibur deserves more love, honestly I played it with many people who always had issues with combos etc. and all said that soulcalibur feels very intuitive

[@immutablesky8670]

"You start to recognize that one player that plays the character you thought only you played", that hit hard as a R.O.B. main seeing wadi play for the first time

[@hughmungus99]

Same except i play icies in Ultimate and Big D is the biggest rep we have. Yeah sure there's dynax and wishes and some others but none of them play like Big D, he's just too solid of a player.

[@TheMasterBlaze]

That was me with Cosmos in sm4sh. I hadn't seen a person play Corrin like he did. I don't think missed a single match he was in during that games competetive lifetime.

[@grotto185]

@@TheMasterBlaze it was lui$ playing Dr.Mario, Snapback playing Pit and Toast playing Young Link

[@MrDamojak]

Good luck learning all the moves of a character in Tekken

[@markvigo1747]

"Claudio"

[@MrDamojak]

The Lorax kappa

[@cowlord120]

Most of the characters share similar moves and most of them are really situational. Once you know you're pokes, punishers, and launchers you're good.

[@cowlord120]

I really enjoyed this video! I will say that more could have been said about movement in 3D games. They add a whole other layer to the game.

[@joshreynolds869]

@@cowlord120 I don't think the point was to add layers to the game, but to take the first step. If your first introduction to a 3D fighter is learning to wave dash or korean back dash, you probably are going to find it frustrating. Plus, at the level of a beginner, you wouldn't even understand how to apply it. Learning tech without understanding neutral is unfortunately somewhat meaningless.

[@Geck0GC]

"In league of legends, you can play to the best of your ability but will still lose if your teammates are brain dead." Too true.

[@nasimtahsin8108]

So true that no one tried to argue with u in the comment section 🤣🤣

[@dj_koen1265]

I mean its part of the appeal The problem is most league players havent accepted that and start to flame and rage when things dont go their way Also the game is way too snowbally it is so easy to throw a game and so hard to carry that if one of your teammates doesnt know how to play or dc’s u are almost guaranteed to lose I won plenty of games 4v5 or even some 3v5 but those are exceptions mostly also caused by the opponents throwing or just being bad at the game

[@nasimtahsin8108]

@@dj_koen1265 sounds like you're in a toxic relationship with league

[@fupalover]

Bro i can't remember the last time I've seen such an accurate KZbin video like this.

[@jesseperez4185]

@@dj_koen1265 League being a team based game is a huge part of its appeal. Players will shift their faults and mistakes onto others to free themselves of feeling inadequate. Players create a lie in their head to protect their ego and tell themselves they are Pro and are being dragged down by the system and shit players. So they keep playing without working on themselves and essentially become addicted to gambling. Now most players don't want to work on themselves/fundamentals so a lot of them just fall into the gambling category. In fighting games you have to work on yourself and do "boring Drills, practice combos/matchups" just to PLAY the game. Players just want to turn off their brain and press buttons and have fun. Nothing wrong with that but fighting games just can't really provide that unless the roster/visuals really make the player invest in the game while at the same time create a environment where you fight players in the same level. That's why fighting games won't reach a wide audience. even the population of league that work on themselves competitively is a small percent. Most players playing ranked league are gambling every time they play.

[@SergioMendoza760]

5 years later and this video finally worked on me. Thank you Marcus, you legitimately helped me fall in love with video games again by exposing me to this genre that I’ve always been to afraid to get into.

[@ultimatederp5069]

Sometimes I have to come back to this video to remind me that I'm still learning and that Marcus and others went through the same thing I'm going through.

[@Casedilla73]

Yeah.

[@Blue-Apple-fc9eo]

@Shin Shaman oh no! A anime fan spreading his opinion time to talk shit about him!

[@MarquisLeary34]

Low Tier God didn't. And he's making more money than us doing it. Damn him.

[@araindog1657]

You’re possibly one of the best examples of a good content creator out there: you make videos with passion behind them, and you’re not afraid to state your opinion. I DETEST some of the opinions you hold on certain topics. But I still respect you, because you do your best to be fair and clear-headed. You have my Seal of approval, for whatever it’s worth

[@brandonontama2415]

Under Night In Birth is an really good fighting game and really hope more people will get into it, coming from someone who didn't like fighting games.

[@gentlechaos8564]

That's the game I'm trying to learn as my first. I'm trying to learn either Orie or Eltnum. Would you mind telling me who's more beginner friendly?

[@brandonontama2415]

@@gentlechaos8564 Gordeau, Hyde and Akatsuki are great for beginners.

[@gentlechaos8564]

@@brandonontama2415 I like Akatsuki, so I guess I'll start practicing with him. Thank you so much for replying!

[@joonlv3197]

Brandon Ontama I want it but it’s like $50 on psn 😭

[@xillia3988]

@@gentlechaos8564 What do you play on? I would like to add you to see if we can play sometime!

[@edmaldonado8207]

2 years later and this is still my favorite video you've ever done. This video got me into fighting games. Now I'm playing Tekken 7 as a Kunitmitsu main and I've been having a blast playing against my friends and getting better over time. :)

[@deepeshbajpai4423]

I am excited for king of fighters new upcoming game

[@edmaldonado8207]

@@deepeshbajpai4423 YO! Me too!!!

[@biohazen_]

I may suck at every fighting game i've ever touched, but that doesn't keep me from playing them. I will continue to play fighting games for a long time, no matter how good or bad I am.

[@prophecyofgaming]

Same here, I mean, I get the basics and that's it, but even though I know I'll never be on a pro level or something like that, I just love playing fighting games

[@CKing97]

bad*

[@brandonkrol]

Zenderman 12 Preach, brother!

[@TreverEdward]

Good or bad, they're still fun. Getting better though? That's a rabbit hole of knowledge I've jumped into. Ton of fun meeting others with the same drive & willing to help you out. I'm sucked into the competitive scene.

[@nextlvl810]

You got the right mindset that alonr made you into a winner.

[@TheRealGrimpaw]

You mentioned the guy who plays SF with just his mouth. There is a guy who played at Evo 2013 who was blind and get pretty far up. It was super amazing to watch.

[@magicmanscott40k]

I know who ure talking about. He is pretty good. I bet he could kick my ass in a match. I only have about a 30 percent win rate

[@88blankets5]

mind giving his name? i know about brolylegs (the guy who plays with just his mouth), but i'd love to know more about this blind player

[@TheRealGrimpaw]

@@88blankets5 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHi2aImFmMh2oa8

[@oinkoink1909]

@jon snow I really doubt that, at the professional level of any sport there are going to be people that want to win no matter what, but definitely in the fgc there's not going to be a bunch of people willing to let their money be wasted because they don't want to be remembered for beating someone who decided to play despite knowing they were at a disadvantage. Note that LTG often loses to Brolylegs and if you're telling me he's throwing because he doesn't want to feel bad then idk what to say.

[@r.j.j.o]

Or how about Initial T? Not really handicapped, but he won a Guilty Gear tournament with a goddamn steering wheel.

[@jazzyjulz8743]

Adding on to this video, if you're ever confused by a fighting-game term, don't be afraid to look it up. Even if you don't fully understand what you're looking at, I gurantee there will be a moment later on where you'll actually be able to apply those concepts.

[@syrelian]

Learning the terminology also simply helps communicate, its a huge issue I've noticed with the FGC and the Smash community, Comp Melee growing up disconnected from the FGC has lead to a lot of similar concepts in Smash getting very different terminology from what the greater FGC uses, and I think that is part of what makes it harder for them to mesh

[@SebuTK]

Watching Lil Majin play King when you’re just getting into Tekken is a sight to behold. Seeing him do multithrows and being like omg wow so easy this character is busted, then going and looking at the inputs for those throws, gives me so much respect for someone who can do that under all that pressure.

[@Xurreal]

Fighting Game music is always the best music.

[@samernst3603]

You're not wrong. 3rd strike has the best ost of all time imo

[@snom2187]

Under Night and Killer instinct are awesome in the ost department

[@boomguy2]

This is a claim I can definitely get behind

[@datdamnkez]

Faxxs

[@mariusspadasinul]

Tekken, kof, street fighter etc have great osts

[@brycebitetti1402]

You know, I bought a copy of Street Fighter 5 with my PS4 a few months back, touched it once, immediately got intimidated and haven't touched it since. Now I'm currently playing online. And losing, but still playing. Thanks Cosmonaut.

[@burgskeletal3149]

Bryce Bitetti Effort matters more than result. 👍

[@KailReborn]

Don't be discouraged pal. It happens to everyone, trust me. Stick with it and you will certainly improve.

[@blodiaaa6990]

It's the easier street fighter to date, so getting into it is a lot easier than previous entries

[@thecommiesalami9217]

Losing is the first step to winning

[@xillia3988]

There you go! Keep at it.

[@PR1ME98]

To anyone here who is still scared to get bodied in a fighting game, just know that EVERYONE has a loss in a fighting game and I mean EVERYONE i bet even some of the pros have more losses than wins. And one day you’re gonna keep losing until suddenly, it clicks and something awakens and all your practice will just pay off and you’ll start getting more and more wins. In my opinion someones is never “good” at a fighting game you can only get better and better

[@jbtechno24]

This. The best way to put it into words. It sucks to lose, but that' how you learn in a fighting game

[@Mwarrior1991]

yea! people just need to “get better” its as simple as that

[@PR1ME98]

Some ppl get good over time, for some it just clicks, tbh u just gotta keep playing

[@unixjpn]

The number one reason most people dont play fighting games is cause of online matches and cant accept losing a match and are even afraid to lose so they dont play online at all. ANd then there are those who try for the first time in their life and goes online and suddenly gets a ass whopping from hell so hard that they didnt know what hit them and decided the game is not for me ill go play a slow MMO. So yes everyone needs to accept losing and not shame yourself from losing. Everyone starts from losing especially fighting games.

[@joshreynolds869]

@@unixjpn It's about setting expectations. The game needs to teach a player that you can't win on day one. They need to introduce players to the journey and set expectations. People get mad because they expect to be able to win. When they get blown up they either believe the game is broken or the opponent cheated in some way. The scrublord's prayer from Core A Gaming comes in handy here as you know what they will be thinking. When a game finally gets that right and teaches people that the fun in fighting games is the journey, that's when fighting games will explode and the game that does that will be massively popular.

[@perriwinkleiii5361]

This is a masterpiece video all around, but I especially love how perfect your song choices were for the montages. Fighting game music is such an unbelievable blessing

[@judefrappier1021]

This absolutely made me grow into a huge fan of fighting games. Thanks for making this, literally life changing in a nice way!

[@konradwroblewski2115]

Damn. Maybe you need to learn what life changing means or raise your standards.

[@DonLasagna]

@@konradwroblewski2115 dude fuck off

[@KrazieeGG]

@@konradwroblewski2115 I mean... it changed an aspect of his life did it not? So yes, you could say it's life changing.

[@jax6815]

Best KZbinr for some reason he so relatable

[@Naijiro]

I think it's his voice and view of things, he comes off as cynical and jaded as most of us, yet still hopeful enough to the point where he's not miserable or boring.

[@KeishenLloyd]

There's no bullshit with Marcus.

[@aguywithalotofopinions412]

What happened to me is that I gained an emotional attachment to a certain character, not because I liked the character but because of a certain memory associated with it. For example: this one time, I was at a sleepover at a friends house (I was in like 4th or 5th grade) and I was having a really bad week. They’re were 4 of us and we decided to play a little Brawl. I’d never played Brawl before because I was kind of the poor kid at my school who didn’t have enough money for a Wii so I was the biggest noob. I got my ass kicked like 20 times, always with a different character. At one point my friend’s mom came in to tell us that this was the last game because we had to go to sleep. I wasn’t in the mood to actually think out a character so I just pressed “random”, and got Pokemon Trainer. I was never really that into Pokemon and since I just picked the characters that looked cool to me I never picked him. When the game started I just started pressing random buttons, like not even playing much attention to the screen and before I knew it, I won. Nobody could believe it (least of all me) and I got bragging rights for the rest of the night. I still remember the screen showing Red petting Ivysaur with the word “WINNER” all in bright colors in the bottom. I never actually got good with Pokemon Trainer because I never played Brawl again but that guy will always have a special place in my heart.

[@kainhighwind2]

Good news is he's back in Ultimate, so if you've got a Switch, you can reconnect with him!

Somedays we just need a victory, eh? Nice story man, thanks for sharing

[@Bingobongosdassaa]

smash isnt a fighting game

[@LeoIsFine]

@@Bingobongosdassaa ahh nice bait dumbass

[@sanyoon2503]

pussy

[@heckyou2105]

This video helped get me into FGs roughly 2 years ago! I've been placing in +R and I just got my first custom hitbox and a stick! Thanks Marcus!!

[@unknownchristian341]

What game?

[@Ranom1572]

@@unknownchristian341 I think he means Guilty Gear XX Accent core plus R

[@poopyfartboi]

That's cool asf bro congrats

[@masheen8724]

the goat!!

[@ashwinchakicherla4498]

By the way, the “smash” genre is typically called platform fighters, since they revolve around movement with vertically placed platforms, knocking opponents off a central main platform. Great analysis though!

[@MrSchnitzel19]

@Awawawa CM Rivals of the Aether, Slap City, PM, Brawlhalla

[@Snowballsage]

@@MrSchnitzel19 isn’t PM just a a mod?

[@jugohayashi2389]

@@Snowballsage PM (or P+, the one that the ppl play now) is a mod for Smash Brawl, which is like the complete opposite of Smash Melee in terms of speed and how it plays Some dudes who didn't like Brawl and wanted it to have Melee mechanics made PM, which adds the mechanics and balances all the characters

[@willidk628]

@@Snowballsage it is a mod but it's so different gameplay wise from brawl it's almost it's own game at this point.

[@ioanis6718]

@Awawawa CM Brawlhalla is quite nasty, I invite you to watch any clip compilation and it's crazy the realm of possibilities that game has, it's a lot different than Smash and has a quite big and growing competitive scene

[@pieterlindeque7798]

One of the main reasons I love fighting games is that to me it is the highest expression of "skill" one can exercise in any video game genre period. In a fighting game it's you against another player and the better player wins. Period. There is no such thing as RNG, there is no such thing as camping, there is no such thing as abusing a glitch, a spot or getting a lucky stray kill, there is no such thing as relying on team mates or any single thing outside your own ability to play. It's a clash of pure mechanics and strategy with no bullshit in between. No matter who you play or what you do, the better player wins. And if someone is better than you, you will know it. Nothing comes free in fighting games. You practice, you learn and you adapt. And if you can keep doing that, the wins will come. Fighting games are one of the very few genres that give you the player absolute agency and absolute skill expression. It's pure 1:1 competition and it's beautiful.

[@syrelian]

RNG... occasionally exists, either literally(SF2 Stun is hell), or in the slight chaos of physics interacting in corners occasionally As for Glitches, SF2 says hi again But any good modern FG has minimal bugs(or even integrates them into its identity, hi again SF2), and no RNG(or at least RNG that matters, hit sparks and dust can use RNG so you're not throwing the same thing out every time)

[@TheAnimeCircle]

While I tend to agree with you, I simply got to mention that once you hit a certain level in any fighting game, playing the meta is something that factors into the equation and can make a big enough of a difference between winning and losing.

[@GhengisJohn]

"there is no such thing as abusing a glitch" Come on now dude, you and I both know that's not true. I mean look at Variable Cancel in Soul Calibur III, Superman's ground pound infinite in JLTF, that hilarious floating shit in SF X Tekken, Roll canceling in CVS 2. I agree with most of what you said though but I have to call that statement out.

[@Diegoshadow85]

and what about mixups? Where you have basically 50% chance to guess which attack to defend from and match victory often depends if you guessed right.

[@GhengisJohn]

@@Diegoshadow85 It's only a "guess" if you get it wrong. If you get it right it's a "read".

[@Mantis42]

You talk about fighting games being like anime but personally I only got the appeal after I got into old kung fu movies

[@somedudethatdoesthings8057]

Makes sense.

[@Mantis42]

@NarcissBlue true, but the influence initially worked the otherway around on that one. Street Fighter 2 took a lot from Master of the Flying Guillotine

[@nomukun1138]

You need to watch Thunderbolt Fantasy, the hybrid of anime and wuxia. With puppets, but that's not important.

[@sladejosephwilson2300]

SNK and Capcom fighters base characters and move sets off of real people and real fighting styles.

[@strikesubmit]

@@nomukun1138 I was listening to a podcast that gave high praise to Thunderbolt Fantasy as well. I really do need to see it.

[@laxdemon13]

Don’t know if you are still checking comments at this point, but I’d like to say this video got me into fighting games specifically sfv. I’m currently a gold dhalsim player which took me almost a year to get to from a complete rookie level. I’ve really delved into it and this video was the spark. Thanks.

[@Jack-Onee-san]

Friendly reminder to play more guilty gear and Skullgirls

[@haydenhyde9395]

Jack-Onee-san you're doing the lords work.

[@obviusthemaxim2509]

And Undernight

[@obviusthemaxim2509]

Basically any Arc Sys game

[@moon_runner6173]

And dark-stalkers

[@LazyPirate8]

I own both.

[@LazyBoy1243]

Mortal Kombat 11 and Smash ultimate are my games. Fighting games really make you feel like you're in the tournament Arc lol

[@toesnub9676]

MK11 is reeeeeally combo-heavy though. any advanced move requires a somewhat convoluted input and it's kinda hard to get into

[@magicmanscott40k]

I just got mk11 and it's my first mk game and like it a lot. I bought the game after seeing kotal doing cool shit and then learning his cool shit and then playing online. The tutorial help out a lot. It taught me 50/50s. I think once I learn the match ups, I can win more.

[@magicmanscott40k]

@@toesnub9676 I just got mk11 and after playing online a lot, I would say it's block heavy. Learning a character's weakness makes a big difference in a match. I would say knowing how to punish is better than combos. Also in mk11, after u do 5 hits or so, ure damage becomes next to nothing with scaling. Big combos can do 40 percent usually but a couple good punishes does the same. Learning how to block and learning the match ups helps the most i think.

[@cantfindawayout]

@@magicmanscott40k Mortal Kombat 11 is much more focused on footsies and punishes compared to Mortal Kombat 10 or 9 (which were both extremely combo/vortex/50/50s heavy). Mortal Kombat 11 limited the number of characters that have 50/50 combo starters to very few compared to most in MK 10 and 9 and made it that the characters that have actual 50/50 combo starters cannot get 40%+ combos off of those without a crushing blow or spending both bars. Before, in MK 10, you could get either a 40%+ combo from midscreen with 1 bar or a vortex/restand/50-50 with most top tier characters. This time around, characters that hit like a truck (Noob Saibot and Shao Khan being the two best examples) only have highs as their combo starters, but they can get 35%+ on 1 bar easily, while characters that have true 50/50s don't have access to easy 35%+ combos. I kinda like the balance. Also, Mortal Kombat 11 is the best game in terms of fighting games with tutorials. The tutorial for each character has useful frame data (and it's explained too, which is very nice), each special move and combo string is explained for each character, you have a complete tutorial on footsies, string gaps, 50/50s, restands and so much more. That's giant progress compared to, say, MK 9 which didn't even have frame data easily visible in the game or MK 10 which only had bare frame data and no tutorial for new players on what those numbers mean and how they can be utilized. 10/10 on that part of the game for the new MK, for sure.

[@cantfindawayout]

@DeadMemes NeedToStayDead Well, I'd say there is an easier way to look at it. Most characters in MK 11 have a less-damaging combo starter (used to utilize tight frame advantage) and a more damaging combo starter (usually much slower, for whiff punishes and such where the whiffed hit is so minus frames on whiff that the startup frames for the punishing character don't really matter, they're still beating the recovery frames of the character who whiffed an attack) and (usually) 2 or 3 'main' combos. Those less-damaging combo starters usually start with something like a 7 or 8 frame attack. Learning how your combos interact with those 7 or 8 frame attacks is the only important frame data a beginner has to learn. Everything else will come naturally as the person continues to play the game I'd say.

[@Tryforlive.]

Fun fact Gametrailers is now Easy Allies and they still do Retrospectives!

[@guy8643]

Dude I just wanna say thank you for this video, after watching it for the first time, I bought Mortal Kombat X and started watching more tournaments. I ended up becoming pretty good at Scorpion and I finally became confident in my ability at fighting games. Thanks man

[@blue5had0w]

MORTAL KOMBAT!!! *Techno music ensues*

[@arshygohardy]

DethSonik who would u rather use noob saibot or sub zero?

[@mcrhombas3743]

@@arshygohardy You probably won't care,but I'd play sub-zero

[@arshygohardy]

Ya i started playing sub zero when i first got mk11 then I went to noob sailboat now I’m back to sub zero

[@kadesjunkdrawer2233]

Kano bois wya?

[@calebreynolds9183]

Kade Cochran Scorpion is my bae

[@whitesmith5985]

15:19 “I was the one leveling up” This is why I want to get into fighting games so bad!!

[@private6574]

Why not?

[@wilsein9443]

My level is so high that I can't play fighting games with my friends because they end up hating me lmao

[@whitesmith5985]

Wilsein Even if my friends don’t have experience I still lose 😂😅 That’s the main reason I wanna get decent, so I can at least beat them

[@wilsein9443]

@@whitesmith5985 My recommendations are going to training mode and try to hit the dummy the hardest you can, also checking at least how to do the special attacks (well, the video says the same thing). In one moment you will notice that you can do this move after that other move and will start to make combos. If you don't want to be bored in a match you can't lose the 1 player modes and battles against the CPU is where I practice the most of the time without getting bored. If you end up making a good combo, repeat it all the times you can so you can understand it better and do it more easily, to the point it's gonna come out almost automatically. And one of the most important tips is to attack with fast moves, or moves that you can use safely in a distance (a.k.a. long range). Because it doesn't matter if your attack makes a lot of damage if you get hit before you can land it.

[@fancymonkeyman4139]

I remember when I first started to get the hang of Guilty Gear and BlazBlue. I really felt like I levelled up.

[@BingBangPoe]

21:22 "If Street Fighter is classical music, Smash is jazz." Couldn't have said better.

[@zacsuxatgaming4982]

I was already a huge fighting gamer fan, but now I feel more inspired and motivated to actually get good at the games I play... My friends and I REALLY like retro fighting games and we're hoping to start up a tournament scene around the city specifically for these older fighters

[@jamiemason7924]

People need to wake up to the idea that fighting games can be fun. People give up because there is a steep learning curve. But if you stick with it, keep pushing you get to the point where a match becomes a piece of art, you see the amazing beauty and skill of execution of moves. You will learn to love fighting games and the characters that come with it. Just stick with it, its so worth it.

[@themage1016]

Jamie Mason yeah... i bet cuz they are lazy to learn combos and prefer to button smash or rely to auto combos

[@Nirual86]

Its kinda like playing soccer as a hobby... you know you're never going to be the next david beckham but its still fun to play it on more casual level. And it can even make watching soccer games more appealing because you have a better understanding about how crazy that goal just was.

[@MarquisLeary34]

No, you won't necessary. And I fail to see the fun of being told to gargle BBC sperm and shown how much of a failure I am. I got many ways in life to achieve such humiliation.

[@Icipher353]

I used to love fighting games in the 90's, but somewhere along the line they got too technical and added to many mechanics, and now they just don't seem fun any more. The more the genre has leaned on complex mechanics and gameplay, the more niche the genre has become.

[@flamescorpio5850]

@@Icipher353 Those mechanics are only a problem if you play against someone who knows how to use them against you. If you want to get into Fighting games as a casual and you begin playing with a friend who is a beginner as well, "mechanics" become things you discover while you play. I think the problem with fighting games is how much of a commitment it can be to learn them at first since you have to catch up to veteran player with years of experience on you. If you are not in love alreday with fighting games you can't see where your efforts are going, because fighting games as an experience are, for better and worse, much more than just pure fun.

[@BananaKng]

Thank you for including melee, it means a lot

[@firstcontact8315]

BananaKng shitty party game

[@TheTheThe_]

@@firstcontact8315 This person has another comment on this channel crying about shotos in SF lol

[@firstcontact8315]

The makes sense lmao

[@TheTheThe_]

@@firstcontact8315 I was talking about you lmao

[@firstcontact8315]

The I play sf why would I cry about shotos dumbass

[@hughmungus99]

"If street fighter is classical music then smash is jazz" Wow. Just wow

[@auraleaks9627]

But it's TRUE and mk11 is mainstream hiphop .

[@a83crossover]

@@auraleaks9627 lmao! The spammers and trolls are mainstream...the people who play well and don't troll are the underground hip-hop and conscious rappers.

[@ha3vy]

And blazblue is 20th century serialist contemporary classical music

[@KingofChicago17]

Smash is more mainstream then MK

[@ha3vy]

@@KingofChicago17 it depends of which game tho

[@thattrocket]

Dude, I really appreciate you making this video! I’ve been playing fighting games, like Mortal Kombat since I was a little kid but, I never really wanted to keep on trying them because I always thought I sucked. This video really helped get my confidence back into playing ANY type of fighting game for the fun of it.

[@Rooflemonger]

fighting games r kewl

[@cubangoten]

Yo dude! The demigod of fighting tutorials! Please respond your holiness!

[@scrubadub1397]

always liked em, but the first one i played 'competitive' was mvc4. then i watched some videos of you and got better and better and now i pretty much play all of them thanks to you buddy i'm an anime now

[@Rooflemonger]

@@cubangoten 🐒

[@TeeJayYuki]

Damn right they are Mr Canadian! *wink*

[@Rooflemonger]

@@sench7387 lotta characters I wanna vol 2 for tips. Gotenks though he's still mostly the same 95% of that guide should still be valid. Cell and Kid buu's are two of the more dire ones though that aged badly.

[@jagoony]

"I played Melee competitively until it hurt my fingers" loool

[@spacewargamer4181]

Now he play with items!

[@TheJimmybenji]

"I never won these tournaments and I would get pretty mad." I felt that in my soul.

[@SpiderBilly]

I know this video was made a WHIIILE ago, but as someone who’s always been interested in fighting games but could never figure out how to get better, you just helped me man. This opened up a new perspective for me when it comes to everything fighting games. So, as a late viewer 2 years later, I say thank you 🙏 😆

[@klafsen]

I used to call combo heavy fighting games "guitar hero fighters" because there were to many button presses per combo! When you get better you don't think about what button you are pressing anymore, you "press the move", not the button. (if that makes sense)

[@DisDatK9]

klafsen I have noticed that as well. I was so confused with the moves in the beginning but once I studied and practiced a bit it becomes more like solving a math problem. Attack the situation with a given appropriate means, rather than think about how the problem works.

[@YouveGot2BshittingMe]

@@DisDatK9 Yes. Well done

[@dylanjackson1816]

"Learn every single move" *cries in steve fox

[@axzeale3417]

Idk man, people actually learn hwoarang, so why not Steve?

[@dylanjackson1816]

@@axzeale3417 just a joke buddy

[@TheSquashedOrange]

Yeah, that rule probably doesn't apply to Tekken. You'll be in training mode for months with most characters.

[@ceciliaxx]

@@axzeale3417 Even if you're going for Hwoarang, or any Tekken character for that matter, it's a fucking nightmare trying to learn the entire move list, especially since most of the moves are just extensions and aren't even used.

[@jennytulls6369]

*Cries in MBAACC Moon Styles*

[@vibercib2667]

After watching this video, I bought tekken 7 and it’s my favorite game

[@grandpanoogie2665]

Nice, its always good to see people enjoying tekken. Find a main? If this is your first tekken and ur trying to git gud and the game I'd suggest paul as a good beginner character, that is if you haven't found a main. His kit is just a very basic outline of tekken, and teaches very inportant concepts for offense, and defense because he doesn't have a lot of panic moves, so you have to learn defense.

[@vibercib2667]

Freeflow Dude thx dude but I already have main. Miguel. But I’ll try out Paul. I might b better with him. Thank u

[@grandpanoogie2665]

@@vibercib2667 miguel's an offensive powerhouse if thats what you like. His savage stance pressure is honestly some of the scariest in the game. Play who you play and try to learn how to korean backdash (canceling a backdash with a crouch, and then backdashing again) since backdashes have an innate block because you're holding back, you move backwards really quickly while blocking, which makes a lot of people whiff, and miguel has very high damage. The input is b,b,db,b,b,db.... b means to press towards the back of your character, db means to press down and back at the same time. Really just enjoy the game and figure things out as you go.

[@vibercib2667]

Freeflow Dude Man U really know a lot about tekken. How long u been playing?

[@grandpanoogie2665]

@@vibercib2667 3 years now. I still don't know that much, just the core mechanics and some characters. One more thing thats a must-know; if you think a low is coming, press df (down and foward at the same time) and you do a low parry. Any small low will now get them thrown on their back for a combo. Example: law's junkyard kick is a mid, low, mid string. You parry the low which is safe on block and you get a full combo. They really should make a tutorial on this in-game, but they don't.

[@Kopie0830]

Why I watch fighting games: The reason is Smug. When he gets wiggity washed, his reactions are priceless.

[@doomguy3662]

After watching this video, I bought tekken 7 and fight stick. Wish me luck.

[@boop6428]

You luck

[@skyyswaggstudios2934]

Shit dude, you're going all in aren't you?

[@soupboy-yn8oz]

BRO YOURE READY FOR EVO HOMIE

[@nextlvl810]

How is it going so far? I played soulcalibur 6 last year till now and still going i played soulcalibur before but never online. Last year was the first time playiny online with sc6. I had to learn everything. And right now im in B1 Rank. And still loving the game.

[@38373145]

You still playing it? And do you have it on steam? I only got it I believe a month ago. If you want someone to play with I'm down to play!

[@Thecain69]

Fastest I’ve ever smashed the like button

[@kwolf130]

Cain Bauer Same though

[@Zwerggoldhamster]

So you could call it...... an upsmash? :D

[@icedcapplord710]

I personally prefer neutral airing the like button

[@furious_malic7808]

Cain Bauer true indeed.

[@Thecain69]

Dying Meme, I’m a Lil Mac main, so “smash” is one of my favorite vocab words

[@legacy7ds]

☺From a former SF4 tournament player, I must say this is very well put together! I tell my friends all the time, fighting games are mental games. Basically, its about jumping into your opponents head. Figure out what they like to do and when they like to do it. After that you can set them up to trigger those responses and counter accordingly. *Puts on Guile sunglasses*😎

[@Carnege50]

+10 Charisma

[@badassgenevideos]

Eewww guile

[@M4TTYN]

this. learn their do's and punish their do's to fuck with em! but use timed moves safe and a game plan!

[@syrelian]

And learning your opponent extends to things that are otherwise "blind" 50/50s, like ol' 3S Chun Li, learning your opponent, either intellectually, or on an instinctive level, allows you to realize what they will do even when the standard info isn't there, maybe you pick up a pattern where they alternate how they exploit the 50/50, maybe they have a mental cue based on one or more vitals like meters or HP, its behavioral adaptation, and when you're dealing with chaff in low rank, or the same few guys in high rank, you start to notice patterns, either because everyone sucks in similar ways(low) or because its like 12 guys and they are doing their own unique thing, but being unique doesn't mean being unpredictable(high)

[@tomlion0116]

5 years... It took me 5 years after the release of this video to GET fighting games. I always liked Tekken on a casual level but a few months ago I tried Street Fighter Alpha 3. And it hooked me. HARD!!! Right now I still learn to play Ken because his moves are the easiest to understand and every day I get better with him. I can't wait to learn my second character!

[@numrumbum391]

This is the first vid I’ve seen of this guy and I love it. Honestly will give fighting games a chance after this!

[@metallica6207able]

Its a VERY long process, and you'll be learning by losing most of the time. Don't give up!

[@chaotictoast8199]

Unless hes godlike and fucks everyone up

[@guy543215]

I dont think he stressed enough how amazing it feels to outplay your opponent when you do finally learn. Its amongst the best feelings in gaming.

[@numrumbum391]

zHawken PS4 DEFINITELY 😄👍

[@Rortaa]

Fighting games are a godsend. When is Framedata gonna be a class at school?

[@cashbag]

Oh god that would be something else. All for it though lol

[@vincentchen6479]

Then they gonna teach us how to use all characters lol

[@jejetube7667]

21:15 "if Street Fighter is classical music, then Smash is jazz". I couldn't agree more

[@uzairahmed1113]

The reason I like fighting games is that how rewarding the experience is. The sense of accomplishment after learning a new combo or wining a match alone make fighting games worth it.

[@contestir800]

So because of this video, I actually went out and bought Fighterz because I’m a huge dragon ball fan and I’ve been wanting to play Fighterz for a long time but I’ve just been intimidated. It’s incredibly hard and as soon as I think I’m getting the hang of it, I go into a casual match and get destroyed. It’s discouraging but I think back to this video and all the others I’ve seen and see how people love this game and the fighting game genre in general and it gives me motivation. I’m hoping that eventually I get better. Cheers Marcus.

[@adrianroque6990]

Queen Eande maybe you've already tried him, but I find Majin Buu a nice character to get good with 😊 But all I can really go off of is my own experience with the game, I hope you continue to have fun!

[@zevorothrappaleano58]

Queen Eande as long as you take in what happens, watch your replays to see what the other player is doing, and keep trying and experimenting, and you WILL be good. Any good fighting game can be learned by anyone, it's up to *you* to do so. As cheesy as it sounds, the only loss in a fighting game is when you give up.

[@LordParticle]

If you're getting owned in casual matches cause you're a noob, like I am, I would consider ranked matches, because you can set preferences to match you with people of the same skill level so it's more even

[@LordParticle]

Keep practicing. I suck total ass but I'm slowly getting better and learning new things.

[@WuTheBat]

Not sure if you're even still playing FighterZ, but I recently got into it, and I'd say the hardest thing in that game is learning to just block and not try to force your way out of pressure all the time. Until the recent guard cancel changes that make it easier to escape pressure now, most of the cast had ways to just lock you down for at least 2 to 3 sets of block strings that of course have a mixup element to them. I think because defense is so daunting, the developers made basic offense relatively easy and universal for most characters until you start incorporating character specific tools (like Krillin bomb loops in the corner), so that is a relief that you can do the same basic low into jump cancel starter with about 90% of the cast and do decent damage.

[@YXiao]

Some games can be played to kill time regardless of player skill. Some other games need to be treated like a hobby which demands regular physical and mental devotion to be competent. Fighting games are definitely among if not leaning towards the latter.

[@Kenoji8]

Especially when you consider games like Virtua Fighter. Throw escape guards, reversals, stances, parries, etc. Lots to learn even for the easy to use characters.

[@Nicro]

Great analogy. It becomes more than a game if you want to progress.

[@T8-TR]

I'm mostly a spectator with FGs, so I might not have much of a say (as this is mostly anecdotal and based on someone watching from the benches most of the time), but I'd definitely say that most FGs are entirely in the latter category if you're aiming to play at even an average level. It's one of the reasons why FGs aren't as mainstream as something like FPS or MOBAs or, more recently, BRs. There's a LOT to learn just to get into it, between your character of choice and their gimmicks/potential combos/punishes/frame data, and also the matchup of anywhere between 15 (something like For Honor) to 70+ (like Smash U) characters. And that's before factoring in stuff like tech, where you're delving not into just your character/your opponent's characters, but the engine of the game and how you can legally abuse it. It's because of this depth and trust in the player's intellect/ability that I love FGs and want to get into them, but also because of this that I struggle to fully invest my time with one (though I'm slowly trying to wrap my head around Smash U rn).

[@astral6069]

I think it's both. Fighting games can be really simple for everyone, press a button do a thing. While I mostly played FGs for fun or just to mess around with friends, it's still enjoyable without learning all of these skills, but just because of the depth you CAN go deep into the skills and learn these new things but you can still kick back and play with friends who don't know how to play by relaxing and not caring about your specifics

[@ResponsibleToTheRealm]

Nah, this is wrong. you'll improve in a fighting game even if you play it at its most casual only ever so often. You'll just improve slower than people who play it all the time. You'll be killing time all the same.

[@kapowkachow4263]

Damn dude, you literally opened my third eye and ascended to the world of fighting games. I bought fighting games for just playing with friends and family but in the end, I did not play them at all, like the story or online. But with this video it helped me figure out whats the purpose of fighting games. Thanks bro 😤👌

[@benjaminschnieders417]

I think the one piece of advice that I think got looked over, but more a for people that are already into a game but are trying to improve, is to identify your big weaknesses and figure out a way to eliminate them. Being humble enough to recognize where you're not doing the best is important to growing in any given game!

[@benjaminschnieders417]

@@HennyVenny thanks! This really seemed from my history of friendly rivalry between myself and one of my closest friends. We're always competing against eachother at any game we both pick up, but its most prominent with Smash Bros. Theres always a cycle of one of us getting better than the other until we figure out what we're failing at and step it up. Because of this we both got good enough to play in legit tournaments, but it wasn't always like that. We both used to get mad at each other when we were losing until it just clicked one day that getting that way wasn't helping. From that point on we just kept helping eachother get better and better!

[@MagicalPuddinPops]

It’s the only genre that keeps reminding me how incompetent I really am.

[@ElectricNikkiGames]

it takes competence to know how incompetent one is

[@Shakiahjprod]

It's just making muscle memory

[@unicornhorn6662]

Shakiah Johnson no LMFAO

[@Shakiahjprod]

@@unicornhorn6662 I'm not saying it is super easy, I'm saying it is easier than people think it is. Some see a combo list and immidiately go "Welp I can't learn that." When really if they go step by step and make the combo muscle memory they can use that in battle situations. Of course they will never be in that perfect situation but that is how you do combos.

[@unicornhorn6662]

Shakiah Johnson well it’s not all about combos. To be exact, that’s like 50% of the game. The rest is neutral game, which IS NOT pen and paper

[@camilahortencio]

while I was watching this video I went online and bought Tekken 7, I was looking forward to play this game for a while and this video gave me the last push I needed, I hope I really get good at it because its one of the fighting games I love the most

[@grayguy01]

Ps4? I got to get mine back out of storage but i could help ya. Jack player

[@camilahortencio]

@@grayguy01 Yes, its on PS4. What's your ID?

[@chrisspudster72]

From a mechanics perspective, tekken 7 is probably the best in the series. Absolutely love it, tekken 2 was the game that got me into gaming, so the whole franchise has a special place in my heart and collection

[@camilahortencio]

@@chrisspudster72 I really loved Tekken 3 on the psone, it was the first one I played and I fell in love with it. I always enjoyed playing with Yoshmitsu even though I didn't really knew what I was doing

[@Kyozen496]

It's a great game. To help you out, type top 15 moves tekken and find your character and look at their top 15 moves. DONT memorize the entire movelist in training mode for your character! A lot of those moves are situational. I would also recommend checking out this playlist. It's organized for a beginner. kzbin.info/aero/PLVUxFFfCtDtkd3n0J8taq-MknCWaP6naW

[@bigdom2924]

you just made me love tekken even more

[@A.Ladinn01]

This might be amongst my favourite videos on KZbin, I rewatch this everytime I come back to wanting to play tekken 7, now with tekken 8 coming out, I’m excited again

[@diego-dy1ik]

Would you ever do a video on the Nolan Batman movies like the way you did Spider-man?

[@Hawkeye42nd]

Diego Hernandez Dark Night is still great but the voice is goofy

[@Runeforged]

Nolan Ward It works most of the time in Batman Begins and Dark Knight. It only really got goofy in Rises. “where are they!?”

[@tagus100]

Lowkey ‘where are they’ is from TDK!

[@ianbyrne465]

Yes that wpuld be fun

[@plants-ey5sd]

Nah BMb and tdk and tdkr and the Arkham series oh and mark hamil if you remove the m and the I and the l it spells ark ham

[@Mwarrior1991]

I think what turns most people off from fighting games (at least the people *I try to convince to play with me), and what this video sort of glosses over, is that practicing and becoming competent takes more time than they are willing to put in. too many people are used to “pick up and play” games, and when they are hit with a skill wall that they need to overcome right when they start playing, their fun stops at that wall and they give up, labeling the game as “too difficult”. I was kind of hoping to hear something that would help me convince my friends to try out fighting games, and i was really dissapointed to hear the same things ive been saying to them (“you just need to put in time practicing, like an instrument”/“there are a lot of helpful tutorials online you could use to get better”).

[@Pine0wlple]

I think it’s more so of wanting to play video games to play and have fun, not work more and maybe you’ll have fun later. Most people want to relax and have fun.

[@DemonlordHatty]

You can teach your friends, too, you know. I’m sure they’d be a lot more open to receiving tips from their friend rather than some KZbin video that starts with “HEY GUYS!! TODAY I’M GONNA SHOW HOW YOU CAN PLAY...”

[@Mwarrior1991]

Pine0wlple X44 Yeah, that’s what I hear the most, which is okay. I just wish more people I knew were into the games I’m into.

[@LTDLetsPlays]

Mwarrior1991 make them play under night in birth Exe latest Inputs are easy only the execution is the hard one You can do well even if you don’t do huge combos since you can do combos with only normals that deal a decent amount of damage (1500) without specials/EX moves Tutorial is one of the best since it goes over every mechanic and terminology in fighting games The problem is to get them to spend time to learn the basic mechanics If they don’t wanna sit out with that stuff you can just fight them and teach them by going easy on them that would work too and it usually applies to most

[@Zinras]

@Mwarrior1991That's very true IMO, people who are into fighting games tend ignore just how many hours it takes before you get competent enough to actually have fun. Most video games are specifically and carefully designed to follow the "easy to learn, hard to master" school of thought, where the further interest comes from the fun you can achieve as a beginner and how it can increase as you gain mastery of maps/moves/weapons/whatever. It's fine and dandy to sit and say that hitting a button sequence isn't that hard but that's not really the problem a lot of people have with fighting games: The problem they have is that there are multiple hard stops to their progression along the way and the games themselves are often awful at explaining them. There are probably some very casual gamers out there that can nail a sick Guitar Hero track because failure there never stopped the fun and improvement made you look awesome at parties or with friends. In other words, it's not about combos or timing issues but the experience between point A and point B on the competence scale. Contrary to the belief of people who hang out on youtube and such, the absolute *vast* majority of players in any given game don't want to play any further after hitting a wall a few times. It's just that while most games have a youtube guide to show how to defeat or circumnavigate the challenge blocking your path, all a fighting game has to offer is "get good or your fun ends here". This is a sentiment I can appreciate from a competitive aspect but also one that absolutely prevents me and many others from getting into the fighting genre as I just don't have the kind of time necessary to commit to the non-fun activities before the fun ones begin. Do I want to spend 2-3 hours per day having fun or do I want to spend them not having fun? And do I want to pay for the non-fun experience? It sounds harsh but that's how the market works.

[@DoctorLazers]

I grew up with a brother. Fighting games were part of my gaming bread and butter as a child.

[@joseruiz3160]

Dude for real i played with my younger brother and i would make him cry in smash and dbz games i didnt really play xenoverse as much but he got good at it so when he finally beat me it felt like watching an arc

[@a_klye]

This Video… This is the video that got me to pick up Street Fighter. I remember back in 2020 (I think) I searched up a guide on how to play Chun-Li in SFV. I looked at the combos and thought to myself: “I can’t do that.” Back in the day I was trying to play Smash competitively. Fast-forward to early December 2021 and I happened to stumble upon this video. It was a bit of an eye-opener for me in terms of fighting games other than Smash. On Christmas Day I played SFV for the first time and I haven’t been able to put it down for more than 2 weeks. There were days where I’d wake up or go to bed excited for the next time I’d get to play it. Funnily enough SF6 was announced yesterday so I picked a good time to get into the series. I’m also looking to get into Tekken as well (if the definitive edition wasn’t so damn expensive) and considering dropping Smash competitively. This video is awesome. Hopefully more people will watch this.

[@xyon9090]

*I'm in Amateur Boxing* Its hard to do air combos in this game. Any tips?

[@NegoClau]

First of all: work on your launcher. You must have a mean hook to put the adversary 15 feet up on the air... you must work it. Second of all: don't skip leg day on your workout, or you won't be able to jump at the height you're launching your opponent. Third: don't forget to see tutorials on how to do projectiles trough your hands, and practice. You can set, as your target, to light your oven with your meter, for example. Fourth: you must coordinate your launch and your jumping to connect the first hit in the combo, and keep going from that. Please, post a video showing the results of that. Now go hit the gym.

[@hido...]

Make sure to get enough meter to finish the combo fully.

[@NegoClau]

@@hido... YES! Great point there... always save your meter for the finishing moments of your air combo...

[@RaposaVermelhaKon]

git gud

[@Kraneos-_-]

Dont forget to do sweaps with your hand like balrog

[@Dashyrre]

I was watching this video, when at 16:05 I realised it wasn't Core A Gaming's channel... Great job dude, never thought I'd see someone with good Fighting game content aside from his stuff!

[@Mojospider2099]

Yea this is a Spider-Man channel. Lol

[@komejiAMV]

Giving fighting games another try after watching this

[@hole1274]

How’s it going?

[@komejiAMV]

@@hole1274 I started out with Street Fighters V but was so bad ahaha was hard to pick up

[@ewa1020]

@@komejiAMV I can give you tips for becoming good, I'm a sf5 player myself

[@tonykirumba1553]

Watching this video got me back into injustice. Couldn't agree more, feeling my fingers get faster and my brain get smarter while I make up combos