I think the single most important think is to recognize that the long-term goal of playing a fighting game shouldn't be beating all your opponents, but improvement. Victory comes to you when you improve.

“That’s 8f startup!” “I don’t understand!” “Here let me explain” *pulls out sword*

I want only rewrite the last point: You will screw up often. Especially at the beginning :) It is normal, don't worry

Just won my first set last weekend after a few hours of playing online over a week. That feeling of hitting your combo in real competition and seeing that victory screen is so good, and I never would have felt it if i had been focused on winning.

One thing I would like to add to the very end as a new player. When you get frustrated, take a break. I've been starting to learn fighting games and rhythm games and stuff lately. And I don't make progress when I'm upset. So, put the controller down, do something else, and when you come back you'll be better.

When I first started playing SFV i lost every single game I play for 20 sets in a row, today I won my first tournament against some of the strongest players in europe. No matter how bad things may seem at one point or another the thing that will make you improve is to just keep going, as long as you want to learn you will learn. Good luck!

Thank you for this. For all you new players I highly encourage you to not give up on a game that you're attempting to learn simply because you're not seeing immediate progress. You have to imagine your acquisition of skills as a marathon and not a sprint. To use my personal experience as an example: I came back to playing Tekken in the summer of 2022 after initially quitting during the summer pf 2018. Over the course of that 4-year timespan I decided to do 3 important things - First get really good at the games that I was already playing at the time in order to rebuild my confidence again (which were Madden 18 & Rainbow six siege). It took me 7 months to be a top 10 player in Madden, and it took me 6 months to hit Plat rank in Siege. The second important thing I did was to invest some time into the FGC competitive scene, for example watching events like EVO and CEO. The third thing I did was to learn basic concepts and good muscle memory from simpler fighting games, so in March 2019 I dove straight into MK11 when it came out. The first character I tried was Raiden, and it helped me evolve into liking Kitana, into Cetrtion, into Jacqui, into Scorpion, into Nightwolf, into Shang Tsung. Once I got back into Tekken again I started with Lidia, into Armor King, into Leo. I plan on continuing to try a few other characters before Tekken 8 comes out, so by all means I'm not an expert. However I have a list of channels on my channel that know what they are talking about when it comes to fighting games! The FGC has a bunch of dedicated folk that love sharing their passion for fighting games.

I've been playing fighting games off and on for ages and I can never quite seem to break the barrier of being a beginner and getting truly good. So this video was encouraging. Thanks for this.

This is a good introduction to the major mechanical and philosophical aspects of fighting games, though I initially thought it would be a guide on the act of actually playing due to the title being somewhat ambiguous. Having played fighting games for a few years I've taught a handful of people the basics myself and I like to go over the topics in this rough order because this is how important I feel each of them is to winning games consistently: Defense (basic blocking, what high/mid/low attacks are and how to respond to each for 3d or 2d games, what throws are and how to avoid them, invincible reversals) Neutral (pokes, projectiles, counter pokes/whiff punishing, jump-ins, anti-airs, space/stage control) Offense (block-strings, plus frames, high/low or mid/low mixups, hit/throw mixups, basic combo theory, basic okizeme theory, frame traps, pressure resets, combo resets) Common Character Archetypes (Shoto/All-rounder, Grappler, Rushdown, Zoner, Setplay, etc.) (can be done before the rest if you feel it's important enough, but may be easier to explain in detail what they are with the previous knowledge laid out beforehand) Each of those sub-points in themselves could potentially be an entire video if you're really wanting to go in depth with it. This is just my recommendation so use whatever of this you want. You could also split this into two sub-series based on 2D and 3D fighters as they play so much differently to each other; either that or specify for every point that differs HOW it differs between the genres.

Just started Guilty Gear Strive as my first ever traditional fighting game. I got absolutely demolished as the system put me into a way to good lobby(F6). Eversince then i have the urge to get better and this video just gives good information and kind of a reality check on what to actually expect from the journey. 12 hours in and i got my first positive Rank Update from F2 to F3. Great Video!

This is the perfect introduction to fighting games. Can't wait for the next video! I hope you dive deeper into each mechanic, it will be an invaluable contribution to the fighting game community.

Co-op milk is 100% the most annoying character to fight against, you did well ;)

Best thing I learned is “learned to deal with losses” because oh boy…you’ll be doing that a lot 😂

My only disagreement is "You will screw up sometimes" No you will screw up OFTEN :P (Alas Someone already beat me to it) Tangentially related don't over emotionally invest in it, that was my mistake, It really just is a game in the end. Be realistic about what you want to get out of it all, even if its just merely to have some fun, better that than wanting to go to EVO while you have your life full from other responsibilities. Good stuff Mougli!

I love how you put the names of each fighting game at the top of each clip you use. I wish all YTers did this.

Wonderful! Looking forward to the next video in the series.

I wasn't going to comment until I heard that brief bit of KOF'94 music at the end, good stuff.

A scant few channels I have "rung the bell" for, so it's nice Past Me knew to be reminded this channel exists. Love your calm approaches!

This video is crazy good, I watched it even though Im not the target audience as a I have been playing fighting games for more than 20 years.

yay Mougli upload. Always enjoyable to watch one of your videos.

What a wonderful video man, please continue this series, i will greatly appreciate it 👍.

I think that its a great guide overall since its easy to understand for beginners and teach some important principles. I'd like to add about choosing a character, as a beginners feel free to try multiple character and learn them at a basic lvl, by doing this it will be easier to understand the type of character you like to play and finding a main will be much easier. This is especially true if for example you choose your first character but you don't have fun playing them (instead of quitting the game maybe you can switch to a character that you like more)

I am just gonna sub and stay cause im new and the way you explained concepts helped me learn something

Thank you for this great video!

Beautiful video and very clear! looking forward to the rest and hope this helps people!

Wow, like in the first Video you did, you have such huge confidence and quality. It feels like you are doing this KZfaq-thing for years. Exceptional! For me, im a advanced casual player. I know a lot of stuff on fighting games and could be in mid to high ranks, but i lose interest in fighting games very quickly. Thats my biggest problem with it. I have around 50-100 hours in every fighting game imaginable, but after that, it just bores the hell out of me. But thank you for this video. For beginners, this (series) will help them alot.

Thanks so much for your effort on all of your videos!

Happy you featured Hyperfight in this video 🥹

Great video for beginners!!

This was a great video, and will be very helpful for new players!

Bro I just literally last week decided give it real time to Fighting Games cause an event I participate on March I will follow these series very closely because my understanding of the genre is totally basic So Thank you very very much

I've been playing for a while but still enjoyed the vid

Great Video🔥

Thanks for making this video and I really hope this series will have more to come soon. This is my first time to try a fighting game in a bit more serious way and I've chosen Guilty gear Strive for it and May got my attention aesthetically. I mostly just doing tutorial/mission stuff and I must say that the speed and control needed to do some of these things (even without an opponent fighting back) is intimidating. P.S. I did the thing (which probably meant sub and thumbs up, I appreciate the unique approach because It gets old hearing the same thing on every YT video).

I really appreciate this as guilty gear floor 5 scrub. Hopefully one day I’ll figure the game out!

even though I have played fighting games for years at this point I still feel like a complete beginner and I do not know why. Thanks for making this video

oh frérot ta chaîne est super pour les débutants !! j'avais abandonné le jeu mais là je m'y remets et ce genre de vidéo aide beaucoup en termes de mindset à avoir pour continuer de progresser !!

Your channel is awesome

Super vidéo, on vois le taf derrière comme pour chacune de tes premières x) De mon côté c'est moi le pote qui en sais beaucoup mais qui jouent pas tant que ça du coup je m'entraine avec mes potes qui découvrent le genre

i would say that the last point should be a bit more honest: you will NEVER stop screwing up (and that's okay) the more experienced u become the less u will make mistakes, but no one on this earth is a perfect fighting game player, and even the pros mess up, and more frequently than you might think

Well, I suppose it's time for me to get back into trying to get the genre, huh. Thanks of encouragment

14:02 When picking up DNF I played Ghost Blade, but I too was interested in playing Launcher just because "she tall gun lady and me likey".

Late comment but it might be worth saying anyway Know what motivates you. That means know why you want to get better and play and what you are getting knocked sideways over and over again

I've been at this since I was 6. For me it's all about the journey overall

Thank you for this, currently learning Tekken, MK and possibly SF6 soon, i struggle a bit with inputs so maybe i should get an arcade stick 🤔

Hey, great video. Every single one of your videos so far has been really high quality and I think your explanations are very clear. Just one thing from me: I think you talk too much about how "that'll be its own episode" or "we'll cover that in a future video" or "first in the series of many". It's hard to get around in some areas but I think it has a double effect on both the scrub viewer (me) thinking "oh no I thought I had this concept but apparently there's so much more to it this is overwhelming" and for you it's putting pressure to churn out videos and cover everything. I think for both the key is that although there might be more to something, where you're at now is fine to go out and start experimenting and learning and you can get to the more advanced stuff when you're ready. I hope that makes sense and I'm excited to see more.

I'd like to think I'm an intermediate player when it comes to most fighting games now, but it's still really refreshing to watch these videos. I'm glad I stumbled into this corner of KZfaq. Btw, what's the game at 14:55? My familiarity with the genre is telling me that it's a melty blood game, but I am probably wrong lol

Great video ! This kind of video aimed at easing people into fighting game by dispelling common misconception are great, I think we can never have enough. the video is very dense though 🤔 If I was a new player, I don't think I would have integrated the lesson that you give at the end of each section (even though they are very true and valuable). The part about health bar could've been skipped I think, that feels like you just gave people a thing to worry about even though the lesson is "don't worry about it" 😅 Keep doing what you do, It's great 👍

I love playing fighting games with no HUD. I always found the health bars too distracting. Some of them straight up lie to you like Guilty Gear xrd.

Never noticed but are you french ? The way you said "En garde" was spot on

I feel like mostly people who already play fighting games ended up watching this

9:31 “this is not staged…”. I believe it 😅

It’s ok to start from the bottom and try a new game.

okay, that last point is great, but the salt mainly comes from the problem not seeming to have any kind of solution or even a way to force them to slow down. can you really blame someone who doesn't understand what a 6p is for getting salty at totsugeki spam?

F*CK that noise, you're a human! (I'm guessing )"" Would you still let me watch the video if I were a Machine Learning Large Language Model?

To err is human. Furthermore, failure is the best teacher.

what is ur rank in sf5 rn?

Joel the giant join street fighter 6

You will screw up often. The best players in the world lose half the time.

something about the way you talk screams 'dev' lol